11 days tour

11 Days – Uganda’S Total Primates And Encounter In The Wilde

11 Days – Uganda’S Total Primates And Encounter In The Wilde

This tour includes:

Meals

Meals are on Full Board .

Guide

A Highly Trained English Speaking Driver Guide is included on this Safari and takes care of the Clients throught the Safari.

Accommodation

The Accomodations are on Midmarket Basis and are one of the best Lodges in the Region.

Transport

4X4 Safari Vehicles are Provided to our Guests.

Not included:

Flights

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Itinerary of your trip 11 Days – Uganda’S Total Primates And Encounter In The Wilde

  • Day 1 Day 1: Transfer To Lake Mburo National Park Evening Boat Ride At 16H00
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 1: Transfer To Lake Mburo National Park Evening Boat Ride At 16H00

      After a 4 hour’s drive we will reach Lake Mburo National Park, popular with birders and the only park in Uganda where you can find the zebras. As we enter the park and head towards the accommodation it is likely you will see some wildlife like impalas, topis, zebras and buffaloes. Look also for birds such as the Crested Francolin, Emerald spotted Wood Dove, Bare faced Go-Away bird, Green Wood Hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill, Spot-Flanked Barbet, Lilac breasted Roller, Northern Black Tit, Trilling Cisticola, Greater Blue Eared Starling, African Grey Hornbill and Brown Parrot.  Evening go on a boat ride on the lake and enjoy the rich birdlife and the hippos that are cooling off.  If time allows you will make an evening game drive along the Kigambira loop. Species that may be seen are the localized Red Faced Barbet, Black Collared Barbet, Red Headed lovebird, Lead colored Flycatcher and Green capped Eremomela.

      • Overnight: Rwakobo
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 2 Day 2: Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 2: Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

      Early start of the day with a guided nature walk along the Zebra Track where you will see bird species such as Coqui Francolin, Black Bellied Bustard, Temmricks Courser, African Wattled Plover, Rufous napped and Flappet Lark, Rufous Chested Swallow, and more. You will encounter several species of wetland and savannah wildlife and birds. After exit the park and drive further southwest.

      You drive through savannah grasslands seeing banana plantations and herds of Ankole cattle with their incredibly long curving horns. You then ascend into the Kigezi highlands, known as the “Switzerland of Africa”, with terraced farming and mountain scenery. Proceed to your lodge for overnight. 

      • Overnight: Mutanda Lake Resort
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 3 Day 3: Meet The Giants On Your First Gorilla Tracking And Community Visit
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 3: Meet The Giants On Your First Gorilla Tracking And Community Visit

      After an early breakfast transfer to the starting point, and after a briefing by a ranger guide, enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular. The area offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but criss-crossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long treasured. Many find it to be a rare and moving opportunity.

      • Overnight: Mutanda Lake Resort
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 4 Day 4: Second Gorilla Tracking
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 4: Second Gorilla Tracking

      Up relatively early for a hearty breakfast to give you the energy needed for your second gorilla track.  Transfer by 08h00, report to the ranger station for registration and a talk by one of the rangers; the guides will then take you through the bush pushing your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas. The track can take from half an hour to 7 hours – a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes. 

      Once you are close to the group the guides will ask you to leave behind your bags as no food items should be carried close to the gorillas. Just take your cameras with you as you are about to meet the gentle giants! Sit in the forest amongst the gorillas, listening to them grumble to each other and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the silverback. It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense rainforest knowing you are with a few of the last remaining mountain gorillas – sadly enough there are only about 650 of these beautiful creatures left. You are allowed an hour with the gorillas before returning to the base station.

      • Overnight: Mutanda Lake Resort
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 5 Day 5: Transfer To Kibale National Park
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 5: Transfer To Kibale National Park

      After your breakfast, pack-up your bags start your drive heading to Kibale Forest. The drive takes you through the Switzerland of Africa area known as the Kigezi Highlands with its terraced hillside and winding roads. You will proceed to Kasese town via Queen Elizabeth National Park with the Rwenzori Mountains in the back drop, then on to the crater lakes Kasenda region before arriving in the Kibale Forest area. Arriving in the evening, check into the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

      • Overnight: Isunga Lodge
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 6 Day 6: Chimpanzee Trekking - Optional Nature Walk In Bigodi Swamp
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 6: Chimpanzee Trekking - Optional Nature Walk In Bigodi Swamp

      After breakfast at your lodge, transfer to the starting point of your Chimpanzee tracking experience in Kibale Forest National Park which is reputed to have the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. The most famous of its 13 species is the Chimpanzee, man’s closest relative. Kibale’s 1450 Chimpanzee represent Uganda’s largest population of this endangered primate. Kibale is also a home to the rare I’Hoest’s monkey. Other primates include the black and white Colobus, Blue monkey, Grey cheeked mangabey, Red tailed monkey, Olive baboon to mention but a few. So you will enjoy a guided nature walk in the tropical rainforest in search of the wild chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys and many others.  Although chimp sightings are not guaranteed, visitors stand a good chance of hearing and seeing our distant cousins as they gloom and bond with one another.

