$3,168 to $3,344 pp (USD)
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Arrival
Day 1
Arrival and Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Arrival and Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
You'll depart Kampala early morning taking a panoramic drive north-west through the famous Luwero Triangle. You'll stop over at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Opened up in 1998, the Rhino Fund aims at reintroducing black and white rhinos into Uganda’s protected areas as well as educating the local communities on endangered rhinos, poaching, and environmental conservation. The rhino trek takes 1-2 hours. You will get an opportunity to view them at close quarters kob. You'll have a lunch stop in Masindi and continue to the top of the falls. Later, you'll check in for dinner and an overnight stay at your accommodation.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Room)
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Explore Murchison Falls National Park
Explore Murchison Falls National Park
You'll have an early morning game drive to search for giraffes, lions, heartbeats, elephants, cape buffalos, and many other mammals. Birds include the Black Chested Snake Eagle, Blue Napped Mousebirds, the Secretary bird, Swallow Tailed Bee-eaters, and the Silver Headed Agama. After lunch, you'll enjoy a boat ride on the placid Victoria Nile to the foot of the magnificent Murchison Falls where the Nile plunges through a narrow crevice and over a 40-meter drop. En route, you may see the Nile crocodile, pools of hippos, waterbucks, and a variety of bird species. You'll disembark from your boat and take a 45-minute hike to the gorge where the river explodes into several cascades to form the falls. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Room)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Transfer to Transfer to Kibale National Park
Transfer to Transfer to Kibale National Park
After breakfast, our safari driver-guide, and departure for your amazing journey to Kibale Forest National Park. You will have a lunch stopover at Fort Portal Town and later proceed to Kibale Forest. This evening go for the Bigodi Swamp primate walk or Bigodi community walk.
The Bigodi community walk leads you to the homes of the local communities who stay near the park. While on this village walk, you will be escorted by a resident with enough information about the culture and norms of different people and their tribes. It will be a door-to-door village tour where you will visit schools and churches. This walk will expose you to the village life, especially in the remote areas. You'll return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Kibale Forest Lodge
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Chimpanzee Habituation & Afternoon Bigodi Swamp Walk
Chimpanzee Habituation & Afternoon Bigodi Swamp Walk
After an early breakfast, it is time for your Chimpanzee Habituation Experience. You will participate in an orientation and you are off into the deep forest to meet the group that is being habituated. You will be with researchers, trackers, and others who are part of the Habituation Process making chimpanzees feel comfortable with humans near them. This process takes two years or longer and today you are part of that process.
Chimpanzee habituation is a learning experience since you are not just one hour in the presence of a group of chimpanzees, but half a day observing their habits and ways. You will also receive plenty of input from your guide since he keeps you informed of what is happening before you.
The chimpanzees will not be the only primates or wildlife that you will spot, but this is home to 12 other primates, the 350-plus species of birds. Thereafter, you'll go to Bigodi wetland to search for rare shoe bills, sitatungas, and many more primates.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Kibale Forest Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Impenetrable National Park
Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Impenetrable National Park
After an early breakfast, you will drive out southwards via the Ishasha sector in such for the tree-climbing lions. This sector is famous for the tree-climbing lions. After short game drives around, you will continue with the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for a mountain gorilla Habituation experience the next day. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Gorilla Habituation Experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Gorilla Habituation Experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
You will wake up early in the morning and head to the park headquarters to join other clients for a briefing about dos and don’ts while with mountain gorillas on your habituation experience. After briefing, you will start your trek into the forest guided by researchers and guides. During your trek, you may encounter several birds, other animals, and primates in the forest. Once you have found the gorillas, you will spend four hours with them and return to the Lodge overnight. You will have an opportunity to listen and observe researchers doing their work of habituating mountain gorillas. If possible, you will be called upon to participate by collecting samples, naming group members, making calls and so much more.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Travel back to Kampala
Travel back to Kampala
After a relaxed cup of coffee, today you'll say goodbye to the rainforest. You'll travel back to Entebbe or Kampala with lunch along the way. You'll arrive in Kampala in the late afternoon.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe International Airport (Entebbe)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
