Trip Overview
10 Days Best Of Uganda Wildlife Safari With Gorilla Trekking And Tree Climbing Lions gives you an opportunity to spot the ‘’Big five’’ in Murchison falls national park and the roaring rapids of the falls, Queen Elizabeth National Park game drives as well as the Kazinga boat cruise. Additionally, you will have the ultimate gorilla experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and finally go to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation. You will then embark on a return journey to Kampala city with a stopover at the Equator.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
On this day, you will be picked up from your accommodation and warmly welcomed by one of our professional driver guides. Thereafter, you will be transferred to Murchison Falls National Park with a stop over at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. While at the sanctuary, you will have a wonderful rhino tracking experience and lunch before proceeding to the park. On arrival, you will check into your hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Overnight and Dinner at the lodge.
Budget Accommodation : Red Chili Rest Camp/ Heritage safari lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Pakuba Safari Lodge/ Nkundwa Nile View Lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Paraa Safari Lodge/ Chobe Safari Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 2: Morning Game Drive and afternoon Boat Cruise
After an early morning cup of hot tea / coffee, you will leave for an early morning game drive looking for the early morning riser. As you head out for the game drive, you will be in position to spot animals like the buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, hyenas, Rothschild giraffes, Oribi, Kobs and waterbucks together with some bird species along the way with some feeding together with the big animals.
After you will head back for breakfast and rest at the lodge till lunch is served. In the afternoon you head for a Boat ride along the Victoria Nile to the bottom of the falls. This Boat ride on River Nile goes for 3 hours and you will be able to see some Nile crocodiles, numerous hippos, as well as various bird species.
You will then return to the lodge with a short evening game drive, for dinner and the overnight at the lodge.
Budget Accommodation : Red Chili Rest Camp/ Heritage safari lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Pakuba Safari Lodge/ Nkundwa Nile View Lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Paraa Safari Lodge/ Chobe Safari Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 3: Top of the falls and nature walk in budongo forest plus and evening game drive.
After a relaxed breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and drive to the top of the falls. While there, you will enjoy the spectacular view of the most powerful waterfall in the world, Murchison falls. Murchison Falls “also known as Kabalega Falls”, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks that is only 8 meters wide, and tumbles 43 meters before flowing westward into Lake Albert.
Thereafter, you will proceed to Budongo forest for a forest/ nature walk. Budongo forest is one of the only natural forests that have been in existence for many centuries in Uganda. The forest is a famous destination for chimpanzee safaris and nature walks safaris in Uganda. In the evening, you will proceed back to your lodge, with an optional evening game drive if possible.
Budget Accommodation : Red Chili Rest Camp/ Heritage safari lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Pakuba Safari Lodge/ Nkundwa Nile View Lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Paraa Safari Lodge/ Chobe Safari Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
On this day, you will have breakfast to the lodge, check out and transfer to Queen Elizabeth expecting a clear view of the Rwenzori Mountains during your journey. On your way, you will also have a stopover in Hoima and then proceed for lunch in Fort Portal. Upon arrival in Queen Elizabeth National park, you will check into your lodge, and after you may opt for an evening game drive or relax as you wait for dinner and overnight stay.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda’s most visited game reserve and arguably the most scenic. The national park protects the vast savannah plains, bushland, wetlands, and forests that lie at the base of the Rwenzori mountain range. Kazinga Channel, which flows through the park and connects Lake George in the East to Lake Edward in the West, attracts a rich array of birds and animals, including the infamous Nile crocodile and one of the world’s largest concentrations of hippos. On your first game drive, you will explore the park along with a 200-kilometer network of well-maintained game viewing tracks. Dinner and overnight
Budget Accommodation : Irungu Forest Safari Lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Twin Lakes Safari lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Mweya Safari Lodge/ Elephant Plains Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 5: Morning Game drive and boat cruise on Kazinga Channel
On this day, after your breakfast, you will head out to the Northern section of the park “Kasenyi planes”. While there, you will interface with the predators under the guidance of a ranger guide and researchers who drive around the park with radiation trackers. These trackers help them to find lions that have radio collars placed around their necks. The lion tracking experience takes about 3 hours and later on, you will return to the lodge for relaxation and lunch.
