15-Day Uganda Safari and Primate Tour
The Pearl of Africa is offering you a 15-day adventure trip to experience the varied countryside scenery, wildlife, and experiences that will make your stay unforgettable. The trip will take you to national parks such as Murchison Falls, Kibale Forest, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and Lake Mburo.
Cost Inclusions
Park entrance and all activity fees
Accommodation & meals as indicated
safari vehicle costs
A professional English-speaking knowledgeable guide.
Bottled drinking water on board
Cost Exclusions
International flights & Visas
Tips
Alcoholic / soft Drinks
Any changes to the itinerary
Laundry
Transport
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport.
On arrival at Entebbe International Airport our guides will be waiting for you with a warm welcome, then transfer you to a hotel in Entebbe for your rest, relaxation, and overnight.
Accommodation: Hotel in Entebbe.
Meal plan: Lunch & Supper
Day 2: Entebbe to Murchison Falls National Park.
After breakfast, you will check out from the hotel and hit the road through Kampala city to Murchison Falls (The world"s powerful waterfall) via the Kampala- Gulu highway with a stopover in Masiindi town for lunch.
Later we proceed to Murchison Falls through a historical forest of Budongo. You will check into your accommodation upon arrival in the park in one of the lodges. After a relaxation in the afternoon later head to enjoy the sunset/evening game drive.
Campfire: Optional.
Accommodation: Lodge in Murchison Falls National Park.
Meal plan: Dinner
Day 3: Safari in Murchison Falls; Game drive, Boat cruise.
After morning breakfast then we embark on the morning game drive, expect to spot a variety of wildlife such as lions, elephants, Jackson heartbeast, Kobs, waterbucks, buffalos, giraffes, leopards mention but a few, the game drive will stretch up to the hippo pool where River Nile leaves Lake Albert to Sudan and Egypt. You will then come back for your lunch at the lodge.
Afternoon, after your having lunch, then you will go for a boat cruise on the Nile expect to see hippo, crocodile, Nyamusika cliff up to the bottom of the falls where you will hear the roaring water to the falls. The we shall come back to the lodge for our overnight.
Accommodation: Lodge in Murchison Falls National Park.
Campfire: Optional.
Day 4: Top of the falls, transfer from Murchison Falls to Kibale National Park
After your breakfast, check out of the lodge and we go to the top of the falls and enjoy the permanent rainbow with water vapor and a large volume of water squeezing itself in a narrow gorge forming the world's most powerful waterfall. Proceed to Hoima Oil City for our lunch then drive to Kibale National Park and check in to our accommodation.
Accommodation: Lodge near Kibale National Park.
Day 5: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale
We shall have breakfast we go and join another tourist at the park headquarters then head to chimpanzee tracking. A ranger guide will lead you to the forest, while there expect to see other Appes like colabus monkies, bird species like a great blue turaco. You will have a great time with the chimpanzee, take pictures, and capture videos. You will be awarded a chimpanzee tracking certificate from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. We shall come back at the lodge for lunch and relaxation.
Afternoon: Nature walks in Bigodi Wetland a jungle wetland known to harbor bird species like great blue turaco, waxbills, cuckoos, weavers, hornbills, kingfishers, papyrus gonolek, and many more. Mammalas like aquatic sitatunga antelopes, bushbucks, the mongooses, later we shall come back to our accommodation/lodge for our overnight.
Accommodation: Lodge near Kibale National Park.
Day 6: Travel from Kibale to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After our breakfast, we shall travel through Uganda's tourist city Fortportal to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Upon our arrival at Queen Elizabeth National Park, we shall check into our accommodation/lodge.
Afternoon: We shall go for our game drive, and you expect to spot tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector, buffalos, elephants, common warthog, kobs, topis, spotted hynas, and end the day with a visit the Katwe Salt Lake and come back to our accommodation.
Accommodation: Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Campfire: Optional.
Day 7: Safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Morning breakfast and we embark on the morning sunrise boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel with its high population crocodiles, huge school of hippos, and birds which you will spot along the channel which connects lake Edward to Lake and then come back to have lunch at the lodge.
afternoon: We shall go to Katwe Salt Lake and end our day's activities. Overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Campfire: Optional.
Day 8: Transfer from Queen Elizabeth to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
You will have your morning breakfast then check out from the lodge and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will travel while enjoying the stunning countryside view, with wonderful topography and the vegetation cover. We arrive and check in at the lodge near the park.
Accommodation: Lodge near Bwindi.
Day 9: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi
Early morning breakfast and we head to the park headquarters and join other tourists for a briefing about the tracking rules. After that you will start your tracking through a thick jungle forest with your guide and you will spend an hour with the mountain gorilla once found, you will be allowed to take pictures, and videos during that time don't be surprised to also see red-tailed monkeys, vervet monkeys, collabus monkeys.
You will be awarded a gorilla tracking certificate from the Uganda Wildlife Authority after your tracking. Then return at the lodge for relaxation and vernight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Lodge near the park.
Day 10: Travel from Bwindi to Lake Bunyonyi
After your breakfast, we shall checkout from the lodge and head to Lake Bunyonyi just close to Uganda and Rwanda border and check-in to our accommodation in Lake Bunyonyi and have your amazing lunch at the lodge.
Afternoon: Relax around the lake with its green and lush terraced hills that are punctuated with a plethora of over 100 bird species; optional canoeing on the lake.
Accommodation: Lodge at Lake Bunyonyi.
Day 11: Transfer from Lake Bunyonyi to Lake Mburo National Park.
We shall have our breakfast then transfer to Lake Mburo National Park a park with rolling hills, open savannah and a variety of wildlife through Mbarara city and check into our accommodation/lodge and enjoy your lunch.
After that, you will relax at the lodge and have an overnight there.
Accommodation: Lodge in Lake Mburo National Park.
Campfire and Swimming: Optional.
Day 12: Lake Mburo National Park; nature walk, horse riding.
After finishing your breakfast, you will go for a guided nature walk, from there expect to view variety of animals since the park is the whispers of the wild which enable almost every creature to survive in the park.
Afternoon: After your lunch, you will go for a back-horse ride safari which will also be guided, this will last for almost 5hours while in the wilderness whispering with the wildlife.
Accommodation: Lodge in Lake Mburo National Park.
Day 13: Transfer from Lake Mburo National Park to Kampala.
You will have your breakfast and then hit the road to the capital city Kampala. We shall have a stopover at the Equator line where you will have photo moments and the Coriolis effect experiment. Afternoon: From that, we will continue to the busy city of Kampala check in to our accommodation and have lunch there.
Accommodation: Hotel in Kampala.
City nightlife: Optional
Day 14: Kampala city tour.
After your morning breakfast, we shall go for a city tour where you will explore historical places within the city like Gaddafi Mosque which was built with funds from former Libya president Gaddafi and it's the biggest in East Africa with its capacity of 25k worshipers.
We shall head to the Mengo royal palace of the Buganda kingdom; from there you will see and listen to the great history Buganda kingdom. You will also visit the torture chamber which were built in the 1970s.
Accommodation: Hotel in Kampala.
Day 15: to Entebbe
Drive back to Entebbe for around 2 hours, Last-minute shopping or relaxation before your flight. Wake up early at your leisure depending on your flight schedule and take breakfast as you prepare for the journey back. The Guide/Driver will begin the journey back to Kampala through
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