Sarania Adventure Safaris For Customized East African Safaris

Upon your arrival at Kigali international airport , you will be met by our company representative/ driver who will drive you direct to your accommodation in Kigali capital city of Rwanda. Stay at 5 to 5 hotel, serena Kigali, protea hotel, heaven retreat, stay on those named hotels for dinner and overnight.

Day2

Early morning after breakfast at your hotel, you will have a city tour with in Kigali city, visiting historical areas like Kigali genocide memorial center, niyo art geraly, nyamata church, the presidential palace and after have lunch with in the city. After lunch we shall proceed to the eastern part of the country driving for around four hours until we reach at akagera game reserve. Stay at akagera lodge. Dinner and over night at the same lodge.

Day 3

Early morning after break fast at your hotel, we start our day by doing a game drive with in the park where we expect to see animals like plain zebras, African cape buffaloes, African elephants, Jackson’s heart beast, water barks, bush barks, warthogs, lions, leopards, rhinos , impalas, kobs, serval cats, golden cats, civet cats, advark and many more. After come back for lunch at our hotel, as we prepare for an afternoon boat ride in lake ihema. On the lake, you expect to see animals like hippos, and many animals that come to drink water. We also expect to crocodiles, monitor lizards and many others. See birds like the papyrus gonoleks, marsh sand pipers, African fish eagles, pied king fishers, malachite kingfishers, pigmy kingfisher, black headed heron, saddle billed storks, Egyptian goose, African data, little egrets, goliath heron, spur winged plover, black winged stilt, African water thicknee, yellow billed storks, greater cormorants, great white pelicans and many others bird species. Come back to the hotel/lodge for dinner and over night

Day 4,

Wake up in the morning and after we start our day by heading to Nyungwe national park. The journey will take us full day where we expect to have lunch on the way. Reaching late in the evening and stay at Uwinka guest house, nyungwe top view hill hotel. For dinner and overnight.

Day 5,

Wake up early in the morning and assemble to the park headquarters for chimpanzee tracking. This forest is rwanda’s thick forest reserve that habours a lot of wildlife including the forest elephants, buffaloes, primates like the l’hoest monkeys, red tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, black and colobus monkeys angola monkey, olive baboons, vervet monkeys and many others. The forest covers around 1,019kmsq and is reach in bird species, butterflies, insects, reptiles, different plant species and many others. However, for the most famous/important activity we are assigned to do on the day/chimpanzee tracking, we are going to be grouped in small groups of not more than 9 people, after we shall be allocated or assigned to and also be given armed rangers that are ment to protect us while in the forest incase you encounter dangerous animals like the elephants, buffaloes, and unhabituated chimpanzees just in case we meet them. After we shall drive back to our lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 6, early morning after breakfast, you will mover to the park headquarters to track the big group of black and white colobus monkeys. This is the most attractive group with its beautiful colours once mate. After a walk in the forest looking for these primates. After we shall have lunch and later we go for the canopy walk, this is also another famous activity that makes you walk up in trees that give you a glance of the forest.

Optional activity, nature walk in the forest. This helps to see different primates in the forest as we as bird watching. However, it also helps in experiencing the cool forest.

Day 7, we have breakfast and later we proceed to karongi on lake kivu, this is a one beautiful lake that provide a scenic view of the lake. After we reach we shall have a boat ride on the lake visiting islands like the vervet monkey island as well as seeing birds like the little egrets, African data, African fish eagle, pied kingfisher and many more.

Stay at Maravilla Kivu eco lodge, orchids safari club, inn on the lake

Day 8, after breakfast, we will drive to Volcanoes national park. This park is one of the golden national parks, covering 160kmsq, and neighbors Virunga national park in Democratic Republic of Congo, and mgahinga National Park. The park has different activities like mountain gorilla tracking, viewing or seeing golden monkeys, mountain hiking, visiting the gorilla guardian/ community visits

Stay at Da vince lodge, silver back view lodge, bisate, le’bamboo lodge

Day 9, after a morning breakfast, we shall assemble at the park headquarters, have briefing about the park and later be allocated to the guide who will again be escorted to by the armed rangers that will help in scare shooting in case of any aggressive animals. Later we shall enter the forest in search for gorillas. Later after a walk, depending on the gorilla group we shall be located to, it will help us determine the time we shall come back. Upon reaching, we shall get time to take photos, videos and full guiding or be given enough information about gorilla tracking. After we come back at our lodge for relaxing, dinner and over night

Day 10, we shall start our day by hiking any of the five volcanoes chaine like mount Bisoke, Mount Sabinyo, Mount Muhabura, or Mount gahinga. Upon reaching on top of the mountain, you will be able to view all the 3 countries of Uganda, Rwanda where you came from and Democratic Republic of Congo. This will however take you full day and expect to come back to you lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight

Day 11, wake up in the morning after breakfast and travel to park headquarters as we will be briefed about the golden monkey. After you will be allocated to your guide who will take you inside the park to look for these famous animals. However, this tracking is not as hard as others as sometimes they are found on the foot hills in the bamboo areas.

Aftar lunch, we shall visit the Ibyiwachu Gorilla guardian. This is the Rwanda, cultural experience as it will help to attach you to the romantic Rwanda cultural experience which is characterized with cultural experience and dancing. Dinner and over night to the same lodge

Day 12, drive to Bwindi impenetrable national park in Uganda. Stay at 4 gorilla safari lodge, gorilla leisure lodge, Bweza lodge, Icumbi lodge

This is a famous gorilla national park found in Uganda. It is a tropical rain forest that covers the hills hobouring different animals like the African forest elephants, African cape buffaloes, chimpanzees, primates like the black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, le’hoest monkeys, grey checked mangabeys and money others,

However, on this day, no activity to be done as we expect to relax on our hotel, as we wait for dinner and overnight.

Day 13, wake up in the morning ready for the gorilla tracking. Here you will assemble at the park offices/headquarters and arrange your selves with other members for the general briefing about the park and the species of animals within the park. After the briefing, we shall be put in small groups of not more than 8 people par group and later allocated to the a ranger who will also introduce you to a type of the gorilla group you are going to track and as well be introduced to the armed rangers that will give you security in the forest just in case you encounter aggressive / dangerous animals that might charge at you will tracking. Dangerous aninmals include, African forest elephants, African Buffaloes, chimpanzees as well as none-habituated gorillas. Upon you meet these animals, you will be able to take photos, videos, as well as getting or having information about gorillas from the guide. After tracking, you will come back at the lodge and for relaxation, dinner and overnight

Day 14, we shall wake up in the morning, for the pigmy/ Batwa visit. These are people that used to live in the forest and they were brought out by the government to attain social life, education, etc. these people used to poach animals for food, herbal to treat themselves, gather firewood for lighting fire, and collecting honey from the forest. These people will dance for us, demonstrate to us the way they used to hunt animals, make fire without matchbox, collect horn and poach or kill animals.

After we have lunch and later continue to lake bunyonyi. Have a boat ride that will make us see or visit some of the many islands as the lake has 29 islands. These islands are of different sizes, where they include bigger islands, that have schools, hospitals, churches and mosques. Others are occupied people homesteads, gardens and different farms. The lake has the smallest island that possess a cultural historical back ground. Here we shall do bird watching seeing birds like the little egrets, African datas, cormorants, malachite king fishers, pied king fishers, canaries, papyrus gonolek, sunbirds, weavers and many more birds. Besides this lake is so beautiful scenic and bilharzia free which attracts many tourists to swim. However, the water is clean though being the third deepest lake in the whole world.

Day 15, wake up in the morning for breakfast and after and after we drive to queen Elizabeth national park. This is the second Uganda’s biggest savannah national park that is located in the Albertine great rift valley. It harbors 97 species of birds and 600 species of animals. Here we shall expect to see birds like black headed weavers through ishasha gate, searching animals like the tree climbing lions, the leopard, Animals like the Topis, African elephants, African cape buffaloes, warthogs, water backs, bush backs, bush pigs, forest hogs, vervet monkeys and olive baboons. We also expect to see birds like slender headed weavers, black headed weaver, violet barked weaver, yellow long crow, helmeted guinea falls, spur winged lapwing, ring necked dove, imarld dove, Namaqua dove, cattle egrets, gorilla herons, black headed herons squacal hellon, black crake, sacred ibis, hadada ibis, northern black fly capture, folk tailed drongo, African jacana, lapped faced vulture, white backed vulture, palm nut vulture, yellow wag tail, pied wag tail, pin tailed wider, Egyptian goose, Rupel’s long tailed starling and many more. Stay at ishasha jungle lodge.

Day 16, After a morning breakfast, we shall drive to the northern side of the park and this distance will take us around two hours. Straight we have a short game drive as we prepare for our afternoon boat ride. the boat ride will be conducted on kazinga channel which is a massive water body that connects the two lakes of lake Edward and lake gorge all found in the same park, on the boat ride you will be able to see schools of hippos, crocodiles, monitor lizards, and other animals like buffaloes , elephants, kobs, water barks, wort hogs, vervet monkeys and olive baboon that come to drink water during a hot weather of the day. Stay at twin lake safari lodge, elephant planes, park view, kasenyi safari comp.

Day 17, wake up early in the morning after break fast for a lion tracking experiential activity. Here you will visit different prides of lions, leopards as well as seeing other animals like Kobs, baboons, bush barks, warthogs, elephants, water barks, vervet monkeys. after the experiential activity we will drive to kibale forest national park, stopping at the equator taking photos, videos and equator experience. Proceed through the crater lakes of Kabarole scenic mountain views while having a beautiful glance of mountains of the moon/ Rwenzori mountains. Reaching at our hotel in the evening thus staying at guereza, turacos tree tops, kibale guest cottages, and kibale guest comp.

