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5 Days Best Uganda Bird Watching Tour at Mabira, Budongo Forest 2023
5 Days Best Uganda Bird Watching Tour starts at Entebbe to Mabira & Budongo Forest for Bird watching Uganda. 5 Days Best Uganda Bird Watching Tour is your ideal Birding safari to do in Uganda when you are an avid birder as you get an opportunity to watch various bird species fly around their natural forest vegetation.
Enjoy Bird Watching Tours in Uganda’s Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Mabira Forest, Budongo Forest situated a few kilometers from Murchison Falls National Park.
Trip Overview of the 5 Days Best Uganda Bird Watching Tour
Day 1: Entebbe Botanical Gardens
Day 2: Kampala City Tour to Mabira Forest
Day 3: Transfer to Masindi (Budongo)
Day 4: Budongo Forest-Bird watching
Day 5: Kampala/ Entebbe-Deparure
Detailed Itinerary of the 5 Days Best Uganda Bird Watching Tour
Day 1: Entebbe Botanical Gardens
On dropping at the Entebbe International Airport, you are welcomed and picked by a driver guide who transfers you to the Entebbe Botanical Gardens to watch various bird species like the orange tufted, red chested Sunbirds, orange weaver, slender-billed, Northern Brown –throated, yellow backed, Jackson’s Golden –backed, Black-headed, Vieillot’s black weavers, you may also spot the long tailed Cormorant, Common Squacco and black-headed herons, hamerkop, African Open-billed Stork, yellow billed duck, Grey headed gull, various terns, giant and pied Kingfishers and swamp Flycatcher. Dinner and Overnight. Cassia Lodge Buziga.
Day 2: Kampala City Tour to Mabira Forest
Today have breakfast then embark onto a drive to enjoy a City Tour visiting various attractions like the Uganda National Museum, Bahai Temple, King’s Palace Bulange, Namugongo Martyrs Church.
Later after your lunch drive to Mabira Forest to watch birds like the yellow whiskered Greenbul, White spotted Fluff tail, Forest Robin, Buff spotted Woodpecker, Grey spotted Woodpecker, Leaf love, Red headed Blue Bill, Yellow spotted Barbet, Grey throated Barbet, Yellow Rumped Tinker bird, Red headed Malimbe, Yellow Throated Tinker bird, Blue Breasted Kingfisher. Dinner and Overnight at Cassia Lodge Buziga.
Day 3: Transfer to Masindi (Budongo)
Have your breakfast then continue to the Budongo Forest in Masindi situated a few kilometers off Murchison Falls National Park. On arrival here, go on a guided nature walk following trails to Nyabyeya Region located in between the Nyabyeya Forestry College and the research station then later to your lodge for Dinner and Overnight. Masindi Hotel.
Day 4: Birding Watching in Budongo Forest
Get up early then transfer to Budongo Forest to watch birds the Guinea-Congo forest Biome and Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Ceratogymna fistulator, Smithornis rufolateralis, Ixonotus guttatus, Neafrapus cassini, Sylvietta denti, Batis ituriensis and Zoothers camaronensis, Pitta reichenowi and Parmoptila woodhousei, Blue-breasted and sunbirds. Dinner and Overnight at Masindi Hotel.
Day 5: Departure to Kampala
Have breakfast then with your luggage transfer to Kampala or the Entebbe International Airport to board your flight back home.
Safari Includes:
- Ground transportation
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- Lunch
- Bird Watching Permits to be booked in advance
- Allowance of a knowledgeable English speaking guide
Excludes
- Airfare to Uganda
- Visas
- Accommodation
- Cigarettes and personal expenses not listed in the program
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