7 DAYS QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK ,BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST AND LAKE BUNYONYI - 7 Days

Overview

This 5-days safari package will see through the scenic bwindi impenetrable forest canopies, where you will trek mountain gorillas.

Itinerary

Day 1
Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Our company guide will pick you up from your hotel to you transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Queen Elizabeth is the most popular park in Uganda as it offers diverse ecosystems, classic big game and primate species and over 600 bird species. You will have a lunch break at a preferred stopover before proceeding to the park.

On arrival you will head for an evening game drive before checking-in at your accommodation for dinner and the night.

Day 2
Queen Elizabeth National Park

After the morning breakfast at your hotel, you will spend the full day in Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will see the Kasenyi plains which are excellent for sighting lion and large herds of Uganda kob. The Mweya peninsula offers excellent game drives with magnificent views across the water to the Rwenzori Mountains. Mweya is one of the best places to look for leopard, which live in the dense, scrubby thickets.
You will then return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon you will go for Launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel. The Channel is home to one of the greatest concentration of hippo in Africa and herds of elephant, buffalo and other animals come to drink at the water’s edge. The channel is a magnet for water birds, with great flocks of pelicans and others birds on the shore, and a great spot to see African fish eagle.

Drive back to the lodge for overnight and dinner.

Boat Ride

Day 3
Ishasha- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Have breakfast at the lodge and pack your lunch and then proceed to the Ishasha sector. You will conduct another Game drive in this sector with chances of spotting climbing lions resting on sycamore trees and any other wildlife that you may have missed in day 2.

After the game drive you will drive for some to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Buhoma.

Climbing lions in Queen

Day 4
Gorilla Tracking.

This day will start with an early breakfast at your hotel and then set off gorilla trekking. You will go the park offices for briefing by the ranger guides. You will start your gorilla search. Upon coming across gorillas, the trekking starts and it takes an hour. Depending on the duration of the track you can either relax in the afternoon at the lodge and just enjoy the view or go for another walk around the community and explore the village.

Day 5
Batwa experience

Baby Mountain Gorilla

After breakfast at your lodge, You will go for Batwa experience.

An overnight at your lodge

Day 6
Transfer to Bunyonyi

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive for Lake Bunyonyi,on arrival, you will set out for the hired canoe and travel around the surroundings from the water surface as you search for different bird species on the 37 Islands of the Lake and importantily visit the  pygmies.

Dinner and overnight at the lodge

 

Drive through Bunyonyi

Day 7
Departure

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive back to Kampala or Kigali with a stopover in Mbarara town for lunch(In case of a flight via Entebbe). You can either drop off at a hotel in Kampala or Kigali for an overnight and dinner or connect to the airport for your onward flight.

Inclusions

What’s included

  • Permit fees,
  • Vehicle and Fuel,
  • Accommodation,
  • English speaking tour driver and
  • Drinking water in the tour vehicle.

Exclusions

  • Visa,
  • Telephone airtime and items of personal nature, Laundry services,
  • Drinks,
  • Tips and gratuities and
  • Internal air flights.

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7 DAYS QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK ,BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST AND LAKE BUNYONYI

Trip Facts

  • Advised to be 2 and above
  • 4 X 4 Vehicle