12 días de safari con gorilas, chimpancés y vida salvaje en Uganda

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.

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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.