From $ 2,651

11 Days The Uganda Highlights - Group Tour

Start Date: 2024-04-11 End Date: 2024-04-21 Group: Max: 8, Min: 4

Overview

On these 11 days tour, get a unique experience while visiting all Uganda’s highlights spots, start with a Visit to the reintroduced white rhinos at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Continue to the mighty Murchison falls enjoying game drives looking out for the rare Rothschild’s giraffe, Relax during an afternoon boat trip to the mighty Murchison Falls.  see wild chimpanzees in Kibale Forest and a walk-through Bigodi Swamp during an exciting primate walk. Enjoy the views of Queen Elizabeth with game drive as you look out for for lions, elephants, etc. go for the Kazinga Channel boat trip in the late afternoon in.

Have a unique close encounter with mountain gorillas during gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and have a safari walk with the animal  

Day 1: Arrival at the Airport

Day 2: Drive to Murchison Falls

Day 3: Game Drive & Boat Safari

Day 4: Drive to Kibale NP

Day 5: Chimpanzee & Swamp Walk

Day 6: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 7: Game Drive & Boat Cruise

Day 8: Drive to Bwindi

Day 9: Gorilla Tracking

Day 10: Drive to Lake Mburo

Day 11: Drive Back to Kampala

Day 1: Arrival at the Airport

your Guide/driver will be already waiting to pick you up from the airport on your arrival and transfer you to booked guest house for the first night depending on your time of arrival to rest as you wait for your marvellous and memorable safari.

Accommodations
Lodge: Airport Guest House
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

Day 2: Drive to Murchison Falls
The guide will pick you up in the morning from the hotel, lodge or guest house were you spent your night. He will then brief you how your safari or trip is planned, and about the journey you are going for. You will then drive to Murchison falls National Park. On your way you will also visit Ziwa Rhino sanctuary for rhino tracking, after the tracking have lunch here before you continue to the biggest park.

Driving hour: 6 to 8 hours

Accommodation
Lodge: Pakuba safari lodge
Meal Plan: - Breakfast & Dinner

Day 3: Game Drive & Boat Safari
After an early morning breakfast (@ 6:00am), you will go for game drive within the park. You will be able to spot variety of animal species like; Uganda cob, buffalo, elephant, giraffe, lion, hartebeest, waterbuck, bohor reed buck, bushbuck, hyena and also you will be able to see the leopard. After a lunch,

In the afternoon you will go for a boat safari to the bottom of the mighty exciting falls. As you on the boat cruise, you will have a spectacular view of the water life animal like; crocodiles in, hippos, elephants that come to take water in afternoon, water bucks and birds like the Shoebill which is only found in Uganda and the activity it takes about 4hrs.

After the boat cruise, will drive to the top of the falls Where you will be able to have a perfect view of the world’s longest river forcing its waters to pass through a narrow space to the bottom forming a pool of water before it sets off for the long journey. You will the find a guide waiting reaching the top to transfer to the lodge.

Accommodation
Lodge: Pakuba safari lodge 
Meal Plan: - Breakfast & Dinner

Day 4: Drive to Kibale NP
Early in the morning you will be leaving for Kibale Forest. Here you will pass close to Lake Albert: on a clear day the view from the top of the Albert rift is spectacular. On the way you will be able to see the greener part of the country with spectacular view of the coffee plantations, you will have stopover in fort portal town for lunch, before continuing to the park. In the afternoon, you will arrive at Kibale Forest, where you will sleep in the lodge listening to the sounds of the tropical rainforest at night which always gives a beautiful sound.

Driving time: 7 to 8 hours

Accommodation
Lodge: Kibale Forest Camp. - safari tents
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner  

Day 5: Chimpanzee tracking & Swamp Walk
Very early in the morning, you will be guided by an experienced forest ranger, who will take you around in the rain forest t start tracking chimp; not only chimps, but you also be able to see other primates (over 13 primate species) including different monkey species and also baboons that live in this tropical forest.  You will have an approximately 1 hour of physical appearance with the chimpanzees.  Kibale Park is also known for the butterflies and various birds’ species.

In the afternoon you will have a walk-through Bigodi Swamp (which is a local community-based project) that affiliates with the kibale national park, since the park gives it some assistance. Here you will be able to have a spectacular view to various monkey species like; red colobus, white and black, red chicked and others. You will sleep in the lodges of your own choices

Accommodation
Lodge: Kibale Forest Camp – safari tents
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner  

Day 6: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Early morning you will leave for Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will travel through Fort Portal and on a clear day you may see the glaciated peaks as you gently descend into the Great Rift Valley to the park reach Queen Elizabeth NP at around afternoon, with a stunningly beautiful view over Kazinga Channel. You will check in at your accommodation.

You will go for afternoon game drive together with an experienced ranger you will search for all the wild animals in the park including warthogs, buffaloes, waterbucks and elephants. Have dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Driving time: 3 to 4 hours

Accommodation;
Lodge: Simba safari camp 
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 7: Game Drive & Boat Cruise
After an early morning breakfast, your guide will take you for an early morning game drive Together with an experienced ranger you will search for all the wild animals in the park, including; elephants, buffalo, waterbuck, leopard and many other animals.

