Henry Tours and Safaris

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Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

  • You'll be collected from the airport.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1

Arrival from the airpot to the hotel

Arrival from the airpot to the hotel

Depending on your arrival time, our experienced driver guide will pick you at the airport and transfer you to the lodge and check inn and relax, after few minutes our driver will take you at Victoria shopping mall for shopping your sovineur and changing your money into Uganda shillings for emergency, later we proceed to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Entebbe (City)
Accommodation:
ViaVia Uganda Entebbe
  • Budget guest house located in Entebbe (City)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 2

Transfer to murchison fall NP

Transfer to murchison fall NP

At 6:00am, you are picked from the hotel in Kampala and start your journey to Murchison Falls National Park with lunch en route at Ziwa rhino sanctuary. This park covering 3,840-sq km has 76 mammal species and 450 bird species recorded. The altitude is 619m at the delta and 1,292 m at Rabongo Hill, Arrive in the park then drive to the Top of the Falls for an awe inspiring sight of the raging Nile as it forces its way through a rocky gap barely six meters wide.

Main Destination:
Murchison Falls National Park
Best Time To Visit December to February (Easier to spot animals)
High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)
Best Weather June and July (Less rain and lower temperatures)

Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP

ChimpanzeeOccasional
ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
BuffaloCommon
HippoAbundant
LionOccasional
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ZebraNone
Accommodation:
Red Chilli Rest Camp
  • Budget lodge located inside Murchison Falls NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 3

Boat Cruise and game drive

Boat Cruise and game drive

Early in the morning, start game driving in search of unique African Savannah animals like the giraffe, antelope, lion, elephant, and the Uganda kob. Birds are also in plenty with the eagle being one of the high-quality sightings and the rare shoebill. While enjoying your game drive, tell your guide to show you the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning. After lunch, go for a launch cruise on the River Nile. This cruise will lead you to the Bottom of the thundering falls where you will spot huge crocodiles, schools of hippos, buffaloes, elephants and a variety of water birds like herons, cormorants, ducks, bee-eaters, kingfishers, skimmers, fish eagles and sometimes the rare shoebill. Dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation:
Red Chilli Rest Camp
  • Budget lodge located inside Murchison Falls NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 4

Transfer to Fort portal via Oil City Hoima

Transfer to Fort portal via Oil City Hoima

After early breakfast, drive to Fort portal with lunch enroute. You will drive through traditional homesteads and farms and this will enable you enjoy the beautiful scenery across that part of the country. Dinner and overnight. Fort Portal often referred to as the garden city is one of Uganda's most beautiful cities. It sits at about 1,500 meters above sea level and is surrounded by lush rolling hills, rocky crater lakes, and tea plantations. On a cloudless day, the snow capped summits of the Rwenzori mountains peak out.

Main Destination:
Kibale National Park (Chimps)
Best Time To Visit December to February and June to July
High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)
Best Weather June to July and December to February (Least rain)

Wildlife in Kibale NP

ElephantOccasional
BuffaloOccasional
LeopardVery Rare
HippoRare
LionRare to None
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ZebraNone
Accommodation:
Little Monkey Camp
  • Budget lodge bordering Kibale NP (Chimps) without fences
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 5

Chimpanze tracking

Chimpanze tracking

After early breakfast, report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin and set out to track chimpanzee in the forest. Chances of viewing the chimps are over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the beautiful and stunning forests in the Uganda. This is home of our closest living relatives the endangered Chimpanzee, the threatened Red colobus monkey and the rare L’Hoests monkey.
The forest also boasts of having one of the uppermost variety and density of primates in Africa tallying up to 13 species including the Black and white colobus, Blue monkey, Grey-cheeked mangabey, Red tailed monkey and Bush babies and Pottos. After lunch visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will present you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. View a variety of butterflies, birds and other insects. Have a tour of the crater region around.

Main Destination:
Kibale National Park (Chimps)
Accommodation:
Little Monkey Camp
  • Budget lodge bordering Kibale NP (Chimps) without fences
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 6

Drive to Queen Elizabeth NP

Drive to Queen Elizabeth NP

In the morning, have breakfast and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park viewing the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. Sign in at your lodege facility as you wait for your lunch. Then after, take on an afternoon Launch cruise along Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George. The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippo, buffalo, kob and the occasional Nile crocodile plus a spectacular bird watching on the water bank. Many who experience the launch cruise consider it the best part of their entire African safari. Return for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Best Time To Visit January to February and June to July (Dry seasons)
High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)
Best Weather June to July and January to February (Less rainfall)

Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP

ChimpanzeeOccasional
ElephantCommon
LionCommon
BuffaloCommon
HippoAbundant
LeopardOccasional
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ZebraNone
Accommodation:
Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp
  • Budget lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 7

