14 Days Best of Uganda Safari
This 14 Days Best of Uganda Safari offers you an abundance of wildlife, scenery, and cultural experiences in Uganda. Gorilla and chimpanzee tracking are the highlight of this safari, but expect to see rhinos, lions, hippos, buffaloes, leopard, elephants, and several species of birds and an abundance of dense green forest. Enjoy the top of the Falls at Murchison and the tree climbing lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park. This journey will bring you close to nature and culture.
What to expect,
- Top of the Falls
- Game drives
- Boat Cruise
- Chimpanzee tracking
- Bigodi wetland visit
- Tree-climbing Lions
- Gorilla tracking
Day 1: Arrival and transfer to the hotel
Upon arrival, you will be met and greeted by your English-speaking guide. He will briefly take you through the road trip plan and then transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe for an overnight stay. Accommodation: Via Entebbe
Day 2: transfer to kabwoya forest reserve
After breakfast, you will drive to Kabwoya forest reserve. Along the shores of Lake Albert is Kabwoya Game reserve; untapped, intact and popular for breathtaking views of the Congo basin and wildlife species like Antelopes, small sized primates; colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys. All these we will have a chance to see on our early evening game walk upon arrival. Accommodation: Lake Albert Safari Lodge
Day 3: transfer to murchison falls national park
Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel and drive to Murchison Falls where you will hike to the top of the falls which will give you beautiful views of these waterfalls. You will gaze at the Nile River which is the longest river in the world, it’s forced through a small gap which is just 7m wide and it flows 43 meters down making it look very beautiful to the viewers. Accommodation: Heritage Safari Lodge
Day 4: Morning game drive, top of the falls and afternoon boat cruise
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and proceed to search for wildlife species on a game drive. You will get a chance to view many species including; the giraffes, lions, elephants, buffaloes, birds and many more. After the game drive, you will be taken to hike the top of the falls. Hiking to the top of the falls will give you beautiful views of these waterfalls. You will gaze at the Nile River which is the longest river in the world, it’s forced through a small gap which is just 7m wide and it flows 43 meters down making it look very beautiful to the viewers. After the top of the falls, you will return to the lodge for lunch.
After lunch, do an afternoon boat cruise. This boat will allow you to get close to the water animals which include over 4000 hippos as well as the Nile crocodiles. The Nile has got many stunning bird lives which is also enjoyed while taking your boat trip; these include the bee eaters, colored king fishers, shoebill stork, grey throated and the yellow billed birds. Accommodation: Heritage Safari Lodge
Day 5 Transfer to Kibale forest national park
After breakfast you will checkout from the lodge and drive to Kibale forest national park. You will be able to enjoy an impressive sight of the legendary “mountains of the moon” which you will clearly see on the road to fort portal. You will as well pass through many traditional villages as you enjoy local people carrying out agriculture.
Kibale forest national park is one of the great rain forests in Africa. This forest is mainly famous for around 13 primate species with chimpanzees being the main tracked chimpanzees. Other primate species include the golden monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, as well as bird species.
On arrival at the park, you will check into your lodge for relaxation as you wait for dinner. Accommodation: Guereza canopy lodge
Day 6: chimpanzee trekking and bigodi wetland visit
Wake up very early and head to Kanyanchu by 8:00 am to start your chimpanzee trek in Kibale forest. Chimpanzees are considered to be the closest relatives of human beings since they share 98% of their DNA with that of human beings. As you proceed with the search for these beautiful chimps, you will view many other primate and animal species including the Lhoests monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, grey cheeked mangabeys, bush babies and many bird species including the yellow spotted nictor, ramped tinker, crowed eagle.
This national park is a rain forest with many chimpanzee communities, each troop of these chimpanzees has over 100 individuals which are a competed social structure. In their groups, the adult males dominate the group and always defend the whole community against any danger and incursions by the females from outside. These primates are located by listening to their pant hooting calls, and then hurry to the place where they are calling from. You get a chance to observe them as they play, feed, and socialize as well as jumping around the trees.
