8 Days Uganda Bwindi Queen elizabeth Kibale Safari

The 8 days Uganda safari is well packaged with game viewing in Queen Elizabeth national park, gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest and chimpanzee tracking in Kibale forest national park. 

Trip Highlights 

Day 1: Kampala – Bwindi National Park Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Day 3: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Queen Elizabeth national park Day 4: Game viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park Day 6: Transfer from Queen Elizabeth National Park to Kibale Forest National park Day 7: Kibale Forest National Park – Chimpanzee tracking Day 8: Transfer from Kibale Forest National Park to Kampala

Tour Itinerary 

Day 1: Kampala – Bwindi National Park 

Your guide will pick you from your hotel early in the morning and drive you to the south western side of the country through a verdant country side. You will be fascinated by the traditional drum makers, a photographic moment at the Equator in Kayabweis an ideal and the Ankole long horned cattle near Mbarara town. With a lunch stop in Mbarara at Igongocultural center, proceed further south west through the fascinating scenery of Kabale with rolling hills adorned with terraces. You will reach Bwindi impenetrable forest in the evening and check in at your lodge.

Accommodation: Bweza lodge (Midrange)

Day 2: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Early in the morning, Report to the park headquarters with a picnic lunch for briefing by the senior park ranger guide.After briefing, you will be assigned a group with a ranger guide, Enter the forest and enjoy its beauty and freshness being home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas. Proceed through the dense vegetation to trek for these endangered primates depending on where they built their nest the previous night. For conservation purposes, time allowed with the Gorillas is one hour. Observe the gentle giants as they feed, groom the young, make love and play. You will the trek back to the lodge for a hot lunch and then transfer to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth Ishasha as you prepare for the search the tree climbing lions. Reach the park in the evening and check in at the lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ishasha wilderness camp (luxury)savanna lodges (midrange) topi lodge (budget).

Day 3: Game Drive and Transfer to Northern Sector

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the park in search of the tree climbing lions resting in the fig trees. You will also get a chance to see other animals like kobs, topis, elephants among others in the southern part of the park (Ishasha sector). Have lunch andthen exit the park to connect to the northern section of Queen Elizabeth national park. Reach early in the evening and check in at the lodge. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Accommodation: Kikorongo Safari Lodge (Luxury)/ Park View Game Lodge (Midrange)/ Kazinga Wilderness Camp (Budget).

Day 4: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Take a 6.30 am morning game drive to catch up with the early raisers like the leopard, lion, spotted hyena among others. The park’s diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forest, rivers, swamps, lakes and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife. As you take the Kasenyi trail, look out for buffalos, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, topis, kobs, waterbucks, bush bucks, bush duikers among others. Also to expect is a stupendous bird life that includes the martial eagle, the Woodland kingfisher, the great blue turaco, the grey plantain eater among the 606 species recorded in the park. Return to the lodge for a late breakfast. After lunch go for the afternoon launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel. This is a home of a variety of water birds including the African Fish eagle, the African Skimmer, pelican, the pre-historic looking shoe bill and on a hot day, hippos, elephants, buffaloes and waterbucks can be sighted as they bathe and drink water at the water edge. Crocodiles are common residents and are regularly sighted along the channel banks. Drive back to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Kikorongo Safari Lodge (Luxury)/ Park View Game Lodge (Midrange)/ Kazinga Wilderness Camp (Budget).

Day 5: Queen Elizabeth National Park – Kibale Forest National park

After breakfast, you will transfer to Kibale forest national park famed for its highest population of primates in Africa and home to the Chimpanzee. You will pass through Kasese as you enjoy the captivating sight of the Rwenzori glacial peaks’ well decorating the sky line’s back ground and arrive in Kibale in time for lunch and check in at the lodge.. After lunch, you will embark on a crater hike in the hills of fort portal. . The crater hike awards you with great views of the beautiful carter lakes and the view of the park from an aerial point. Walk back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Primates Lodge (Luxury)/ RweteeraSafari Park (Midrage), Sunbird Hill (Budget.

Day 6: Chimpanzee tracking

After an early morning breakfast, report to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for briefing by the senior park guide. Proceed to track man’s closest relative of all the apes in this vast forest. You are likely to encounter other primates like olive baboons, bonobos, red colobus, black and white colobus, red and blue monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey among others as well asa wide diversity of birds. If time allows, you may take an optional swamp walk in bigodi which awards you with various bird species and some animals. Retire for an overnight at your lodge.

Accommodation: Primates Lodge (Luxury)/ Rweteera Safari Park (Midrage), Sunbird Hill (Budget).

Day 7: Kibale Forest National Park-Kampala 

You will check out at the lodge after breakfast as you drive back to Kampala through Mubende. Proceed with an en route lunch in Mityana or Kampala depending on where time for lunch will find you. Then transfer the lodge in Kampala/Entebbe or to the airport arriving in time for your departure flight.

End of the Safari

Trip includes:

• Accommodation and meals as per the itinerary
• Safari 4x4 vehicle o Drinking water
• Airport transfer on the first and last day
• Tour/driver guide o Gas/fuel for the whole trip
• All park entrance fees o Hand sanitizer

Trip excludes

• International airfares/flight fares
• Pre and post tour accommodation in Entebbe or Kampala
• Visa
• Tips, other drinks, laundry
• Gorilla permits
• Chimp permits