6 Days Safari in Uganda

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

Duration

6 days

Overview

On this adventurous once-in-a-lifetime safari, you’ll enjoy Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest home to more than half of the endangered Gorilla population. This will be combined with a wildlife safari where you’ll encounter among others, tree-climbing lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park as well as a Launch trip on the Kazinga Channel viewing numerous aquatic life like Hippos and crocodiles. Also, expect to view the dazzling world’s strongest falls while on a launch trip at the Murchison Falls National Park, the big five on a game drive, and lots of bird species. Also enjoy tracking the endangered Rhinos at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you’ll have an opportunity to get up close, on foot!

Included/Exclude

  • 4 x 4Sasfari
  • Accommodation
  • Meals as per the itinerary
  • All activities mentioned in the itinerary
  • Park Entrance fees
  • Gorilla Permits
  • Drinking bottled water
  • Professional English Speaking Driver Guide
  • International flights
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
  • Tips
  • Personal items
  • Souvenirs
  • Visa fees
  • Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees

Tour Itinerary

Pick up from the Airport, transfer to Hotel Africana for lunch, and then a city walk to visit the independence monument, old Kampala mosque, the Uganda Museum and Kabaka’s lake. Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Leave Kampala 7:00am, driving south west past several swamps, numerous rolling hills having lunch en route at Courtyard Hotel then embarking on the journey to the park, where we shall arrive in 8-9 hrs. Having been given permits to track the gorilla groups, we shall check in, have dinner and an Overnight stay.

Wake up very early in the morning, at 6:00am for breakfast and then proceed to the gorilla trek briefing point to be briefed about the safety guidelines and be allocated guides and groups for tracking gorillas. Setting off is at exactly 8:00am and take off to one of the most extra ordinary, astonishingly amazing activities you will ever enjoy. Picnic lunch will be enjoyed in the wild, after the tracking of Gorillas, return to the lodge, where one may choose to relax the rest of the evening. You will then have dinner and an Overnight stay.

After breakfast at 9:00am, check out of the lodge driving northwards to queen Elizabeth National Park. Arrive at the park in the afternoon through the southern part of the Ishasha sector famously known for its tree climbing lions. This is where your adventure in the park begins with a game drive through the plains to the heart of the park. And during the game drive, keep an eye out for the famous tree climbing lions in the Ishasha plains, the giant elephants, the beautiful Uganda kob, and elands among other animals as we proceed to the Mweya peninsular where you will have lunch overlooking the beautiful Kazinga channel where the Lakes Edward and George meet.

After lunch, set off for an afternoon launch trip on the beautiful Kazinga channel. This is yet another fascinating adventure that one should not dare to miss out on the trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park; this Launch trip offers a great chance to see a wide range of numerous birds’ species such as the Martial Eagle, Black Rumped Fly catcher, African skimmer, African Broadbill, Verreaux’s Eagle Owl among others. It is also at the beautiful Kazinga Channel where we see a serried ranges of hippos, and crocodiles at the shoreline together with numerous wildlife species coming down to bathe and drink some water as the day progresses. We shall thereafter have a sun set drink; dinner and Overnight stay.

After an early breakfast, check out of the lodge and drive north east of the park to Murchison falls national park. Branch off at Nakasongola to visit the Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary the proud of home of wild Rhinos and the only place where you can see Rhinos in the world. At the sanctuary, we shall have a guided Rhino trekking as well as bird watching at the sanctuary which consists of 250 bird species say; Abdim’s stork, Blue spotted dove, booted eagle, African black crake Bronze maikini, Brown parrot, among others.

After these expeditions, we shall then have lunch at the Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary Restaurant and after lunch proceed with the journey to the park. Arrive at the park in the evening, check in the lodge, and later set off for an evening game drive. During this Game Drive stand a chance to see the mighty king of the jungle, the Elephant, the Giraffe among other animals together with a wide range of birds including the rare Grey Crowned Crane, among others. You will then return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

After a cup of coffee, take an early morning launch trip to the base of the falls. Cruise past the bathing buffaloes, serried ranges of crocodiles, the huge hippo pods, together with Numerous aquatic birds and large numbers of different species getting down to drink and bathe.

Return to the lodge, have breakfast and check out drive to the top the falls on the North bank to have a magnificent view of the waters as they force their way out through a small crack thus forming very powerful waterfalls here we shall take pictures to capture the beautiful scenery of the heavy waterfalls thereafter proceed with the journey to Entebbe International Airport.

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