6 DAYS GORILLAS, CHIMPS AND WILDLIFE SAFARI
6 days Uganda Safari takes you the western and southwestern Uganda in Kibale Forests, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable national park. you should expect to do gorilla and chimpanzee trekking, game drives and boat cruise in this safari.
Summary.
Day 1: Kampala to Kijbale.
Day 2: Chimp trekking and transfer to Queen Elizabeth NP
Day 3: Game drive and boat cruise
Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi
Day 6: Gorilla trekking
Day 6: back to Kampala.
Day 1: Kampala to Kibale.
Enjoy your breakfast after which your guide will pick you up and transfer you to Kibale using the shorter route-northern route. You will have lunch en route and you will view the beautiful sceneries along the way especially on the rolling hills of fort Portal, plantations and crater lakes. On arrival, have dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Primate lodge/ Chimpanzee Forest Guest.
Meal plan: Full board.
Drive hours: 5-6 hours.
Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking.
After breakfast, join other trekkers at Kanyanchu for chimpanzee trekking. Kibale’s 795km2 National Park contains one of the most beautiful and most varying tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. The park is a home to over 1500 chimpanzees as well as other 12 primates. After the trek, go back to the lodge for lunch and then drive to Queen Elizabeth national park. Dinner and overnight .
Accommodation: Enganzi game lodge/ Mweya safari lodge.
Meal plan: Full board.
Day 3: Game drive and Boat cruise.
Enjoy your tasty breakfast and go for a morning game drive in Kasenyi and view the elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, water bucks among others. By this time, most of the animals are awake to start off the day. Go back to the lodge for lunch and prepare for a boat cruise. The boat will drive you on the Kazinga channel and you will see numerous numbers of crocodiles and hippos as well as water birds. Other animals collect along the bank to take some water and bathe in the afternoon. Have dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge/ Ihamba safari lodge, Bush Lodge in Tents.
Meal plan: Full board
Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi.
Following an early breakfast, you will be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable national park. Here you will go through the Ishasha sector and view the tree climbing lions. Have lunch en route. You will arrive at the park in the afternoon. You can have a guided nature walk in the evening and then return to your lodge for dinner and overnight
Accommodation: Buhoma lodge/ Bakiga lodge/ Buhoma Community Camp.
Meal plan: Full board.
Day 5: Gorilla trekking.
get up so early in the morning, have breakfast and therefore drive to the park headquarters with your tour guide. Do not forget to carry packed lunch before setting off. On arrival, you will be briefed about the dos and donts when with the apes. You will then be led by a game ranger into the thick forest to look for the gorillas. the trek may take from one to eight hours depending on the location of the gorillas. you will have a great time when with the gorillas and only one hour is given. Later trek back to the starting point and drive back to the lodge for freshening up. You can then join in community walk- Batwa people.
Accommodation: Buhoma lodge/ Bakiga lodge/ Buhoma Community Camp.
Meal plan: Full board.
Day 6: Departure.
After breakfast set off for kampala having a stopover in Mbarara for lunch and at the Equator for photography. Continue to Kampala an reach in the evening. You can proceed to the Airport if you have a flight on that day pr Stay in one of the Kampala/ Entebbe hotels at an extra cost.