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Arrival
Day 1
Pickup, Drive 45min to Mabamba for Shoebill, Birding here until 11am Before Transfer to LakeMburo Np
Pickup, Drive 45min to Mabamba for Shoebill, Birding here until 11am Before Transfer to LakeMburo Np
Today we start early, after breakfast we go birding to Mabamba before transfering to lake mburo national park in the afternoon, stopover at Kayabwe-Uganda equator for lunch. We go birding to Mabamba this morning, one of a few remaining productive wetland in Uganda protected by the local communities. Extensive papyrus swamps with labyrinth's channels and lagoons, classified as an important bird area (IBA), it’s a home of multiple Shoebills-Uganda’s most famous avian resident and the only representative in its family, and one of the most sought after birds in Africa! Its only accessed by canoeing through the channels with wooden boat. Birds like; Papyrus Gonolek, Blue-Breasted Bee-eater, Lesser and African Jacana, White-browed Scrub Robin, Swamp Flycatcher, Vanga Flycatcher, Rufous-napped Lark, Black-crowned Waxbill, Bern Swallow, African-dusky Flycatcher, and afew others can't be missed. As we drive to lake Mburo National Park, we have several stops to looK at birds on the roadside.
- Main Destination:
- Mabamba Swamp
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Tour, Afternoon Boat Cruise Trip at Lake Mburo National Park
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Tour, Afternoon Boat Cruise Trip at Lake Mburo National Park
This mornining breakfast at 6am, after we drive 5minutes to the park for our game drive. While in the park we shall look out for mammals like the Zebra, Eland, Topi, Impala, Cape Buffalo, Warthog etc, with a big checklist of birds including African-Grey Hornbill, Black-Loward Babbler, Red-Headed Weaver, Greater Blue-Eared Starling, Trilling Cisticola, Green-Wood Hoopoe, Brown-Chested Lapwing, Scaly-Throated Honeyguide, Lesser-Masked Weaver, White-Backed Vulture, TaboraCisticola, Crestd-Spurfowl, Red-Faced Barbet, Little Bee-Eater, Green-Caped Eremomera, Black-Throatd Barbet, Black-Collard Barbet, Southern Ground Hornbill, Rufous-Bellied Night Heron and more others. Today after hot hot lunch we target the boat along lake Mburo where we hardly miss the African Finfoot, White Backed and Black Crowned Night Heron, Giant Kingfisher. A night walk always produces good views of the Black Shouldered, northern Tanzania Fiery Necked Nightjar, nocturnal mammals and Bush Babies and many others.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest Camp
Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Transfer While Birding and Wildlife on our pace to Bwindi Np With Several Stops to Scan Around
Transfer While Birding and Wildlife on our pace to Bwindi Np With Several Stops to Scan Around
Morning after breakfast, we transfer while birding and wildlife to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, lunch break in Kabale town. Bwindi is situated in southwestern Uganda, famous of its habitat for mountain gorillas including several habituated groups which can be tracked and home of about 350 species of birds including 24 Albertine rift endemics! And at least 14 species recorded nowhere else in Uganda! Opportunities abound to discover the local Bakiga and Batwa pygmy cultures through their performances, workshops and village walks. Birding enroute gives opportunity to scan for birds like White-winged Warbler, Papyrus Yellow Warbler, Common, Mackinnon's, and Grey-backed Fyscal, Great-blue and Ross's Turaco, and a few more. Mammals expected are Valvet, L'Hoest's monkey, Black and White Colobus, Olive Baboons. We will also be driving alongside hills and mountains, several Bakiga Gardens and small towns that give memorable experience!