Immediately after the long trek, you will return to the lodge for lunch and then later in the evening, you will head out for the Bigodi swamp walk. Accommodation: Guereza canopy lodge
Day 7: transfer to queen elizabeth park with evening game drive
After breakfast, you will checkout from the lodge and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This national park is famous for a variety of wildlife and chimpanzee species. This famous conservation area is bordered by Lake Edward in the south west and in the north east, it’s bordered by Lake George. This park was named after Queen Elizabeth the second and it has a variety of animal species including the impalas, kobs, forest hogs, elephants, buffaloes, tree climbing lions, and the cape buffaloes. This national park is also filled with many volcanic calderas which harbor many flamingos during several seasons.
Upon arrival at Queen Elizabeth, you will have lunch and then go for an evening game drive where you will see various animals like elephants, elands, antelopes, buffaloes, lions among others. Accommodation: Bush Lodge
Day 8: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise
Arise early enough and after breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive where you will see various animals like elephants, elands, antelopes, buffaloes, lions among others. After having your lunch at the lodge, you will transfer you will do the afternoon set out for a boat cruise on Kazinga channel where you will see various animals like crocodiles, hippos, water bucks, buffaloes as well as birds like the storks, king fishers among others. Accommodation: Bush Lodge
Day 9: transfer to bwindi with a game drive in Ishasha
After breakfast, you will checkout from the lodge and embark Bwindi Forest a home to mountain gorillas covering an area of 331.sq.km. Pass through the Ishasha sector where you will take pleasure in watching tree climbing lions, and also enjoy various spectacular landscapes on your way. Arrive at the park, have dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge. Accommodation: Ichumbi gorilla lodge
Day 10: gorilla trekking and community visit
On this day, you will have a great time meeting the mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable forest! After a tasty breakfast, drive to the starting point for briefing and later enjoy the fullness of the mist forest as you see the gentle giants and other wildlife species like buffaloes, elephants, monkeys, butterflies, and different bird species. Only one hour is permitted to you with the gorillas. Locating gorillas can take a few hours or a whole day depending on how far they have moved from the place they spent the previous night. After the trek, in the evening you could go for a guided nature walk or a community visit. Accommodation: Ichumbi gorilla lodge
Day 11 transfer to lake bunyonyi
After a tasty breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and drive to Kabale through the beautiful terraced verdant hills. This place is known as the “Switzerland of Africa”. You check in at your hotel for lunch as you enjoy the breathtaking views of Lake Bunyonyi. Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages
Day 12: Boat ride to the numerous islands
After a tasty breakfast at your lodge, you will take a boat ride on Lake Bunyonyi to the numerous islands to sight see as well as view the various bird species. After the boat ride, you will return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon, you can choose to take part in the hotel in house games. Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages
Day 13: transfer to lake mburo park with an evening game drive
After an early morning breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to lake Mburo national park which is the among Uganda’s smallest savannah national parks. It was upgraded as a national park in 1983 and it is a home to 332 bird species and animals like buffaloes, Oribis, kobs, warthogs, zebras among others. At night, you will set out for a game drive through the park where your eyes will be fed with amazing sights and wildlife such as impalas, kobs, antelopes, and also bird species.
Lake Mburo has a variety of antelopes including topi, duiker, oribi, reedbuck and klipspringer and Rothschild giraffe have recently been reintroduced. However, the highlights of the park have to be the Burch’s zebra and eland, which are only found in two national parks in Uganda. Accommodation: Kigarama wilderness lodge
Day 14: morning game drive & transfer to Entebbe
Saying goodbye to Lake Mburo National Park is never easy. After the game drive, you will return to the lodge for lunch as you enjoy the beautiful views. After lunch, you will drive to Entebbe arriving in the evening.
End of tour