$4,738 to $5,178 pp (USD)
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Arrival
Day 1
Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
Pick up from Entebbe International Airport and drive to Lake Mburo NP. The drive through the Dry cattle corridor is rewarding with scenic beauty of rolling hills of Ankole. Visit the equator crossing point, enjoying the perfect view over the beautiful scenery, stop over en-route for lunch at the selected restaurant/hotel. Proceed to the Park for a game drive, in a network of game tracks providing you the chance to see a variety of savanna animals and birds. It is small park, at only 350 Km-sq compared to many East African Parks but, it is home to a surprisingly diversity of wildlife, with 69 mammal species, and 332 bird species. The number of the park’s herbivores are rarely if at all found elsewhere in Uganda and offers the best opportunity to see Elands, Topis, Zebras, Impalas, Waterbucks, Baboons, Bush-backs, Warthogs, Klipspringers, Giraffes in a mosaic ecosystems including rocky outcrops, savanna woodlands, swamps and Lakes. After, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Rwakobo Rock Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Morning Game drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Lake Mburo National Park
Morning Game drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Lake Mburo National Park
After the early morning breakfast, drive to the park for the best morning catch, with inviting Uganda’s sun shinning on your face you have a wild wonderland sprawled around you in every direction. Gifting you un-spoilt nature to explore and providing you with a panoramic view of this compact jewel in grassy ridges for the best famous for the iconic photo opportunities delivered by its hundreds of Zebras, Impalas, Buffalos, Topis, Elands, as they pose against the glorious back drop of the dry rolling hills with its wild and arid landscape rich in birds. Afterwards drive back to the lodge for hot lunch. After, drive to Rwonyo the tourism hub of Lake Mburo National Park, to catch up with the afternoon boat cruise. Depart from the Jetty by boat. The cruise is very rewarding watch out for crocodiles, Hippos, during these two hours voyage; you will also sight varieties of birds such as pairs of African fish eagle, the rare African fin-foot, Pelicans and shoe bill. After retire to the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Rwakobo Rock Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Guided nature walk in Lake Mburo National Park
Guided nature walk in Lake Mburo National Park
After early morning breakfast, drive to the park for the guided nature walk. Meet the armed ranger guide who will take you for a walk through this scenic and engaging activity culminating in a visit to a natural salt lake where wildlife can be viewed from a timber observation tower (platform) which provides the panoramic view of the of Lake Mburo rich in animal viewing. Come close to nature by gifting you with unspoiled nature to explore with your experienced ranger guides by your side, gather at a watering hole and experience life kick into gear with the rising of the sun, enjoy Buffalos, Giraffes, Hippos, Elands, Topis, Impalas, Zebras on the foot. Afterwards, drive to Igongo Country Hotel for lunch. After lunch, visit the cultural museum, crafts-shop, cultural villages. Visit the magnificent sculpture of the Queen warrior in her court, before driving to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Drive to craters in Bunyaruguru. enjoy the scenic view of the Rwenzori ranges.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Elephant Hab Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Morning Game Drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise In Queen Elizabeth National Park
Morning Game Drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise In Queen Elizabeth National Park
After early breakfast, morning drive to Kasenyi plains for a rewarding game drive set against the backdrop of the jagged Rwenzori mountains, enjoy the vast savanna grasslands of Kasenyi the perfect setting for a classic African Safari experience.
This gives you an opportunity to enjoy the huge herds of Uganda Kobs that attract prides of lions, huge dark elephants, stride across the road. As you drive through this sprawling savanna, enjoy the panoramic view of Queen Elizabeth National Park, the ideal habitat for classic big game.
Here you stand a chance to become one of the wild with its outstanding wildlife attraction such as; Buffalos, Warthogs, Waterbucks, Elephants, Leopards, Hyenas, and enjoy the scenic view of the park’s magnificent dozens of enormous craters curved dramatically into rolling green hills as you drive back to the lodge for lunch before proceeding to Mweya for the boat cruise.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- Elephant Hab Lodge
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Transfer to Fort Portal
Transfer to Fort Portal
After breakfast, drive to Fort Portal and as you first enjoy the morning game drive around Kasenyi plains, the spectacular scenic view. On this second game drive, you may stand a chance to penetrate through the missed sightings of the previous day. After the game drive, proceed to Fort Portal. Enjoy the seventy two huge round basins scattered across the equator evidence of the Albertine Rift, bubbling volcanic past. Visit the Queen’s Pavilion, and faces in view of the enormous craters, circular lakes, the rift valley, the escarpment all in-front of the mighty backdrop of the Rwenzori Mountains through Kasese town and Hima Cement Factory before reaching Fort Portal with stop overs for lunch in Kasese at selected restaurants/hotels and finally proceed to fort portal to Check in at the lodge late in the evening.