Day 18, after our morning breakfast at the hotel, assemble at the park head quarters for a general briefing about the forest, and its historical back grounds. Latter we shall be grouped of not more than 9 people per group. Here we shall be allocated to our ranger guide who will introduce to u the armed people that will provide security as the forest is a home of different animal that might be aggressive to u like elephants, buffalos. The forest is a home to 13 species of primates namely, l’hoest monkeys, vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, olive baboons, grey cheeked mangabeys, bush babies, and many others. This activity will take you half a day as we expect to come back at the lodge for lunch. After lunch we shall relax at our lodge as we sort out photos or pictures as we wait for dinner.

Day 19, have break fast at the hotel, and proceed for a full day swamp walk and a full day community visit. On the swamp, you expect to see different primate species like the black and white, red tailed colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, olive baboons, sitatunga monkeys and many more. The swamp also has different types of plant species, fungi, insects, butterfly, and months. After the swamp walk, we shall have a special community activity of local food preparation and cooking. After eating we shall visit in the coffee queen who will take us through the coffee preparation up to the cupping stage. From there we shall visit the banana man who will teach us on how to make banana juice and banana beer. All these will allow us to taste, if possible, buy and take in your home countries. After we shall visit the community women dancing group who will culturally/ traditionally dance for us, teach us to weave mats, baskets, sits, table mats, show us different art facts. Come back at our lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 20, we start our day while descending up to the north east of the country. Passing through different big tea estates, coffee plantations and sugar plantations that provide a stunning scenic view of the beautiful Uganda that proves to u that really Uganda is the pearl of Africa. Ascending down from the bison escapements to the Albertine great lift valley of Bullisa flats that gives you a good view of lake albert. Continue and enter the park through bugungu gate which is located in the western part of the park. Stay at Murchison River lodge, Tilenga, pakuba safari lodge, and para safari lodge. For dinner and overnight.

Day 21, after an early morning break fast, we shall deeply enter in to the hidden tracks of Murchison falls of national park for a game drive which is the biggest national park in Uganda with 76 mammal species and 450 species of birds. This park has animals namely, Rothschild giraffes, Jacksons heart Bist, Kobs, buffaloes, oribis, water bikes and warthogs, lions, leopards, lions etc. come back at our hotel for lunch as we prepare for the boat ride on the Nile River. On the Boart ride we expect to see schools of hippos, monitor lizards, crocodiles, and some of the above-mentioned animals that come to drink water on the hot weather of the day. Come back at the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 22, wake up in the morning revisit the top of the falls where the Nile River forces its self in to a narrow gap of8 m and drops in to a 45m cliff, which provides a magnificent beautiful view which makes Murchison falls to be the most power full water falls in the world. After we proceed to Ziwa rhino sanctuary. This sanctuary is the breeding area of the rhinos that is managed by the government where by the major aim is to make sure that there is the restoration on Rhinos in Uganda. The sanctuary also harbors other animals like the giraffes, zebra, Kobs, water backs, warthogs bush backs and many more animals like the black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys and many more. The sanctuary covers around 70 kmsq and is a home to many birds

Stay at Amuka safari lodge, Ziwa lodge

Day 23, drive north east to kidepo valley national park, this journey will take us full day as we expect to reach in the evening stay at savanna lodge, Apoka lodge, apocca bounders.

Day 24, we shall wake up in the morning after Breakfast , enter in the park for a morning game drive entering through one of the southern gates having a view of the animals congregation in of the nares river, which is one of the only river stream that will never get dry even during the dry season. A number of animals that congregate in this valley include, the Roth’s child giraffes, African cape buffaloes, Jacksons heart beasts, zebras, white colobus monkeys, lions, leopards, bush bags, elephants, elands. The park also harbors different bird species for example, lilac breasted rollers, hooded vultures, white barked vultures, lapped faced vultures piapiac, yellow wag tail, off sprays, eagles, hocks, grey baked fiscal, hawks, Egyptian goose, Abyssinian ground hornbill, crowned horn bill, forks river. Different types of staling’s and weavers, guinea falls, spur fall lap wing. Come back at the hotel for lunch and after we visit the Karamojong communities these are people which are closely related with the Dinkers in south Sudan and the Masai in Kenya and Tanzania. These people will dance for us, demonstrate to us on how they perform their traditional norms,

Day 25, after the morning break fst we shall drive through Kotido and kabong northern regions to pian upe game reserve. This distance will take us a whole day thus expecting to reach in the evening Stay at the park accommodation.

Day 26, early morning after break fast we shall start our day while visiting Uganda’s biggest game reserve that is over 2000sqkm and has animals like roan antelope, giraffes, zebras, tipis, heart beasts, Kobs, ostriches chitters water Burks, bush Burks, warthogs and many more. The reserve has different tree species mostly acacia hooky, red barked acacias, and many more. After we proceed to sipi falls on mount Elgon national park. Stay at rafiki hotel, sipi river lodge.

Day 27, wake up in the morning for hiking the three water falls, do abseiling and other activities like community visit which are optional. Later proceed to Kampala, stay at golden tulip, sky’s hotel, protea, Sheraton etc.

Day 28, wake up early morning to the air port for your departure.

END OF YOUR TOUR