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Arrival
Day 1
Rhino Tracking and Top of the Falls
Rhino Tracking and Top of the Falls
You'll be picked up from your guest house and transferred to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will be able to track rhinos on foot with the help of armed rangers who are there to guide and protect you throughout the experience.
After one hour of viewing and walking with white rhinos, you'll head out for a hot lunch before driving to the park gate for clearance. Then, you'll proceed through Budongo forest to the top of the falls as your first activity in the park. After the stop for fall’s photographic moments, you'll drive to your lodge which is in the middle of the park. Your dinner and overnight stay will be in the park.
- Main Destination:
- Ziwa Rhino and Wildlife Ranch (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Waterfall Boat Cruise
Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Waterfall Boat Cruise
After breakfast (6:00 am), you'll head out for a drive-in search of cats which might still be busy with a kill or running away from the wet grass. Watch out for leopards, elephants, cape buffalo, giraffes, baboons, monkeys etc.
In the afternoon, you'll take a shared boat cruise to the bottom of the falls in search of animals that come to drink and cool off on the banks of the Nile River such as elephants, waterbucks, giraffes, buffaloes, Nile crocodiles, the monitor lizards, hippos and many birds.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Pakuba Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Bigodi Tour
Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Bigodi Tour
After breakfast, you will have a short game drive as you head out of the park. You'll drive further to the southern parts of Uganda with a hot lunch en route to Kibale forest. After check-in, you'll take a walk in the famous Bigodi wetlands, a community project managed by the community aimed at changing and improving the lives of the host communities. Watch out for olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, bird species, and cultural encounters with the local communities. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary (Kibale NP, Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Wildlife in Kibale NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Morning Chimpanzee Tracking and Evening Boat Cruise in Katunguru
Morning Chimpanzee Tracking and Evening Boat Cruise in Katunguru
After breakfast, you will drive to Kanyanchu to join others for briefing before you head to the forest with rangers in search of chimps following their calls and tracks. Once chimps have been located, you will spend one hour with them as you learn more about them.
After your hot lunch at the lodge, you'll drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You'll check-in and prepare for your game drive to close the day. On request, we can arrange a night game driver for better chances of sighting cats.
- Main Destination:
- Kibale National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Enshama Game Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Morning Game Drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Transfer to Bwindi
Morning Game Drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Transfer to Bwindi
After an early breakfast, you'll conduct a morning game drive. Later, you'll transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. The road trip is both scenic and wild as you traverse through the rural villages of the Kigezi region. Depending on where your gorilla permits have been booked, you will have lunch en route and proceed for an overnight stay at the edge of the forest.
There is an optional lion monitoring program before departing to Bwindi at 200$ per person not included in the cost. This is to give you a chance to follow cats as one of the routine procedures in monitoring and caring for these big cats.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Haven Lodge Buhoma Community
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Gorilla Tracking and Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Gorilla Tracking and Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
After breakfast, you will have a short drive to the UWA briefing center where you will be taken through the dos and don’ts while tracking gorillas. After you have been allocated a gorilla family in a group of 8 pax, you will be led by ranger guides off the forest to search for the gorillas. When gorillas have been located, you will have one full hour of viewing them as they go on with their daily lives at a distance of 7-10 meters. Later, you'll transfer from Bwindi to Lake Bunyonyi for an overnight stay. Look at our packing list for gorilla tracking.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Wildlife in Bwindi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Optional Lake Activities and Transfer to Kigali
Optional Lake Activities and Transfer to Kigali
After a relaxed morning with optional lodge activities on the lake, you will depart from Lake Bunyonyi to Kigali for your international flight. (This tour can also end in Entebbe depending on where your flight back home has been booked).
- Main Destination:
- Lake Bunyonyi (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
