8 DAY UGANDA GORILLA TREKKING TOUR

Meeti up with Pakasa Tours and Safaris guide,who will welcome you to Uganda, brief you about the country and the Tour as well, You will then start your Tour with a drive to Lake Mburo National Park- Uganda’s smallest savannah park whose acacia forestland supports substantial herds of Burchell’s zebras and colorful antelopes, after early morning breakfast, we head out for a game drive with chances of seeing creatures like Burchell’s zebras, Nubian giraffes, buffaloes, impalas, elands, Defassa waterbucks, Bohor’s reedbuck, Common Duiker and klipspringers.
Mburo national park

After morning breakfast, we go for a game drive. While on the boat cruise, we shall see more animal species including hippos, crocodiles, and bird species such as the African Fish Eagle, Pied King Fisher, and African Fin foot in addition to the beautiful scenery and simple pleasure attached to being out on the water. Then transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park.

Bwindi impenetrable national park
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is found in the southwestern part of the country in the Kisoro and Kabale districts at Uganda- Rwanda border is the best for Gorilla tracking safari
The park isn’t only known for the rare endangered mountain gorillas but it’s also home to other primate mammals like black and white Columbus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, L’Hoest’s monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, De Brazza monkeys, spectacled Galago monkeys, among others. Bwindi forest also has wildlife animals such as elephants, buffaloes, yellowed-backed duikers, bush pigs, golden cats, forest hogs, bats, rodents, and black-fronted duikers, among others, and numerous bird species.

After breakfast at the lodge, we will be briefed and assigned a group to track a particular gorilla family. You’ll be led into the jungle by an armed ranger who’ll keep in touch with the monitoring team on the ground to effortlessly detect the mountain gorillas. Once you locate the gorilla family, you’ll be given one-hour time to watch them in their natural home playing, feeding, resting, and going about their day-to-day life. After gorilla tracking, we come back for lunch and relaxation then go to Batwa cultural experience. Batwa were the first people who lived in the forest. The trail begins with a nature walk, and hike through the forest as you learn from the first keepers of the forest. The experience shows you how they lived in grass-thatched houses, and caves and hunted small animals for food. After we go back to the lodge for overnight and dinner

We shall have breakfast and head out for a game drive in the Kasenyi plains exposing us to species like African elephants, African Cape buffaloes, Uganda Kobs, leopards, and lions and the park boasts a record of over 600 bird species. After, we shall drive back to the lodge for hot lunch and take a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel. The Kazinga channel is a 42 km stretch, connecting Lake George and Lake Edward with satisfying big herds of buffaloes, a school of hippos, Nile crocodiles, and different bird species like the rare African skimmers and Lesser Flamingos. After the cruise, we can opt for a sundowner at one of the crater lakes or transfer back to the lodge for relaxation and overnight.

It’s located in western Uganda, Kibale national park is the best destination for chimpanzee trekking, it’s a home of 13 primate species with the loftiest population of chimpanzees, and it’s covered with thick timber with big tall trees where primates habit, feed and make nests to sleep. Kibale national park is an habitant for 13 primate species which are chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, grey-cheeked manga, Ugandan red colobus monkeys, central African monkeys among others, and chimpanzees with the largest population of 1450 individuals.
It also has world life species; apart from being a home of primates, it is also a habitat of other wildlife species in the thick forests and these include elephants, golden cats, lions, leopards, serval cats, Harvey’s duiker, giant forest hog, sitatunga, marsh Mangoose, warthog and others. And birds about 375 attractive colorful species Ground Thrush birds which are endemic to Kibale national park,

After morning breakfast, we start with a briefing of the rule for trekking the chimpanzees after which you set off to search for them in the forest. 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. Once you locate the chimpanzees, you will spend an hour with them and then head back to the accommodation for Lunch.
After Lunch, you will be taken for Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary walk this is a guided swamp walk that takes you closer to seeing primates mostly monkeys, birds, and butterflies. The wetland is a birder’s paradise and then back to the safari lodge for the night.

After our breakfast, we shall check out and embark on our journey back to Kampala. We shall have an en-route stopover at the equator for a photo session and you may also purchase some hand-made craft souvenirs before we proceed with our journey to the airport to end the safari.