Game drive

Game drive

Wakeup very early with your packed lunch take on a morning game drive to catch-up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts and you will most likely meet grazing Hippos, Elephants and Lions, spotted Hyenas, bush buck, water buck, stripped jackal, comical warthogs and the fierce leopard. Continue to Maramagambo forest where a lot of surprises await you there like the pythons often seen in the crevices of the bat cave floor feeding on the bats. The cave is near a chocolate box formerly Blue Lake and Hunters cave. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown eared woodpecker and other primates. Have dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation:
Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp
  • Budget lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 8

Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable NP

Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable NP

After breakfast, go for a small game drive in search of animals you missed out a day before then proceed to Ishasha with your packed lunch. You will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are full of savanna acacia and grasses. You go through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the Ishasha sector in south area of Queen Elizabethh NP where you will take on yet another game drive in search of tree climbing lions before going on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The journey takes about 4 hours taking you through interesting features. Arrive in Bwindi in the evening. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a home to rare mountain gorillas and a variety of primates including the blue and red tailed monkeys. The forest itself is lush and green and there are streams running through it. Overnight and dinner.

Main Destination:
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
Best Time To Visit June to August and December to February
High Season June to September (Gorilla permits are scarce)
Best Weather June to July and December to February (Less rainfall)

Wildlife in Bwindi NP

Accommodation:
Gorilla Bluff Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located just outside Buhoma (Bwindi NP)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 9

Gorilla Tracking

Gorilla Tracking

Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest is the major highlight of the Visit Uganda Safaris tour. Set off early with guides after breakfast to track the Uganda gorillas. The thrill of your encounter will wipe out the difficulties of the potentially laborious trek. Come with jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet. Use time in wonder watching the gorillas go about their activities. Each gorilla encounter is different and has its own rewards, but you are likely to enjoy to the extremes when adults are feeding, grooming and resting as the youngsters play and swing from vines in a pleasantly good-humored show. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swaddle of dense rainforest, so ancient that survived the last ice age. A recently proclaimed World Heritage site, it is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas estimated at 600.

Main Destination:
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
Accommodation:
Gorilla Bluff Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located just outside Buhoma (Bwindi NP)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 10

Nature walk and transfer to kisoro

Nature walk and transfer to kisoro

Nature Walk and Transfer to Kisoro, have an early morning nature walk if you so wish and you visit the waterfalls, view forest water birds and butterflies and the tropical forest flora. Return and proceed to Kisoro for dinner and overnight. Kisoro District is located in the extreme South Western Uganda and shares a boundary with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Rwanda. The District comprises of four main ethnic groups of people, namely the Bafumbira, Bakiga, Banyarwanda and Batwa.

Main Destination:
Kisoro (Town)
Accommodation:
Motel Santaviva Kisoro
  • Budget hotel located in Kisoro (Town)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 11

Virunga hike

Virunga hike

In the morning after breakfast, head to Mgahinga park headquarters for briefing prior to starting the short hike to one of the virunga ranges. But you go with your parked lunch. There are three extinct volcanoes for physically fit hikers i.e. Mt Muhabura-4127m, Mt. Sabinyo-3669m and Gahinga-3474m (Choose either of the three for a short hike. Dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Kisoro (Town)
Accommodation:
Motel Santaviva Kisoro
  • Budget hotel located in Kisoro (Town)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 12

Transfer to lake mburo

Transfer to lake mburo

After an early breakfast, get your parked lunch and drive to Lake Mburo National Park, arrive in the afternoon and enjoy a boat ride on the lake. Lake Mburo being the park is a gift worth it. The lake is rich with a diversity of animal and plant species which will be viewed clearly as you are on the boat trip. Hippos and birds like African Fin foot, Pelicans, Black crake, Heron, cormorant, fish eagle, and the rare Shoebill Stork and all these will furnish your visit with pride. Dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:
Lake Mburo National Park
Best Time To Visit June to August and December to February
High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)
Best Weather June, July and January to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP

BuffaloCommon
ZebraCommon
HippoCommon
GiraffeOccasional
LeopardOccasional
HyenaOccasional
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LionRare
Accommodation:
Rwonyo Rest Camp
  • Budget rest camp located inside Lake Mburo NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 13

Game drive return to kampala

Game drive return to kampala

Take an early breakfast and go for a morning game drive. Lake Mburo National Park is a very special place; every part of it is alive with variety, interest and colour and it has a widespread wetland where you will see elands, impalas, water-bucks, warthogs, topis and zebras. After lunch, drive to Kampala, making a stopover at the Equator line crossing and Mpambire Drum makers. Overnight and Dinner at you booked accommodation.

Main Destination:
Kampala (City)
Accommodation:
Hotel La Grande
  • Mid-range hotel located in Kampala (City)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 14

City Tour

City Tour

As you conclude your 14days Visit Uganda Safaris package, use part of this day enjoying the beauty of Uganda’s Capital City by visiting places places like Kasubi Tombs, Uganda Museum and many others will not escape your sight.

Main Destination:
Kampala (City)
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

  • Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
  • You'll be dropped off at the airport.

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