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Broadbill Forest Camp
Wildlife in Bwindi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Whole Day Birding and Wildlife Mubwindi Swamp Trail-Albertine Rift Endemic Bird Species Highlights
Whole Day Birding and Wildlife Mubwindi Swamp Trail-Albertine Rift Endemic Bird Species Highlights
Today early after breakfast, pack our picnic gear and start birding to Mubwindi swamp. Here we use site guides who are based in this area and monitor the birds and mammal habitat. They are Knowledgeable and can identify all bird species by calls and mimic all of them. The likes in this forest (Albertine rift endemics) include; Red-throated Alethe, Archer’s Robin-chat, Yellow-Eyed Flycatcher, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Blue-headed Sunbird, Regal Sunbird, Rockeffeller’s Sunbird, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Strange Weaver, Dusky Crimson-wing, Red-collard Mountain Babbler, Chapin’s Mountain Babbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Neumann’s’ Warbler, Prigogine’s Greenbul, Black-faced Apalis, Collard Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Grauer’sCukooshrike, Red-Billed Helmet shrike, Ruwenzori Batis, African Green Broadbill, Dwarf Honeyguide, Ruwenzori Turaco, Handsome Francolin and other native or common birds. Later do birding back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ruhija Sector (Bwindi NP)
- Accommodation:
- Broadbill Forest Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Birding and Optional Gorilla Trekking Evening Birding Enroute to Buhoma Sector Through the NECK
Birding and Optional Gorilla Trekking Evening Birding Enroute to Buhoma Sector Through the NECK
Gorillas tracking (Optional activity, so we can replace it with birding if any/all are not going for the activity) and later transfer birding to Buhoma sector through the neck this evening. If you are willing to do the trekking, after breakfast, we shall assemble at the park offices for briefing prior to this historic event. Gorilla tracking is a captivating pursuit; it involves walking in the wilderness in search of these great apes. The exhilaration attached to first setting an eye on a wild mountain gorilla is difficult to describe. They’re enormous animals, yet despite their fearsome appearance, gorillas are remarkably peaceable creatures. More impressive even than the gorilla’s size bearing is their unfathomable attitude to people, which differs greatly from that of any other wild animal that you’ve ever encountered! This once in a lifetime experience is not to miss! Birding enroute through the NECK to Buhoma sector, the NECK provides rich stop over and scan for a couple of birds.
- Main Destination:
- Ruhija Sector (Bwindi NP)
- Accommodation:
- Buhoma Community Haven Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Birding and Wildlife Buhoma sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park add Evening Transfer to QENP
Birding and Wildlife Buhoma sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park add Evening Transfer to QENP
With our picnic gear, try our luck for Cabanis’sGreenbul, Narrow-Tailed Starling, Grey-Winged Robin Chart, Eliots Woodpecker, Northern Double-Collard Sunbird, Black-Billed Weaver, Bocage’sBushshrike, Pink-Footed Puffback, Petit’sCukooshrike, White-Bellied Nigrafinch, Cameroon SombreGreenbul, African Broadbill, Buff-Throated Flycatcher, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Yellow Bill, Black-Faced Rufous Warbler, Little Grey Greenbul, Equatorial Akalat, Short-Tailed Warbler, Red-Headed Malimbe, White Browed Crombec, Mountain Black Boubou, Jameson’s Anti-Pecker with a list of butterflies and other mammals like L’hoest monkey, Blue Monkey, Olive Baboon etc. After hot lunch at 3pm we transfer to Queen Elizerbeth National Park.
- Main Destination:
- Buhoma Sector (Bwindi NP)
- Accommodation:
- The Bush Lodge (Banda)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Kazinga Channel
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Kazinga Channel
Queen Elizabeth national park is the second largest after Murchison falls national park with 95 mammal species the highest for any Ugandan national park! And about 610 bird species a truly remarkable figure for a reserve that is relatively smaller by continental standards. The park’s excellent biodiversity ranks it as one of the best birding sites in Uganda with the one-day record of about 300 species! The likes in this park include; Broad Tailed Warbler, Martial Eagle, African Skimmer, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Amur Falcon, African Skimmer, Striated Heron, African Spoonbill, Water Thick-Knee, Three-banded Plover, Marsh, Green, Wood and Common Sandpiper, Gray-headed Gull, Plain Martin, Lesser Swamp-Warbler, White-Winged Warbler, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Yellow-billed Ox-pecker and others. Mammals include; Olive Baboon, Valvet Monkey, Tantalus Monkey, Blue and Red Tailed Monkey etc. After hot lunch, we target the boat at Mweya Peninsula.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- The Bush Lodge (Banda)
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Morning Birding Stroll Around Bunyaruru Craters for scenary viewing Later Transfer to Fort Portal
Morning Birding Stroll Around Bunyaruru Craters for scenary viewing Later Transfer to Fort Portal
In the morning after breakfast, checkout and drive a short distance to crater region of Nzuguto, this time we stroll birding along the way to Nzuguto wetland and the rest of Bunyaruguru craters where we hardly miss Red-Faced Cisticola, Vanga Flycatcher, Red-Eyed Dove, Black Bishop, Red-Headed Bluebill, Rare White-Collard Oliveback, African Green Pigeon, Long Crested Eagle, Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, Eastern Grey Plantain Eater, African Fish Eagle, Hamerkop, Tawny-Franked Prinia, and a few others. Lunch break at dave the cave and transfer onwards to fort portal town.
