13 Day safari itenary - 13 Days

Our company representative will pick you from your hotel in Kampala where you will be able drive to the western part of Uganda. Proceed to Lake Mburo National Park and have a stopover at the Equator for photography and lunch. There after proceed to Lake Mburo National Park, known for its plains game and large hippo population. In the evening, head to the booked lodge for overnight and dinner.

After your breakfast, you will have a game drive/walk and then exit the park to travel through a landscape of rolling hills alive with gardens and herds of impressive Ankole cattle. You will proceed as you head to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and make a stopover in Mbarara town for Lunch and thereafter transfer to Buhoma. Along the way, you will enjoy the beautiful scenery of the hilly areas and you will be able to sight some birds.

Upon reaching Buhoma, you will check in to your lodge for an overnight and dinner.

Up relatively early, enjoy breakfast to give you the energy you will need to track the famed Mountain Gorilla in the Bwindi mists. With your packed lunch in your rucksack, your guide will take you to the ranger station for registration and briefing by one of the rangers. Once the formalities of what to do and not do while tracking the gentle giants are communicated, the guides will then take you through the bush, pushing your way through the undergrowth, to track the gorillas. (the trek can take from half an hour to 5 hours – a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes). Once you encounter the Mountain Gorillas, sit in the forest among the gorillas, see them go about their day, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the Silverback.

It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense rainforest knowing you in the presence of a few of the last remaining Mountain Gorillas. It’s important to note that there are only about 1000 of these beautiful creatures left in the wild. Once back at the starting point, your guide will be waiting to transfer you to Lake Bunyonyi. On arrival, you check-in at a lodge.

From the lodge, you can check-out one of the most beautiful lakes in the world and marvel at its changing outlook as the day progresses. Use this time to look back on your aweinspiring trek through your camera as you look at pictures and video of your encounter with the gorillas.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Gorilla trekking continues

This morning, after breakfast, you drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Upon arrival, check-in at your Lodge. Once you have checked in, enjoy lunch and relax in and around the lodge. Later, return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay. The park hosts abundant mammal, reptile and bird species, Ishasha is renowned for its huge Tree Climbing Lions. Fantastic bird life as well as numerous species of primates can be found in this area. We will game drive extensively searching the tall fig trees for lion and the savannah for other game. In the evening at about 5pm, head to the Katwe Crater Lake where locals have mined salt through the ages. This lake situated just north of the impressive Mweya peninsula, is far too salty to support any wildlife. However, since the 16th Century, it has ensured the survival of the Katwe residents, who spend their days under the equatorial sun, harvesting salt from its milky waters. Enjoy the spectacular drive to Katwe as you look out for wildlife including buffaloes and elephants. Watch out for Lake Kitagata fed by salty hotsprings with no wildlife around but the spectacular views. Once you arrive at the salt mines, marvel at the network of paths and huts that have been built across the lake to support hundreds of workers. The salt is sold to traders from across Uganda, and as far as DR Congo and Rwanda. This tour gives visitors a unique insight into the fascinating yet tough process of salt mining, as well as providing an alternative income for Katwe.

During the tour of the lake you will see community members at work, cross the mud.

Game drive continues

After breakfast, we travel the length of the park and through the Maramagambo
Forest and make our way to the Rwenzoris – “Mountains of the Moon”. After an easy walk through numerous rural villages and up to the base of the forest to the Rwenzori lookout point.

After lunch we proceed down the mountain with our vehicle towards the outskirts of Fort Portal.

An early start, we leave the mountains behind us and travel through the luminous green tea plantations surrounding Fort Portal. Head to Murchison falls National Park and check in at your lodge for lunch.

You will relax as you memorize the previous experiences as you plan for the next day.

Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Early this morning we set off on a guided walk in search of a group of habituated chimpanzees. We hope to spend an hour with the group before returning to lodge. Depending on where these chimps were last seen, we may have to drive a short distance where we can then start our chimpanzee track. We shall head to the falls and spend some time here exploring the falls. Next, we travel downstream to cross the Nile in order to enjoy two nights in the northern part of the park. In this section, the park opens up to wide open spaces, rolling hills, scenery of a different kind and also gives you an opportunity to see a different species of giraffe known as the Rothschild Giraffe.

There after we continue to the booked lodge for an overnight.

Victoria falls trip continues

After the morning breakfast, you will go to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary; a project established to reintroduce rhino into their original habitat in protected areas.

There after head to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

This morning, after the breakfast, you visit the source of the Nile, the Nile Bridge and thereafter you will go for white water rafting.

Overnight and dinner will be at the booked lodge.

The tour ends after breakfast this morning and thereafter transfer back to Entebbe for your onward flight. This will be an experience will live to remember.