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Arrival
Day 1
Pick up and Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park for Night Game Drive
Pick up and Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park for Night Game Drive
On this day, we will pick you up from your hotel. We will drive southwards through the lush greens and endless plains of south-western Uganda with several interesting photographic stops, including at the Equator. You'll continue to check into our lodge for your hot lunch as you prepare for the afternoon boat cruise on Lake Mburo. After a 2/3-hour boat ride, you'll have a game drive as you search for antelopes, giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, hyenas, leopards, and many bird species that have been recorded here. There is an optional night game drive that increases your chances of sighting the leopards and other nocturnal animals.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest Camp
Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Walking Safari and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Walking Safari and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
You'll enjoy a walking safari with an armed ranger guide in search of wildlife in this park that covers 370 square kilometers, but one of the most amazing parks, famous for the density of antelopes, zebras, and 340 bird species that have been recorded here. After your walking safari, you'll drive to Queen Elizabeth Park for our late afternoon game drive. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the edge of the park.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- Pumba Safari Cottages
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Optional Chimpanzee Tracking in Kyambura and Afternoon Kazinga Community Boat Trip
Optional Chimpanzee Tracking in Kyambura and Afternoon Kazinga Community Boat Trip
After your early breakfast, you will drive for 20 minutes to reach your chimpanzee tracking point for an exceptional encounter with man’s closest living relative, with whom we share about 99% DNA. You will be led by the UWA guides who understand the forest very well as you search for these great apes. After sightings, you will be allowed to view them for one hour as they go on with their daily lives. We recommend you carry some drinking water, quick snacks, and of course, this being a tropical rain forest, you must carry your rain gear. After the encounter with chimpanzees, you'll drive back to the lodge for a hot lunch.
Afternoon, you'll take a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel, famous for its high density of hippos, and discover more about the water species or meet those that come to relax or drink water in the afternoon. We use the Katunguru community boat to support the local communities who are guides and local fishermen. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at your lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Kazinga Channel (Queen Elizabeth NP)
- Accommodation:
- Pumba Safari Cottages
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Ishasha Game Drive and Transfer to Bwindi Forest
Ishasha Game Drive and Transfer to Bwindi Forest
After your breakfast, you will depart from Queen Elizabeth National Park and drive towards the southernmost parts of Uganda. The road trip is both scenic and wild as you traverse through the rural villages of the Kigezi region. Depending on where you gorilla permits have been booked, you will have lunch en route and proceed to overnight at the edge of the forest.
En route to Bwindi, you will have a short game drive in Ishasha to see if we can find some lions in trees and other wildlife in this sector before proceeding to your lodge. (Please note that this day’s routing and accommodation may change depending on which sector has gorilla availability at the time of booking.).
- Main Destination:
- Ishasha Sector (Queen Elizabeth NP)
- Accommodation:
- Ride 4 a Woman Guesthouse
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast, you will have a short drive to the UWA briefing center, where you will be taken through the dos, don’ts while tracking gorillas. After you have been allocated a gorilla family in a group of 8 Pax, you will be led by ranger guides out of the forest to search for the gorillas. When gorillas have been located, you will have one full hour viewing them as they go on with their daily lives at a distance of 7-10 meters. Later, you'll transfer from Bwindi to Lake Bunyonyi for an overnight stay. (Look at our packing list for gorilla tracking.).
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Transfer from Lake Bunyonyi to Entebbe
Transfer from Lake Bunyonyi to Entebbe
After a relaxed breakfast, you'll have optional activities on the lake arranged and organized at the lodge. Later, you'll transfer back to Entebbe with a hot lunch en route, shopping for souvenirs at the equator and proceed to drop off at the airport. (The tour can as well end in Kigali with just 4 hours of transfer, and flights ending in Entebbe must be 7:00 pm and onwards).
- Main Destination:
- Lake Bunyonyi
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
