Ugandan Odyssey
9 days—The best of untamed Uganda
$3250-4850 USD
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Safari summary
Our Uganda odyssey safari combines primate trekking and classic safari encounter all packaged as one to offer an exceptional encounter with the local communities, big five of Africa, great apes, birds, breathtaking photographic landscapes, tropical rain forests and ultra wild road trips across the pearl of Africa.
On this tour, we will visit the famous Murchison falls, Queen Elizabeth, Kibale forest, Lake Mburo and Bwindi impenetrable forest national parks.
About this tour
Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
Main focus | Primate trekking | |
Activity level | Strenuous activity | |
Best months | All months | |
Countries | ||
Parks |
Fine details
Safari highlights
- Photography safari—with professional guide
- Hiking | trekking
- Primate trekking
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Internal flights
- Laundry
- Premium alcoholic beverages
- Tips and gratuities
Itinerary
Track southern white rhinos on foot
Murchison Falls
Pick up from your guest house and transfer to Ziwa rhino sanctuary where you will be able to track rhinos on foot with the help of armed rangers who are there to guide and protect you throughout the experience. After a hot lunch we drive to the park gate for clearance and then proceed through Budongo forest to the top of the falls as your first activity in the park. After top of the fall’s photographic moments, drive to your lodge which is in the middle of park as you enjoy wildlife.
Pakuba Safari Lodge
Game drive, boat cruiser on Nile
Murchison Falls
After breakfast (6:30) we head out for a drive-in search of cats which might still be busy with a kill or running away from the wet grass. Watch out for leopards, elephants, cape buffalo, giraffes, baboons, monkeys etc. In the afternoon, we a take a shared boat cruise to the bottom of the falls in search of animals that come to drink and cool off on the banks of the Nile River such as elephants, waterbucks, giraffes, buffaloes, Nile crocodile, the monitor lizard, hippos and many birds.
Pakuba Safari Lodge
Scenic road trip to Kibale forest.
Kibale | Murchison Falls
After breakfast, we will have short game drive as we head out of the park. we drive further to the southern parts of Uganda with a hot lunch en route to Kibale forest. After check in, we take a walk in the famous Bigodi wetlands, a community project managed by the community aimed at changing and improving the lives of the host communities. Watch out for olive baboons, red-tailed, black and white colobus monkey, bird species, cultural encounter with the local communities. Dinner and overnight.
Kibale Forest Camp
Am chimpanzee tracking
Kibale | Queen Elizabeth
After breakfast, you will drive to kanyanchu to join others for briefing before you head to forest with rangers in search of chimps following their calls and tracks. Once chimps have been located, you will spend one hour with them as you learn more about them. After your hot lunch at the lodge, we drive to Queen Elizabeth national park, check in and prepare for our evening game drive to close the day. (on request we can arrange night game driver for better chances of sighting cats )
Aardvark Safari Lodge
Game drive and kazinga boat cruise
Queen Elizabeth
This park is blessed with with over 90 species of mammals and 600 bird species which makes it ideal for the big game. To increase our chances of wildlife sightings, we start our game drives at 06:30am and hope to meet lions, leopards, elephants, cape buffaloes among others on this quest. Afternoon, we take a boat cruise on Kazinga channel famous for high density of hippos and to discover more about the water species or meet those that come to relax or drink water in the afternoon.
Aardvark Safari Lodge
Transfer to Bwindi Forest
Bwindi Impenetrable | Queen Elizabeth
After you breakfast, we will depart from Queen Elizabeth national park and drive towards the southern most parts of Uganda. The road trip is both scenic and wild as you traverse through the rural villages of Kigezi region. Depending on where you gorilla permits have been booked, you will have lunch en route and proceed to overnight at the edge of the forest. (Optional lion monitoring program before departing to Bwindi 200$ per person not included on the cost)
Gorilla Mist Lodge
Iconic gorillas in the mist.
Bwindi Impenetrable
After breakfast, you will have short drive to the UWA briefing center where you will be taken through the dos, don’ts while tracking gorillas. After you have been allocated a gorilla family in a group of 8 Pax, you will be led by ranger guides off the forest to search for the gorillas. When gorillas have been located, you will have one full hour viewing them as they go on with their daily lives at a distance of 7-10 meters. Later transfer from Bwindi to lake Bunyonyi for overnight
Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Encounter with antelopes
Lake Mburo
Optional lake activities offered at the lodge, then we transfer to lake Mburo national park with hot rolex stop in Mbarara town. Uganda is famous for a variety of local dishes and the rolex is one of them! We will stop at the rolex both just in case you would like to taste the rolex. Continue to enter the park, have a game drive as you head to your lodge just outside the park. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Rwakobo Safari Lodge
Walking Safari
Lake Mburo
After breakfast, we take a walking safari to discover the park on foot before departing for Entebbe. This park is famous for its antelopes and zebras of course not forgetting 340 bird species that have recorded here all packed for your walking safari. Later we drive back to Entebbe with a photographic stop at the equator. End of tour
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