      Alternatively you may opt to do chimpanzee habituation experience by paying a supplement of $70, this exercise takes the whole entire day.  Only 6 people are allowed per day and you will be sure to come face to face with these closest cousins of man. Advance booking is necessary for this option.

      After lunch, head to Bigodi for an afternoon swamp walk. Bigodi was established by a local development organization to protect the 4sq-km Magombe Swamp that’s home to around 200 species of birds (highlights include papyrus gonolek, white-winged warbler and great blue turaco). The highlight of this tour is catching a glimpse of the great blue turaco. The swamp is also good for spotting butterflies and primates, with 8 different species here, including grey-cheeked mangabey. The 2-3 hour guided walk is led by experienced local guides .

      • Overnight: Isunga Lodge
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 7 Day 7: Transfer To Murchison Falls National Park
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 7: Transfer To Murchison Falls National Park

      After your morning breakfast, begin your journey to Murchison Falls National Park. Drive south via Hoima to Fort Portal through verdant countryside with traditional homesteads, farms and Tea Estates. You will have a stopover for lunch en-route. Arrive at you lodge in the late afternoon. Check in refresh, dinner and overnight.

      • Overnight: Pakuba Safari 
      • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Day 8 Day 8: Morning Game Drive And Afternoon Boat Safari To The Bottom Of The Falls
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 8: Morning Game Drive And Afternoon Boat Safari To The Bottom Of The Falls

      Arise very early in the morning for your game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Your guide will help you spot elephant, lion, cape buffalo, Roth child’s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bushbuck, bohor reed buck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard. 

      After lunch, go for sundowner  boat cruise upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls, marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch,  you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.  

      The boat stops just tens of meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron”. Take pictures of the photogenic and majestic Murchison Falls. Disembark from the boat and take a hike to the Top of the Falls where you can see the Nile’s beauty perfected!! Marvel at the Nile, compressing from 50 meters to squeeze through a 6-metre canyon dropping 40 meters with a thunderous roar creating a beautiful rainbow, a plume of spray and the best thing that happened to the Nile…”the Murchison Falls”.

      • Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge
      • Meal Plan: Full Board



  • Day 9 Day 9: Relaxation At Lodge Or Optional Activities
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 9: Relaxation At Lodge Or Optional Activities

      • A five-hour Delta Cruise on the placid Victoria Nile, downstream- USD55 per person choose a private boat for USD250  per boat 

      • go for second Chimpanzee tracking – USD95 per person 

      Arise very early in the morning for your game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Your guide will help you spot elephant, lion, cape buffalo, Roth child’s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bushbuck, bohor reed buck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard. 

      After lunch, go for sundowner  boat cruise upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls, marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch,  you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.  

      The boat stops just tens of meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron”. Take pictures of the photogenic and majestic Murchison Falls. Disembark from the boat and take a hike to the Top of the Falls where you can see the Nile’s beauty perfected!! Marvel at the Nile, compressing from 50 meters to squeeze through a 6-metre canyon dropping 40 meters with a thunderous roar creating a beautiful rainbow, a plume of spray and the best thing that happened to the Nile…”the Murchison Falls”.

      • Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge
      • Meal Plan: Full Board



  • Day 10 Day 10: Transfer To Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary For Morning Rhino Tracking
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 10: Transfer To Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary For Morning Rhino Tracking

      You will exit the park drive South towards Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a Rhino tracking experience.  You will spot 15 Rhinos which were reintroduced after their extinction in the 1970s through poaching.  A local ranger guide will lead you on foot to an up-close encounter with the Rhinos this may take up to two hours. After proceed with your journey back to Kampala arriving at your hotel late afternoon. 

      • Overnight: Amuka Safari Lodge
      • Meal Plan: Full Board


  • Day 11 Day 11: Transfer To Entebbe, Time Allowing Enjoy A Morning At Leisure. Around The City At An Extra Fee.
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 11: Transfer To Entebbe, Time Allowing Enjoy A Morning At Leisure. Around The City At An Extra Fee.

      Depending on the time of your outbound flight, you will take a Kampala City tour. The tour will take you to different heritage sites which include the Kasubi tombs-a burial site for the Kings of Buganda, the Uganda museum-the oldest museum in East Africa, Makerere University-one of the oldest educational institution in Africa and the Bahai temple-the only temple of Bahai faith in Africa.

       After which you will drive back to Kampala carry your own shopping in Kampala’s local markets that are also worthy to visit. 


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Experience Style

Experience Style

Mixed

There will be challenging activities such as hiking, biking, canyoning and trekking, but you’re also going to have other means of transportation and relaxed moments to just chill.

Accomodation level

Accomodation level

Medium

This accommodation includes essential services like a hot shower, electricity, and a nice and comfy bed.

Experience Type

Experience Type

Small Group

You’ll be accompanied by a small group of travelers just like you.

Physical Rating

Physical Rating

Average

There are several physical activities that last from 2 to 6 hours in easy terrains, low altitude flats, or water experiences. Please ask if you’re not sure this applies to you.

Age range

Age range

Min: 15 / Max: 80

Minors from 15 to 17 years must be accompanied by an adult.

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