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Adventure Safari Uganda

This Uganda safari will take you to Murchison Falls National Park, Kibale Forest National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, the Virungas, and Lake Mburo National Park. When you visit Uganda for wildlife safaris, you have quite many attractions to enjoy ranging from mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, the Big Five animals plus several bird and plant species.

Key information

  • Group safari
  • Children policy: Children are allowed to participate under the supervision of a parent or guardian. However, children below 15 years are not allowed to track chimps and gorillas so they stay at the lodge during tracking hours.
  • Starts and ends in Kampala
  • Language: English-speaking guides. For services in other language(s), please send an inquiry.
  • All park fees and tracking permits are included.

Highlights

  • Game drives in search of animals
  • Exploration of Uganda’s national parks
  • Enjoy the spectacular views and landscapes
  • Chance to see the Big Five, mountain gorillas, and chimpanzees
  • Admire different varieties of flora and fauna
  • Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • 12 nights accommodation

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10 activity days
Airport transfer included: Entebbe International Airport
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Accommodation

Check-in Time:
08:30
Check-out Time:
09:00

On this safari, you will stay at various accommodations as outlined in the itinerary.

Program

Day 1: Drive to Murchison Falls National Park

At 08:00 a.m, you will be picked up from your hotel in Kampala and start your journey to Murchison Falls National Park with lunch en-route. This park covering 3,840-square kilometers has 76 mammal species and 450 bird species recorded. The altitude is 619 meters at the delta and 1,292 meters at Rabongo Hill.

The temperature is 29 º C- high and 21 ºC- low. You will arrive in the park and then drive to the top of the falls for an awe-inspiring sight of the raging Nile as it forces its way through a rocky gap barely six meters wide. Overnight stay at Murchison River Lodge.

Day 2: Games drive and boat cruise

Early in the morning, you will start the game drive in search of unique African savannah animals like the giraffe, antelope, lion, elephant, and the Uganda kob. Birds are also in plenty with the eagle being one of the high-quality sightings and the rare shoebill. While enjoying your game drive, you can tell your guide to show you the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning.

After lunch, you will go for a cruise on the River Nile. This cruise will lead you to the bottom of the thundering falls where you will spot huge crocodiles, schools of hippos, buffaloes, elephants, and a variety of water birds like herons, cormorants, ducks, bee-eaters, kingfishers, skimmers, fish eagles, and sometimes, the rare shoebill. Dinner and overnight at Murchison River Lodge.

Day 3: Transfer to Fort portal via Oil city of Hoima

After early breakfast, drive to Fort portal with lunch en route. You will drive through traditional homesteads and farms and this will enable you to enjoy the beautiful scenery across that part of the country. Dinner and overnight at Rwenzori View Guest House.

Day 4: Move to Kibale National Park, have a nature walk

After early breakfast, report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin, and set out to track chimpanzees in the forest. The chances of viewing the chimps are over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the most beautiful and stunning forests in Uganda. This is the home to human's closest living relatives the endangered Chimpanzee, the threatened Red colobus monkey, and the rare L’Hoests monkey.

The forest also boasts of having one of the uppermost varieties and density of primates in Africa tallying up to 13 species including the Black and white colobus, Blue monkey, Grey-cheeked mangabey, Red-tailed monkey Bushbabies, and Pottos. After lunch visit, Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will present you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. View a variety of butterflies, birds, and other insects. Have a tour of the crater region around Ndali lodge and you may stopover at any tea plantation along the road if you wish.

Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight. Have an evening tour of the crater region, visit the top of the world’s natural bridge. On a clear day, you will be able to view the Rwenzori Mountain snow cap. Dinner and overnight stay at Rwenzori View Guest House.

Day 5: Drive to Queen Elizabeth Natonal Park, have a launch cruise

In the morning, have breakfast and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park viewing the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. Sign in at your lodege facility as you wait for your lunch. Then, take on an afternoon Launch cruise along Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George.

The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippo, buffalo, kob, and the occasional Nile crocodile plus a spectacular bird watching on the water bank. Many who experience the launch cruise consider it the best part of their entire African safari. Return for dinner and overnight at Parkview Safari Lodge.

Day 6: Game drive, make a nature tour

Wake up very early with your packed lunch take on a morning game drive to catch-up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts and you will most likely meet grazing Hippos, Elephants and Lions, spotted Hyenas, bush buck, water buck, stripped jackal, comical warthogs and the fierce leopard.

Continue to Maramagambo forest where a lot of surprises await you there like the pythons often seen in the crevices of the bat cave floor feeding on the bats. The cave is near a chocolate box formerly Blue lake and Hunter's cave. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown eared woodpeckers, and other primates. Have dinner and overnight at Parkview Safari Lodge.

