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The Best Safari and Gorilla Tracking in Uganda

Experience the highlights of Uganda where the savanna meets the rainforest. Expect to see the animals of the savannas (lions, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, and leopards) and up to 13 primate species, including gorillas and chimps. This trip specifically includes the most important and well-known national parks of Uganda: Murchison Falls National Park, Kibale Forest National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Bwindi National Park, and Lake Bunyonyi.

Key information

  • Starts and ends in Entebbe
  • English-speaking guide
  • Park fees included

Meet the guides

Bosco & VINCENT
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Highlights

  • Visit the best national parks in Uganda
  • Experience bird watching, game drives, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary visit, boat trip on the Nile
  • Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
  • Boat trip on the Kazinga Channel
  • Meals as outlined in the itinerary and bottled drinking water
  • 11 nights accommodation
  • 4×4 custom built safari vehicle with knowledgeable driver/guide and fuel

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9 activity days
Group size: Maximum of 8 participants
Airport transfer included: Entebbe International Airport
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Accommodation

Check-in Time:
07:23

Stay in nature lodges is a selection of intimate, small-sized lodges and camps in Uganda.

Entebbe

Basic budget:

  • ViaVia Guest House
  • Muti Guest House
  • Airport Guest House
  • Entebbe Back Packers

Mid-range:

  • 2-Friend Guest House
  • Cape Diem Guest House
  • Lake Heights Hotel

Luxury:

  • Protea Hotel
  • K Hotel Entebbe
  • Nor 5

Murchison Falls National Park

Basic budget:

  • Fort Murchison Tented Room
  • Red Chilly Rest Camp

Mid-range:

  • Pakuba Safari Lodge
  • Fort Murchison Lodge

Luxury:

  • Murchison River Lodge
  • Kabalega Wilderness Lodge
  • Paara Lodge

Kibale National Park

Basic budget:

  • Boulevard Excelsior Motel
  • Kibale Forest Camp Tented

Mid-range:

  • Isunga Lodge
  • Kibale Forest Camp
  • Turaco Tree Tops
  • Mountains of the Moon Hotel

Luxury:

  • Turaco Tree Tops
  • Kyaninga Lodge
  • Nyaika Hotel

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Basic budget:

  • Bush Lodge Tented Room
  • Engiri Tented Room

Mid-range:

  • Kasenyi Safari Lodge
  • Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge

Luxury:

  • Elephant Plains
  • Mweya Safari Lodge
  • Katara Lodge

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Basic budget:

  • KFC Must
  • Gorilla Friends Resort

Mid-range:

  • Bakiga Lodge

Luxury:

  • Rushaga Gorilla Safari Lodge

Program

Day 1: From Entebbe Airport

Arrive at Entebbe Airport. Your guide will be there waiting for you. Pick up and proceed to your accommodation.

Day 2: Entebbe - Murchison Falls

Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park. On the way, visit the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, have lunch, do 2 hours tracking, and then proceed to Murchison Falls. Stay at Fort Murchison Lodge (tented room / banda) or Pakuba Lodge (mid-range). This is the only place in Uganda where you can see the white Rhino!

Murchison Falls is one of the most beautiful national parks of Uganda. One of the main attractions is the Nile, with the spectacular Murchison Falls, where the whole Nile is forced through a narrow gorge and falls 60 meters. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, lions, hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, and sometimes leopards.

Day 3: Murchison Falls National Park

Early morning game drive from 07:45 to 12:45 in this beautiful national park. Afternoon boat ride on the Victoria Nile up to the bottom of the falls, 14:00 to 17:00. The boat is the perfect platform to see and photograph many different bird species, and then do a 30-minute to an-hour-walk to the top of the falls.

Day 4: Murchison Falls - Masindi - Fort Portal

Stay at Westend Motel or Boulevard Excelsior Guest House (budget), or Kibale Forest Camp (mid-range). Evening city tour, King’s Palace, and market, in Fort Portal.

Day 5: Fort Portal - Kibale Forest

After breakfast, spend a day in the beautiful town of Fort Portal. Relax after a long drive, you can choose to do a few activities in the afternoon like tea tours, caves, and waterfalls, cultural and historical sites of the Bacwezi or Rwenzori foothills through the communities, or visit the pigmies. Hike, then transfer to Kibale Forest.

Kibale Forest is a spectacular jungle, with 13 primate species! Including chimps, baboons, black and white colobuses, red colobus, grey-cheeked mangabey, and L’hoest monkeys.

Day 6: Kibale Forest (Kibale Forest Camp)

Chimpanzee habituation 4-5 hours in the morning or in the afternoon. For people interested in primates and birds and willing to make another walk, you can take a community walk in the Bigodi, witness cultural tribe activities like banana beer brewing, coffee tour, traditional healer, group of women weaving buckets, forest walk with birds, snakes, monkeys, and butterflies. Visit the Wetland Sanctuary as well. It is also possible to visit the local people or the crater lakes.

Day 7: Kibale Forest - Queen Elizabeth

Transfer to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. On the way, you pass the equator where you will make a stop. Game drive in the evening for 2 hours. See lions, many hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, and sometimes leopards.

Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the best places in Uganda to see lions. Also, expect to see elephants. Game drive in the morning (lion tracking 4-5 hours), then 2 hours of boat trip on the Kazinga Channel in the afternoon.

The Kazinga Channel is one of the highlights of Uganda and has the highest concentration of hippos in the world.

Day 9: Queen Elizabeth-Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

On this day, you drive to Bwindi Impenetrable. On the way, you pass through interesting villages and have some breathtaking views of the mountains. You can meet the locals and see farmers, plantations, hills, and get a glimpse at the village life.

Bwindi Impenetrable is a unique jungle, with many monkey species. Bwindi is one of the two places in the world where you can find Mountain Gorillas!

Please note that the driving time depends on which area in Bwindi you decide to stay in.

Day 10: Bwindi Impenetrable - Lake Bunyonyi, Kabale

Gorilla tracking! Early morning departure with your ranger to search for one of the world’s most interesting and endangered animals, the Mountain Gorilla! You will spend one to two hours with one of the human's closest relatives. The whole activity takes about half a day depending on how near we find them. An experience you will never forget, evening transfer to Lake Bunyonyi and stay on the island.

Day 11: Bwindi Impenetrable - Lake Bunyonyi

After breakfast, there are optional activities: tribal visits; Batwa short people community walk; canoeing.

Day12

After breakfast, you will have a walking safari/cycling safari either in the communities or in the national park.

This place is well known for livestock farming so it is home to cattle keepers. You can learn how people milk, feed, and treat cows locally. Thereafter transfer to Entebbe Airport, lunch break at the equator. End of trip.

Guides

Bosco Alinaitwe Odhiambo

VINCENT MUJUNGU

Location

On this safari holiday, you will visit Murchison Falls National Park, Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Fort Portal, and Bwindi Impenetrable 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

  • Airport transfers
  • 11 nights accommodation with meals mentioned
  • Bottled drinking water
  • 4×4 custom built safari vehicle with knowledgeable driver/guide and fuel
  • Entrance fees to the included national parks
  • The following activities: bird watching, game drives, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary visit, boat trips on the Nile, visit the top of Murchison Falls, chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest, boat trip on the Kazinga Channel, caves and waterfall or tea tours or Rwenzori mountain hike, gorilla & chimpanzee tracking

What's not included

  • International flights
  • Visa for Uganda
  • All optional activities
  • Insurances
  • Meals not mentioned and beverages
  • Tips and personal expenses such as laundry and communication

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. Enchanted Uganda Safaris Limited can also pick you up from your hotel.

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 14% 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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