6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
Trip Overview
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari is the best primate safari package you can ever have on your Ugandan primate safari. You will begin your trip as you reach Uganda’s capital city “Kampala” and drive to Kibale National park. You will do Chimpanzee and then continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for Gorilla trekking and then go to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park for Golden Monkey Tracking.
Expect to see Mountain Gorillas during your gorilla trekking, Golden monkeys, Chimpanzees and other primates during your safari. The 6-Days Gorillas, Chimpanzees & Golden Monkey Trekking Primate Safari will take you to the nature habitat of these primates all together. This will be the most amazing primates safari you will ever have and keep in your memories forever.
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Kibale National park.
On this day, you’ll be picked up by one of our professional driver/ tourist guides and officially begin the safari. You’ll drive through various towns and head to the western part of Uganda to Kibale Forest National park.
You will stop over in Fort Portal were you will have lunch before heading to the park. On arrival at your lodge in the park, you may opt for an evening nature walk with a guide in the forest or relax at the lodge.
Accommodation:
- Primate lodge Kibale (Luxury)
- Turaco Tree-tops (Mid-range)
- Kibale Forest Camp (Budget)
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
Day 5: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi swamp walk
We shall have early morning breakfast and head straight the headquarters for the briefing from the guides as you start on the chimpanzee tracking expedition by 7:30 am. You will head into the forest and look for these intelligent creatures that share over 90% DNA with humans, which makes them very intelligent and behave almost like humans. Meeting these animals will depend on the last nesting location of the previous night, and when you reach them you will be limited to one hour with them and continue with the adventure as you discover more of the secrets of the park. You will also view other primates especially monkeys floating in the trees and several bird species.
You may have packed lunch or transfer back to the lodge to have lunch and relax a bit as you wait for the evening activity.
Later in the evening you will head to the southern part of Kibale national park for an amazing birding experience. Bigodi swamp is located just 6km from Kanyanchu visitors center and it is such a fascinating area where you can find over 200 bird species including the famous shoebill which may be seen during guided walks along the boardwalk trail and viewing other various primates. Bigodi Swamp Walk is a 5-km, three-hour tour through this protected forest on the outskirts of Bigodi Trading Center. Later you’ll head back to the lodge for relaxation and overnight stay.
Accommodation:
- Primate lodge Kibale (Luxury)
- Turaco Tree-tops (Mid-range)
- Kibale Forest Camp (Budget)
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via Ishasha sector for tree-climbing lions
After your breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for gorilla trekking the following day. On your way to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, you will enter Queen Elizabeth National Park from the southern sector to have an afternoon adventure of the unique tree-climbing lions. The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% since they spend most of the day resting in tree branches. Should you get to spot them, the sight is picturesque and memorable.
Ishasha is one of only two places in the world where you can see tree-climbing lions together with Lake Manyara in Tanzania and they spend almost the whole day in tree branches resting from a day hunt and also escaping from the hot ground during the dry season.
Upon arrival in Bwindi, you will check in at your lodge for relaxation and overnight stay as you wait for Gorilla tracking the following day.
Accommodation:
- Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge / Mahogany Springs Lodge (Luxury)
- Gorilla Mist Lodge (mid-range)
- Gorilla Hills Eco-lodge (budget)
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
Day 4: Gorilla trekking and transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
On this adventurous day, you wake up on an early morning breakfast and report to Bwindi Park headquarters for a short briefing with the leader tracker/ ranger guide before you start on your day activity. From here you will head into the montane forest for an encounter with the mountain gorillas.
Always watch out for their voices and listen to them grumble and the young as they swing from tree to tree, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the silverback.
It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense rain forest knowing you are with a few of the last remaining mountain gorillas. The beauty of this rain-forest is spectacular and it offers a dramatic steeply forested landscape which is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists.
You will look for these endangered species and finding them will depending on the last nesting location of the previous night. The time taken to track the gorillas can be range from 4 to 7 hours or beyond. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed only one hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting and one in a life experience to be long savored.
Later after your gorilla experience, you will head back to the lodge for lunch and check out, then transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. You will reach your lodge late in afternoon or early evening for relaxation or a short evening nature walk.
Accommodation:
- Mutanda Lake Resort. (luxury)
- Travelers Rest Hotel (mid-range)
- Mutanda Eco community centre (budget)
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
Day 5: Golden Monkey Tracking and Batwa cultural experience
On this day, you will wake up very early in the morning for breakfast and head at the park headquarters for a short briefing. Golden monkey trekking in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park involves travelers hiking through the forest in search of the golden monkeys in their natural habitat. The activity starts at 8 am with a briefing from the ranger guide or lead tracker. You then head out in search of the golden monkeys using the Gahinga trail. Once you locate the Golden monkeys, you’ll be limited to only one hour in their presence and then head back to your starting point. The trekking may takes about 2 to 4 hours depending on where they last nested the previous night.
Later, you will have a community visit to the Batwa group that are the first people to live in these forest and still reside there regardless of the many years of civilization. You will be amazed by their traditional dance, homes, dress-code and way of life.
The Batwa were the original inhabitants of the forests before Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park were gazetted into National Parks in 1991. In creating and gazetting the park “Mgahinga Gorilla National Park”, these people were forced out of the park and rehabilitated in the villages that surround the park.
The Batwa community walk is a living museum where you can learn about the Batwa pygmoid tribe of People. These people used to live in the Mgahinga National Park doing hunting, fruit-gathering and were fierce warriors. They depended on the forest for shelter, food and medicine to heal them and survive on.
6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
During the walk, you will learn about the different plants and roots that the Batwa used as medicine to stop bleeding after child delivery, herbs for malaria, blood pressure and other ailments/ diseases. For example the black cover of ant nests were used for treating skin fungal infections. You will be surprised to see a real pharmacy in an environment that has no sense of civilization.
You will then return back to the lodge for dinner and rest till the following day.
Accommodation:
- Mutanda Lake Resort. (luxury)
- Travelers Rest Hotel (mid-range)
- Mutanda Eco community centre (budget)
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
Day 6: Transfer to Kampala/ Entebbe International Airport
Enjoy your breakfast at the lodge, check out and transfer to Kampala/ Entebbe International Airport. This will mark the end of your 6-Days Gorillas, Chimpanzees & Golden Monkey Trekking Primate Safari as you drive to the airport for your flight.
You’ll live this beautiful Gorilla world as you drive through the hills of Kabale with your lunch in Mbarara town. You will have another stop-over at the Equator line that separates the earth into two different parts i.e, the North and Southern hemisphere. You will have some picture moments and buy some souvenirs, then finally drive straight to Entebbe International Airport for your flight back home.
End of your 6-Days Uganda magical Primate Safari
Includes:
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- Chimp permits (One per person, non-resident)
- Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
- Golden Monkey permits (One per person, non-resident)
- All activities (Unless labelled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labelled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water (On all days)
Excludes:
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp. per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
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