8 Days Discover Uganda Safari

Tour Highlights

Day 1: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park-Evening Game Drive

Day 2: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Day 3: Mountain Gorilla Trekking-Cultural Encounter

Day 4: Travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 5: Game drive-Boat cruise

Day 6: Morning game drive-Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

Day 7: Chimpanzee Trekking-Nature Walk

Day 8: Transfer back to Kampala

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park-Evening game drive

Your driver will pick you up after an early morning breakfast and later drive west of the country to Lake Mburo National Park. You will have your stopover at the Equator for the equator experiments and to freshen up. Then later continue with your journey and upon reaching the park, you will have lunch and check in the lodge. Later, set out for a game drive through the park where you will take a glance on different animals like the Zebras that are found almost everywhere in the park. Later in the evening head to the lodge for dinner and spend a night.

Accommodation 

• Lake Mburo Safari Lodge

Day 2: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

On this day after your early morning breakfast, you will begin your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, passing via Mbarara town. Along the way, you will have views of beautiful landscapes as well as various rolling hills with terraces. Upon reaching the park, you will check in your lodge for dinner and overnight stay as you prepare for the next days’ interesting activity.

Accommodation 

• Gorilla Closeup Lodge

Day 3: Gorilla Trekking-Cultural Encounter

You will get up early for breakfast, head to the headquarters for a briefing before going for the gorilla trekking activity and later hit the forest led by your ranger of the day. Upon locating one of the gorilla families, you will be given 1 hour in their presence as you enjoy their day-to-day activities. While here, don’t forget to take pictures and videos of these wonderful moments as memories to take back home. Later, you will head back to the headquarters where you will be awarded a gorilla trekking certificate as a way of congratulating you upon completing your gorilla trekking activity. Don’t forget to pack some snacks and drinking water since hiking into the forest might take you approx. 2-3hrs depending on the location of the gorillas and locating them depends on where they spent their night. Later you will head back to your lodge for lunch as you prepare for another interesting cultural activity in the evening. The Batwa were basically the first people to live in the forest in harmony with the gorillas since they were hunter gatherers. These people still exist outside the park, still practicing their cultural norms and listening to their forest stories will leave you with great memories. Here, feel free to engage in their dances and folk songs, you can also buy some souvenirs to take back home.

Accommodation 

• Gorilla Closeup Lodge

Day 4: Travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park-Evening game drive

Enjoy your breakfast and afterwards transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park passing through the Ishasha sector which is home to tree climbing lions. The park generally has a variety of wildlife species such as elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, lions, not to mention but a few. Upon arrival, you will have lunch at the lodge and go for a late evening game drive where you will be able to see some of the above animals and many more together with birds. Have dinner and an overnight stay

Accommodation 

• Buffalo Safari Lodge

Day 5: Game drive-Boat cruise

You will have your early morning breakfast and later start off the game drive, looking out for different animals like lions, buffaloes, kobs, elephants etc. It is such a great and exciting time since you can easily see these animals closely. Later, head back to the lodge for lunch as get you get ready for the afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel. In fact, this is the most eye-catching activity in this park and home to various species like birds such as malachite kingfishers, pink backed pelicans, and animals like crocodiles, elephants, hippos and many more. Later, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Accommodation 

• Buffalo Safari Lodge

Day 6: Morning game drive-Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

After your early morning breakfast, you will check out of your lodge with your packed lunch then start your journey to Kibale Forest National Park which is home to Chimpanzees. You will arrive late in the evening and have dinner and spend an overnight stay in preparation for the next days’ activity.

Accommodation 

• Kibale Forest Cottages

Day 7: Chimpanzee tracking-Nature Walk

You will have breakfast early enough and later leave the lodge for the park headquarters with enough bottled drinking water. While at the headquarters, you will be briefed about dos and don’ts before heading for your chimpanzee tracking activity. After the briefing, embark on trekking through the forest guided by an armed park ranger for safety. Nothing is as amazing as having time with the chimpanzees in their natural habitat and here will also come across other primates like the grey checked Mangabeys, L’Hoests monkeys, bush babies, as well as different birds. After tracking, return to the lodge for lunch and later in the afternoon go for a nature walk in the Bigodi wetland where you will come across different bird species like the Great Blue Turaco, hornbills and more primates like baboons, black and white colobus among others.

Accommodation 

• Buffalo Safari Lodge

Day 8: Return to Kampala

After your hefty breakfast, leave the park and drive to Kampala via Mubende, where you will be in line to see beautiful scenic views found in this area. You will enjoy lunch still in Mubende and thereafter continue to Kampala.

End of Safari