- Main Destination:
- Fort Portal (Town)
- Accommodation:
- Ruwenzori View Guesthouse
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Birding and Wildlife Semuliki Valley National Park-Great Ituri Congo Forest Biome Species Highlights
Birding and Wildlife Semuliki Valley National Park-Great Ituri Congo Forest Biome Species Highlights
Semliki is of particular interest to birdwatchers: 435 bird species have been recorded, including a high proportion of forest birds and about 45 species seen nowhere else in Uganda. Only 53 mammal species occur and 11 species seen nowhere else in Uganda including Pygmy Antelope, Two Types of Flying Squirrels and Six Types of Bats. Other interesting birds here are; Orange-Checked Waxbill, White-Crowned Hornbill, Western Bronze-Napped Pigeon, Swamp Bulbul, Willcock’s Honeyguide, Crested Malimbe, Blue-Breasted Kingfisher, Yellow-Crested Woodpecker, Brown-Eared Woodpecker, Red-Billed Dwarf Hornbill, Yellow-Throated Nicator etc. on the butterflies interests semuliki contains a big number of many different colorful butterflies among all parks in Uganda. Today we shall start Very early with our picnic breakfast and lunch and drive for a bout an hour to the park. We use the site guide here. Later in the evenig after successiful day, we shall enroute birding back to fort portal town.
- Main Destination:
- Semuliki National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ruwenzori View Guesthouse
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Morning Birding Nyakasura Hills Afternoon Transfer to Kibale Chimpanzee Forest National Park
Morning Birding Nyakasura Hills Afternoon Transfer to Kibale Chimpanzee Forest National Park
Morning birding and wildlife Nyakasura hills and transfer birding to Kibale chimpanzee forest in the afternoon. In the morning after breakfast, checkout and drive for a short distance to the spectacular hills of Nyakasura, one of the beautiful sceneries in fort portal. Try our luck for Sharp’s Babbler, Brown Babbler, White-Backed Duck, Great-Crested and Little Grebe etc after our hot lunch, transfer birding to Kibale forest.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Morning Birding and Wildlife in the park/Bigodi Swamp Afternoon Optional Chimpanzee Trackng
Morning Birding and Wildlife in the park/Bigodi Swamp Afternoon Optional Chimpanzee Trackng
Morning birding and wildlife, afternoon optional chimp tracking (optional activity, so we can replace it with full day birding if any/all of you are not interested in doing tracking). Wake up early and start birding along the roadside from the hotel to Bigodi sanctuary or wake up early at 5:00am and prepare ourselves for the most sought bird the Green-breasted Pitta! Thereafter we continue normal birding getting out from the forest to our hotel for lunch break. In the afternoon drive to the park visitor center for briefing and Chimp tracking. Kibale is a home of 13 primates and about 375 bird species. Primates include; L’Hoest’s Monkey, Red Colobus Monkey, Bush Baby, Olive Baboon, Red-Tailed Monkey, Grey-Cheeked Mangabey, Black And White Colobus, Blue Monkey, Chimpanzee etc. and a long list of sought bird species like; Afep Pigeon, Red-Winged Francolin, Narina Trogon, Bar-Tailed Trogon, Black-Billed Turaco, Black Bee-Eater, etc. We shal lhave Hot lunch at our lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Birding and Wildlife Transfer to Masindi Town via Hoima
Birding and Wildlife Transfer to Masindi Town via Hoima
After breakfast, checkout and depart for Masindi. This being quite a long journey, it will take big percentage of our time this day traveling, but we shall be having several strategic stops to stretch our legs and have a look at birds. Lunch break in Hoima town.
