Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Arrival in Uganda
Arrival in Uganda
You arrive at Entebbe international airport, located on a peninsula that juts out into the largest fresh-water lake in Africa (Lake Victoria), where a representative/guide from Uzuri Uganda Safaris will welcome you and transfer you to Airport Guest House for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe (City)
- Accommodation:
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Airport Guest House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Drive to Murchison Falls NP via Zziwa Rhinos
Drive to Murchison Falls NP via Zziwa Rhinos
This morning, enjoy breakfast and commence your 4-5 hour drive to Murchison Falls National Park. You make a stop at Migyera along the Kampala-Gulu road for a chance to stretch your legs. After the break, you will to Murchison Falls via the Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary where rhinos that got wiped out in the Ugandan wild are being kept before they are re-introduced back in the Uganda national parks. When you arrive at the Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary, a guide and armed rangers will take you on either a walking/by vehicle safari to look for the rhinos. Once you have spotted the rhinos, you will stay in their presence for a while. You will enjoy lunch within the Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary after, which you will return to your vehicle to complete your transfer to Murchison Falls National Park. You will check-in at Pakuba Safari Lodge or Similar and have the rest of the day to yourselves.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Game Drive, Boat trip to bottom of Murchison Falls
Game Drive, Boat trip to bottom of Murchison Falls
You are up at 6.00 am and enjoy your breakfast. At 6.30 am, you drive out for a game drive for a chance to view the glorious day-break from across the open savannah. Wildlife on the northern bank where you explore this morning has game that includes Rothschild Giraffe, elephant, lions, oribis, waterbucks etc and a variety of savannah woodland birds. At between 10-11 am, you will return to the lodge for relaxation and lunch. After lunch, at 2.00pm, head out for the boat safari to the bottom of the powerful Murchison Falls. This three-hour boat cruise climaxes at the edge of the rift valley escarpment at which point you will get off the boat and trek to the top of the falls. Having worked up a sweat, once at the top, get bathed in the misty spray that the Nile creates as it forces itself into the 7-metre cleft to create the famous Murchison Falls. You return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Drive to Kibale Forest National Park
Drive to Kibale Forest National Park
This morning, wake up early and have breakfast at 6.30am. After breakfast, check-out of the hotel and depart Murchison Falls headed to Fort Portal. However, because of the long distance on a poor dirt road that should give you the ‘African massage', brace yourselves. You will have your lunch pre-prepared before departing Murchison Falls National Park. Along the way, you will traverse traditional homesteads surrounded by crop plantations in a very leafy and green area – arriving in Fort Portal in the mid-afternoon. Once you arrive in Kibale Forest National Park, you will check-in at Turaco Treetops or Similar for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Turaco Treetops Lodge
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Chimpanzee Trek & visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary
Chimpanzee Trek & visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary
Today you are in for real monkey business! After breakfast, your guides will drive you to Kibale Forest National Park headquarters at Kanyanchu for a briefing before you commence your chimp trek. This park is reputed for having the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. On the guided nature walk, you are in search of the wild chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys and many others. Once you locate the chimpanzees, you will spend a full hour with them at close quarters. After the mandatory 1 hour is finished, your guides/rangers will lead you back to the park headquarters. In the afternoon after your lunch, you have the rest of the day to yourselves to relax and look back on your exhilarating experience encountering the chimpanzees through the lens of your camera. Or you can visit the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary - an exciting experience. Overnight at Turaco Treetops.
- Main Destination:
- Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary (Kibale NP)
- Accommodation:
- Turaco Treetops Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Drive to Queen Elizabeth NP via Crater Lakes Region
Drive to Queen Elizabeth NP via Crater Lakes Region
You wake up at leisure and enjoy your breakfast. You are not in a hurry and so you will depart Kibale Forest National Park for Queen Elizabeth National Park at leisure. You will transfer through the beautiful crater region where the views and scenery are to die for! After seeing some of the many craters in the region, back on the road, you continue to Queen Elizabeth National Park with the Rwenzori Mountains in the backdrop as you lose altitude to arrive in or around the Park. On arrival and after check-in at the beautiful Bush Lodge, you can relax and have the rest of the day to yourself. Dinner and overnight at the lodge where nature's night sounds invade your banda.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- The Bush Lodge (Banda)
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Game Drive & boat safari along Kazinga Channel
Game Drive & boat safari along Kazinga Channel
Up at 6.00am, enjoy your breakfast and we are off for a day-break game drive on the park’s plains. We head straight for the mating grounds of the Uganda Kob. We search for lions in their natural habitat, elephants, and buffalo and then we return to the lodge. You will change gears and head for the Kasenyi plains, which are prolific for game and lions and other carnivores hunt here. Return to the lodge and then lunch. At either 2.00pm or 3.00pm, you head out for the boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, a natural channel that connects lakes Edward and George – one of the major highlights of your safari. On the cruise, abundant bird life is sighted and perhaps the highest concentration of hippopotamus in Africa lives on this stretch of the channel. The boat launch – lasting 3 hours climaxes with you looking at stunning scenery in the distance. You return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Kazinga Channel (Queen Elizabeth NP)
- Accommodation:
- The Bush Lodge (Banda)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Drive to Bwindi NP via Ishasha Sector
Drive to Bwindi NP via Ishasha Sector
After breakfast, you will commence your transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park - the home of the Mountain Gorillas, passing through the lush Ishasha Sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park and its fig trees where you stand a chance of running into the famous and unique tree-climbing lions. There are about 40 prides of lions in this part of the park, elephants herds are numerous and the cheeky and sly baboons are ever present. After exploring this sector of the park, where game density rises, you exit the park and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park - considered the number one beautiful place in the world, where you marvel at the landscape, the lush rain-forest etc. Arriving late at our destination, you will check into Mahogany Springs Safari Lodge or Similar for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Mahogany Springs Lodge
Wildlife in Bwindi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Gorilla Trek & transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Gorilla Trek & transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Up at 6.00am, have breakfast and transfer to the park HQ for a briefing. With packed lunch in your carry-on, your guides will deliver you to the start point before 8:00 am. The rangers will then take you through the bush, pushing your way through the undergrowth, looking for where the family of gorillas you are tracking spent the night. (A reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes). When you finally locate the family that you are tracking, sit in the forest among the gorillas, listening to them grumble to each other, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the silverback. It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense forest in the knowledge that you are in the presence of the few remaining Mountain Gorillas in the wild. After the mandatory 1 hour is up, you will return to trail-head where your guide will be waiting and here you receive your certificates. After commence the drive to Lake Bunyonyi. Check-in at Birdnest Resort.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- BirdNest Resort
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Drive to Entebbe & Departure
Drive to Entebbe & Departure
You are up early (6.30am) and enjoy your breakfast. At 7.30am, be ready to depart and so you check-out of the resort to commence the drive to Entebbe International Airport. You will make two stops – one in Mbarara town for a hot lunch and the next at the Equator crossing for a chance to purchase a souvenir from your Uganda trip. From the Equator, you complete the drive to Entebbe – arriving about 16.00Hrs. In Entebbe, given the long drive from Lake Bunyonyi and the fact that you will want to freshen-up before check-in, a day room can be arranged at Airport Guest House or Airport Link Guest House for you. At the appropriate time, you are dropped at the airport in time for you to check-in for your onward flight home.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe International Airport (Entebbe)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
