How many days is the 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari?

The 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari is 15 days and 14 nights, operating year-round from Rwanda, Uganda.

How much does the 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari cost?

The 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari is priced on request depending on your group size, dates, and accommodation preferences. Contact Orika Africa Tours for a free tailor-made quote: hi@orikaafrica.com or +256 707 916 185.

What is included in the 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari?

The 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari in Rwanda, Uganda includes all accommodation, meals, park fees, private safari vehicle with an experienced guide-driver, and 24/7 support from Orika Africa Tours. Uganda's UTB-licensed Tour Operator & DMC. We welcome solo travellers, couples, families, and larger groups.

Is the 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari suitable for first-time safari visitors?

Yes. Orika Africa Tours designs every itinerary from scratch around your group's fitness, interests, and budget. The 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari is available as a private safari, no shared vehicles, no fixed groups, ever.

What is the best time to go on the 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari in Rwanda, Uganda?

The 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari in Rwanda, Uganda runs year-round. The dry seasons (June to August and December to February) offer the best conditions for game drives and trekking. Contact Orika Africa Tours for month-by-month advice.

15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari

15 days are the most indulgent way to combine Rwanda and Uganda, beginning and ending in Kigali and threading together some of the finest lodges and camps in both countries. It opens with big game in Rwanda's reborn Akagera, a Big Five park of lakes and rolling savannah, then flies north to Uganda for chimpanzees in Kibale, classic game viewing in Queen Elizabeth, the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha, and not one but two mountain gorilla treks in Bwindi. A shoebill search in the Mabamba wetlands makes a fitting finale.

Designed for travellers who want space, comfort and time, this itinerary favours standout properties and uses domestic flights to replace the longer road legs. For a value-focused version of the two-country idea, see the 13 Days Uganda & Rwanda Safari; for an unhurried road-and-air route through the Virungas, the 16 Days Remarkable Uganda & Rwanda.

Read more in the Rwanda and Uganda destination guides, and time your gorilla trek with our gorilla trekking guide.

Trip Highlights

Two mountain gorilla treks in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Big Five game viewing in Rwanda's Akagera National Park
Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
Boat safaris on Lake Ihema and the Kazinga Channel
Tree-climbing lions of the Ishasha sector
Shoebill search in the Mabamba wetlands
Kampala city tour and a Lake Victoria sundowner cruise

Day-by-Day Itinerary

On arrival at Kigali International Airport you are assisted through customs and immigration and met by your driver-guide for the short transfer to your hotel. The evening is yours to settle into the rhythm of the Land of a Thousand Hills.

A morning transfer brings you to Akagera National Park, one of Africa's great conservation comebacks, now home to the Big Five across a landscape of lakes and rolling savannah. After lunch at the lodge you head out on an afternoon game drive.

A full day in Akagera pairs a game drive across the plains with a boat safari on Lake Ihema, where hippo, crocodile and a remarkable variety of waterbirds gather along the shore.

After breakfast you depart Akagera and transfer to Kigali for your flight to Entebbe. On arrival you are met and transferred to your hotel, where a welcome dinner sets the tone for the Ugandan leg of the journey.

Explore Uganda's capital with a visit to the Royal Palace and the Gaddafi National Mosque and a wander through a local market, before an afternoon sundowner cruise on Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile.

A morning flight from Entebbe to Kasese is followed by a scenic drive to Kibale Forest, the primate capital of East Africa, where you settle into your rainforest lodge.

You spend the morning tracking habituated chimpanzees through Kibale's ancient forest, then explore the community-run Bigodi Wetland in the afternoon, alive with monkeys and birds.

After breakfast and a tree-planting contribution to the forest, you transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, enjoying an en route game drive as you arrive at your lodge bordering the park.

A morning game drive and a visit to the Katwe salt lakes precede an afternoon boat safari on the Kazinga Channel, where elephant, buffalo and hippo crowd the banks among clouds of waterbirds.

A game-viewing transfer carries you south to the remote Ishasha sector, famed for its tree-climbing lions. You arrive at your wilderness camp on the banks of the Ntungwe River in time for sundowners.

A final morning game drive concludes with a private bush breakfast before the transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You arrive in time for lunch, with the balance of the day at leisure on the forest's edge.

After an early breakfast and briefing at the park headquarters, you set off on your first gorilla trek into Bwindi, spending a treasured hour with a habituated family. In the afternoon you visit the Ride 4 a Woman cooperative, which supports local women through craft and enterprise.

A second trek offers a different family and a deeper, unhurried experience of these remarkable apes. Later you spend time with a Batwa community, the forest's original inhabitants, learning about their traditions and heritage.

After checkout you transfer to the airstrip for a scheduled flight to Entebbe. The afternoon brings a complimentary birding excursion to the Mabamba wetlands in search of the prehistoric-looking shoebill stork, followed by a farewell dinner.

Your safari concludes today with a transfer to the airport and meet-and-greet assistance for your outbound flight, carrying home the memory of two countries and two unforgettable gorilla encounters.