Rhino tracking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and travel to Murchison Falls National Park
You embark on this memorable safari by driving North West of Uganda along the Kampala Gulu High way to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and later to Murchison Falls National Park.
Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is endowed with over 22 White Rhinos. The Rhino tracking exercise begins with briefing from a specialized site ranger and thereafter you proceed to track the Rhinos. This activity normally takes between 30 minutes to an hour depending on where the Rhinos are located within the sanctuary. Your time at the sanctuary will offer you an opportunity to learn more about the White Rhinos and will give you memorable experience about Rhinos in Africa.
On return from the tracking activity, you have your lunch and proceed to Murchison Falls National Park, where you are likely to arrive in the evening.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Tent)
- Meals & Drinks:
Game drive and boat cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
This third day of your Safari gets you to encounter with the natural establishment of Murchison Falls National Park.
You begin your exploration of the park with a game drive in the northern circuit of the park. There you will encounter beautiful rolling plains. While in these plains you may view Lions, Giraffes, Hartebeest, Buffalos, Elephants, Bushbuck, Hippopotamus, Spotted hyenas, Wild cat, lion, leopard as well as many of the other mammals of the park.
In the afternoon, you will go for a boat trip to the bottom of Murchison Falls where the Nile thunders through a small 7-meter gap down to the delta. You may see huge Nile Crocodiles, Hippos and other wildlife that may come down to drink from this mighty river.
You will then hike to the top of Murchison falls. While conducting this adventure you will be able to see how this amazing river Nile forces its way through a gap between rocks creating a big thunderous roar. It’s marvelous and will create beautiful lasting memories.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Tent)
- Meals & Drinks:
Transfer to Kibale forest National Park
After breakfast, you will drive south via Hoima to Fort Portal through verdant countryside passing through traditional homesteads, farms and Tea Estates. You will have a stopover for lunch en-route and arrive at your lodge in the late afternoon.
Check in at your Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Kibale Forest Camp (Camping)
- Meals & Drinks:
Chimps tracking in Kibale Forest National Park and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Game Park
This day’s activity aims at giving you an opportunity to physically observe chimps and get practical understanding of lives and behaviors of chimps. The activity intends to give you more insight discovery about chimpanzees.
The day’s activities begin by driving to the briefing point to be briefed about the chimpanzee tracking. After briefing, head into the forest for Chimps tracking.
While tracking chimps, you are likely to discover how chimpanzees use a variety of sophisticated tools to construct sleeping nests, no wonder they are Humans’ closest living relatives. Other primates you will likely encounter are the rare I’Hoest’s monkey, the black and white Colobus, Blue monkey, Grey cheeked mangabey, Red tailed monkey, Olive baboon to mention but a few.
On return from the tracking, check out and drive to Queen Elizabeth national Game Park.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Pumba Safari Cottages
- Meals & Drinks:
Game drive and boat cruise at Queen Elizabeth National park
You will start this day’s activities by having a game drive in Kasenyi plains. This activity focuses on giving you personal encounter with the wilderness of the Park. Queen Elizabeth national Game Park has several beautiful crater lakes that wind through the rolling hills, the Kazinga channel with an awesome view of both land and water adapted animals such as hippos lined up at the shores. With a vegetation cover of grassland, acacia woodland, tropical rain forest and a variety of wetlands. This park is home to different big game, hippos, elephants warthog, waterbuck, Uganda kob, buffalos, topis and monkeys as they play about in the trees.
After the game drive, you will go for an afternoon boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel- a natural channel between Lake Edward and Lake George. It is intended to give you desirable relaxation and we believe it will definitely be one of the highlights of your safari because of the abundant bird life and animals that are sighted.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pumba Safari Cottages
- Meals & Drinks:
Travel to Bwindi impenetrable Forest National park
You will have an early breakfast and drive through to Bwindi impenetrable forest park.
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Park one of only four national parks in the world where the African mountain gorilla can be observed in the wild. This park also a home for an estimated 400 mountain gorillas which is half of the world’s population. It is also a home for more than 120 mammals and a variety of different bird species, and more importantly about the birds, has an existence of the 23 Albertine Rift Endemics.
On arrival, check in and relax at your lodge as you enjoy beautiful views of the Virunga Volcanoes.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Travellers Rest Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
This day will begin by assembling at the briefing point for guidelines about this amazing activity. After briefing, you head to the forest. The trekking duration is determined by the position where the gorillas spent the night and their feeding range. Once the gorillas are found, you’re allowed to spend an hour with them. You will enjoy this memorable experience as you stand just few meters from the gorillas watching them feed; play and even watching them bond with their young ones. The Males are two times the size of the females, they may grow to 6 ft tall and even weigh 350 -500 pounds. These are strong, with long arms and muscular. The strength of the males is ten times stronger compared to the strongest boxer.
Another fascinating fact is that Gorillas and Humans share 98% of their genetic composition. You will be amazed at how these creatures have so much resemblance with human beings.
After this activity, you will relax at your lodge for next day’s adventure.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Travellers Rest Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
You depart from Bwindi early in the morning and head to Lake Mburo National Game Park for yet another marvelous encounter with the wild of Uganda.
Lake Mburo National Park is a habitat to more than 60 species of mammals including the Impala which only lives in this park in Uganda, the Burchell’s zebras, Buffalos, Warthogs, Hippos, Leopard, Topis, Elands and Hyenas among others. It is also home to 350 bird species which include the rare Shoe bill stork, African fin foot, Saddle-billed stork among others.
Along the way to Lake Mburo national Game Park, you will enjoy Uganda’s country side which is abundantly blessed with eye catching sceneries such as the hills, vast banana plantations, food markets and herds of the indigenous Ankole cow. Surely, your journey will be filled with moments of memorable exposure to nature.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest
- Meals & Drinks:
Morning Game Drive and Boat ride on Lake Mburo
You will begin this day with an early morning game drive within the park where you are likely to see Zebras in large numbers, Buffalos, Hippos, Topis, Elands, Impalas and many other savannah animals. After the game drive, check out from the lodge and drive to Kampala. Along the way, stop at the equator for enroute lunch and photo session. In the afternoon, you will go on a boat cruise on Lake Mburo. This lake is rich with a diversity of animal and plant species, which can only be viewed clearly while on a boat trip. These include crocodiles, Hippopotami and birds like, African Finfoot, Pelicans, Black crake, Heron, Cormorant and Fish eagle. You may also see the rare Shoebill stork.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest
- Meals & Drinks:
Morning Game drive and departure
You will begin this day with having breakfast and then embark on your journey to Entebbe for your departure flight. Along the way, you will stop at the equator for en-route lunch and photo session and later on proceed to Entebbe International Airport.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe International Airport (Entebbe)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: