Fly in Primates Trip to Uganda & Rwanda -Gorillas, Chimpanzees.

13 Days | 12 Nights

  • Safari Overview
  • Day by Day
Safari Overview

Luxury Primates Journey.

To trek into the rainforest of Bwindi National Park  and sit with a family of Mountain Gorillas, catching the gaze of a huge silverback at close range, seeing them devour leaves stripped from branches, watching babies cling to their mothers, laughing at animated youngsters playing in the trees…it’s a profound experience for a Primates lover. And to capture these rare moments in photographs lets you relive the wonder in enduring images. Our extended time with endangered gorillas is the center piece of this primate-focused safari that also includes the chimpanzees of Uganda’s Kibale Forest and Golden Monkeys in Volcanoes National Park in neighbouring Rwanda. Many of our guests say they are never the same after these encounters…and your visit will  be a life-changing experience for these species as well, as conservation tourism is the main hope for protecting their future. Gorilla Sights has put together best detailed Itinerary that will leave you with an adventure with Memories in Cradle of Primates.

Day by Day
Day 1.
Karibu-Uganda.
Karibu- Entebbe, Gorilla Sights Team will be waiting for you at the Airport for pick and transfer to your hotel with drive of 15 minutes, The cool breath air from Lake Victoria will be another welcoming weather that will welcome different from your home country. A small visit to Entebbe Botanical Gardens will be for afternoon the gardens contain a diverse plant collection from tropical, subtropical and temperate zones. Also home to a wide variety of birds, the gardens offer an excellent introduction to Uganda’s avian species. Vervet and black-and-white colobus monkeys are commonly spotted here as well.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Boma Hotel
Day 2.
Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary- Murchison Falls
After breakfast, We Depart to Murchison Falls National Park, about a 5 hour drive. We stop at Rhino Sanctuary Place for Trekking. This is the only place in Uganda and Africa in General where you can only see Rhinos on foot. after we have our lunch and continue to the most Conservation National Park in Uganda. Murchison Falls is Inspired by the breathtaking splendour of the wild landscapes with its famous waterfall that is most powerful in whole World. Arrive in evening times for beautiful pictures of Sundowner at Top of the falls before you check in to your hotel for Dinner and over Night.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Para Safari Lodge
Day 3.
Game Safari | Boat Cruise in Afternoon.
We wake up early for Breakfast, After our breakfast we head out for Game safari across the African savannah, palm forest, and grasslands to Lake Albert, offering opportunities to spot various wildlife and bird species, including Predators (Cats) Like Lions Leopards Hyenas , Big Mammals like Elephants Buffalos, Giraffes, Entilopes like Uganda Kobs, Waterbucks, Orib, Heartbeasts, Bush bucks and a lot of Eves . In the afternoon, We take a private boat cruise along the Nile to Murchison Falls, to observe Nile crocodiles, School of Hippos, Elephants in water, Water birds and above the Butom of Falls.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Para Safari Lodge
Day 4.
Delta Boat Photography | Evening Game Photography
With its richest wildlife thats enclave at around 144 mammal species including 550 bird species not forgetting Shoebills, dwarf kingfisher, Goliath heron, great blue turaco and winged, We take Morning Delta Boat in search for all these amazing Eves and photography of all the hidden secrets at the delta point, where we shall reach the entrance of Victoria Nile to Albert Nile. Enjoy a bush breakfast on the banks of the Nile, followed by a game drive across the African savannah to Lake Albert, where you can spot various animals and bird species
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Para Safari Lodge
Day 5.
Flight To Primates Capital- Kibale N Park
After our breakfast, We start drive To Pakuba Airfield for our Domestic Flight to Kibale Forest Park through Western Rift Valley with verdant highlands covered with beautiful Tea Gardens that make this land so green beautiful. Reach in time for Lunch. Kibale National Park is home 13 species of primates including the Red Colobus, chimpanzee, and L’Hoest’s Monkey, as well as 70 mammal species. Kibale’s main highlight is their location, tucked deep in the forest and right next door to the starting point for chimpanzee tracking excursions.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Ndali Lodge
Day 6.
Chimpanzee Trekking, Morning & Afternoon.
After briefing, You will embark on chimp trekking in the Kibale Forest National Park, which takes about 2-3 hours. During the trek guests can see other primates such as grey-cheeked mangabeys, along with red tailed and blue monkeys. Expert guides share the secrets of the forest’s flora and fauna, ensuring that the hike is both informative and enjoyable. In the afternoon, We take our second chimpanzee trekking for extra mile details with the Pan Troglodytes of Forest. Remember that they more than 21 communities of Chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park. No other animal reminds us so much of ourselves as the chimpanzee. Besides many common features and mannerisms, chimpanzees also share 98% of our human DNA, making them our closest living relatives. It is not so surprising then that we find the habits and biology of these primates so fascinating to study. While chimpanzees can be found in 21 countries throughout Africa, they are most easily sighted in Uganda due to the high concentration of the species here. On Chimpanzee Tracking experience in Kibale Forest you will have the opportunity to follow an experienced guide into the forest to observe these fascinating creatures at a close range. Watching them interact with each other and go about their daily routine of grooming, playing and foraging is an incredible experience. While your chances of encountering chimpanzees are high during your tracking excursion, it is never 100% guaranteed. These are, after all, wild animals with wills and minds of their own! After socializing with the chimpanzee, you will be invited to engage in the human custom of a hot lunch. Served by local residents you will learn about the traditional cuisine of the region and its preparation. This meal will offer a nice insight into the local culture, as well as giving a real taste of Uganda!
