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French23 Day Family Trip Rwanda & Uganda Adventure.
Offered by - Skyway Expeditions Limited
Tour Features
After one night at Five to five hotel the trip will start from Kigali city Rwanda's Capital via Ubumwe Grande Hotel in the city Centre, the starting point of your Kigali walking tour and then we shall do the outskirts of Nyungwe Forest NP (4h drive)! There will be one activity on the way .while proceed to Uganda for more like gorilla Trekking and some parts of Rwanda will use bicycles so the car will become your support vehicle, following you on a Congo Nile Trail (CNT) mountain bike trip. During your first day you will cover 36 km.
| Mid-Range tour | This mid-range tour includes comfortable lodges and tented camps. |
| Can be customized | You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour. |
| Shared tour | This tour will be shared with other travelers. |
| Solo travel available | Solo travelers can book this tour. |
| Can start any day | If availability permits, this tour can start on any day. |
| Minimum age required | The minimum age for this tour is 5 years. |
| Transportation | This tour uses: Pop-up roof 4x4, Roof minivan, Normal 4x4, Minivan, Bus, Walking, Boat, Canoe, Horse, Bicycle. |
Route & Activities
Uganda
Activities Included
Accommodation & Meals
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
| Day | Accommodation | Meals |
| 1 | All Meals Included | |
| 2-3 | Nyungwe Nziza Ecolodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 4 | Moriah Hill No images available | All Meals Included |
| 5 | Kinunu Guesthouse No images available | All Meals Included |
| 6 | Paradise Malahide No images available | All Meals Included |
| 7 | Muhabura hotel No images available | All Meals Included |
| 8 | muhabura hotel No images available | All Meals Included |
| 9 | Muhabura Climbers No images available | All Meals Included |
| 10 | Amajambere No images available | All Meals Included |
| 11 | Travelers Rest No images available | All Meals Included |
| 12-13 | Kyahugye Island No images available | Breakfast Included |
| 14 | Enjojo Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 15-16 | Tembo Safari Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 17 | Sunbird hill No images available | All Meals Included |
| 18 | Sun bird No images available | All Meals Included |
| 19-20 | Red Chilli No images available | All Meals Included |
| 21 | Nile River Explorers No images available | All Meals Included |
| 22 | Forest cottages No images available | All Meals Included |
| 23 | No accommodation No images available | Meals included as per itinerary |
Arrival (See Getting There for more details)
- A transfer from the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Day 1 - Am Kigali airport pick upOur company driver guide will pick you from Kigali international Airport in the morning and take you to the hotel just some minutes away. Five to Five Hotel will be your accommodation followed by the walking trip of Kigali, prepared by the Skyway Expeditions team, will introduce you to the heart of the city and keep you rather busy till lunch.
Main Destination: Kigali
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 2 - AmTransfer to Nyungwe NPLet’s make it to the outskirts of Nyungwe Forest NP (4h drive)! There will be one activity on the way At Nyanza, a replica traditional royal palace and the actual colonial-era home of the king will throw you deep into Rwanda’s history and cultural heritage. Nyungwe Nziza Ecolodge is the best place on the eastern side of the national park, with sweeping views of the rainforest.
Accommodation: Nyungwe Nziza Ecolodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 3 - Am Chimp trackingPrepare for an early rise it takes up to two hours from Kitabi to where chimpanzees are usually tracked .And here we go: your wildlife highlight of Rwandthe chimps of Nyungwe National Park! After a good hour of driving you shall be at the information Centre of the national park, also the starting point of the canopy walk. High above the forest you will be grateful if no win shakes you up; the vistas are incredible though Your Kitabi overnight will be approximately an hour away The second and last night at Nziza.
Main Destination: Nyungwe National Park
Accommodation: Nyungwe Nziza Ecolodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 4 - Am Drive to Gisovu tea EstateTime to leave the tarmac for a longer stretch, with a plan to reach Gisovu Tea Estate in about two hours. Gisovu is not only an impressive sight, the tour of the tea factory gives you some insight into one of Rwanda’s biggest exports n another two hours you shall be on the pretty shores of Lake Kivu, in Karongi/Kibuye. A visit to Africa’s only environmental museum is an optional activity for real fans only but a stroll around the pleasant town is almost a must! Moriah Hill should be a treat! Its coastal location allows for nice walks that shouldn’t be missed! dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Moriah Hill
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 5 - KinunuCNT being one of Rwanda’s main attractions, it is quite easy to get high quality bikes for hire. You will be led by a tour guide specialized in mountain biking. Educated in Uganda and Rwanda, he does activities in both countries, operating from Musanze, Kinunu Guesthouse will be your accommodation in the middle of the northern CNT section. you will finally get some privacy here as you will occupy a self contained room. There is a coffee washing station nearby, and coffee processing machinery.
