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Arrival
Day 1
Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Your driver-guide will meet you at either Entebbe International Airport or your Kampala hotel for a safari briefing before departing for Kibale Forest. The drive west takes approximately four to five hours through scenic countryside, tea plantations, and the highlands around Fort Portal, with optional stops for lunch and sightseeing along the way.
Arriving at Kibale Forest in the afternoon, you will check into your lodge and have time to relax or explore the surrounding area, where several monkey species are often seen. Later, you will receive a briefing on the following day's chimpanzee tracking experience, including trail procedures, safety guidelines, and what to expect during the trek.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
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Kibale Forest Camp (Camping)
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale – Transfer to Bwindi
Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale – Transfer to Bwindi
After an early breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters in Kibale Forest for a briefing before setting off on a guided chimpanzee tracking experience. Accompanied by experienced rangers, you will trek through the forest in search of one of Africa’s most fascinating primates. Once located, you will spend up to one hour observing the chimpanzees as they feed, play, communicate, and move through the forest canopy.
After the trek, continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via a scenic drive through western Uganda's highlands and the Albertine Rift. Arrive at your lodge in the evening for dinner, relaxation, and preparation for the following day's gorilla trek.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Bwindi Neck View Lodge
Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Gorilla trekking
Gorilla trekking
The morning begins before full light with a quiet breakfast, then the short drive to the park headquarters for your ranger briefing and group assignment. Your ranger team tracks from first light; by the time you enter the forest, they already have a strong sense of where the family is. The approach, when it comes, is slow and deliberate voices drop, pace slows, and you enter the permitted observation zone in a tight group.
The hour with the gorillas is unlike any other hour in wildlife travel. You have already experienced chimpanzees — fast, vocal, and brilliantly alive in the upper canopy. Gorillas are the opposite: slower, quieter, and possessed of a physical presence that takes your breath away in a completely different way. A silverback at rest, a mother nursing her infant, juveniles playing at the family's edge the scene is ordinary and extraordinary simultaneously. Walk the lodge grounds, watch the forest birds from the veranda, or simply sit and let the morning settle.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Bwindi Neck View Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Bwindi – Lake Mburo National Park
Bwindi – Lake Mburo National Park
The morning begins with breakfast and checkout from Bwindi, then the long drive east toward Lake Mburo National Park — a compact, accessible park that holds species found nowhere else in Uganda. Zebras graze the open grassland in large herds. Impala and topi move between the acacia trees. Eland — the largest antelope in Africa — browse the woodland edges. The lake itself holds substantial hippo populations and the density of leopard here is the highest in Uganda, though leopard sightings require patience.
A two-hour evening game drive in Lake Mburo, followed after lunch at the lakeside, turns the final day into a genuine wildlife experience rather than a transfer.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Leopard Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Lake Mburo National Park – Entebbe
Lake Mburo National Park – Entebbe
The final morning begins with breakfast and checkout from Lake Mburo National Park and a morning Game drive in the park. The drive from Lake Mburo to Entebbe takes approximately Five and a half hours, arriving in good time for evening international departures.
- Main Destination:
- Kampala (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
