7 Days Uganda Wildlife and Primates Safari

7 Days Uganda Wildlife and Primates Safari Detailed Itinerary

Meet and Greet – Arrival at Entebbe International Airport

Upon arrival at Entebbe airport, you will be met by our representative to transfer you to your hotel. after check-in, your guide will quickly brief you about your upcoming safari adventure and time allowing, take a personal shopping tour in the town of Entebbe. Accommodation Plan: Boma Hotel, Entebbe. BB

Days 1& 2:  Exploring Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day Highlights: Game Viewing drives, Boat Cruise safari, Chimpanzee and Scenery

The 7-Days Uganda Wildlife and Primates Safari will begin with a scenic transfer drive across the varied countryside to check-in to a wonderful accommodation property set on the edges of the escarpment with rewarding views of Queen Elizabeth NP below. While in this Uganda’s second biggest park, your will have well paced wildlife viewing experiences for up-close encounters to a plethora of wildlife including, elephants, lions, Cape buffalo, Kob, Waterbuck and more. This experience will extend while on a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel known for the densest population of hippo and other aquatic wildlife.

On your last morning here, you will be led on a guided trek experience along a community of chimpanzee in the underground tropical forest of Kyambura Gorge. The 18-km long Kyambura Gorge is a unique geographic feature that lies about 100m below the golden savanna surroundings and protect a strong habituated community of chimpanzee along other smaller primates.

Appropriate dress code for the trek is  advised and your companion guide will prepare prior to the expereince. The chimpanzee trekking experience duration varies daily, but anything between 4-6hrs is normal.

The trek day begins early by checking in a the trail-head to meet up your ranger guides who leads the expereince. The walk follows uneven terrain and trails across the chimpanzee territory and once located, you will be allowed only one-hour to observe, photography and admire similar human-like behavior these species display.  Accommodation and meal Plan Twins Lake Lodge FB

Days 3 & 4: Game drives for Tree climbing lions at Ishasha Sector

Highlights: Wildlife drives, Stunning Sunset and Sunrise Views

Coming into the scenic Ishasha grassland plains located on the south-sector of Queen Elizabeth NP, you will overnight at a lovely accommodation set along the park edges. In here, you will take an evening and morning game drive experience across the game rich grasslands of Ishasha where the highlight is the impressive tree-climbing lions here.

These lions are known to habitually lounge up fig tree branches during the heat of the day, a unique behavior different from the lions prides in the north sector of Queen Elizabeth NP. Other impressive wildlife here include, the Topi, Kob, Leopard, Elephant, Buffalo among others.

On an evening drive, your guide will find an exclusive spot on the savannas where you will have a sundowner to enjoy the stunning views of the sunset over the western horizon. Accommodation Plan: Enjojo Lodge, FB

Day 5: Mountain Gorilla Trekking in the Bwindi Impenetrable NP

Highlights: Encountering the Mountain Gorilla

The mountain gorillas day begins early with checking-in to the park’s visitor’s center where upon arrival, the park ranger guides will take you through a safety briefing on the activity. Thereafter, you will join other visitors into small units of 8 and be allocated a mountain gorilla family group to trek to.

Coming on the trailhead, the rangers guides will inquire from you if you will need to hire a porter to help carry that backpack and even give you a hand on difficult trial. The porters are local support staff from communities around these gorilla forests who earn a living directly from tourism as a way of sustainability. A minimum fee paid to these porters is only 20-USD payable at the end of the experience.

The trek will then begin with the lead ranger guide at the front across the rainforest into the home range of the allocated gorilla family. Upon locating them, you will be accorded one-full-hour with the gorillas, learning and watching different interactions of the group. The tracking duration experience varies daily but anything between 3hrs to 7hrs is normal. Back at your lodge, take a rest afternoon.

Accommodation Plan: Haven Lodge, Full Board

Days 6 & 7: Walking Safari at Lake Mburo NP

Highlights: Walking Safari along Giraffes, Zebras, Impalas and more

Leaving behind the gorilla highlands, you will come into Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda’s smallest of the savanna parks yet the most scenic. This acacia wooded park boasts an incredible wildlife including Topi, Bushbuck, Deffassa Waterbuck, Buffalos, Impala, Zebra amidst excellent birdlife associated to these woodlands and an impressive scenery.

On the morning before you transfer to Entebbe, you will take a thrilling guided walking safari through the woodlands and near the big angulates. Here you will to nature firsthand, watching small and intricate forms of life usually overlooked and unreachable during a safari vehicle experience. Your ranger guide will further point you to various tracks, signs and calls of the wild.

Accommodation: Rwakobo Rock FB

Thereafter, transfer to Entebbe with scenic and lunch stop at the Equator crossing.

Accommodation and meal plan will depend on your flight plan.

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