Accommodation: Kinunu Guesthouse
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 6 - Gisenyi/RubavuThere are 33 km left to Rubavu/Gisenyi. 70 1 70 One more day of bike hire. 40 3 120 One more day BTW! 50 1 50 Paradise Malahide on the Rubona peninsula close to the city of Gisenyi will delight you with its lake location, special interior design your accommodation for today.
Accommodation: Paradise Malahide
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 7 - Am transfer to MusanzeA lazy morning from Paradise Malahide is totally an option as the drive though Gisenyi and Musanze/Ruhengeri to Lake Burera will only take about three hours. Highlights on the way:Your lunch will be at mbabazi, a Center For Hope ,on a rural road between Gisenyi and Musanze. This former orphanage is a fantastic location rich in history. A tour of the local museum is part of the package.
Accommodation: Muhabura hotel
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 8 - Musanze ProvinceAfter break fast Your driver guide will take you to the Diann Fossey Memorial site followed by the lunch break at Migano hotel in Musanze town. plus the market visit. Another night at Muhabura hotel.
Accommodation: muhabura hotel
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 9 - Transfer to Mgahinga -UgandaYour transboundary boating and hiking trip is expected to take 5-7 hours on the Rwandan side (where it covers almost everything from our Fisherman’s Fortune program) and 2-3 hours trekking on the border of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park to reach Muhabura Climbers Rest Camp. If we budget for an hour at the border, we can establish that an early departure from Musanze is gently recommended Picnic lunch included. Muhabura Climbers Rest Camp is a rustic guesthouse close to the most common gorilla tracking location, your next day’s (and the tour’s) #1 highlight. self contained room
Accommodation: Muhabura Climbers
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 10 - Am Gorilla TruckingGorilla tracking in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park .You spend one hour with the only habituated gorilla family, and a couple more hiking to and fro. Visitors are usually back by midday, so better ignore your hosts’ offers to pack lunch for you .After your return from the bush, our guide will take you to the other Mgahinga gate. Here, the extraordinarily expensive Mt Mgahinga Lodge is not exactly your accommodation preference but definitely a great site to have some drinks an possibly a meal! Amajambere is a short walk away.
Accommodation: Amajambere
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 11 - Am hiking Mt SebyinyoYou will choose one of the three dormant volcano peaks and spend the day high in the clouds. If you are a good hiker and don’t suffer from vertigo, Mt Sabyinyo where Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo meet is probably your top choice.
Accommodation: Travelers Rest
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 12 - Transfer to Lake BunyonyiThe day to make it to Lake Bunyonyi, one of the prettiest lakes in the world that lies a couple of hours away from the volcanoes. There will be two activities on your way: You have likely gotten some coffee knowledge on the Congo Nile Trail but this Coffee Tour goes deeper. Whether you are an addict or not, you are going to leave with some new appreciation for the magic beans. Batwa Today is probably the most respectful way to pay a visit to the Batwa “Pygmies”, the ancient peoples of the Gorilla Highlands region. Our partners will show you their ancestral home, the forest of Echuya, and their current settlement with spectacular vistas of Lake Bunyonyi.
Accommodation: Kyahugye Island
Meals & Drinks: Breakfast Included
- Day 13 - Lake BunyonyiDugout canoes! Dugout canoes!! Dugout canoes!!!And the hospitality of our guides at Lake Bunyonyi plentiful cultural immersion. And a rather demanding hike!You will spend one night at Kyahugye Island
Accommodation: Kyahugye Island
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 14 - Transfer to Queen ElizabethOn the way to Queen Elizabeth National Park (4-5h) there is a special stopover Kisiizi Falls used to be the terrible last destination for pregnant unmarried girls they were thrown down the falls as a punishment. These days, on the other hand, the water powers one of the best rural hospitals in Uganda Soon after reaching Enjojo Lodge you will proceed to the southern sector of the park, Ishasha, attempting to find the rare tree-climbing
Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 15 - Transfer to the Queen Elizabeth NP nothYou will be driven to the much more widely known northern side of the national park, a 4-hour ride.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Tembo Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 16 - Am game driveMorning game drive followed by the tour at Lake Katwe you will get an opportunity to witness the traditional way of producing salt. Women are not allowed to enter the lake to harvest while men have to wear condoms to protect their private parts The biggest attraction of the park’s north is the so-called launch cruise, a boat safari. It allows you to come very close to a variety of animals drinking the water of Kazinga channel that connects Lakes Edward and George. Tembo Safari Lodge is one of the most successfulaccommodation providers in the park, popular among midrange and budget clients.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Tembo Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 17 - Transfer to Kibale NPThe last morning in the park will be devoted to looking for lions one more time. Afterwards you will proceed past the equator signs towards the edge of Kibale National Park (up to 5 hours from the equator) A nature lover’s dream, this is your Sunbird Hill Experience! You will be accommodated and entertained but pay for your meals separately (still, the first one is on the house!). As long as you love birds, butterflies or beetles, you will not be bored. Prepare to be intrigued by how conservation in the village works, what former poachers have to say and what bees can do for elephants (well, against them).
