10-Day Holiday Safari with Gorillas, Wildlife and Chimps

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Nkundwa Nile View Lodge

Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP

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Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 2

Early morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise

You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast and at 8:00 am go for a game drive in search of unique African Savannah animals like the giraffes, antelopes, lions, elephants, 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. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm. After lunch, you will go for an evening 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. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Lodge.

Main Destination:

Murchison Falls National Park

Accommodation:

Nkundwa Nile View Lodge

Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 3

Transfer to Kibale forest via Hoima the oil city

After an early breakfast, you will drive to Fort Portal with lunch en route. You will drive through traditional homesteads and farms and this will enable you to enjoy the beautiful scenery across that part of the country through the Oil City of Hoima. You will arrive in the evening, have a rest while sipping some juice and wine. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest Lodge.

Main Destination:

Kibale National Park (Chimps)

Best Time To Visit January to February and June to July (Chimp trekking is easiest)

High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)

Best Weather January to February and June to July (Least rain)

Wildlife in Kibale NP

ChimpanzeeCommon

ElephantOccasional

BuffaloOccasional

LionVery Rare

LeopardVery Rare

HippoRare

GiraffeNone

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

Accommodation:

Kibale Forest Lodge

Mid-range lodge located inside Kibale NP (Chimps)

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Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 4

Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi swamp walk

After an early breakfast at 8:00 am, you will report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin and set out to track chimpanzees in the forest. The chance of viewing the chimps is over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the most beautiful and stunning forests in Uganda. This is the 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 varieties and density of primates in Africa tallying up to 13 species including the black and white Colobus, blue monkeys, Grey-cheeked mangabeys, Red tailed monkeys and bush babies and Pottos. After lunch, you will visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, and enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will present you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. Your overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest lodge.

Main Destination:

Kibale National Park (Chimps)

Accommodation:

Kibale Forest Lodge

Mid-range lodge located inside Kibale NP (Chimps)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 5

Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park

You will have breakfast and at 8:30 am drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park viewing the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. You will sign in at your lodge facility as you wait for your lunch at 1:00 pm. Then after lunch, you will take on an afternoon launch cruise along Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George. The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippos, buffalos, 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. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp.

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

GiraffeNone

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp

Budget lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP

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Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 6

Game drives in Queen Elizabeth national park

You will have breakfast early in the morning and at 8:00 am with your packed lunch, go for a 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 bucks, water bucks, stripped jackals, comical warthogs and the fierce leopards. You will 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 woodpeckers and other primates. You will have dinner and an overnight stay at Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp.

Main Destination:

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation:

Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp

Budget lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 7

Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest via Ishasha for tree climbing lions

After breakfast, at 8:30 am, you will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are full of savanna acacia and grasses. You will go through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the Ishasha sector in the south area of Queen Elizabeth National Park 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. You will arrive in Bwindi in the evening. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is 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. You will stay overnight at Mist Gorilla Camp.

Main Destination:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)

Best Time To Visit June to August and December to February (Gorilla trekking is easiest)

High Season June to September (Gorilla permits are scarce)

Best Weather June to July and December to February (Less rainfall)

Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP

GorillaCommon

ChimpanzeeRare

ElephantRare

LionNone

GiraffeNone

LeopardNone

CheetahNone

BuffaloNone

ZebraNone

HippoNone

Accommodation:

Gorilla Mist Camp

Mid-range lodge located just outside Bwindi Impenetrable NP (Gorillas)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 8

Gorilla tracking experience and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi

Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest is the major highlight of the visit Uganda safaris tour. You will set off early with guides after breakfast at 7:00 am to track the Uganda gorillas. The thrill of your encounter will wipe out the difficulties of the potentially laborious trek. Come in jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet. Use the time to watch 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. You will stay overnight at Lake Bunyonyi Eco Resort.

Main Destination:

Lake Bunyonyi

Accommodation:

Lake Bunyonyi Eco Resort

Mid-range resort located at Lake Bunyonyi

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Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 9

Transfer to Lake Mburo national park

After an early breakfast at 8:30 am, you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park and arrive in the afternoon. Have lunch and relaxation and later go for a nature walk in the park with a ranger. The walk will enable you to see giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, Impalas, waterbucks, pumba, zebras, elands all these will furnish your visit with pride. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Rwakobo Rock.

Main Destination:

Lake Mburo National Park

Best Time To Visit January to February and June to August (Dry seasons)

High Season June to September (Peak time for Uganda)

Best Weather June to August and January to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloCommon

ZebraCommon

HippoCommon

LeopardOccasional

HyenaOccasional

ElephantNone

LionNone

CheetahNone