Uganda Wildlife Tour with Cultural Tours
Day 1: Arrival at the Airport (Please advice on your arrival time)
On your arrival at the airport you will be transferred to Humurah hotel / Holiday Express Hotel for your dinner and overnight.
Day 2: To Murchison Falls National Park
You will be picked from your Hotel in Kampala and drive to Murchison Falls national park via Masindi we drive for 90 kms through the park before. Have lunch en route before you proceed to the top of the falls. Dinner and overnight at:
* Accommodation: Red chills Camp / Sambiya River Lodge / Paraa Lodge or Nile Safari camp
* Driving time: 7 hours – 5 hours
Day 3: In Murchison Falls National Park
Wake up very early in the morning, to leave for an early morning game drive along River Nile’s northern bank. Depending on your accommodation type, you will have to sail cross the river on the ferry, so as to go for this drive in search for the early risers like the Lions, waterbucks, Hyenas, Giraffes and bush bucks and other wildlife. After this wonderful game drive, you return to the lodge for your breakfast and relax around your camp as you await the launch trip along the Mighty River Nile.
The launch trip on the Nile to the bottom of the falls will enable you to see; Hippos, crocodiles, buffalo, elephants and many birds. Those interested in hikes will be allowed to hike to the top of the falls while others will be transferred back to the pier then to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: In Murchison Falls
To shorten the distance from Murchison falls to Kibale, we will pass via the Albertine rift and transfer to Hoima for a night at Kolping Hotel. You will tour the area before dinner and overnight at Kolping Hotel in Hoima.
Day 5: To Kibale Forest National Park
Early morning transfer to Kibale Forest national park. In the afternoon, you will tour the crater lakes region before you check in. This ideal spot is famous for the frogs, at night they will give a beautiful concert. Some times we also stay in Kibale Forests, sleeping with the noises of the tropical rainforest. Have lunch and then a traditional dance from the local people around exposing the cultural wear of some people from the west and their dances is exhilarating! Dinner and overnight:
* Accommodation: camping or simple huts
* Shower and toilets are shared
* Luxury Tour: Primates Lodge, Mantana Luxury Tented Camp or Ndali Lodge or Kyaninga Lodge
Day 6: Chimpanzee walk and nature walk in the Bigodi Swamp
Assemble at Kanyankyu tourist centre from where you will start 4 hours primates walk. This park harbors over 10 primate species including Chimpanzees, Grey Cheeked Mangabeys, Red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys among others, many butterflies and birds. Return for lunch and in the afternoon go for a swamp walk through Bigodi Swamp – a community run initiative aimed at conserving the unique biodiversity and environmental values of the wetland. Return for dinner and overnight at your camp.
Day 7: To Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, leave for Queen Elizabeth park through Fort Portal, then reach at midday Mweya in Queen Elizabeth park with a stunningly beautiful view over Kazinga Channel. In the late afternoon. Have lunch and then drive to the crater lakes region and Dinner and overnight at;
* Accommodation Luxury Tour: Mweya Lodge or Jacana Lodge/
* Basic institute of Ecology also known as Albertine River Camp or Ihamba lodge
Day 8: In Queen Elizabeth National Park
After a cup of coffee, we will go for an early morning game drive on the plains of Queen Elizabeth with thousands of Ugandan Kobs, lions, illusive leopard, elephants etc. Return to the lodge for breakfast and then relax at the lodge. In the afternoon, go for a two hours launch cruise on the Kazinga channel where we will see all the animals from the waterside.
Day 9: Chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge
Early morning breakfast and then you go to Kyambura Gorge. Here, people can go for a 3-4 hour walk in to the Gorge for meeting the chimpanzees. Cost is $30 per person (not included). You will have lunch at Jacana Safari Lodge and then continue to Maramagambo Forest. Here, enjoy some short and long walks in the Forest. Go for a nature walk in the Maramagambo Forest. This is one of Uganda’s largest tracts of tropical rain forests notable for its primates and Avain species. Guaranteed events range the Bats cave a habitat for Bats and pythons that prey on them, the Copper rich blue lake which according to Myths is known to have drowned an elephant yet it isn’t very deep and its from this that it gets its name Kimeranjojo. After the forest walk, you will drive to Ishasha Sector for a game drive in search for tree climbing Lions.
