5 Day Safari of Walking With Rhinos and the Big Five in Uganda

Itinerary

Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls via Ziwa

After breakfast, your guide from Oikos Safaris will meet you at your hotel and drive you to Murchison Falls National Park, stopping en route for lunch at the diners' choice. After lunch, you will continue on to Murchison Falls. Entering the park, you will drive to the Nile and then overnight at your lodge, Pakuba Safari Lodge or similar (bed and breakfast).

Day 2: Morning game drive and afternoon boat trip

This morning, you will depart for an early morning game drive across the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest national park. The 3,893 sq km park is home to a range of animals, and you will have a chance of viewing some of the park’s residents including lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. For the birders amongst you, these areas support the secretary bird and the black chested snake eagle, to name a few.

In the afternoon, go for a boat trip to the base of Murchison Falls, where the Nile thunders through a small 7 meter gap plunging 43 meters into Lake Albert. The banks of the Nile are densely populated with crocodiles, hippopotamus, and a range of other wildlife that come to the river to drink. There is also the option of getting off the boat and hiking up the side of the falls to the top. Overnight at your lodge, Pakuba Safari Lodge or similar (bed and breakfast).

Day 3: Morning game drive and transfer to Budongo Forest

You will have another morning where you will depart for an early morning game drive across the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest national park. Later, visit the top of the fall and continue to Budongo for overnight.

Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking in Budongo Forest and transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

After breakfast at the lodge, you will go for chimpanzee tracking along the network of forest trails. Seeing habituated chimps squabbling and swinging from the trees is an exhilarating experience. Overnight at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary or similar (bed and breakfast).

Day 5: Rhino tracking and transfer back to Kampala for your next destinations

Uganda’s rhinos became extinct in the early 1980s after a period of civil unrest and heavy poaching. Ziwa was established over ten years ago to breed black and white rhinos, and restore the populations in Uganda’s national parks. Ziwa offers visitors the rare opportunity to take a walking safari with the rhinos and be only mere feet from them! Later, transfer back to Kampala.