- Main Destination:
- Budongo Forest (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
-
Masindi Hotel
Wildlife in Budongo Forest
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 13
Budongo-Royal Mile Birding and Wildlife Whole Day
Budongo-Royal Mile Birding and Wildlife Whole Day
Today with our picnic gear, we have a birding excursion to the Royal Mile within the Murchison Falls Conservation Area. We shall start early and head to the Royal Mile. Enroute we shall have some birding stopovers in the nyabyaya farmlands to look out for bird species like the Singing Cisiticola, Cabanis’s Bunting, Dark Capped Yellow Warbler, Grey Headed Olive Back, Brown Twinspot, Black Bellied Fire Finch and more then carry on to the Mile. Birding here is excellent with an open interior and gives us unique bird and butterfly species like the Ituri Batis. Lemon Bellied Crombec, Firest Warbler, Dusky Longtailed Cuckoo, Dwarf, Blue Breasted, Pygmy and Chocolate Backed Kingfisher, Western Black Headed Oriole, Red Headed Malimbe, Blue Throated Roller, White Spotted Greenbul, Rufous Crowned Eremomela, Chectnut Capped and Forest Flycatcher, Yellow Crested Woodpecker, Yellow Longbill, Blue-Throated Brown Sunbird and many more. Later back to Masindi for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Budongo Forest (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Masindi Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 14
Morning Enroute Birding Via Kaniyo Pabidi as We Connect to Murchison Falls National Park Onwards
Morning Enroute Birding Via Kaniyo Pabidi as We Connect to Murchison Falls National Park Onwards
Pabidi is part of the budongo forest reserve and an area of enormous diversity of flora and fauna. The forest is crisscrossed with maintained networks of trails making it perfect to explore the forest and giving the best sights for the rare, shy and secretive bird; Puvel’s Illadopsis, and many other interesting species like; Grey and Yellow Lobgbill, Chocolate-Backed, Blue-Breasted, Dwarf and Pygmy Kingfisher, We also have good views of the Shaggy-Crested Guineafawl, Fire Crested Alethe, NarinaTragon Yellow Billed, Grey Throated and Yellow Spotted Barbet, Rufous Sided Broadbill, Chestnut Capped and Forest Flycatcher, Yellow Crested Woodpeckeretc. later enter Murchison falls national park Southwards through the woodlands. Lunch at the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Tent)
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 15
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip to the Bottom of the Falls
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip to the Bottom of the Falls
Murchison falls national park with its spectacular water falls, prolific game and clutch of outstanding lodges is universally regarded as one of East Africa’s most compelling national parks. It lies at the core of the greater Murchison Falls Conservation Area, and famous of its world’s powerful falls. We start early morning game drive northern bank of river Nile, we look out for both birds and game. Specialties to look at in Murchison are among others; the Red-Winged Grey Warbler, Red Chested Cuckoo, Banded Snake Eagle, Black Billed Wood-Dove, Short Toed Snake Eagle, Black Cheeked Waxbill, Black Headed And Vitelline Masked Weaver, Heuglin’s Robin-Chat, Black Headed Gonolek etc. Mammals like Jackson’s heartbeats, Rothschild’s giraffe, elephant, warthogs and many more. Have our lunch break at the Nile side/hot lunch from our lodge as we wait for the boat to take you along the Nile birding up to the bottom of the falls, later back to the hotel for refreshment, dinner and overnight stay!
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Fort Murchison (Tent)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 16
Birding and Wildlife Back to Entebbe-End
Birding and Wildlife Back to Entebbe-End
Quite long journey but with strategic stopovers to stretch legs and look at birds like African Moustached Warbler, Greater Blue-Eared Starling, Abyssinian Roller, Common Bulbul, Red-Eyed Dove, chances abound for rarity of Short-Toed Snake Eagle and Hartlaubs’s Marsh Widowbird, Turacos Like Great Blue and Ross’s Turacoare rarely missed etc. END.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