Accommodation: Sunbird hill
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 18 - Am Chimp Truck.How are you going to enjoy your free day? Try more of the Sunbird stuff? Go see the crater lakes? Visit Fort Portal, a very pleasant town? Or perhaps you will feel like doing nothing, just taking the wild in?
Accommodation: Sun bird
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 19 - Transfer to Muchison Flls NPWas the break sufficient and you are now mentally prepared for a long day (10 hours of driving) on the way to Murchison Falls National Park? There will be one cultural activity on the road Mparo Royal Tombs is your invitation to step into Uganda’s alternate history. Did you notice the last paragraph of the the story linked to Nyanza? What if King Kabalega didn’t fight the British? Would the capital of the country be in today’s Hoima instead of Kampala? Would it be called Uganda at all? But Kabalega resisted European occupation.
Accommodation: Red Chilli
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 20 - Am Game driveEarly morning game drive, Your guide will take you to the other side of the Nile for a game drive, and in the afternoon to the Murchison version of the boat trip. While you will certainly see animals on the river, the main reason we are adding another launch cruise is a visit to the bottom of the impressive waterfalls that gave the park its name.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation: Red Chilli
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 21 - Transfer to JinjaYour full-day transfer to the source of the Nile, with two activities on the way: You‘ve previously approached the waterfall from below but won’t get a compete idea of the Nile’s might if you don’t do a trip to the top of of the falls! It’s about 45 minutes from Red Chili to here, then 3hours to Ziwa;. Ziwa is a sanctuary between the national park and Kampala where rhinos are being prepared to be reintroduced to the wild. You are going to be taken for a walk to see these beasts. (There’s still up to 6 hours from here to Jinja, depending on the jam.)Our rafting providers Nile River Explorers have some accommodation available on the river bank you have opted for a double en-suite room
Accommodation: Nile River Explorers
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 22 - Transfer to KampalaGrade 5 rafting on the majestic river will absolutely make your veins pump! The 4-5 whitewater hours may also involve some intake of H2O Nile Special followed by lunch in jinja town and then proceed to Kampala for the evening Ndere troups entertainment: dinner overnight at Forest cottages in Kampala city.
Main Destination: Kampala
Accommodation: Forest cottages
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 23 - Transfer to Entebbe Airport.After break fast transfer to Entebbe international Airport for your flight back home and End the Trip.
Main Destination: Entebbe
Accommodation: No accommodation
Meals & Drinks: Meals included as per itinerary
End of tour (See Getting There for more details)
- Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
- A transfer back to the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Excludes
- All Taxes/VAT
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
Rates Per Person
Jan 1, 1970 - Jan 1, 1970
Jan 1, 1970 - Jan 1, 1970
*n/a = not available. This tour is unavailable for solo travelers.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Excludes
- All Taxes/VAT
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Kigali and ends in Entebbe, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Kigali and ends in Entebbe, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Offered By
Skyway Expeditions Limited
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Reviews
Enock Muhanguzi
Uganda
October 3, 2025
Skyway Expeditions did a good service for us during our trip to Queen Elizabeth National park.
First and foremost i and my friend we appreciate the Skyway Expeditions tours because we deposited 40% of the the our cost a month before our trip sta...
First and foremost i and my friend we appreciate the Skyway Expeditions tours because we deposited 40% of the the our cost a month before our trip started and they did what we agreed eg, gorilla and chimp permits bookings, Nice accommodations, good meals, comfortable transportation plus many more activities and we enjoyed the big five mammals as well ,Addition to that we recommended another group of friends to enjoy their trip next year.
