Highlights:
Arrival, Murchison Falls National Park, Game drive, Bottom of the falls Boat Launch, Drive via Hoima to Fort portal, Kibale Forest National Park, Chimp trek, Queen Elizabeth National Ishasha Sector, Game drive, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Gorilla Trek, Flight to Entebbe, Departure
Day 1 Arrival , Entebbe International Airport
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, proceed to clear with immigration and customs. You will be met by the Primate Expeditions representative just outside the baggage hall area and be transferred to your hotel. Check in and have the rest of the day at leisure.
Protea Hotel Entebbe-Deluxe BB
Day 2 Murchison Falls National Park
Early morning breakfast, then depart for Murchison falls national park through Uganda’s remote villages, stop over at the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary in Nakasongola and trek the Rhinos on foot, thereafter proceed for lunch and later drive to Murchison Falls National Park via Masindi, time permitting you will hike to the top of the great Murchison falls arriving at the lodge late evening. Check in for dinner and overnight.
Twiga Safari Lodge-Standard L-LDBB
Day 3 Murchison Falls National Park
Following breakfast you depart for a morning game drive in the northern bank of river Nile as we look out for the elephant, lion, Cape buffalo, Rothschild giraffe, hartebeest, Oribi, bushbuck, Bohor reedbuck, spotted hyena and if lucky you could even spot the leopard. We will be back in time to have breakfast and lunch at the lodge. In the afternoon we take a boat cruise at 1500 hours upstream to the “bottom of the falls”. The Nile here gets calm at the base of the falls, we stop a few meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron”, where it compresses 47 mt to squeeze through a 6-meter canyon dropping 40 mt with a thunderous roar. En-route, marvel at the, hippos, crocodiles and over this 17 km stretch you may see elephants as well as a lot of bird species like Goliath heron, pelican bee– eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.
Twiga Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Full board
Day 4 Kibale Forest National Park
Check out after breakfast, depart Murchison Falls National Park with your packed lunches and drive to Kibale National Park via Hoima and Fort Portal, in a breathtaking landscape that forms the Albertine western Rift Valley, approx. 6 hours’ arriving at the lodge late afternoon. Check in and have the rest of the day at leisure.
Accommodation: Turaco Treetops
Meal Plan : Full board
Day 5 Chimp Trek & Queen Elizabeth National Park
Early breakfast and later proceed to the Uganda Wildlife Authority Park headquarters where you will be briefed on the etiquette while the forest and in the presence of the chimps. After briefing, you will enter the forest in search for the cheeky chimps as well as other Primates. Thereafter you will drive to the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park arriving in the evening. Check in at the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Ishasha Jungle Lodge
Meal plan: Full board
Day 6 Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Reserve
Check out after breakfast and embark on a morning game drive in the Ishasha sector, thereafter proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable NP, home of the endangered mountain gorilla approximately 1:30hrs drive arriving in time for lunch at the lodge. Check in at Mahogany Springs Lodge and the rest of the day at leisure.
Mahogany Springs Lodge
Meal Plan Full board
Day 7 Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
After an early breakfast at the lodge. you will drive to the nearby park offices to attend briefing by the Tourism conservation and gorilla guides. You will be briefed on the DOs Aasn Don’t while the forest and in the presence of a gorilla family. Later, after registration the gorilla trekking starts with trackers, guides and porters and this may take as few minutes to as long as a couple of hours. Once the gorilla group is found you will be allowed an hour to stay with the gorillas before breaking off for lunch in the forest. Later walk back to your waiting vehicle and return to the park offices to receive a gorilla trekking certificate. You will later return to your accommodation to freshen.
Mahogany Springs Lodge
Meal Plan Full board
Day 8 Departure
Breakfast at the Lodge, be transferred back to Kihihi airstrip for your Bar Aviation flight to Entebbe ETD 0930 ETA 1125 (baggage allowance strictly 15kgs in soft sided duffel bags)arriving in time to connect on your onward flight.
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