12 Days Gorillas, Chimps & Wildlife Safari

Meet up with our company safari guide who will welcome you to Uganda and brief you about the safari before you start your magical experience in Uganda and then Drive to Murchison Falls National Park. The attractions in this park include the roaring rapids of the Murchison, the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest National Park where you will have the chance of viewing lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. And with a big bird count of over 450 bird species including the elusive shoebill stork (though a rare sighting), dwarf king fisher, the white-thigh hornbill, and the Goliath heron among others.
Along the route, you will have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a Rhino tracking experience where you will have an hour of rhino tracking, and a lunch stops at Kabalega Dinners before proceeding to the park and checking in to your accommodation to relax.
Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Pakuba Safari Lodge

After an early breakfast, you will have a game drive in the Northern section of Murchison with a high concentration of savannah wildlife. Enjoy game viewing and photography of elephants, buffalos, waterbucks, giraffes, Uganda Kob and lions, the leopards (if you are lucky) plus a variety of bird species.

Return to your accommodation for lunch as you prepare to have a 3-hour boat trip to the base of the falls. This trip allows you to get up close to the animal species within the water. Cruise past huge hippo pods, crocodiles, and numerous aquatic birds adorning the north bank on the way to the mighty waterfalls.

You will have an opportunity to take thousands of pictures (and so carry your camera with you if you like). Also, proceed for a hike (if you like) to the top of the falls. The hike is a strenuous one but the thrill of reaching the top is unforgettable. Return to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lodge: Pakuba Safari Lodge

After breakfast at your accommodation, drive to the top of the falls where you will have a spectacular view of the falls. You will have an opportunity to capture very beautiful pictures of the rainbow as the water splashes on the hard basement rocks making a thunderous roar and beautiful rainbows. Drive out of the Park for Kibale Forest National Park.

Kibale is popular for its primates like the chimpanzees, colobus monkeys, mangabeys, and red-tailed monkeys. On your chimpanzee trails, these swing in the forest trees, and others feed on the wild fruits. You will check into your accommodation where you will have dinner and the overnight rest.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Isunga Lodge

Today you will experience some serious primate business! Kibale Forest National Park boasts the highest number of primate species in the world, including the chimpanzees.

Approximately 5,000 chimpanzees live in the wild in Uganda, which makes it a perfect place to spot them! An experienced ranger will take you chimp tracking in the morning. The activity begins at 8.00 am with a briefing regarding the rules of trekking the chimpanzees after which you set off to search for them in the forest. Once you locate the chimpanzees, you will have a full hour with them.

You will return to the lodge for lunch after which you will have a walk in the Bigodi before you head out for Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will arrive in the evening and overnight at your booked accommodation.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Elephant Hub Lodge

On this day, you will have a game drive and launch trip (boat trip) on the Kazinga Channel. Early in the morning, you will go out for a game drive through the park, with magnificent views of the Kasenyi plains, valleys, terraced hills, and an abundance of wild animals like reedbuck, bushbuck, Kob, warthogs, elephants, lions, buffaloes and so much more.

Have a break and relax as you eat lunch served at the lodge. The afternoon adventure entails a launch trip (boat trip) on the Kazinga Channel, a water stream joining Lake Edward and Lake George. The channel attracts a large school of hippos and Nile crocodiles, besides the variety of birds that flock to the reed shores like the pelicans, kingfishers, saddle-billed stork, and sometimes the crowned cranes. Return to your accommodation in time for your dinner.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Elephant hub lodge

Have breakfast then set off for Bwindi NP through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park – famously known for its resident tree-climbing lions. The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% though sometimes they are hard to spot (most especially when they are down in the grassland looking for prey). Have a hot lunch break in Kihihi and Continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda; harboring an estimated 400 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population, including several habituated groups, which can be tracked.

One of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests, which dates back over 25,000 years and contains almost 400 species of plants, blankets its mist-covered hillsides. With a strenuous day ahead, you will do less on arrival but just check in your accommodation, and relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the following day.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Bakiga Lodge

After an early breakfast and a briefing by a ranger guide, you will enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rainforest is spectacular! The area offers a dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but surrounded by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists.

The time is taken and the terrain varies with the movements of these great primates. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome experience. After the tracking experience, you will transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for Relaxation and Overnight

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Lodge: Bunyonyi Eco Lodge

After breakfast, you will have a canoe ride on Uganda’s deepest lake and discover the wonders of this beautiful lake with numerous islands. It is locally known as the lake of many small birds due to the different resident small birds which choose the place as their perfect habitat. You will explore some of the historical Islands like the punishment island where girls in the region were thrown after getting pregnant before marriage. Ride back to the lodge after the boat trip for Lunch.
After Lunch, drive through the rolling hills and winding roads to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Kisoro District. You will reach the lodge in the evening and enjoy the magical sunset over the great Virunga Ranges. Check-in at the lodge for dinner and Overnight.
Lodge: Lake Mulehe

Following an early breakfast, you will drive to the park Headquarters for briefing and be assigned a ranger who will lead you to the golden monkeys. The Golden monkeys can also be tracked in the Volcanoes of Rwanda and Virunga of DRC. You will be given an hour to watch these beautiful apes as they carry on with their daily activities. They live peacefully with the gorillas and hence the slogan of Gold Meets Silver. Many smaller primates and birds can be sighted along this trail. Drive back to the lodge for Lunch and prepare for an evening Canoeing on Lake Mutanda.

After breakfast, bid farewell to the Switzerland of Africa as you drive through the rolling green hills and sharp corners, you will have a stopover at Echuya forest for some fresh fruits like passion fruits, and carrots, leg stretching by having a mini nature walk before proceeding to Lake Mburo National Park. You will have a lunch break in Mbarara and a stop at the Igongo Cultural Center for the Western cultural experience as you continue to your lodge for dinner and Overnight.
Lodge: Rwakobo Rock

After breakfast, you will go on a game drive in Lake Mburo National Park. The park will offer you amazing scenic views of Lake Mburo. Abundant games like the Zebras, Elands, and Impalas among other wildlife species like Giraffes, Statunga hippos basking around the water points in the park can be sighted on a game drive in the Park. Different bird species like African fin foot papyrus Ganolek and many more bird species. Drive back to the lodge for lunch and prepare for a walking safari in the evening.
After lunch, you will head out and have a walk in the neighboring communities around the park. This walk allows you to interact with nature with no engine sounds. You can have an opportunity to spot different species you might have missed while on the game drive. You will meet zebras and elands feeding together with herds of cattle of the people in the community. Walk back to the lodge for Dinner and overnight.
Lodge: Rwakobo lodge.

After breakfast, transfer to Kampala via the Equator in Kayabwe for hot lunch and have photography and experiments at the center of the earth. You will have a chance to experience being both in the northern and Southern hemispheres at the same time. Proceed to Kampala/Entebbe to End the safari.