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Ndali Lodge
Day 7.
Flight To Home of Gorillas-Kisoro.
Depart for the local airstrip in Kasese to Kisoro gateway to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and our gorilla-trekking base in the rainforest. Through Kgezi Hills to Silver back and Golden views of Mgahinga National Park, this domestic flight will leave you speachless as you pass through untold stories of the pearl of africa- Uganda, not forgetting that we on top Bwindi National Park whose name references the dense, tangled forests that is encompasses with roughly half the world’s remaining Mountain Gorillas.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Chamilion Hill Lodge
Day 8.
Gorilla Habituation Experience.
After our breakfast, We drive to the park head-quatars for our iconic activity Gorilla Habituation, This is quite unique from the Normal Mountain Gorilla tracking, an experience offering more far stretched encounter and time than the Gorilla Trekking experience. This Experience allows us to stay with Mountain Gorillas for about 5 hours. Our thrill is different, this is a bit longer time in the forest and with the Great Apes The more time that we have to study more about the behaviors of the Gorillas. The experience is a life time and an adventure for Memories that you will always cherish in your life.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Chamilion Hill Lodge
Day 9.
2 Gorilla Experience-Normal Trekking.
Today you will wake up early and head to the park headquarters. Same as in Bwindi, you will be briefed and assigned a ranger guide to track the Gorillas with you. In Mgahinga, you will also stand a chance to see the cheerful and fashionable Golden Monkeys if you lucky. In fact, that is the only place in Uganda where you can see these endangered Golden Monkeys. At the end of the Gorilla encounter, you will head back to your hotel for a relaxing evening - or even engage in other community-related activities. There is Nice Boat Cruise for Evening Sundowner as you refresh Your Minds thinking about the Experience of the Life time with the Gorillas The most popular community activity in Mgahinga is the Batwa Experience trail. The Batwa are a minority tribe that used to live in the forest as hunter-gatherers until 1994 when the forest was gazetted as a national park. Mgahinga N Park being same vegetation with Volcanoes national Park in Rwanda, The tracking is extreemly amazing.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
Chamilion Hill Lodge
Day 10.
Muraho, Transfer To Rwanda.
Leaving Lake Mutanda- as we descend to the Rift Valley floor, watching scenes of local life unfold along the way as we drive past villages around Lake Mutanda, one of Volcanic lakes which is around 60m deep and beutyful with golden views of Volcanoes. We enter Rwanda through Kyanika Board to Parc National des Volcans—Volcanoes National Park, Same Vegatation like our previous visit to Mgahinga National Park. Virunga's Mosaics of montane ecosystems which has thick forests and steep-sided mountains rising to nearly 14,500 feet above sea level will be our base and top. An increasingly rare wilderness and a land of staggering beauty, Rwanda is home to the world’s mountain gorillas and a vast savannah teeming with iconic wildlife.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
5 Volcanoes Lodge
Day 11.
Gusura Igaryi- (Gorilla Trekking)
After breakfast, we drive to park headquarters for a briefing about Gorilla Trekking in Virunga Mountains, The moment you encounter a mountain Gorillas in the Virunga, Alot to suprise yoou like how a mother can cradling her baby, just metres away from you in the legendary mist-shrouded Virunga Mountains, there’s a palpable sense of interconnectedness. Come to know all the stories about Dian Fossey made her groundbreaking studies on mountain gorillas before she was killed. Several habituated Gorilla families living in the park, and Your tracking means alot this ecotourism presence and to the survival Mountain Gorillas.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
5 Volcanoes Lodge
Day 12.
Golden Monkey Trekking
After our Rwanda delicious Breakfast, We again drive to Virunga Head quators for another experience for find The Golden Monkey, a beautiful little creature found only in the high-altitude forests of the Volcanoes National Park. We take this morning searching in lush vegetation at the foot of Mount Sabyinyo for one of two habituated groups of golden monkey, one of them a troop of having more than 80 members. Spend an enchanted hour watching their frolics as they leap among the slender shoots of bamboo or tumble among the dense foliage on the forest floor. In afternoon we go Gorilla Gurdians to learn how Gorillas and other species used to live with communities before the government had to remove the people or the Pygmies from Protected areas.
Main Destination:
Accommodation
5 Volcanoes Lodge
Day 13.
Transfer To Kigali For City Tour.
After Our Breakfast, We Depart from Volcanoes N Park to Rwanda’s capital of Kigali. Visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial, a deeply moving tribute to the people killed in Rwanda's 1994 Genocide, also Local Markets and City centre Following a farewell Dinner, our Primates Journey comes to an end as we transfer to the airport for departing flights, Through Cradle of Primates, all our memories must be fulled with Juveniles, Infants. Remember, "We all Primates".
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