10 Days Wildlife Safari in Uganda
10 Days Wildlife Safari in Uganda
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Prepare yourself endless views of rolling green hills, extinct volcanic lakes and anendless number of
animal species!
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- Airport Meet and greet services
- All on ground transportation and transfers as mentioned in the itinerary in
- 4WD Landcruiser with pop up roof
- Accommodation on Full board unless specified in the itinerary
- English Speaking Guide
- Activities mentioned in the itinerary
- Park entrances and fees
- Personal Expenses
- Entry Fees
- Airport Transfers
- Government Taxes/VAT
- Gratitude & Tips
Day 1: Welcome to Uganda!
Your driver and guide will pick you up from Entebbe International Airport and transfer you to your accommodation for the night, only a few mins away from the airport. This is where he will find you tomorrow morning for the start of your tour around our beautiful homeland.
Over Night: Latitude 0* Kampala (4 star)
Website: https://www.0.thelatitudehotels.com
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day 2: Travel To Murchison Falls national park (3 – 4 hrs drive)
Today you continue your journey to Murchison Falls National Park one of the oldest conservation areas in Uganda. After ahearty breakfast, Ricky will pick you up from the hotel from where you will begin your journey
towards Western Uganda.
Murchison Falls national park is Uganda’s best-known and biggest nature reserve. With the impressive and powerful Murchison waterfall and its remarkable animal populations, this is a must visit in the Pearl of Africa.
The river Nile divides the park between a Northern and Southern section as it makes its way through multiple rapids and waterfalls to Lake Albert.
Unfortunately, during the war years poachers and troops wiped out the majority of wildlife. Except for the park’s rhino population, fortunately all other wildlife has recovered fast since.
A game drive in the park allows you to be eye-to-eye with the African animal kingdom and you will be amazed by the amount of elephants. Also giraffes, lions, antelope, waterbucks, buffaloes, hippos and crocodiles
can all be spotted. This park guarantees adventure!
Check in to your lodge in time for lunch and overnight.
Over Night: Pakuba Safari Lodge (4 star)
Website: https://pakubasafarilodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 3: Murchison Falls National Park
After an early breakfast, it is time to explore the park. On your Game Drives you of course need afair share of luck and very good eyes to try and spot as many animals as possible. While driving through the park you will come eye-to-eye with the African animal kingdom.
Hopefully you see them all; elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, different species of antelope and many tropical birds. They are all there! The park is especially known for its massive elephant population, huge array of birdspecies and big herds of buffalo.
You will discover some of the parks ecosystems and different scenery with dense woodland, extensivesavannahs and rolling grasslands. As this is a private game drive you can ask your guide to tailor your trip towards specific birdlife and/or wildlife if you like.
After your game drive, return to the lodge for some rest, refreshment and lunch.
After lunch, you will be taken to the docking station in time for your afternoon boat cruise. The boat safari towards the Murchison Falls is a very special activity, it takes approximately 3 hours and goes along the Victoria Nile to the base of the Falls. You can imagine; this boat safari will show you breathtaking scenery. Cold drinks are for sale on board for when you get thirsty for a local beer or a soda. Carefully watched by crocodiles, hundreds of hippos, buffaloes, water birds, monkeys and all the other (also thirsty) wildlife that the Nile attracts you go to the bottom of the powerful Murchison Falls. If you like hiking, the boat can drop you near the waterfalls and you can hike upto the top (this takes around 1 or 1.5 hours). The views are amazing! After your boat safari, you will visit the top of the falls where you will enjoy an evening sundowner set up for you with magnificent views of the falls. A perfect way to end the day. (Please let us know if you would prefer alcoholic or non alcoholic drinks for your sundowner).
Return to the lodge in time for dinner and overnight.
Over Night: Pakuba Safari Lodge (4 star)
Website: https://pakubasafarilodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 4: Travel to Kibale Forest National Park (6 – 8 hrs drive)
Today, you will undertake the journeyto green Kibale Forest. The drive is
incredibly scenic, passing through tea plantations and the lush green
countryside which characterizes so much of Uganda. On arrival at the forest, you will enter a completely different world… get ready for some serious monkey business!
Kibale forest national park lies just outside the colonial town of Fort Portal and is made up of dense tropical rainforest. This park is considered one of the big highlights of Uganda due to one of the biggest population of chimpanzees and primates in the region. A big number of primates residing can be found here and particularly a visit to one of the habituated chimpanzee groups is a very memorable experience. The rare red colobus as well as the black and white colobus, red tailed monkey, olive baboon, the blue Monkey and l’hoest’s monkeys are also regularly seen here. Where would youfind a better spot to experience encounters with nature;
smelling the forest and listening to the many sounds.
Your safari tent or cottage is surrounded by lush green diversity filled with countless bird species and butterflies.
Check in on time for dinner and overnight.
Over Night: Turaco Treetops (4 star)
Website: https://www.turacotreetops.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 5: Chimpanzee Tracking
Chimpanzees share 98% of human genes making them our closest living relatives. They are found in 21 countries throughout Africa, but are most easily sighted in Uganda due to their dense populations. Today, in Uganda, there areapproximately 5,000 chimpanzees left inthe wild.
