Extraordinary diversity, yet in one experience! The irresistible primate watch of 12 species majorly the wild chimpanzees. Get yourself ready for the fascinating forest walk. Get to see the buffalos, bushbucks, kobs, hippos, elephants and leopards. Keep your eyes open for the different bird species and breath-taking beautiful countryside sceneries. It’s an irresistible, magnifest, natural experience.
Day 1: Arrival
Arrive at the Entebbe International airport where you will be welcomed by your Equatorial Wild safaris guide and transferred by private vehicle to the Hotel reserved for you. Depending on the time you arrive, you will take a visit to the international acclaimed award wining Uganda Wildlife Educational Centre to see the sorts of animals and birds that you will encounter on your tour.
Day 2: Kibale Forest National Park.
After breakfast, we will drive en route to Kibale via Mubende with packed lunch arrive in late afternoon and take a walk on Bigodi swamp to look for different bird species like the Papyrus Gonolek, White-winged Warbler and many more also to see plants.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 3
This park is commonly accepted for a superlative diversity and highest massing of primates in the Great Lakes region. Here we shall take a nature walk in the tropical rainforest, search for wild chimpanzees with trained guides. Take lunch in the afternoon and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park passing via the crater lakes region with over 30 crater lakes to be explored.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 4: Queen Elizabeth National Park
This morning, you will go on a game drive where you won’t fail to site Lions, Elephants, Buffaloes, Hippos, Hyenas and more wildlife. After lunch at Mweya, you will have a guided walk to Maramagambo forest visiting the bat and the hunter's cave, see the blue lake, get a close look at a number of bats, the rock Pythons and the forest Cobras. Launch cruise along the Kazinga channel, which connects two lakes; George and Edward. Relax till dinner and overnight at your proposed accommodation prior.
Day 5: Queen Elizabeth National Park - Lake Bunyonyi.
After breakfast, you will have a game drive to Kyambura gorge and later after a guided walk in the gorge and Kyambura River where the game reserve derives its name. Expect various primates most especially Chimpanzee of different species, Black and white Colobus monkeys and other animals like antelopes, hyenas, Lion and many others in the middle of savanna grassland. This gorge is a home of very many bird species. Have lunch en route then you will be transferred to Lake Bunyonyi for another scenario, arrive in time for evening birding.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 6: Lake Bunyonyi.
We make a ride on Lake Bunyonyi in dug out canoes and after lunch depending on ones preference; take leisure walks, mountain biking or swim, sun-bathe name your choice.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 7: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
En route to Bwindi and arrive at mid morning.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 8:
Leave port for the long awaited adventure of Gorilla tracking in the Bwindi Impenetrable forest. Gorilla tracking is unpredictable, it is difficult to estimate how long you may take the jungle; however the excursion may take 2-8 hours. It all depends on the movement of these great apes. "The excitement of seeing the gorillas makes it all worthwhile!" It is what anyone who has made the tracking will be enhanced to say in any circumstances.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 9: Lake Mburo National Park.
After breakfast we drive to Lake Mburo National Park where we have an evening game drive in search for; Topes, Buffaloes, Water buck and not forgetting the Eland, (the largest of the Antelopes found in Uganda).
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 10
At dawn, take a game drive in park and later return to your accommodation for late breakfast and the boat rides on the Lake. Leave for Kampala in the afternoon stopping over the Uganda Equator for some photo shots and visit to the Craft Village.
Later you will be dropped at your hotel in Kampala for over night.
Day 11: Kampala City Tour.
After your breakfast, take a trip to Uganda's capital city which starts in the morning at 0830hrs after your breakfast and will take you on a tour within and without the greenest city in Africa.
Visit the Bahai temple - the biggest and only religious temple building of its kind in Africa. Bahai temple is a good site for picnic because of its beautiful picnic scenery rightly placed on a hill that gives you a view of the city.
Then the Uganda Museum - a historical feature with lots of colonial, cultural and traditional collections, pass by the Makerere University -the first and the oldest university in East Africa.
Kasubi tombs - The largest crypt in Africa and special burial place for Uganda kings. Our guide will be pleased to give you a brief and interesting history on the same.
Visit the Namirembe Cathedral - the first and oldest religious feature that was constructed by the European missionaries. Then have Lunch at the African Village Restaurant. En route to Namugongo Shrines - a historical place where the first Ugandan Christians were murdered by the orders of a Buganda king. Then pass by the Ugandan craft village -do some shopping as you wish forAfrican art, curving, and masks of your desire.
Dinner and overnight (Budget, medium and Luxury accommodation available)
Day 12: Departure
After breakfast, depending on your departure time, your Equatorial Wild Safaris guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to Entebbe International Airport to arrive just in time for your scheduled flight.
Rates will include:
One Gorilla Permit per person of USD $500, airport transfers, itinerary meals and accommodation, transportation, water, coffee or tea while on safari, park entrance fees, services of an English speaking driver/guide, boat trips, game drives, other itinerary activities and any government taxies/levies.
Rates will exclude:
Air fare, Bar Bills, Phone calls, Personal insurance, Laundry and other services of personal nature and driver’s/guide’s tips.
Note: Safaris/ Holidays can be arranged for any number of people above six.
Gorilla tracking is highly dependent on availability of permits from the Uganda Wildlife Authority which are a “hot cake.” Incase of failure to secure a permit at the time of your booking, don’t fret, the same gorilla tracking can also be done in Rwanda.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for rates, tailor made safaris and general inquires.
Yours- EWS Team