Bwindi 4 days gorilla safari holiday, starting in Kigali and ending in Kigali.
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Arrive: Kigali, Depart: Kigali
Ever wanted to trek the gorillas but was short of time and budget? We suggest to you this short Uganda Bwindi gorilla safari at a comfortable gorilla safari holiday price and for a gorilla tour itinerary of only 4 days. You are literally into Bwindi for gorilla tacking and out the next day. We have selected fairly comfortable safari accommodations for the tour, but same can be upgraded or downgraded to suit your budget even further. In Kigali instead of Golf Hills Residence we can book you into far much cheaper guest house accommodation. In Bwindi, instead of Mutanda Lake Resort, we can use the dormitories at Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge. The safari can also be run as a guided camping safari option to further manage the gorilla safari budget.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival at Kigali airport. o/n Golf Hills Residence.
Day 2: Transfer from Kigali across the border into Uganda to Mutanda Lake
Resort.
Day 3: Gorilla tracking in Bwindi forest in Uganda.
Day 4: Transfer back to Kigali via the Cyanika bordering cross Rwanda.
Day 1: Arrival at Kigali
Arrival at Kigali airport where you will be met and greeted by our expert safari driver guide. He will brief you about your safari over the next 4 days. Later you will be transferred to your accommodation for the night at Golf Hills Residence. You will then have a 2 hrs Kigali city tour and have a chance to visit the genocide memorial in Kigali if you prefer. Lunch is envisaged at one of the trendy Kigali restaurants. You will later return to Golf Hills Residence for dinner and overnight.
| Journey Time | 30 Minutes |
| Accommodation | Golf Hills Residence |
| Meal Plan | Dinner not included. |
Day 2: Depart from Kigali and transfer to Bwindi Uganda.
After breakfast, you depart from Kigali and head to the Rwanda/Uganda border at Cyanika. We drive through Ruhengeri a town in Volcanoes National Park. After the border crossing we drive into Kisoro town in south western Uganda and very close to DRC. We drive through spectacular scenery and beautiful countryside with dramatic views of the Virunga mountain ranges and the volcanoes.
You will later in the evening arrive at the very cozy Mutanda Lake Resort, which is perched on a peninsula in Lake Mutanda. The views at Lake Mutanda Resort are quite simply to die for. The resort is lodged between Mgahinga and Bwindi National Parks making it a perfect home for gorilla tracking, hiking one of the volcanoes, bird watching or simply taking a boat canoe safari on the awesome lake
| Journey Time | 4.5 hours |
| Accommodation | Mutanda Lake Resort |
| Meal Plan | Lunch and dinner |
Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Today is the day that you get to live out your dream of eyeballing the mountain gorillas in their midst. This for most people is the highlight of their safari travel to Africa and to some a once in a lifetime experience. You will have a very early breakfast at the lodge and be transferred by your safari driver guide to the park headquarters in Nkuringo. The pre-gorilla trekking briefing takes place at 7am. You will be taken through the gorilla tracking etiquette and be allocated into groups of 8 persons each. You will then transfer to the gorilla tracking trailheads from where you will be ledt by expert mountain gorilla tracking ranger guides into the mountains in search of the gorillas.
The rangers will be looking for signs of where the gorilla spent the previous night and will be looking for fresh gorilla dung, freshly chewed bamboo shoots and nests. When you find the gorillas, you will be permitted to spend 1 hour with them. You will observe and photograph them as they play, feed and going on about their lives. You will then be invited to quietly walk away from the gorillas so that they can get on with their lives in the impenetrable Bwindi forest.
Bwindi Impenetrable national park is Uganda’s oldest and most diverse mountain rainforest. Bwindi has an amazing diversity of flora and fauna and is the only place in Africa that boasts to be habitat of both chimpanzees and mountain gorillas. In Rwanda, the gorillas are in Volcanoes National Park, where as the Chimps are 7 hours drive away in Nyungwe Forest. Half the world’s surviving mountain gorillas call Bwindi home, as well as over 380 bird species some of which are endemic to Bwindi.
Day 4: Depart Bwindi and transfer to Kigali.
| Accommodation | Mutanda Lake Resort |
| Meal Plan | Breakfast, packed lunch & Dinner |
Today is time to say goodbye to gorilla land Bwindi and head back to Kigali. Please book flights departing after 5pm. If flights scheduling is tricky then we shall book an extra night for you in Kigali and you depart from Kigali the following day. The transfer time from Bwindi to Kigali is approximately 4.5 hours after factoring in border crossing formalities.
| Journey Time | 5 hours |
| Accommodation | Not included |
| Meal Plan | Breakfast |
This safari can be shortened to a 3 days gorilla safari.