Uganda's Unforgettable Safari

7 days—Uganda Unforgettable Chimp, Gorilla Trekking

$3400-3600 USD

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Safari summary

Arrive Entebbe airport AND transfer to Kibale Forest National Park. Expect chimp trekking in Kibale National Park, go to Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will enjoy the big game sighting and boat trip along the Kazinga Channel. Proceed to Bwindi for the ultimate gorilla trekking experience. After gorilla trekking, transfer to Lake Mburo National Park.


About this tour

Tour type Custom, tailor-made, private
Main focus Primate trekking
Activity level Moderate activity
Best months January, February, March, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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Fine details

Safari highlights
  • Primate trekking
What’s included?
  • Airport transfers
  • Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • All drinks
  • Hot air balloons
  • Internal flights
  • International flights
  • Laundry
  • Premium alcoholic beverages
  • Spa treatments
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Visas

Itinerary

Transfer to Kibale Forest NP

Kibale

Hopefully, Your safari will start from Entebbe International Airport where you will be received by the assigned driver/guide and depart for Kibale Forest NP. The park is popular for its primates’ population like the chimpanzees, colobus monkeys and red-tailed monkeys. You will arrive in the late afternoon (evening) and just check into your accommodation, relax and later enjoy your dinner plus the overnight stay

Isunga Lodge

Chimpanzee Trekking-Queen.

Kibale | Queen Elizabeth

Today you will track the most famous inhabitants of Kibale National Park, the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share 98% of human genes making them our closest living relatives. There is also a wonderfully diverse concentration of other primates, more than any other forest in East Africa, in fact. Besides our delightful cousins, the chimpanzees, you can find red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L’Hoest’s monkey, and the black and white colobus monkey.

Irungu forest safari lodge

Boat and Game drive in Queen

Queen Elizabeth

Go for a morning game drive in time to see the sun rise. The morning is the best time for a game drive as the African animal kingdom tends to be most active when during the golden hours of the first sunlight touching the savannah. You will see elephant, buffalo, lion, waterbuck, leopard, Uganda kob, warthog and birds After lunch, you will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel. Here, you will see a lot of hippos, Buffalo, Crocodile, bathing Elephant, and a range of beautiful birds.

Irungu forest safari lodge

Transfer to Ishasha then Bwindi

Bwindi Impenetrable | Queen Elizabeth

Have breakfast then set off for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park – famously known for its resident tree-climbing lions. The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% though sometimes they are really hard to spot (most especially when they’re down in the grassland looking for prey). Hoping you get the chance to spot them, the sight will be spectacular!

Ride 4 a woman

Gorilla trekking and Batwa Trail

Bwindi Impenetrable

Encountering the rare and endangered Mountain Gorillas is an experience of a lifetime. Half of the world’s population of gorillas live under the mist-covered canopies of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforest. With an experienced park ranger you will be tracking the whereabouts of one of the gorilla family, once the family of gorillas has been located, enjoy the hour you have to quietly observe these fascinating primates whose habits and mannerisms remind us so much of our own.

Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort

Transfer to Lake Mburo NP

Lake Mburo

Have breakfast and set off to Lake Mburo NP. Drive past the intensely terraced Kigezi hill slopes into Mbarara town and finally Lake Mburo NP. Arrive in the park in the early afternoon and take some rest before proceeding out for the late afternoon (evening) game viewing. On the game drive, expect to see the gigantic eland antelopes, zebras in big numbers, topis, impalas, warthogs, Uganda kob and Cape buffalos among others

Rwakobo Rock

Nature walk-transfer to Entebbe

Lake Mburo

Enjoy your early breakfast and proceed for the Mburo morning park/nature walk in the presence of an armed Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger/guide. On this early morning guided walk, you often encounter hyenas that are returning to their dens after a night of being on the prowl. Also, you will have the opportunity to encounter (at close range): Zebras, Giraffes and Eland, Topi and other antelopes, Cape buffaloes among others Later transfer to Entebbe International Airport

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