Day 1: Arrival in Kigali (Rwanda).
Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport. Your safari driver, will pick you and then transfer you to your boutique hotel and spend a relaxed afternoon visiting the Inema Arts Center or relaxing at your luxury hotel. Enjoy a candlelit dinner overlooking the city lights.
Day 2: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park.
After breakfast, check out then take a reflective morning visit to Kigali Genocide Memorial. Afterward, start on a scenic 2.5-hour drive winding upward into the mist-shrouded Virunga Mountains. Spend the afternoon toasting to your marriage from a luxury eco-lodge balcony. Later dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Golden Monkey trekking in Volcanoes National Park and Crossing into Uganda.
Enjoy breakfast, meet with your safari driver and then transfer to the park headquarters, to track the playful, endangered golden monkeys through the bamboo forests of Volcanoes National Park. After a celebratory lunch, drive across the Cyanika border post into Uganda, winding down into the ancient valleys of Bwindi. Upon arrival, check in your lodge then dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda).
Get up early in the morning, enjoy breakfast then meet your safari driver to trek into Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to spend a magical hour with a family of mountain gorillas. Uganda’s permits cost $800 USD (compared to Rwanda’s $1,500), making this a smart honeymoon choice. Later dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
After your breakfast, check out and then drive north to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will pass through the Ishasha sector to look for the famous tree-climbing lions lounging in massive fig trees and other wildlife across. Later transfer to your lodge, with impressive sightings, later dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6: Full day in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
After breakfast, meet your safari guide and then transfer to the park for a morning game drive to look for the park’s incredible wildlife like lions, buffaloes, rhinos, elephants, and many others without forgetting the bird species in the Kasenyi sector.
After lunch, in the afternoon to watch massive pods of hippos and elephants bathing and many others. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 7: Chimpanzee Tracking and Departure through Entebbe.
Take an early morning hike through the dramatic underground forest of Kyambura Gorge to track wild chimpanzees. Afterward, take a domestic bush flight from the nearby Mweya airstrip straight to Entebbe International Airport (EBB) to catch your evening international flight home.
