10 Day fascinating Primates and incredible wildlife
The itinerary Summarised for you
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
Day 3: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 5: Morning game drive & and afternoon boat cruise
Day 6: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Day 7: Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale Forest National Park
Day 8: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Day 9: Game drive and boat cruise
Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe International Airport
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport
Welcome to Uganda! Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be met and greeted by our representative who will introduce you to your driver guide. He will brief you and take you through your trip plan then transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe town for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Hotel No.5 (Luxury) / 2 Friends beach hotel
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast at your hotel, you will start your journey to Lake Mburo National Park. On your way to the park, you will make a stopover at the equator for a water experiment. It will not be inconvenient if you buy a T-shirt with the words ‘’I crossed the Uganda Equator’’ Continue with your journey and have lunch at the Lodge. After lunch, you will do an afternoon game drive.
Lake Mburo National Park accommodates mammals like the Eland, antelope as well as zebras and waterbucks, making it among the most admirable places to visit in Uganda. The park is exceptional for its attractive, soothingly sloping hills and open grassland basins, intermingled with brushwood, woodlands, and rich wetlands. While at the park you will see animals like impalas, waterbucks, Cape buffalo, and zebras plus many other animal species. The journey takes 4 hours to the park.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge
Day 3: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise
On this day, you will have an early breakfast and prepare to go to the park for the morning game drive. At exactly 7:00 am you will start searching for animals such as the eland, topis, impalas, zebras, and many more with a chance to see the colorful beautiful birds in the evening flying to their resting places.
After lunch, you will be driven to the lake to meet your captain of the day who will take you for a two-hour boat excursion. Lake Mburo boat cruise is an opportunity to see hippos, crocodiles, water birds such as an African fish eagle, and the rare African fin foot. Many animals such as buffaloes and antelopes gather here to drink some water so there is an opportunity to enjoy wildlife, especially marine animals.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport
Welcome to Uganda! Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be met and greeted by our representative who will introduce you to your driver guide. He will brief you and take you through your trip plan then transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe town for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Hotel No.5 (Luxury) / 2 Friends beach hotel
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast at your hotel, you will start your journey to Lake Mburo National Park. On your way to the park, you will make a stopover at the equator for a water experiment. It will not be inconvenient if you buy a T-shirt with the words ‘’I crossed the Uganda Equator’’ Continue with your journey and have lunch at the Lodge. After lunch, you will do an afternoon game drive.
Lake Mburo National Park accommodates mammals like the Eland, antelope as well as zebras and waterbucks, making it among the most admirable places to visit in Uganda. The park is exceptional for its attractive, soothingly sloping hills and open grassland basins, intermingled with brushwood, woodlands, and rich wetlands. While at the park you will see animals like impalas, waterbucks, Cape buffalo, and zebras plus many other animal species. The journey takes 4 hours to the park.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Today, we shall start early after breakfast and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Our route to the park will be determined by road conditions, either passing through the Ishasha sector, well known for its climbing lions, or alternatively driving through the beautiful sceneries of the Rukungiri district. The park, which is named after Queen Elizabeth who visited it in 1954, is the second largest national park in Uganda, and ranks highest with respect to overall diversity, with over 600 bird species listed. Travel time is about 4 hours and is located in Queen Elizabeth National Park western region of Uganda.
Accommodation; Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 5: Morning game drive & and afternoon boat cruise
Arise early enough and after breakfast drive to the wild for a morning game drive where you will see various animals like elephants, elands, antelopes, buffaloes, and lions, among others.
A game drive gives you the chance to view different landscapes and ecosystems in Uganda. The park is the oldest and most visited in Uganda. The game drive will take place on the Kasenyi plains which are in the northeast section of the park and west of Lake George. There are a large number of various animals like elephants, elands, antelopes, buffaloes, lions, baboons, and the odd leopard if you are lucky.
After the game drive, you will return to the lodge for lunch and then set out for an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel where you will see various numbers of animals like crocodiles, hippos, water bucks, buffaloes, as well as birds like the storks, Kingfishers among others.
Accommodation: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 6: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
After Breakfast, start your trip to Kibale Forest. You will drive through the beautiful green scenery and tea plantations. Here you will have a chance to visit the local family and interact with local people during the walk. After lunch, you will have a 3-hour drive to Kibale forest where you will be able to spot some monkeys, birds, and Baboons during the stop-overs. Also, visit the crater lakes for the nature walk that takes 2-3 hours.
Accommodation options: Ndali Lodge
Day 7: Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale Forest National Park
After an early breakfast, we drive to the Kibale National Park visitor’s center for briefing and chimp tracking. The activity may last from a few hours to several hours. Kibale forest is home to 13 primates of Uganda. Birding in the afternoon along the main road may be productive. Depending on the weather predictions, birding in the Bigodi wetland is also productive with riverine forest birds. Kibale National Park is a good site for a number of birds that are hard to find elsewhere including the Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Cabanis’s Greenbul, and Joyful Greenbul.
Accommodation options: Ndali Lodge
Day 8: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast, you will check out at the lodge and then drive to Murchison Falls National Park. The journey will take you to Budongo Forest. At Budongo forest, you will do chimpanzee trekking this evening. Before your chimpanzee trek, you will be briefed by your ranger guide of the day about the dos and don’ts while with chimpanzees and then set off to the forest to look for our closest relatives. The walk will also expose you to other primates, plants, and shrubs in this vast forest. After your chimpanzee trek, you will return to the lodge overnight.
Accommodation options: Chobe Safari Lodge
Day 9: Game drive and boat cruise
With your packed breakfast, you will go for a morning game drive with your guide who will help you spot the large number of wildlife found in the Park, you will be able to spot a lot of African animal wildlife for example elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, different species of antelope and many tropical birds. After the game drive, you will drive back to the hotel for lunch as you prepare to enjoy the boat cruise on the River Nile. 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 many stunning bird lives which are also enjoyed while taking your boat trip; these include; the bee-eaters, coloured kingfishers, shoebill storks, grey grey-throated and yellow-billed birds. After the boat cruise, you will go for a rest at the lodge in the Evening as you wait for dinner and an overnight stay.
Accommodation options: Chobe Safari Lodge
Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe International Airport
After an early breakfast at your lodge, you will check out of the lodge with the help of your guide the lodge and then transfer back to Entebbe for your flight back home. We truly hope that you had a wonderful stay in Uganda and Uganda will always be close to our hearts!
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Inclusions
Lunch
Bottled Water
Accommodation (3-nights)
Safari 4×4 Vehicle
Gorilla permit and park fees
English speaking guide
Exclusions
Visas and International flights
Tips