Day 7: Transfer Bwindi Forest

After breakfast, you will go for a small game drive in search of animals you missed out a day before, and then proceed to Ishasha with your packed lunch. You will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are full of savanna acacia and grasses.

You will go through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the Ishasha sector in the south area of Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will take on yet another game drive in search of tree-climbing lions before going on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The journey takes about four hours taking you through interesting features. You will arrive in Bwindi in the evening. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to rare mountain gorillas and a variety of primates including the blue and red-tailed monkeys.

The forest itself is lush and green, and there are streams running through it. Overnight and dinner will be at Rushaga Gorilla Camp / Buhoma Community Rest Camp (Bandas).

Day 8: Gorilla tracking experience

Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest is the major highlight of this safari tour. You will set off early with guides after breakfast to track the Uganda gorillas. The thrill of your encounter will wipe out the difficulties of the potentially laborious trek. Come in jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet.

Use time in wonder watching the gorillas go about their activities. Each gorilla encounter is different and has its own rewards, but you are likely to enjoy to the extremes when adults are feeding, grooming, and resting as the youngsters play and swing from vines in a pleasantly good-humored show.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swaddle of dense rainforest, so ancient that survived the last ice age. A recently proclaimed World Heritage site, it is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas estimated at 600.

There is also a substantial chimpanzee population and research shows that Bwindi is the only forest in Africa in which these two apes live together. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Rushaga Gorilla Camp / Buhoma Community Rest Camp.

Day 9: Nature walk and transfer to Kisoro

Have an early morning nature walk if you so wish and you visit the waterfalls, view forest water birds and butterflies, and the tropical forest flora. Return and proceed to Kisoro for dinner and overnight stay at Kisoro Travelers Rest Hotel / Heritage Guest House.

Day 10: Virunga hike

In the morning after breakfast, head to Mgahinga Park headquarters for briefing prior to starting the short hike to one of the Virunga ranges. But you go with your parked lunch. There are three extinct volcanoes for physically fit hikers i.e. Mt Muhabura-4127 meters, Mt. Sabinyo 3669 meters, and Gahinga 3474 meters (choose either of the three for a short hike). Dinner and overnight at Heritage Guest House / Kisoro Travelers Rest Hotel.

Day 11: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park

After an early breakfast, you will get your packed lunch and drive to Lake Mburo National Park. You will arrive in the afternoon and enjoy a boat ride on the lake. Lake Mburo is the park is a gift worth it. The lake is rich with a diversity of animal and plant species which will be viewed clearly as you are on the boat trip.

Hippos and birds like African Fin foot, Pelicans, Black crake, Heron, cormorant, fish eagle, the rare Shoebill Stork, and all these will furnish your visit with pride. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Rwakobo Rock Lodge.

Day 12: Game drive, return to Kampala.

You will take an early breakfast and go for a morning game drive. Lake Mburo National Park is a very special place. Every part of it is alive with variety, interest, and color, and it has a widespread wetland where you will see elands, impalas, water-bucks, warthogs, topis, and zebras.

After lunch, you will drive to Kampala, making a stopover at the equator line crossing and Mpambire Drum makers. Overnight and dinner will be at your booked accommodation.

Day 13: Kampala City tour

As you conclude your safari tour, you will use part of this day enjoying the beauty of Uganda’s capital city by visiting places like Kasubi Tombs, Bahai Temple, Uganda Museum, and many others that will not escape your sight and later transfer to the airport for your flight back home.

Note

This safari also welcomes solo travelers.

Included excursions

  • Go for a cruise on the River Nile
  • Kampala city tour
  • Make a stopover at the equator line
  • Nature walks, mountain hikes, and boat trips
  • Gorilla and chimps tracking (including permits and park fees)

Location

This safari tour will be held in Uganda. You will visit Murchison Falls National Park, Fort Portal, Kibale National Park, Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, Magombe Swamp, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kazinga Channel, Maramagambo Forest, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Mgahinga Park, and Lake Mburo National Park.

Food

The following meals are included:

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Drinks

The following drinks are included:

  • Water

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

  • Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What's included

  • Game drives as per itinerary
  • Gorilla trekking
  • Chimpanzee tracking
  • Bird viewing
  • Nature walks, mountain hikes, and boat trips
  • Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • 12 nights accommodation
  • Transport to and from the airport
  • Drinks

What's not included

  • International flights
  • Local flights
  • Tips and gratuities for the guides and accommodation staff
  • Visa / passport
  • Meals not mentioned in the itinerary
  • Drinks other than the mineral water provided in the vehicle
  • Laundry
  • Travel insurance
  • Other items of a personal nature

How to get there

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Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Airport transfer is included in the price. All pick up is done at the airport by Buyaga Safaris' staff.

Airport: Entebbe International Airport Airport transfer included: Entebbe International Airport No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.

Cancellation Policy

  • A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
  • The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
  • The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.

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