gorilla and chimpanzee safari

5 DAYS CHIMPANZEE AND GORILLA TREKKING SAFARI IN UGANDA

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Safari summary

This 5 days safari takes you to experience best of primates focused safari, it also features birding, culture and sightseeing

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, December
	Countries	Uganda
	Parks	Bwindi Impenetrable Kibale

Fine details

Safari highlights

Bird watching—with professional guide
Cultural visits—orphanages, markets, schools
Primate trekking

What’s included?

Accommodation
Airport transfers
Meals
Park fees
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

Drive to Kibale National Park

Kibale

pick up from your hotel after breakfast (8:00) for the fascinating drive through papyrus swamps and thick jungle of the Africa to Kibale National Park just under the Rwenzori Mountains. You will visit Ndale crater lake in the Afternoon. (Approximately 5-6 hours’ drive).

Turaco Treetops

Chimpanzee trekking at Kibale

Kibale

Early morning trek for chimpanzees. Kibale is the best reserve in Africa to view chimps, a thick jungle with a towering canopy. You will take nature walk in the afternoon to Bigodi village for cultural experiences.

Turaco Treetops

Transfer to Bwindi Forest.

Bwindi Impenetrable

After breakfast, drive to Bwindi via the landscape of tea plantations, probably East Africa’s most spectacular scenery, and the highland rain forests which reach to the volcanoes in which live the mountain gorillas. This is the lushest highland rain forest on earth, filled with primates and exotic birds, you will do cultural experiences in the afternoon. (Approximately 5-6 hours’ drive).

Rushaga Gorilla Havens lodge

Gorilla trekking in Bwindi

Bwindi Impenetrable

Begin the day with breakfast ready for gorilla trekking which begins at 7:30am with briefing. The guides will lead you inside the jungle to see the shy Primates for a group you have been booked for. You may see the gorillas eating, sucking ants from a tree, swinging on vines, playing and sleeping. The tracking may take between 2 and 10 hours but its well worth the effort.

Rushaga Gorilla Havens lodge

Return to Kampala

Return to Kampala in the morning, lunch break is made at Agip Motel Mbarara with stop over at Equator Uganda crossing and Mpambire drum makers for a brief photo opportunity and to shop souvenirs then a transfer to Entebbe for evening flight home.

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