Ultimate Uganda Safari -18 Days

After breakfast, drive to Lake Mburo National Park through the small towns of Uganda. Make a stopover at the Equator line for a photograph and some informative talks and experiments.

Enjoy an en-route game drive as you drive to your lodge\hotel for check-in and lunch. After lunch, you will have a boat on the lake in search of hippos, crocodiles, and water birds among others.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lodge: Lake Mburo Safari lodge/Rwakobo Rock Lodge.

Drive time: 5-6 hours

After breakfast, you will go for a morning walking safari, this gives you a chance to explore and experience nature on foot walking in Lake Mburo National Park, this walk will give you a chance to encounter zebras, elands, the great Ankole Cattle, giraffes, elands, impalas which are only found here in Uganda, among other wildlife and plant life, on your way back you will visit local communities living within the park for cultural encounters and local life experience.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lodge: Lake Mburo Safari Lodge | Rwakobo Rock Lodge.

Drive from Lake Mburo National Park to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale District. Lake Bunyonyi is one of the three Lava damned Lakes.

Was formed when lava flowing from one of the volcanoes blocked a river channel, forcing a flow back hence filling the space to create Lake Bunyonyi.

Bunyonyi locally means small birds, the current name is due to the abundance of small birds in this area.

Lake Bunyonyi is not only believed to be the deepest lake in Uganda but also the second deepest in East Africa.

The natives around this stunning lake as well have many traditional attachments to it.

You will either enjoy a boat cruise or kayak on Lake Bunyonyi and will also visit the legendary Batwa Pygmies,  a panoramic view of the 1000 islands on the lake after a hike up the terraced Kigezi hills will be the signature of this excursion.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lodges: Crater Bay Cottages/ Birdnest Resort / Bunyonyi Rock Resort.

Drive time: 4-5 hours

You will take a mid-morning drive to Mgahinga National Park and arrive just in time for  Lunch, and later check-in at the Lodge.

Your afternoon will be spent having the Batwa cultural trail experience, a walk that will expose you to other attractions in the park before returning back to your hotel overnight.

The Batwa or ‘Twa people are one of the last groups of short-statured people and are also known as ‘pygmies’

Until the Mgahinga Montane forest area was gazetted a National Park, they lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the forest.

The Batwa are now some of the poorest people in the world with a high infant mortality rate and low life expectancy.

As the original dwellers of this ancient jungle, the Batwa were known as “The Keepers of the Forest.” The history of these small-statured people is long and rich.

The Batwa survived by hunting small game using arrows or nets and gathering plants and fruit in the rainforest.

They lived in huts constructed from leaves and branches, moving frequently in search of fresh supplies of food.

The Batwa lived in harmony with the forest and its creatures, including the mountain gorillas, for millennia.

Some anthropologists estimate that pygmy tribes such as the Batwa have existed in the equatorial forests of Africa for 60,000 years or more.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lodge: Kisoro Traveler’s Inn/Lake Chahafi Resort.

After early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and join others for a Golden Monkeys trekking briefing about the dos and don’ts during your Uganda Golden Monkey Trekking Tour.

Once this is done, you will trek through the montane forest of Mountain Mgahinga National Park with your ranger guides to find the beautiful Golden Monkeys, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day.

During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable.

This is indeed an extraordinary feeling to be with these beautiful endangered Creatures. Once you find them you will spend one hour encountering them and then return to your lodge for relaxing and overnight.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lodge: Kisoro Traveler’s Inn/Lake Chahafi Resort.

On this day you will go for a morning walking safari experience and then after you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in South Western Uganda where you will spend two nights.

This journey is about a 4-5 hours drive but very enjoyable as you will be driving through various local communities and towns along the road, the drive also takes you through the beautiful cascading and rolling hills of Kigezi region as you drive to Bwindi Impenetrable forest for overnight.

Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Trekkers Tavern Cottages.

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Drive time: 2-3 hours’ drive.

After early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and join others for a gorilla trekking briefing about the dos and don’ts during your Uganda Gorilla Trekking Tour.

Once this is done, you will trek through the tropical rainforest of Bwindi with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day.

During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable.

This is indeed an extraordinary feeling to be with these beautiful endangered Creatures. You will be awarded a certificate for participating in gorilla trekking and thus contributing to the conservation of mountain gorillas.

Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Trekkers Tavern Cottages.

