Day 1: Arrival
You will be welcomed by the company guide from our company who will then transfer you to the hotel in Kampala or at Entebbe for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation:
Budget: Common Lens Inn Hotel
Midrange: Cassia Lodge
Luxury: Serena Lake Victoria Resort
Day 2: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park.
Have your breakfast early in the morning and after head to Bwindi impenetrable National park; having a stopover at the equator for photos and experiments. Later on have lunch at Igongo cultural site and then continue; arriving in Bwindi later in the evening. Then dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Broadbill Forest Camp
Midrange: Bakiga Lodge
Luxury: Gorilla Safari Lodge
Day 3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Have breakfast in the morning and then head to Buhoma park headquarters for your briefing before you continue with your Uganda gorilla trekking safari to meet the incredible giants. Depending on the movement of the gorillas in the jungle, this activity can take 3 hours to a full day. After the track, you will then return to the lodge for lunch preparing for a community walk in the evening or an optional visit to the Batwa people. These are among the few reaming shortest people in the world. They will entertain you with dances and songs. Later on, you will return to the lodge for your dinner and overnight.
Accommodation:
Budget: Broadbill Forest Camp
Midrange: Bakiga Lodge
Luxury: Gorilla Safari Lodge
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park.
Have breakfast and after, head to Queen Elizabeth National park via Ishasha sector. You will get a chance to see the tree climbing lions; then follow to the Mweya peninsula and enjoy a game drive. You will also get a chance to see the many herds of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, hippos, water hogs, water bucks and many bird species. Have your lunch at Mweya safari Lodge and later in the afternoon, you will have a game drive in the park while you follow the kasenyi track which is the best game viewing site in the park. You will also find a large number of the bird species in the park including; the brown snake eagle, Bateleur, Grey-Kestrel, White and Abdims Stork, Martial Eagle, African Harrier-Hawk, Saddle-billed Stork, and many more.
Accommodation:
Budget: Simba Safari Camp
Midrange: Ihamba Safari Lodge
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 5: Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Have your breakfast and after, you will head to Lake Munyanyange north of Katwe for more wildlife species. This place is also well known for its concentration of mammals and many bird species which. This is an added advantage for the bird watchers. Some of the birds found here include; Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, Greenshank, Gull-billed Terns, Red-necked Phalarope, the Greater and Lesser Flamingoes, Wintering Red-throated pipits and Northern Wheatears. After lunch we shall go for a boat cruise at Kazinga Channel. This channel stretches between Lake Edward and Lake George. The animal species and the birds here cannot be compared with any other in other parks. Immediately after your boat cruise, you will enjoy swimming in Mweya’s significant swimming pool.
Then dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Simba Safari Camp
Midrange: Ihamba Safari Lodge
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 6: Full day of game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Have breakfast and then later proceed for a game drive; expecting to view many early risers and predators including leopard’s jackals and the foxes, hyenas, aardwolf, African wild cat, Bush babies, Uganda Kobs, reedbuck, Giant forest hogs, defassa waterbuck, warthog, Elephants, Hippos and many more. You willalso have your lunch and after drive to Kyambura Gorge for chimpanzee tracking where you will enjoy the primates. Depending on the time, you can also visit the bat cave deep in the rain forest or visit the Katwe salt mining site.
Then finally dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Simba Safari Camp
Midrange: Ihamba Safari Lodge
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 7: Transfer to Kibale National Park.
Have breakfast and then transfer to Kibale National park via crater lake Area, Kasanga Forest. You will have lunch at the lodge and in the afternoon visit the community where you will get a chance to interact with the Batooro people. You will also visit the tea plantation and the tea factory.
Then dinner and overnight will be at your lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Rwenzori View guest house
Midrange: Kibale Forest Camp
Luxury: Primate Lodge
Day 8: Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale national park.
Breakfast early in the morning and after proceed to Kanyanchu headquarters for your briefing and start chimpanzee tracking at about 8:00 am. You will also view many primates like chimps, red tailed monkey, L’hoest Monkeys, grey cheeked mangabeys, Colobus Monkey, the white and butterflies, different insects and the Forest birds. Then you will return to the lodge for your lunch and after, proceed to Bigodi swamp for birding. This wetland mentioned lies along fort portal to Kamwenge road, 5 km south east of kanyanchu tourist center. The community based project also offers access to magombe swamp; which is a very interesting area for the papyrus and swamp forest. While there, you will view many birds including; the the white-winged Warbler, papyrus Gonolek, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, papyrus canary, , Black-faced Rufous warbler Blue-headed Coucal, the spectacular Yellow-billed Barbet, White-spotted Flufftail and Grey-capped Warbler, Scaly-throated honeyguide, Blue-shouldered and Snowy-headed Robin-Chats.
Finally you will have an overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Rwenzori View guest house
Midrange: Kibale Forest Camp
Luxury: Primate Lodge
Day 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park.
Have breakfast and transfer to Murchison falls National park. This will be a long day drive through the homesteads where you will make a stopover at Albertine escarpments. The view of Lake Albert at the floor of the rift valley is also fascinating. Then you will board the ferry crossing the river Nile to the northern bank.
Finally have dinner and an overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Red Chili Rest camp
Midrange: Pakuba safari Lodge
Luxury: Paraa safari lodge
Day 10: Game Drive and boat cruise.
Have your breakfast in the morning and you will undertake a morning game drive to the northern sector of the park. There, you will view many animals like; lions, elephant, hyenas, Jackson’s Heart beest, Kobs, monkeys and Patas. In the afternoon, take a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls. Here, you will view many Nile crocodiles, hippos, rare shoebill, bee eaters and many other birds. Then finally have dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation:
Budget: Red Chili Rest camp
Midrange: Pakuba safari Lodge
Luxury: Paraa safari lodge
Day 11: Depart to Kampala.
Have your breakfast and transfer to Kampala; having a stopover at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary to view the rhinos. You will reach Kampala in the evening. Then have a dinner and an overnight at the hotel.
Accommodation:
Budget: Common Lens Inn Hotel
Midrange: Cassia Lodge
Luxury: Serena Lake Victoria Resort
Day 12: Kampala city tour.
Have breakfast and afterwards proceed for a city tour around Kampala. Later the driver will transfer you to the airport depending on your flight details, marking the end of your Gorilla trekking safari in Uganda.