* Dinner and over night at Luxury Tour: Ishasha Wilderness Camp
Day 10: To Bwindi Rainforests National Park
Take breakfast and leave Queen Elizabeth, as the road takes us to the top of the Western Rift Valley. A magnificent view on a clear day of Lake Edward, the Hills of Congo, Queen Elizabeth, the snow capped Ruwenzori Mountains (5100m), Lake George and Kazinga Channel.
Proceed to Bwindi via Ishasha sector. The bad road takes us through a gorgeous panorama called the “Switzerland of Africa”. We pass mountains, hills and lakes with cultivated terraces and tropical rainforest. Dinner and over night at;
* Basic Package; Buhoma Community Bandas/ Bwindi View Bandas
* Luxury Package; Gorilla Resort Camp, Mantana Tented Camp or Buhoma Homestead (for Gorilla Forest Camp the price will go higher by 360$ each for 2 nights on full board)
Day 11: Transfer to Kinigi
After your breakfast, drive through Kisoro, Kabale, and then proceed westwards to Rwanda by crossing the border after clearing up your visa requirements and then drive through Ruhengeri to Kinigi for your dinner and over night at;
* High end Mt Gorilla Nest Camp (for Volcanoes Lodge the price will go higher by 500$ each for 2 nights on full board)
* Basic Kinigi guest House.
Day 12: Gorilla tracking – Rwanda – transfer to Kisoro
Take an early cup of coffee with your packed lunch and the necessary tracking gear, assemble at the ORTPN offices for a briefing that prepares you for gorilla tracking. Your ranger guide will take you through thick vegetation on a 1-7 hour trail, when you finally meet the gorillas, you will spend one hour with them and return to Gorilla Nest Hotel for fleshing up before you will be transferred to Kabale for dinner and overnight at;
* Habuharo Tented camps for Luxury
* Arcadia Cottages for mid range
Day 13: To Lake Mburo National Park
Leave for Lake Mburo after breakfast. Transfer to Lake Mburo national park where you will see animals like impalas, eland one of the biggest antelopes, waterbuck, klipspringer, zebra, buffalo, Hippos and crocodiles. Have lunch and then in the afternoon, you will go for a boat ride on Lake Mburo. Return to the camp and have the evening at leisure. Dinner and overnight at:
* Upgrade – Mihingo Lodge (FB). Mantana luxury tented camps
* Travelers on budget will stay at Rwonyo Rest Camp.
Day 14: Lake Mburo National Park – Jinja
Go for an early morning game drive in search for impalas, eland one of the biggest antelopes, waterbuck, klipspringer, zebra, buffalo and many others. Have lunch and transfer to Kampala from where you will proceed to Jinja for your dinner and overnight at;
* Gately on the Nile – for High end
* Kingfisher resort – for basic
Day 15: Jinja – Mbale
Take breakfast and visit the source of the Nile from where you will visit the Bujagali falls. Have a picnic lunch and then proceed to Mbale for dinner and overnight at;
* Mbale Resort Hotel / Wash and Wills.
Day 16: Sippi
Proceed via Sironko to visit the Sipi falls and then watch the circumcision ceremony of the Gisu then have lunch from where you will return to Kampala then proceed to Entebbe for dinner and overnight at the Boma Guest House/ Botanical Beach hotel
Day 17: Ngamba Island
Go for an early morning excursion to Ngamba Island. Here, you will be transferred by boat. Upon arrival, you will view chimpanzees feeding on the visitor’s platform. From Ngamba Islands, you will proceed to the airport for your next flight back home.