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

On this day you will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park Ishasha section for 1 night at Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle Lodge, you will arrive at lunchtime hours check at the Lodge and have lunch, and then relax at the lodge, you will later go for an evening game drive to search for tree-climbing lions and other late grazers after you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle Lodge

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Drive time: 4-5 hours’ drive.

On this day, after early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Ishasha plains to view Tree Climbing lions depending on your luck that day, you will also have an opportunity to view other wildlife.

Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle Lodge

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

On this day, after an early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Ishasha plains to view Tree Climbing lions depending on your luck that day, you will also have an opportunity to view other wildlife and you will later in the afternoon drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park for 2 nights at Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge, the park is located along the Equator in South-Western Uganda.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda’s most popular and diverse conservation area situated in the western rift valley floor with a variety of habitats including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, and water which has enabled it to sustain a wide variety of wildlife among them the Big 4 animals which you will enjoy viewing while you stay here.

Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge.

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

After an early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Kasenyi plains for wildlife viewing you will have a chance to see the big herds of Buffalos, Antelopes, Uganda Kobs, and Warthogs among the wildlife and return to the lodge for lunch then later in the afternoon you will do a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel by far known as the highlight of all activities in this park.

This boat cruise offers a chance to spot over 400 species of water birds, and many wild animals as they flock to this channel for drinking water above all, Kazinga channel has the highest concentration of hippos in the whole world

Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge.

Accommodation Type: Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

On this day you will drive to Kibale Forest National Park for 2 nights at Chimpanzee Forest Guest House, the park is East of Rwenzori Mountain captured with tropical rain forests.

The park is best known for its 13 species of primates which include Uganda’s largest population of Chimpanzees and other large mammals such as Elephants, Buffalos, and giant forest hops which are however really seen.

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House/Kibale Homestay.

Accommodation Type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

After early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and join others for a Chimpanzee trekking briefing about the dos and don’ts during your Uganda Chimpanzee Trekking Tour.

Once this is done, you will trek through the tropical rain forest of Kibale Forest National Park with your ranger guides to find the Chimpanzees, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day.

During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable.

This is indeed an extraordinary feeling to be with these beautiful Creatures. After or before your chimpanzee trek, the Bigodi Wetland Walk is an initiative that was set up to support the cause of the local community, and all the proceeds earned are reinvested back into the community

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House/Kibale Homestay.

Accommodation Type:  Mid-range Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

On this day you will drive to Murchison National Park for 2 nights at Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge, the park is located along the Longest River in the world River Nile.

Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda’s largest national park and is situated in Uganda’s largest conservation area situated in the Albertine rift valley floor with a variety of habitats including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, and water which has enabled it to sustain a wide variety of wildlife among them the Big 4 animals which you will enjoy viewing while you stay here.

Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Dive time: 6-7 hours

After early morning breakfast, you will go for a morning game drive and an afternoon boat cruise to the base of the falls at the end of the boat cruise, you will hike to the top of the Falls to have a clear view of the Victoria Falls from above.

You will have opportunities to sport large herds of buffaloes, elephants, giraffes, hippos, Antelopes, warthogs, some birds, and lucky lions.

Return to the jetty for your afternoon boat to the base of the falls. Apart from visiting the falls, this boat will expose you to many water animals, water birds, and others who flock to this place to drink water. You will enjoy your stay here.

Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board.

After your breakfast, you drive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for foot Rhino tracking which will mark the end with an encounter with the Big Five animals, you will have lunch and then be driven to Kampala overnight.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Drive time: 4-5 hours’ drive.

Accommodation: Fairway Hotel and Spa/Forest Cottages Kampala

After an early breakfast, you will meet your guide again and drive to Jinja through Mabira. You can opt to stop and buy some souvenirs, and Sezibwa Falls then proceed to Jinja where you will do a boat cruise to the source of the Nile.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Drive time: 3 hours’ drive.

Accommodation: 2 Friends Beach Hotel

After an early breakfast, you will go for a FULL DAY of heart-pounding thrills as you charge through the Grade 3-5 rapids, and be amazed by the breathtaking scenery with some wildlife. Our qualified and friendly river guides will keep you informed of what’s coming next. After you will drive back to Entebbe/Kampala for drop off to end the tour or your flight out.

Meal Plan: Half Board.

Drive time: 2-3 hours’ drive.

END OF TOUR.