Experience the biodiversity of Uganda’s wild life in its well-known stunning habitant reserve parks of Lake Mburo National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Kibale Forest National Park
Day 1: Arrival
Receive a warm welcome from our company representative on your arrival to Uganda from the Entebbe International Airport. Your driver guide will later transfer you to your hotel in Kampala for dinner and overnight at Sheraton Hotel (Luxury)/Cassia Lodge (Midrange)/Excellent Hotel (Budget).
Day 2: Transfer to Kibale
After your breakfast your driver guide will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala and set off for Kibale in Fort portal via Mubende. On your way you can take an optional detour to the Nakayima shrine believed to be the matriarch Nakayima of the Bachwezi and you will be rewarded with excellent views of Mubende Town. Have a lunch stopover enroute. Dinner and overnight at Primates Lodge/ Chimp’s nest / Chimpanzee Guest House
Day 3: Primate tracking
After your break fast head to the park head quarters for a briefing session about the chimpanzee tracking code of conduct. Thereafter head to the forest and experience tracking of the chimps in their natural habitant. An experienced game ranger will take you through this adventurous experience where you will listen to the pant-hooting calls of the chimps’ in order to locate them. You will be rewarded with views of the monkeys like the Red Tailed Monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys and also the Black faced red colobus in addition to the credible birdlife that includes the white collard olive black, African broad bill, white napped pigeon and the great Blue Turacco among others.
After your lunch take pleasure in the rewarding sightseeing walk of the habitants of the Bigodi wetland sanctuary. These include variety of bird species and monkeys. Dinner and overnight at Primates Lodge/ Chimp’s nest / Chimpanzee Guest House
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth
After your breakfast leave Kibale for Queen Elizabeth a place of open savannah and acacia woodlands. On entry to the park, enjoy a game drive with sightings of the various animals like the hyenas, wildebeest, elephants, leopard, lion, buffalos and antelope species among others.
After your lunch enjoy a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel with a rewarding sight views of a variety of animals that come to drink at the shores like the hippos crocodiles in addition to the birdlife which includes the African spoonbill, Water thick-knee, Lesser Swamp-Warbler, Striated Heron among others. Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari lodge/ Hippo Hill Camp / Simba Safari Camp
Day 5: In Queen Elizabeth
Encounter tracking of high speed chimpanzees in the Kyambura gorge after your breakfast and later return to the lodge for lunch. After your lunch, experience the evening game drive in the park along the queen’s mile where you may possibly spot the cape buffalos, spotted hyenas, waterbucks, elephants, lions, kobs and mongoose among others. Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari lodge/ Hippo Hill Camp / Simba Safari Camp
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi
Set off for the impenetrable park via the Ishasha sector and have a spectacular view of the tree climbing lions as they rest in the fig trees. Check in to your lodge and relax for the next day’s activity at Gorilla Resort/Lake Kitandara Camp/Buhoma Community Bandas
Day 7: Gorilla tracking
Head to the park headquarters after your breakfast, prepared with your packed lunch for a briefing session about the gorilla trackers code of conduct from UWA official. Thereafter a ranger will lead you in to the chunky forest for a gorilla tracking adventure that is very exciting and rewarding. Other habitant mammals may be spotted in the process and may include the buffalo, black fronted duiker, giant forest hog, the rare golden monkey and many others.Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Resort/Lake Kitandara Camp/Buhoma Community Bandas
Day 8: Transfer to L. Mburo
Transfer to Uganda’s smallest savannah park after your break fast famous for its richness in biodiversity. Enjoy a game drive on entry to the park and expect to see the Impala, oribi, zebra, buffalo, elephant and topis among others.
After your lunch enjoy a boat ride on Lake Mburo and view a variety of animal species as they drink on the lake shores. Possible sighting of the hippo, crocodile, Papyrus gonolek, blue headed coucal, southern ground hornbill and mosque swallow may be possible on this trip. However other possible sightings ay include Burchell’s zebra, topi, bush buck, common duiker, oribi, Defassa waterbuck, Bohor reedbuck, buffalo, warthog, bush pig, roan antelope, eland and klipspringer. Dinner and overnight at Mihingo lodge/Arcadia cottages/Rwonyo campsite
Day 9: Departure
Feel the morning breeze after your breakfast as you take a walk to the nearby salt lick and enjoy view of the different species as they lick the salty soil. This will be accompanied by a short game drive in the park before you depart back to Kampala after your lunch.
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