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11 Days Uganda Highlights

Last revised: 2021-11-23 21:57:15 (2 years ago)

Overview

Looking for a unique experience while visiting all Uganda’shighlights spots,start with a Visit to the reintroduced white rhinos at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Continue to the mighty Murchison falls enjoying game drives looking outfor the rare Rothschild’s giraffe, Relax during an afternoon boat trip to the mighty Murchison Falls. visit 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 the big five like lions, elephants, Rhinos, Buffalos, Leopard etc. relax as you enjoy lunch cruises on different water bodies in the visited nationa parks.

Have a unique close encounter with mountain gorillas during gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National park.

Day 1: Arrival at the Airport
Day 2: Drive to Murchison Falls
Day 3: Game Drive & Boat Safari
Day 4: Drive ToKibale NP
DAY 5: Chimpanzee & Swamp Walk
DAY 6: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 7: Game Drive & Boat Cruise
Day 8: Drive ToBwindi
Day 9: Gorilla Tracking
Day 10: Drive To Lake Mburo
Day 11: Drive Back to Kampala

Day 1: Arrival at the Airport
Our Guide/driver will be already waiting to pick you up from the airport and transfer you to booked hotel or lodge for the first night depending on your time of arrival to rest as you wait for your marvelous and memorable safari.

Accommodations
Budget:
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.

After reaching the park, you will pass via the top of the falls (about 45 minutes). Where you will be able to have a perfect view of the world’s longest river forcing it’s 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 then later continue to the lodge.

Driving hour: 6 to 8 hours
Accommodation
Budget: Fort Murchison - lazy camping tents
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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.

Accommodation
Budget: Fort Murchison - lazy camping Tents
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

Day 4: Drive ToKibale 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 listeningto the sounds of the tropical rainforest at night which always gives a beautiful sound.

Driving time:7 to 8 hours
Accommodation
Budget: Kibale Forest Camp - Lazy camping tents.
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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 trackingchimp; 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. KibalePark 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. Hereyou 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
Budget: Kibale Forest Camp  - Lazy camping tents.
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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 aroundafternoon, 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: 3to 4hours

Accommodation;
Budget: Bush Lodge - Lazy camping tents  
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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 lakes 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;
Budget: Bush Lodge - Lazy camping tents  
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

Day 8: Drive To Bwindi
In the morning you will drive to bwindi impenetrable national park. Pass via ishasha and have a look to the tree climbing lions, continue driving throughbeautiful landscape scenery of kisoronormally 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 viewingthe 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 lodge of your choice, since you had a long day journey preparing for tomorrow’s big day.
Driving time: 4 to 5 hours

Accommodation
Budget: Gorilla valley lodge
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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
Budget:
Gorilla valley lodge
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

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.

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
Budget:
- Eagle’s nest - Tents
Meal Plan: - Bed & Breakfast

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 lodgeor to the airport to catch your flight back home.

Driving time: 4 to 5 hours

End of the Safari

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Prices for the safari

Since this is a private 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

1 pax     $3,913

2 pax     $2,802 per person

3 pax     $2,552 per person

4 pax     $2,336 per person

5 pax     $2,279 per person

6 pax     $2,181 per person

The package includes:

  • Ground transportation by 4WD Tourvan

  • Return airport transfers to and from airport

  • 10 nights accommodations

  • Meal plan, Bed and breakfast

  • English speaking Driver/Guide

  • 1 Gorilla trekking permit per person

  • 1 Chimpanzee permit per person

  • Park entrance fees

  • All Fuel &

  • Rhino tracking 

  • Nature walk in lake mburo

  • Park etrance fees 

  • Ranger fees

  • Bottled water in safari car

The package excludes;

  • Tips

  • Laundry

  • Souvenirs

  • Personal wines, sodas, beers and cigarettes

  • International Air ticket and related costs

  • Personal Insurance covers

  • Meals out booked accommodation

  • Optional activities 

Transport to be used on your safari
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!!

Upgrade to a Land cruiser
But in case you want an upgrade to a Land cruiser which is rated as the strongest safari vehicle on the African roads, it’s well maintained, customized with comfortable seats, a pop up roof which gives a wide viewing 360 angle!!. This come's with an extra cost, but it’s worth it. Just in inform us in advance

Accommodation & Transport - Budget;

For this trip accommodation you will be staying in lodges 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, some are with En-suit bathroom, some  tents share a bathroom with hot showers and flushing toilets. No need to worry about linen as all bedding and towels are provided

NOTE: For this the above mentioned accommodations it depends on availability and we make sure the best is our first priorities when we are making this booking. In case there is no availability during the requested dates of your safari, we do our best to look for another alternative accommodation which is relatively in the same standards or rate range.

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