Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Arrival and Pick Up from Entebbe International Airport
Arrival and Pick Up from Entebbe International Airport
On this day, you will be met and warmly welcomed by our full-dressed indigenous Africa Tours Company driver guide upon arrival at the airport and transferred to your hotel. Just in case you arrive during the morning hours, you will do an Entebbe Botanical Visit for your birding expedition.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe International Airport (Entebbe, Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Cassia Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Travel to Murchison Falls National Park (Rhino Trekking)
Travel to Murchison Falls National Park (Rhino Trekking)
On this day you will be met and warmly welcomed by our fully dressed company driver and start your Journey to the north. You will head northwards with a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for your rhino tracking experience.
The 6 hours journey takes you through the cattle corridors of Nakasongola with a one-hour stopover for lunch before you arrive at the extreme southern entrance of Murchison Falls in Budongo Forest.
You will be welcomed by several olive baboons as you drive to the northern side of the park.
Depending on the choice of accommodation, you will cross the mighty river Nile, do an evening safari game drive, and check in at the lodge for an evening relaxation as prepare for the next day.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Experience the Safari Game Drive and Spectacular Afternoon Boat Cruise on the Nile River
Experience the Safari Game Drive and Spectacular Afternoon Boat Cruise on the Nile River
As early as 6:00 am, you will head out for a game drive with your car roof popped up. While on the safari game drive in the park, there are chances you will spot the early risers like the lions, leopards, and hyenas among other cats and not forgetting large concentrations of giraffes and Uganda Kobs. After a search of the big cats, you will head back to the lodge or have lunch somewhere else as you prepare for a boat cruise.
In the afternoon you will embark, on a spectacular 2 to 4 hours boat cruise on the River Nile. The boat cruise brings you closer to sights of crocodiles, and big savannah elephants quenching off their thirst. Also, be ready to catch some big sights and pictures of the yawning Hippos. For travelers with so much love for birds, a boat cruise on the Victoria Nile in Murchison Falls will never disappoint. Be ready to spot the Egyptian goose, calling pairs of African fish eagles, and bee-eaters before the boat cruise arrives at the turning point.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Drive to Fort Portal-Kibale National Park
Drive to Fort Portal-Kibale National Park
After breakfast, you will pass through the Albertine Escarpments and the verdant countryside, traditional farms, and homesteads.
You will have lunch in Hoima and continue on the drive to your lodge. You will head for a swamp walk in Bigodi wetland. Bigodi wetland sanctuary harbors numerous species of butterflies, iconic birds such as the great blue Turacos, small animals like squirrels, primates like olive baboons and Vervet monkeys, and mammals like the swamp dweller – Sitatunga antelope, etc.
- Main Destination:
- Fort Portal (Town, Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Isunga Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Kibale National Park: Chimpanzee Trekking
Kibale National Park: Chimpanzee Trekking
After a well-rested night at your lodge and an early breakfast, the driver guide picks you up for the chimp trekking experience. You will be briefed by a ranger guide on how you are expected to conduct yourself while in the forest when you locate the chimps. Often you will find the chimps either resting, feeding, or grooming each other with the young ones. This activity allows you 1 hour with the chimps. Depending on the time you start and how soon you locate the chimpanzees, this can be a whole-day activity or a half-day activity. You will walk with the rangers following these chimps throughout your time in the forest.
Right after this primate experience, you will set out for a walk in the impressive Bigodi local community farming experience. This is an organic experience that takes you to coffee making, local banana beer making as well as visiting a local school in the community. After this experience, you will then embark on your journey back to the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Isunga Lodge
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for Gorilla Trekking
Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for Gorilla Trekking
You will wake up to have breakfast, and begin your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Along the way, you will enjoy the beautiful scenic views of the Kigezi region. Later, you will check in the late evening at your safari lodge as you prepare for the next day for your ultimate gorilla tracking experience.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Bweza Gorilla Lodge
Wildlife in Bwindi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Mountain Gorilla Trekking Excursion in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Mountain Gorilla Trekking Excursion in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
You will wake up early morning for breakfast depending on the distance of your lodge to the starting point. You will drive to the park headquarters where you will be briefed by the Bwindi National Park rangers and allocated a gorilla family to track.
This will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience as you watch the mountain gorillas live their daily life of feeding, playing around, and grooming themselves. The gorilla trekking activity takes 2 to 8 hours sparing one hour spent with the mountain gorillas.
After your gorilla excursion, you can visit the Batwa People (keepers of the Forest) for a cultural tour of how these people lived in the forest before it was reserved as a national park. You will leave Bwindi for Kisoro, the bad road takes you through a beautiful landscape called the “Switzerland of Africa”. On the last hill, the landscape unfolds beneath you, in the vast plains of Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo the Virunga volcanoes dominate the view.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Golden Monkey Tracking and Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for Relaxation
Golden Monkey Tracking and Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for Relaxation
After breakfast, you will meet your safari driver for a transfer for briefing again before embarking on this half-day golden monkey tracking. Tracking golden monkeys is more interesting and fun as the pretty little primates be jumping from one tree branch to another cheerfully swinging their tail. Unlike gorilla trekking, golden monkey tracking allows travelers to capture photographs even with the flashlight of the camera on. After tracking the golden monkey, you will then transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for your luxury relaxation at the lake and close down the distance back to Kampala. The word Bunyonyi comes from a local phrase “Bunyonyi” which means a place of small birds. This is Africa’s second deepest lake with a total number of 29 islands and each island has a past story on it.
- Main Destination:
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Wildlife in Mgahinga Gorilla NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Transfer from Lake Bunyonyi to Kigali for your Flight
Transfer from Lake Bunyonyi to Kigali for your Flight
At sunrise, you will have breakfast and then go for an amazing canoe trip on the numerous islands on this lake. Lake Bunyonyi has about 29 islands and each of these islands has a unique story that your local canoe and site guide will help you out in interpreting. After the 1-hour boat trip, you will check out of your lodge and then head back to Kigali and this will mark the end of your amazing gorilla trekking safari tour.
- Main Destination:
- Kigali International Airport (Kigali, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