The Chimpanzee trekking experience here is done on several well maintained walking trails. There is also a wonderfully diverse concentration of other primates, more than any other forest in East Africa, in fact. Besides our delightful cousins, the chimpanzees, you can find red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L’Hoest’s monkey, and the black and white colobus monkey. In addition, you may see olive baboons, bush babies and nocturnal pottos.
The aim for your trekking through the jungle under the care of professional guide, is 1 hour of eye to eye contact with the chimpanzees. We however cannot guarantee 100% for you to see them as they are still wild animals, nevertheless your chances are EXTREMELY good.
Return to your Lodge in time for lunch/ dinner. If you’re still energetic, you can also use this afternoon to visit the local village and surroundingcommunities.
Over Night: Turaco Treetops (4 star)
Website: https://www.turacotreetops.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 6: Travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park (2 – 3 hrs drive)
After breakfast, your driver will now transfer you to Queen Elizabeth National park with a scenic drive through extinct volcanic lakes and vast savannah plains. Be sure to ask the driver to stop for pictures or just to take the moment in. Check into your Lodge in time for lunch. After lunch, you will visit the neighboring Kichwamba Twin lakes just a few mins drive/hike away from your lodge. Thisis one of the most beautiful escarpments in the entire park so carry along your digital camera or phone to capture the moment. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Over Night: Twin Lakes Safari Lodge (4 star)
Website: http://www.twinlakesafarilodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 7: Park Game Drive & Boat Safari
After an early breakfast, you go for a long game drive in time to see the sun rise. On your first game drive, it is time to explore the Queen Elizabeth National Park with her 200 kilometers of well-maintained game viewing tracks. We advise for you to be alert and proactive on your game drive to help the ranger spot as many animals as possible.
The morning is the best time for a game drive as the African animal kingdom tends to be most active during the golden hours of the first sunlight touching thesavannah. You will search for all the wildlife; elephant, buffalo, lion, waterbuck, leopard, Uganda kob, warthog and do not forget about the birds and the primates.
After lunch, you will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel.
Here, you will see a lot of hippos (more than you can possibly imagine), as well as a variety of other animals which come to the waterhole to drink or bathe. You can expect to see: Buffalo, Crocodile, bathing Elephant, and a range of beautiful birds. This will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of
your tour. After the boat-safari you game drive back to the lodge and arrive in time for dinner and overnight. Take advantage of the Lodge’s campfire where you will meet other travellers and share stories of wildlife sightings of the day over a cold beer or cup of tea!
Over Night: Twin Lakes Safari Lodge (4 star)
Website: http://www.twinlakesafarilodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 8: Travel to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (3 – 4 hours drive)
Today you drive to Kisoro in the south- western part of Uganda; close to the borders with Rwanda and Congo. Here you will crossa beautiful part of the country often referred to as ‘the Switzerland of Africa’. You will see a great country-side, bamboo forest and have great views over the Virunga Mountains.
Enroute you will take a game drive through the ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park in search of the famous tree climbing lions. After the game drive, you will enjoy a sumptuous lunch at a local Ugandan restaurant before you proceed on to Bwindi National Park.
Arrive at your accommodation in time for dinner and overnight as you prepare for an unforgettable day tomorrow.
Over Night: Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge (3 star)
Website: http://ichumbigorillalodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 9: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Forest
Today is the big day… Prepare yourself for an encounter with one of Bwindi’s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla. For most people this is the absolute highlight of their tour in Uganda.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a highlight for many visitors as this is where they will be visiting the home of thegentle giants. The park lies in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley. Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests lies on the mist-covered hillsides. This magnificent forest dates back over 25,000 years, even surviving the last Ice Age (most forests disappeared). Bwindi forest has anincredible diversity of flora and fauna and is the only forest in Africa which canmake claim to host both mountain gorillas and chimpanzees. In fact, half the
worlds’ population of gorillas live here divided over nine habituated family groups. Also 5 other primate species, 120 species of mammal, over 220 butterflies and 360 birds species call Bwindi home. This is THE place to see thecritically endangered mountain gorillas up close for your very own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ moment.
The gorillas you will trek belong to one of nine family groups who can tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period every day. Your trek will be an exciting (for some also challenging) journey along forested (sometimes slippery) slopes, entwined vines, bushes and bamboo before you eventually reach the gentle giants. En-route, your guide will point out signs of previous gorilla activity. Think of dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. The time to complete the gorilla trekking can be as little as 2 hours to as much as 7 hours! Once the the family of gorillas has been located, you will be allowed a maximum of one hour observing them. Coming face-to-face with the mountaingorillas is a truly humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic part ofyour tour you will definitely remember for the rest of your life.
Over Night: Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge (3 star)
Website: http://ichumbigorillalodge.com
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included
Day 10: Travel to Entebbe International Airport
After an early breakfast, your driver will head back to Entebbe International Airport. Of course you stop at the equator, the best place for your souvenir shopping and also for lunch enroute. We hope you had a memorable time with us and hope to see you again soon. Jambo!
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch Included
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