Later in the day when the sun is high in the sky and the animals make their way to the river for a drink, we will head to Kazinga Channel for an exciting boat cruise. You will spot more hippos today than you can possibly imagine. Herds of elephants and buffaloes will also wander down to the shoreline to bathe in the cooling waters. A boat cruise is a fantastic way to get close to wildlife and for many visitors and the highlight of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Dinner and overnight
Budget Accommodation : Irungu Forest Safari Lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Twin Lakes Safari lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Mweya Safari Lodge/ Elephant Plains Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 6: Visit to Katwe salt lake, twin lakes visit and coffee tour
On this day, you will wake up with a warm meal and drive to Lake katwe for the salt mining experience. Lake Katwe is a customary lake on which salt mining is done, formed through long ago volcanic eruption close to 10,000 years back. There are two activities that take place there, Rock salt activity and salt winning. Rock salt activity is carried out in the main lake by only men whereas salt winning is carried out in the salt pans by both sexes.
Thereafter you will head for a visit to the crater lakes in the park as well as have a coffee plantation tour and an evening game drive that will conclude you day at the lodge.
Budget Accommodation : Irungu Forest Safari Lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Twin Lakes Safari lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Mweya Safari Lodge/ Elephant Plains Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 7: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National park via Ishasha sector for the Tree-climbing lions
On this day, you will have breakfast then set off for a breathtaking game viewing experience in the Ishasha area of Queen Elizabeth National Park – famously known for its resident tree-climbing lions. The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% though sometimes they are really hard to spot. Hoping you get the chance to spot them, the sight will be spectacular!You will also be able to see other wildlife such as the Uganda kob, Cape buffaloes, elephants, and warthogs in addition to the tree-climbing lions.
Thereafter, you will be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable National park. In the evening you may go for a nature walk or community visit. Dinner and overnight stay.
Budget Accommodation : Gorilla Closeup Lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Gorilla Mist Lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Nkuringo Safari Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
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Day 8: Gorilla trekking and Batwa cultural encounter.
Encountering the rare and endangered Mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is an experience of a lifetime.
Half of the world’s populations of gorillas live under the mist-covered canopies of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rain-forest. In the company of an experienced park ranger, you will be tracking the whereabouts of one of the habituated family groups who reside here.
Your tracking experience will be an exciting, yet challenging, journey along forested (often muddy and slippery) slopes, tangled vines, thick vegetation, and bamboo forests before you reach the territory of these gentle giants. En route, your ranger will point out telltale signs of previous gorilla activity like dung, nests, and chewed bamboo shoots. Depending on the location of the gorillas on any given day the walk can take anything from 2 to 7 hours. Once the family of gorillas has been located, settle into your surroundings and enjoy the 1 hour you have to quietly observe these fascinating primates whose habits and mannerisms remind us so much of our own.
After tracking you will transfer to the lodge for relaxation as you wait for the evening where you will have a community visit to the batwa people of Bwindi. The Batwa experience begins with a nature-walk through the forest seeing the forest in a new way, take your eyes through the original people of the Forest. They still leave in these forest despite of the many years of civilization in the area. After this cultural experience, you will head back to the lodge for relaxation and dinner.
Budget Accommodation : Gorilla Closeup Lodge
Mid-range Accommodation : Gorilla Mist Lodge
Luxury Accommodation : Nkuringo Safari Lodge
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
10-Days Best Of Uganda Wildlife Safari
Day 9: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation
On this day, you will have breakfast at your lodge and thereafter you will transfer from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation as you get to appreciate the beauty in the south western part of Uganda.
Lake Bunyonyi is found in the south-western part of Uganda near the border with Rwanda in Kabale District. Lake Bunyonyi “place of many little birds” is undoubtedly the loveliest lake in Uganda. Its contorted shore encircles 29 islands, with the famous punishment Island, surrounded by steep terraced hillsides reminiscent of parts of Nepal. A magical place, especially with a morning mist rising off the placid waters, it has supplanted the Ssese Islands as the place for travellers to chill out on their way through Uganda, and has a selection of gorgeously remote and bucolic places to stay on distant islands, where you’ve only the birds for company.
Budget Accommodation : Hawks eye bunyonyi
Midrange Accommodation : Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Luxury Accommodation : Arcadia Lodges Lake Bunyonyi
Meal plan: All meals and mineral drinking water
Day 10: Transfer to Kampala with a stop over at the Equator
This will be your last day of the safari. You will wake up to a delicious breakfast and since Lake Bunyonyi is known to be a bilharzia, crocodile and hippo free lake, swimming would be an ideal activity to wind up your relaxation experience. Thereafter, you will check out of your lodge and then you will be transferred to Kampala city with a stopover at the Equator for lunch and taking photographs as well as souvenir shopping. You will then drive staright to Kampala and be dropped off at your place of residence or Hotel.
End of your 10-Days Best Of Uganda Wildlife Safari
Includes
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- Gorilla trekking permits
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled 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)
- The government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
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