If you are eager to visit Uganda and Rwanda on a safari tour, there is plenty of charming places to explore and enjoy from the time you set your foot at the airport to the time you say goodbye. Uganda and Rwanda are treasured worldwide for their memorable gorilla safari experience though both countries offer great opportunities to relax and unwind any time of the year.
Whatever your interest could be for an Africa safari tour, Uganda and Rwanda are right places with variety of wonderful attractions that take your breath away. Discover fantastic safaris destinations and enjoy diverse incredible attraction on a trip to Uganda and Rwanda with open choice of international airports-Kigali and Entebbe. If you ever happen to have a chance to visit these beautiful countries, there are a dozen of attractions that make them unique among tourist destinations in Africa and bellow are some of the top attractions that attract thousands to the region.
Mountain Gorillas
This has always been the top on any visitors list to Rwanda and Uganda that has continuous inspire many to explore the two countries in Africa. Rwanda and Uganda are famed mountain gorilla safari destinations in Africa. Great experiences and memories is all what tourists to Rwanda and Uganda carry home when they come to see gorillas in their natural home. Due to a slight difference in gorilla permit prices, still tourists fly to Rwanda and track gorillas in Uganda hence exploring both countries at the same time. Rwanda has one gorilla trekking park-Volcanoes though Uganda has two of them in south west Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. All the three gorilla parks are located close to each other giving chance to travelers who want to track gorillas twice in different national parks and countries. All gorilla tracking parks are accessed by both road and air with convenient lodges and campsites that cater for budget and luxury travelers. Don’t miss to track golden monkeys in either volcanoes national park or Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, another beautiful primate species that live in the same home with gorillas.
Chimpanzee Tracking
While in Uganda and Rwanda make it a point to stop over at either Nyungwe forest national park or Kibale forest and track the fast moving primates that are known as chimpanzees. In Africa Uganda and Rwanda are also great chimpanzee trekking destinations and a home to the most chimpanzee capitals. Tourists have a chance to either view chimps once or go for chimpanzee habituation where one spends a all day in company of fast moving primates and park rangers. It’s a great experience that starts very early in the morning as soon as chimps wake up until when they retire for the day. There are other chimpanzee trekking grounds in Uganda like Kyambura gorge, Kalinzu and Budongo plus a fine feeding viewing chimp sanctuary Ngamba Island on Lake Victoria. Combining Gorilla and Chimpanzee trekking is thrilling experience that you should experience best only in Uganda and Rwanda.
Rare Cultures & Tradition
Each tribe in Uganda or Rwanda has a story and cultural significance and today communities offer exciting cultural experiences to guests who wish to experience ancient in the present. The Batwa people, Karamajongs, Buganda, Banyankole , Basoga, Batoro have made made history in the life of a real true Ugandan. Same applies in Rwanda among the Hutus and Tutsi people.Exploring the Ibywachu cultural villages, Butare museum , Kigali museum and much more shows you how rich and am\zing the cultural trends of Rwanda people is and its cherished everywhere you go. Watching the locales dance the Notre dance will give you endless joy hence making you love Rwanda and Africa in general. There is much more that make Rwanda and Uganda great travel places in Africa like landscape, weather, friendly people, lakes and rivers, wildlife, etc.
