10 Days holiday safari with Gorillas, chimps and wildlife in Uganda

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

Day 1: Transfer to Murchison falls national park

You will arrive in the morning at Entebbe International Airport. Buyaga Safaris guide will pick you up for refreshments. You will start your journey to Murchison Falls National Park with lunch en route. You will visit the rhino sanctuary for tracking. You will proceed to Murchison Falls where you will visit the mighty falls and reach the top of the falls with thundering waters. Your overnight stay at Murchison River Lodge.

Day 2: Early morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise

You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast and at 8:00 am go for a game drive in search of unique African Savannah animals like the giraffes, antelopes, lions, elephants, 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, tell your guide to show you the Congo blue mountains, on a clear morning. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm. After lunch, you will go for an evening launch 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. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Murchison River Lodge

Day 3: Transfer to Kibale forest via Hoima the oil city

After an early breakfast, you will 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 through the Oil City of Hoima. You will arrive in the evening, have a rest while sipping some juice and wine. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest Lodge.

Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi swamp walk

After an early breakfast at 8:00 am, you will report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin and set out to track chimpanzees in the forest. The chance of viewing the chimps is over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the most beautiful and stunning forests in Uganda. This is the home of our 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 monkeys, Grey-cheeked mangabeys, Red tailed monkeys and bush babies and Pottos. After lunch, you will visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, and enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will present you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. Your overnight stay will be at the lodge.

Day 5: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park

You will have breakfast and at 8:30 am drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park viewing the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. You will sign in at your lodge facility as you wait for your lunch at 1:00 pm. Then after lunch, you will take on an afternoon launch cruise along Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George. The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippos, buffalos, 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. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at Elephant Hab Lodge.

Day 6: Game drives in Queen Elizabeth national park

You will have breakfast early in the morning and at 8:00 am with your packed lunch, go for a 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 bucks, water bucks, stripped jackals, comical warthogs and the fierce leopards. You will 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 Hunters cave. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown-eared woodpeckers and other primates. You will have dinner and an overnight stay at Elephant Hab Lodge.

Day 7: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest via Ishasha for tree climbing lions

After breakfast, at 8:30 am, 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 4 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. You will stay overnight at Rushaga Gorilla Lodge or Bakiga Lodge

Day 8: Gorilla tracking experience and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi

Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest is the major highlight of the visit Uganda safaris tour. You will set off early with guides after breakfast at 7:00 am 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 the time to watch 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. You will stay overnight at Birdnest Resort Bunyonyi

Day 9: Transfer to Lake Mburo national park

After an early breakfast at 8:30 am, you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park and arrive in the afternoon. Have lunch and relaxation and later go for a nature walk in the park with a ranger. The walk will enable you to see giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, Impalas, waterbucks, pumba, zebras, elands all these will furnish your visit with pride. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Rwakobo Rock.

Day 10: Transfer to Kampala or Entebbe

You will have an early breakfast and at 8:30 am go for a morning game drive. Lake Mburo National Park is a very special place, every part of it is alive with a variety of interesting, colorful animals and features and it has a widespread wetland where you will see elands, impalas, water bucks, warthogs, topis and zebras. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm. afterward, you’ll start your journey to Kampala, making a stopover at the Equator Line crossing and Mpambire Drum makers. You will arrive in the city at 5:00 pm and proceed to Entebbe International Airport.