10 Day Uganda Primates, Apes and Safari, Mid Range Tour
This tour takes our clients to popular National Parks in Uganda that include Lake Mburo National Park for game drives and boat cruises, to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park for gorilla trekking to Queen Elizabeth National park for game drives and a boat cruise on Kazinga channel, to Kibale Forest National park for chimpanzee trekking and wetland walk before you drive to Murchison Falls National park for game drives and a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls.
- Gorilla trekking
- Game drive experiences
- Walking safaris
- Chimpanzee trekking
- Boat safaris
Safari Highlights
- Accommodation and meals as per the itinerary
- Safari 4X4 vehicle
- Drinking water
- Airport transfer on the first and last day
- Tour/driver guide
- All park entrance fees
- Gorilla and Chimpanzee tracking permit
- Activities in Rwanda and Uganda as per itinerary
Includes
- International flights (from/to home)
- Tips to porters, site guides and driver/ guide
- Insurance
- Optional activities
- Personal expenses
- Visa
Excludes
Detailed Itinerary
Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast, your guide will pick you up to brief you more about the tour and then drive to Lake Mburo National Park via Masaka, a journey of about 5 hours. You will have a stopover at the Equator in kayabwe for photography and simple experiments.
You will then proceed on your journey with great views of the beautiful landscape arriving in Lake Mburo National Park at lunch time, Check in at the lodge for Lunch and a short break and proceed to the park for a boat cruise on the Lake.
The boat takes 2 hours of close adventure and encounter with aquatic animals and several bird species.
Animals such as hippos and crocodiles and birds like the fish eagles, king fishers among others, after the boat have ample tie time to take pic before heading back to the lodge, on our way back watch out for more amazing animal sightings, this is always a warm up the big game drive for the coming day.
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast, enjoy an en route game drive through Lake Mburo National Park with expectations of seeing many animals like giraffes, zebras, elands, impalas, topis, after about two hours of game drive and game viewing.
Exit the park and then Proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park located in South Western Uganda. This journey takes you through the green rolling hills of Uganda with banana and tea plantations and good scenic views.
Lunch will be served en route and you will arrive in Bwindi in the evening.
Check in at the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Gorilla Trekking
Enjoy early morning, breakfast, the hotel will provide packed lunch, we will then walk if we prefer to the Park headquarters for registration and at 7:45 am we will Join other trackers for a briefing, trekking takes you through thick creepers and undergrowth with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas.
The activity can take up to 6 hours depending on where the gorillas slept the previous night and their mobility that very morning, One is availed with one full hour of interaction and photography with the gorillas after finding a group.
It is an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures. After the trek, you will transfer back to the lodge for relaxation, later in the evening we can have a one on one interaction with the indigenous people of the forest, contribute directly to the locals by buying some souvenirs with them and creating long life relationships with the most marginalized groups of people, there after dinner and overnight.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast in the morning, we will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park, be prepared for incredible scenery along the way.
We arrive in time for Lunch at the lodge and game drive in the plains of Kasenyi in search for game animals that may include herds of buffaloes, antelopes, elephants and if lucky, some wild cats such as lions and leopards.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise
Early morning breakfast followed by a drive to the plains of Kasenyi for a morning game drive to try to find what could have missed the previous day.
The Kasenyi plains being the famous mating grounds for grazers, we expect to spot some of the wild big cats like the lions and leopards.
The game drive takes about 4 hours.
Lunch will be served at the lodge and after that you will head to the jetty along Kazinga channel for the afternoon boat cruise. This cruise offers you chances of viewing animals like: hippos, water birds, elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles and many other wildlife which flood the channel for drinking water and others for taking a bath so as to cool down their temperatures.
The boat cruise lasts for 2 hours of great views on the lake.
Drive back to the lodge in the evening for relaxation dinner and overnight.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Morning Game Drive and Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
After an early breakfast drive to the northern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park (Kasenyi) area in searches the wild animals which include: Elephants, Buffalos, and the wild cats.
Savanna birds and different species of antelopes such water buck Uganda kobs among others, you will transfer to Kibale Forest National Park arriving at your lodge in the late afternoon.
You will have Lunch en-route or at the lodge depending on the departure and arrival time.
Check in at the lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Chimpanzee Trekking
This morning after breakfast you will drive to the park headquarters to join other trackers for a briefing and after you will be taken for chimpanzee tracking through Kibale Forest National Park.
During this walk you will have chances of seeing many of the 13 primate species and man's closest cousins, the chimpanzees. On encountering a chimpanzee family/group you will be allowed an hour of photos and interaction with the chimps native to Kibale Forest National Park .
After lunch you will drive to Bigodi for a swamp walk. This wetland belongs to the community neighboring the park and is rich in many bird species and other animals. While here we shall learn culture and interact with locals.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
After an early morning breakfast, drive to Murchison Falls National Park, a journey of about 400 kms through small towns with great views of the beautiful landscapes and green vegetation.
You will have a few stops for bathroom breaks as you proceed through Hoima.
Lunch en-route in Hoima and continue to Bulisa with great views of the rift valley escarpments and Lake Albert.
Enter through Bugungu gate to connect to the top of the falls for great views of one of the strongest waterfalls in the world.
You will then drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Morning Game Drive and Boat Cruise at Bottom of the Falls
After an early morning cup of tea, transfer to the northern section popularly known as Paraa for your morning game drive that will provide you an opportunity of spotting wild game that may include, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes and with hopes to spot cats such as lions and leopards.
Return to the lodge for a lunch break before proceeding to the pier for your two-hour boat cruise to the bottom of the falls to witness river Nile squeezing itself in a narrow gorge before exploding out producing an experience of a lifetime.
While on the boat, one is able to spot some aquatic animals such as the Nile crocodiles and hippos.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
Transfer to Entebbe
Wake up early for breakfast and then Drive back to Entebbe international Airport and depending on your departure time; you may decide to visit Ziwa Rhino sanctuary (optional and not included).
This may take 6-7 hours' drive thus reaching Entebbe late in the afternoon for your departure or retire at your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe depending on your arrangement.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Drinking Water
Meal Plan
No accommodation
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Toursit attractions
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