 After lunch, you will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel which joins Lake George and Lake Edward. Here, you will be able to see water life animals like hippos, crocodiles, elephants, buffalos water ducks and also other animals which come for drinking water or to bath on the lake’s showers. You will be able to have a big watch of various beautiful bird species. The day ends and you will return to the lodge for dinner and sleep over.

Accommodation;
Lodge: Simba safari camp 
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 8: Drive to Bwindi
In the morning you will drive to bwindi impenetrable national park, continue driving through beautiful landscape scenery of kisoro normally known as the "Switzerland of Africa": full of mountains, lakes, hills with cultivated terraces, (by the “bakiga people”), tropical rainforest and bamboo forest. There you will be viewing the vast planes of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, with the Virunga volcanoes dominating. After your arrival in the virunga vast areas, you will relax in the booked lodge since you had a long day journey preparing for tomorrow’s big day.
Driving time: 4 to 5 hours

Accommodation
Lodge: Gorilla valley lodge  
Meal Plan:  Breakfast & Dinner  

Day 9: Gorilla Tracking
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest favors both mountain gorillas and some chimpanzees one of the only forest in Africa which possess these creatures. It also hosts five other species of primate, 100 mammals, around 78 butterflies and 360 bird species.

In the early morning after your breakfast, your driver will transfer you from your lodge with packed lunch to the starting point of your tracking group at UWA headquarters so that you can get a briefing at around (7.45am or 8.30am), then you will start the tracking. The gorillas that you track are very friendly to people, though still there are same groups which are shy, as human being there are those who are sharp and some are stubborn.  Your experienced ranger will help you to spot out their presence. You will be going through the bush, pushing your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas

Once you have find the gorillas, you will be able to spend with them up to one hour which is given time, before going back to your lodge.

Note:  (This trek can take from half an hour to 5 hours depending on the area you track and group– a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes). Have your Dinner and overnight at:

Accommodation
Lodge: Gorilla valley lodge  
Meal Plan:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 10: Drive to Lake Mburo
After early morning breakfast, you will begin your journey to Lake Mburo National Park which is one of Uganda’s smallest parks; it’s one of the parks in Uganda, which is well known as a home to zebra, eland and impala, as well as hippos. On the way you may have a lunch (excluded and optional) stopover in Mbarara

In the afternoon you will go for game drive with a ranger while searching for different animal spices, though as an extension of the Tanzanian Plains it’s the only park in Uganda with big herds of Zebra, Impala, Eland and other savannah species. For birders, this is one of the best places to find African Fin foot, Papyrus, Bush Shrike.Driving time: 7 to 8hours

Accommodation
Lodge: - Hyena hills lodge 
Meal Plan: - Breakfast & Dinner

Day 11: Drive Back to Kampala

In the morning you will go for an early nature walk guided by a ranger due to the fact that, Lake Mburo is the only national park where you can experience a safari walk on foot in the searching for various animal species, you will return to the lodge and have a late breakfast at the lodge.

You will start your journey back to Kampala getting an opportunity to stop at the Equator, for photo shoots and buying souvenirs. You will then be dropped off toyour booked lodge or to the airport to catch your flight back home.

Driving time: 4 to 5 hours

End of the Safari

Prices for the safari

Since this is a Group tour, your booked safari can be arranged and organized at any time throughout the year depending on your desired traveling dates and the availability of accommodation.

Our Rates are always base on persons sharing a Double/Twin room/Triple

Single room supplements charges may apply for those requesting single occupancy

Rates: 

Per person     $2,651 (sharing)

Single supplement - $398

The package includes:

  • Ground transportation by 4WD Tour van

  • Airport transfers

  • Accommodation per program

  • Meals per program

  • English speaking Driver/Guide

  • 1 Gorilla permit per person ($700)

  • 1 Chimpanzee tracking permit per person

  • Zhiwa Rhino tracking permit per person

  • All park entrance fees

  • Activities described in program

  • Water in safari car

  • Ranger fees

  • All Fuel

The package excludes any cost of personal nature like:

  • Tips

  • Laundry

  • Souvenirs

  • Personal drinks and cigarettes

  • International Air ticket and related costs

  • Personal Insurance covers

  • Meals out of booked accommodation and program

  • Optional activities

Transport to be used

  • This Tour is based on a Min-van with 4wd. it seats from up to the maximum of 8 persons. All our used vehicles are well maintained, customized with comfortable seats, a pop up roof which gives a wide viewing 360 angle!!
  • Accommodations
  • For this trip accommodation you will be staying in lodge or Camps which are built in African safari style tents, comfortably furnished with twin or double beds, a bedside table and a power outlet for charging your electrical equipment. All tents are placed under a grass thatched roof. The tents share a communal ablution block with showers and flushing toilets. No need to worry about linen as all bedding and towels are provided.
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