10 Days Gorillas and Wildlife Safari

Description

This tour takes you to popular National Park in Uganda that include Lake Mburo National Park for game drives and boat cruises, to Bwindi Impenetrable National park for gorillas, to Queen Elizabeth National park for game drives and a boat cruise on Kazinga channel, to Kibale 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.

Highlights

• Arrival and transfer to Entebbe
• Day One: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park, evening boat cruise on the Lake
• Day Two: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Day Three: Gorilla Trekking
• Day Four: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, evening game drive
• Day Five: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga Channel
• Day Six: Drive to Kibale National Park,
• Day Seven: Morning chimp trekking and Bigodi wetland walk
• Day Eight: Drive to Murchison Falls National Park
• Day Nine: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of the falls
• Day Ten: Drive back to Entebbe International airport for your flight out.

Detailed Itinerary

Arrival

Day 1: 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 photograph and simple experiments. You will then proceed on your journey with great views of the beautiful landscape arriving in Lake Mburo National Park in time for lunch. Check in at the lodge and procced to the park for a game drive in the park and 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.

Accommodation:  Mburo Safari Lodge

Day 2: 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 among others.  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.

Accommodation: Bweza Gorilla Lodge or Trekkers Tervan Lodge.

Day 3: Gorilla Tracking Day

Early morning, breakfast with your packed lunch, you will report to the Park headquarters for registration and join other trackers in a briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Gorilla Tracking at 7:45 am. You will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas, the activity can take you half a day to three quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape isincredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. One is availed with an hour of interaction and photos 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, dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Bweza Gorilla Lodge or Trekkers Tervan Lodge

Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

After breakfast in the morning, you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park, be prepared for some incredible scenery along the way. You will arrive in time for Lunch at the lodge and game drive in the plains of Kasenyi in search for savannah wildlife that may include herds of buffaloes, antelopes, elephants and if lucky, some wild cats such as lions and leopard.

Accommodation: Elephant plains or Buffalo game lodge.

Day 5: Morning Game drive and afternoon boat on Kazinga Channel

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 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 flop 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.

Accommodation: Elephant plains or Buffalo game lodge.

Day 6: Morning game drive and transfer to Kibale National Park

After an early breakfast drive to the northern bank of Queen Elizabeth National Park (kasenyi) area in searches the wild animals which include: Elephants, Buffalos, and the wild cats, Savanna birds and deferent 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.

Accommodation: Primate Lodge or Kibale Tree Tops

Day 7: Chimpanzee Tracking

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 community neighboring the park and is rich in many bird species and other animals.

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest guest house.

Day 8: Drive to Murchison Falls National Park

After an early morning breakfast, Drive to Murchison Falls National Park through small towns with great views of the beautiful landscapes and green vegetation. You will have a few stops for the bathroom breaks as you proceed through hoima. Lunch en-route in hoima and continue to  masindi. for Drive time: Approximately 8-9 hours’ drive

Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge or Murchison River Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 9: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of the falls

After an early morning cup of tea, transfer to the northern section popular known as paraa for your morning game drive that will provide you an opportunity of spotting wild game that may include, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes, hippos and if lucky 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 how river Nile squeezes itself in a narrow gorge before exploding out producing an experience of a lifetime.

Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge or Murchison River Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 10: To Entebbe International airport

Drive back to Entebbe international Airport and depending on your flight time, you may decide to visit Zziwa Rhino sanctuary (optional and not included).

Drive time: 5-6 hours

Cost Includes

• •Airport transfers on first and last day,
• Chimp permit
• Transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle
• Services of an English speaking driver guide
• Fuel for the whole trip
• Accommodation and meal plan as per the itinerary
• All park entrance fees
• Drinking water while in the vehicle

Cost excludes

• Pre and post tour accommodation in Entebbe or Kampala
• International airfares
• Visa
• Items of personal nature such as tips, drinks, and laundry
• Gorilla permit (supposed to be booked and paid for in advance and can be done on request)