4 Days Gorillas and Chimps
4 Days Gorillas and Chimps
4 Days Gorillas and Chimps Trekking-Kalinzu, Safari takes you through Queen Elizabeth National Park-Uganda’s second largest, most diverse, and most popular conservation area where you will engage in a spectacular game drive in the Kasenyi plains, participate in chimpanzee trekking in the Kyambura gorge and crown it up with an Enroute game drive in the Ishasha sector as you approach the Impenetrable Forest home to the Endangered Mountain Gorillas
SAFARI HIGHLIGHTS
Day 01: Arrival, Pickup, and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 02: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kalinzu and Transfer to Bwindi
Day 03: Gorilla Tracking and Any optional activities around the Park
Day 04: Transfer to Entebbe
You will be received at Entebbe International Airport by Pakasa Tours professional safari driver guide for a meet and greet, brief you about your safari before you start your journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park-Uganda’s second largest, most diverse, and popular conservation area. You will drive through Mityana with an en-route lunch stopover in Fort Portal before proceeding to Queen Elizabeth for an evening game drive in the kasenyi plains. This will reward you with evening grazers like elephants, kobs, waterbucks, warthogs and predators like lions, leopards among others, then proceed to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Buffalo safari lodge/ Elephant hab lodge
After an early breakfast, head out for a Chimpanzee tracking in Kalinzu forest on the Queen Elizabeth Park boundary. The activity lasts 3 to 4 hours and later transfers to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the Ishasha sector. Along the way you will spot large troops of baboons, herds of Elephants and different bird species, you will enroute game drive in search of the famous resident climbing lions and later proceed to the home of the endangered mountain gorillas through the rolling hills and winding roads of Kigezi.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Great Rift Valley and is considered the most diverse forest in Uganda. The area, one of the few large expanses of forest in East Africa, where lowland and montane habitats meet, contains a dense ground cover of herbs, vines, and shrubs.
Home to over 120 mammals, 345 species of birds, 200 species of butterflies, and 160 species of trees, Bwindi is one of the richest ecosystems in East Africa. The park contains almost one-half of the world’s population of the endangered Mountain Gorilla, making it an extremely valuable conservation site. Bwindi is also home to several endangered bird species with very limited ranges, and acts as an important catchment area for many rivers, supplying water for agriculture in the surrounding region
You will reach in the evening and stay overnight
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/ BroadBill Forest Lodge.
Following breakfast at the lodge, travel to National Park Headquarters to meet your guides for the day and begin your gorilla-tracking experience. Experienced guides and trackers will accompany your party on an early morning trek into the dense rainforest on the mountain slopes. The journey, through dense foliage and up steep climbs, is abundantly rewarded with the lifetime experience of viewing mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. You will have an opportunity to be within meters of these magnificent apes, sharing their daily lives and experiencing their day-to-day activities. Mountain gorillas are extremely rare with only an estimated 880 remaining in the wild.
You will enjoy breakfast and transfer back to Kampala with a stopover in Mbarara town for lunch, another stopover at the Equator in Kayabwe for photography and experiments, and then proceed to Kampala or Entebbe airport for your onward flight marking the end of your 4 days Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi safari.
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