Following morning breakfast, drive northwestwards to Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda’s popular park, home to the endangered gorillas, golden monkeys, and several bird species. The drive time from Kigali to Volcanoes Park is roughly three hours via rolling hills and countryside. Arrive in the afternoon, check into your lodge, and refresh. In the afternoon, go for a cultural tour to the Iby’iwacu cultural center where you will learn and experience the traditions, norms, customs, and beliefs of Rwanda’s local people. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Have an early morning breakfast and with a packed lunch transfer to Kinigi Park headquarters for a briefing on the rules and regulations of Golden Monkey trekking. At 8:00 am, the armed park rangers will be guided into the bamboo forests searching for the endangered golden monkeys. The trek takes between 2-4 hours depending on the location of the golden monkeys and your hiking speed. The allowed time with golden monkeys is strictly an hour. During your search for the monkeys, you may encounter other wild animals and birds that live in this bamboo forest park. Later on, drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in southwestern Uganda. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Today you wake up very early, have breakfast, and transfer to the respective park headquarters where you will be registered and briefed on the dos and don’ts of the mountain gorilla trekking experience. You will be allocated one of the 24 gorilla groups habituated in Bwindi Forest. The actual trek starts at 8:00 am and the actual time to spend in the jungle is not certain. You will be assigned two armed park rangers who will escort you to and from the jungle forest. The allowed time with the gorillas is an hour counted from the moment you set your eyes on them. Ensure to keep the guidelines, stay calm, and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime experience. In the evening if time allows, go for a community tour to the batwa pygmies who live adjacent to the park. Overnight stay at your lodge.

Wake up on a well-spiced cup of coffee, check out, and embark on a drive headed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Connect to Queen Elizabeth via the Ishasha sector in the southern region of the park. Enjoy guided game drives in Ishasha home to the endangered tree-climbing lions.  You will also see other wild animals such as Buffalos, Elephants, Uganda kobs, Topis, Waterbucks, Warthogs, and Hippos among others. Spend the rest of the day chilling at your lodge.

Go for an early morning game-viewing experience in the Kasenyi plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park. The guided game drives through the park offer you great chances to see early risers actively hunting, grazing, and browsing before sunrise. Expect to see numerous wild animals such as waterbucks, warthogs Elephants, Lions Hyenas, Leopards, Uganda kobs, Topis, and elands among others. Return to the lodge for a late breakfast and chill at the lodge as you wait for a hot lunch. In the afternoon, go for a boat cruise at Kazinga channel, for a cold breeze and scenic views of wild animals, fishing villages, and the entire park.  Look out to the banks of the river for wild water animals such as hippos and crocodiles seen resting lazily on the banks of the river. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Very early today, go for the experimental chimpanzee trekking experience in the underground forest of Kyambura Gorge. Enjoy a trek through the dense forest searching for the endangered chimpanzees. The loud shouts and laughs of chimpanzees heard from a distance give you a direction on the location of the chimpanzees.  The forest is also home to monkey species such as Grey monkeys, Vervet monkeys, Blue Monkeys, Lhoest Mangabey, silver monkeys, Red-tailed monkeys, and black and white colobus monkeys. You will be allowed an hour with chimpanzees to learn and experience an encounter with these close relatives of people.  After an hour with chimpanzees, return to the lodge, refresh, and embark on a  drive headed to Kampala for your connecting flight at Entebbe International Airport.