- Main Destination:
- Fort Portal (Town)
- Accommodation:
- Mountains of the Moon Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Drive to Murchison Falls National Park. The drive from Fort Portal is very long but rewarding through the ever green tea plantations route combined with spectacular landscape and views. Proceed to Hoima, via Kagadi for lunch at selected restaurants/hotels before proceeding to Murchison Falls National Park via Buliisa. This route is longer but more scenic and the memorable descent at the Rift Valley Escarpment with beautiful scenic views across Lake Albert towards the blue mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Enjoy Bugungu wildlife Game reserve proceed and visit the top of Murchison and check in at the lodge late in the evening.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Morning Game Drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
Morning Game Drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast, enjoy the best and most Uganda’s remarkable wildlife spectacles, enjoy a fantastic photograph of the wide range of animals such as; Uganda Kobs, elephants, pats monkeys, heartbeats, Waterbucks, Buffalos, giraffes and Hippos in this Park the most popular safari destination. Track a herd of Buffalos as they range along the great open expanse and witness that nature moves at its own speed. The more time you spend in the land walked by both predator and prey, it is the call of the wild, an invitation to a simpler world filled with excitement and awe. Start the day the way nature intended as the sun begins to rise and shine over the ironic bush veld scenery in palm-dotted savanna, drive back to the lodge for lunch before proceeding for afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of Murchison Falls, for the best adventurous experience in the primal wilderness presenting astonishing display of wildlife such as; Hippos, Crocodiles, Elephants.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Community and Cultural Experience
Community and Cultural Experience
After early morning breakfast, drive to Bugungu community and cultural trail. Meet the local community members and have the journey of discovering the history, experience the cultural practices, belief and food which have unique tastes.
Visit the traditional organic fruits and cassava gardens, visit the traditional medicine man’s shrine, visit the traditional bee keeping project, learn how to harvest traditional natural organic honey and have a direct taste from the honey comb before proceeding for lunch at the selected Restaurant/Hotel. After lunch drive to Gulu town via one of the northern routes or gate through the diverse and most scenic road with dotted palm trees with rich and abundant animals through Pendero Woodland before reaching Wankwar gate and before connecting to Purongo. Enjoy the view of Acholi traditional homes/manyatta as you connect on tarmac road via Anaka –Gulu road. Checking in at the lodge for an overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park
Transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park
After early morning breakfast, drive to Kidepo Valley National Park via Kitgum. Kidepo valley National Park is 134 Kilometres from Kitgum town, and you drive through a very beautiful and scenic view. From Kitgum Town, the drive start at the roundabout on the eastern edge of Kitgum town’s Centre through Kitgum – Matidi – Namkora, Rom before crossing a mountain and descending to Karenga and the park’s Lokimoit gate. The drive through Karamoja and Rom Mountain is regarded as the most tremendous drama with savanna grasslands and area of rich cultural interest for the plains around the park is dotted with Napore – Nyungea range, the Morungule Mountains, and Mt. Lomej in south Sudan in the semi-arid climate. Enjoy the Karimojong homesteads commonly known as Manyattas, before driving to the park to check in the lodge late in the evening.
- Main Destination:
- Kidepo Valley National Park
- Accommodation:
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Kidepo Savannah Lodge (Safari Tent)
Wildlife in Kidepo Valley NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Morning Game Drive in Kidepo Valley National Park
Morning Game Drive in Kidepo Valley National Park
After breakfast, drive through the park as you enjoy and witness that Kidepo is the only Ugandan Refuge for the variety of species, including, Cheetah, Bat eared Fox, Striped Hyena and Caracal, Elephants, Buffalos, Giraffes, Elands and Zebras. Explore the Kidepo Valley National Park which is short on Big Game, but massive on scenery and its vast scale. Enjoy these pectacular views of one of East Africa’s’ magnificent wilderness roamed by the game. Enjoy the Narus Valley the prime game viewing area as wildlife congregates here for much of the year. Look for Buffalos in the swamps along the valley floor, Giraffes on the drier slopes above, and scan the rock out crops for Lions and drive back to the lodge. After lunch drive to Narus Valley for evening game viewing. The drive through this valley south of Apoka drive around the main game circuit, and enjoy wildlife, find a fresh, wiser, path forward with its inhabitants, who will make your soul feel perfectly at home while doing so.
- Main Destination:
- Kidepo Valley National Park
- Accommodation:
- Kidepo Savannah Lodge (Safari Tent)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Morning guided Nature walk in Kidepo
Morning guided Nature walk in Kidepo
After early morning breakfast, drive to Apoka through the open grasslands, that provide sightings for Giraffes, Buffaloes, Elephants, and perhaps destinations for Ostriches, for every day the best scenic Africa ends with horizon for you to gaze upon, contemplate the world, as it goes by it is surely to create a unique memory for you to enjoy forever. Tune in the rhythm of wonders that free your imagination and lift your soul. Afterwards, drive to the selected restaurant for lunch.
Transfer to Gulu Town.
After lunch, drive to Gulu Town using the same Kitgum- Gulu Road. Enjoy the dotted Manyattas homesteads of Karamoja’s fiercely traditional pastoralists enjoy and witness the common thread lingers all the way down to the most rural of setting making your experience through remote region one that reflects a complex and fascinating nation that has always found a way of turning struggles into joy as you drive through. Arriving late in the evening, at the lodge in Gulu for overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Kidepo Valley National Park
- Accommodation:
- Bomah Hotel Gulu
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Transfer to Kampala & Rhino Tracking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Transfer to Kampala & Rhino Tracking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
After early morning breakfast, drive to Kampala via Karuma. This drive through Acholi land is a rewarding contemplate of human kind that creates a vibrant mix of people across this part of the continent and of all cultures, before proceeding to cross River Kafu. Here at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary you will enjoy the tracking of the southern White Rhino which were declared extinct in Uganda by 1983. Later. This is the only place in Uganda where you can find Rhinos in the wild. Along with the Rhinos, there are other wildlife that roam this sanctuary. They include animals such as: Baboons, Velvet Monkeys, Warthogs, Black and White Colobus monkeys, Uganda Kob, Waterbucks, Bush backs, Hippos, Pangolins, Mangoose, snakes and different species of birds such as; saddle beaked stork, shoe bills, drive to the selected restaurant for lunch before proceeding back to Entebbe.
End of the Trip.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
