8
Days
FROM
3500$
PER ADULT
Days
FROM
3500$
PER ADULT
Experience an extraordinary 8-Day Rwanda–Uganda Magical Gorilla Trekking Circuit | Crosslands Safari Experience with Dina Travels, a journey that connects two of East Africa’s most iconic primate destinations.
Begin your adventure in Rwanda, exploring the breathtaking landscapes of Volcanoes National Park and encountering the endangered mountain gorilla in their natural habitat. Continue your journey into Uganda, where you’ll trek through the lush jungles of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest for another unforgettable gorilla experience.
This carefully designed circuit includes scenic drives, cultural encounters, and expertly guided treks, combined with comfortable lodge stays throughout. The Crosslands Safari Experience delivers a seamless blend of adventure, comfort, and world-class wildlife encounters across two remarkable countries.
Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will go through custom and immigration, and you will be met by our company guide who will warmly welcome you to the Land of a thousand hills that Rwanda is know of, an later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Park Inn by Radisson Blu
Meal Plan: Dinner
Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to the western province, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum in Southern Province, this will give you a great history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership of Kingship with an enroute lunch. You will reach in the afternoon at Nyungwe national park and spend the afternoon at your leisure.
Accommodation: Mantis Kivu Marina Bay
Meal Plan: Full board
Today, after your early morning cap of African coffee, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking. You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before heading for a canopy walk. This 70 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a luck day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mantis Kivu Marina Bay
Meal Plan: Full board
You will make up ready to catch up with the beautiful sun rise over the Lake Kivu after just getting done with your morning breakfast. You will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within this great lake. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of the bats. This lake is also known as a birding paradise as it host a number of bird species like the comrand, pied king fishers, weaver birds, heron to mention but a few. You will later return for and drive off to Musanze which is roughly a 3 hours’ drive. Musanze is a tourism area near Volcanoes National Park, where most of the lodges are located since there are no lodges inside of the park.
Accommodation: five volcanoes hotel
Meal Plan: Full board
Today after you warm early morning breakfast, you will be picked by our safari driver guide who will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing and start off you day golden monkey trekking. Just like the gorilla trekking experience, the same applies to golden monkey trekking though no so hectic like gorilla trekking. After golden monkey trekking, you will return for lunch and later transfer to Bwidi to your booked accommodation.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the gorilla trekking briefing from the park headquarters and thereafter, you will enter the jungle with your packed lunch to search the shy mountain gorillas and enjoy their life style in their real home. After meeting the gorillas, you can sit around these great apes for a whole hour watching their social life as you take pictures. On a gorilla safari, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as walking shoes, packed food and mineral water, insect repellent, sun screen and hut. The gorilla tracking experience takes half or whole day depending on the movements of these primates. After this gorilla tracking experience you will return to your lodge for lunch. You will spend the evening relaxing and going through your great shots during your trekking as you wait for overnight stay.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Today after having a relaxed morning breakfast, with a beautiful view of the landscape, you checkout of the lodge and drive back to Kigali via Gatuna boarder to Kigali with an en route lunch at a convenient restaurant in Kigali. If time allows, you will visit Kigali genocide memorial ground where over 250000 victims of the genocide incident in 1994, were given a decent mass burial. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Park Inn by Radisson Blu
Meal Plan: Full board
After getting done with your relaxed morning breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport to catch up with your onward flight. End of service!
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