4 Days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Safari

7 days Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi and Nyungwe National Park Safari

4 Days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Safari

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

On day 1 of the 4 Days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Safari, upon your arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will meet our representative for a transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Enjoy scenic views of hills in the western part of Uganda, and have a stopover at the equator for photographs to symbolize your crossing the equator, you will also get to participate in the southern and northern hemisphere experiments and in Mbarara for lunch. Proceed to the park with a wide game view of animals like Uganda Kobs, Savanna Elephants, and Waterbucks among others. Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge/ Park View Safari Cottages

Game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 2: Game drive and Launch cruise

After an early morning breakfast, you will set off for an early morning breakfast to catch up with the morning game.  During the morning game drive, you will watch a number of different animal species like elephants, Lions, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, and Uganda kobs, among others. After the morning drive, you will get to visit Omwani Women’s Coffee Cooperative for a coffee plantation tour and learn about the different stages of coffee from planting to harvest until it’s ready to be consumed and return to Mweya for lunch. After lunch, you will enjoy an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel for a number of hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, and several water birds. Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge/ Park View Safari Cottages

Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National park

In the morning after breakfast, you will embark on a transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest via the Ishasha sector which gives you a chance to see the tree-climbing lions at a closer range. Continue to Bwindi with lunch en route and arrive in the evening for, check in the lodge and relax. Dinner and overnight stay at Silverback Gorilla Lodge/ Buhoma Haven Lodge

Day 4: Gorilla trekking

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up from your hotel. our guide will meet you after having your breakfast and your lunches packed and he will take you to the park  Headquarters where you are expected to be given a brief before starting the gorilla trek. This brief is done at 7 am. You are given guidelines during this brief before you are allowed to start the trek. This gorilla trek can take about 2 hours to half a day as it’s unpredictable. When you finally find the gorillas, you will have to maintain a 7-meter distance and you are allowed one hour to admire and take photos of the gorillas. During the time you spend with the gorillas, you will get the opportunity to understand a number of their rewarding features like how they co-exist with one another, you will get to watch the duty of the dominant silverback whose role is to mate with the adult females to increase the members of the family, raid other gorilla families for their members, you will watch the juveniles grooming one another for a rewarding safari experience. After the trek, you will then embark on your journey back to Kigali where you will check into your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

4 Days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Safari
Gorillas in Bwindi

Day 5: Kigali city tour 

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will wake up early participate in Kigali city tour which will give you access to a number of rewarding destinations that you will get to visit like; The Kigali genocide memorial museum to understand more about the 1994 Rwanda genocide, you will visit the restaurants, art museums to see the traditional methods of the people of living, you can also visit the kimironko market where you will get to buy souvenirs among other spots your guide will recommend. Kimironko market is the top transaction point in Rwanda where people are able to buy and sell their goods. After the safari experience, you will be dropped off at a location of your choice in Kigali city and the end of your 5 days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Safari.

Accommodation types

Queen elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth safari lodge budget

Elephant hab lodge – Midrange

Bwindi

Buhoma Community Rest camp- budget

Buhoma Haven Lodge- Midrange

Includes;                                

  • 4X4 safari van with a pop-up roof  for game viewing & Fuel
  • Full-time English-speaking driver/ guide
  • Park entrance fees
  • Lunch
  • Full-day game drive
  • Pick up in Uganda and drop off in Kigali city
  • Vehicle entrance fees
  • Bottled mineral water while on safari

Excludes;

  • Tips
  • All items of a personal nature like tents, bedding, laundry, phone calls, beer, e.t.c
  • Is anything else not included in the itinerary?