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Day 1 Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park, Hike to the Murchison Falls, Launch Cruise
Pick-up from the lodgeat 7.00am your driver/guide shall brief you on the day’s program shortly before the start of a 6hour drive to Murchison Falls National Park.You pass byZiwa Rhino sanctuary to see the Rhinos You could make a stopover to pick some fruits (pineapples, jackfruits, passionfruits), then proceed to Masindi town for early lunch at Masindi Hotel/Court View Hotel. After lunch continue the drive out of town to a dirt road for twenty five minutes and get to Murchison Falls National Park. After clearance at the park gate, you are ushered into the Murchison by a congress of playfull anticipating baboons in the road.
This is the start of some great picture moments. Continue the drive as you savor the beautiful grassy landscape to the start of the hike to the top of the Murchison Falls.(Optional) At the top you are treated to the breathtaking sight of the Falls. About 300 – 400 cubic meters per second of Nile waters force through a tiny gorge of about 7 meters to plunge into a violent tempest about 42 meters below. It is such a beautiful sight. Incredible picture moments here.5.30pm and drive to your lodge for dinner and look for Nocturnal animals within the lodge before you go to bed
Day 2 Early Morning Game Drive,
Be up for early breakfast at about 6.00am. The driver picks you up and along with a game ranger set out for the game drive by 7.00am. Early morning is a great time to catch the early risers, nocturnal and the hunters before returning to their hideouts. River Nile divides the park into the southern and northern sections. The northern side has a higher concentration of game than the south. If your accommodation is on the southern side you will drive to the ferry crossing to get to the northern side. You explore the major game trails especially around Paraa and expect great wildlife sightings including giraffes, lions, elephants, spotted hyenas, warthogs, Uganda kobs, Jackson’s Heart beasts, waterbucks, and leopards among others. At about 11am you return
After proceed to catch the 2.30pm Launch Cruise on River Nile (Victoria Nile). This is the biggest highlight of any Murchison Falls Safari (Optional).This relaxing ride of about 3 hours treats you to such beautiful wildlife sightings. There are lots of water animals like the hippos and Nile crocodiles. Lots of other animals come to the river to drink water, cool off the scorching heat and for others to eat fresh grass along the banks. Expect sightings of elephants, buffalos, antelopes and a cocktail of birds including among others kingfisher, herons, and fish eagles. The ride takes you to the base of the Murchison Falls for yet another angle to savor these lovely falls. Return later at about 5.30pm and here you wait for evening game drive which will take you to look for Nocturnal across the Nile River and drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Transfer to Kibale National Park via HOIMA, KEJONJO, FORTPORTAL towns.
Reaching there late in evening and before going to bed you will go for a night forest walk looking for Gallogos Potos and other Nocturnal overnight in the lodge.
Day 4: Chimpanzee Habtuation, tracking over 12 primates in Kibale National Park
Assemble at Kanyankyu River camp at 06:30hours to go for the most popular activity in this park which is Chimpanzee habtuation. Chimpanzees are man’s closet cousins though they are one of the most threatened primate’s species. More primates like Black and white Columbus monkeys, L’Hoest Monkeys, Grey cheeckedMangabey, Red tailed monkeys, bush babies, pottos and many bird species like the yellow spotted nectar, ramped tinker bird, Little greenbul, green breasted pitta, the crowned eagle, black bee eater and mammals like Elephants can be seen in this walk.
Kibale National park, which averages about 3,300 feet in elevation, is an extension of the great rainforests of central Africa. It is inhabited by three large “communities” of chimps, each numbering more than 100 individuals. Each community has a complicated social structure. The big adult males dominate the group and defend the community territory against incursions by male outsiders; the females usually wander in small family groups.
Typically, we locate the chimps by listening for their pant-hooting calls, then hustle to the area from which they are calling. We get to observe them as they feed in fruiting trees, lounge, and socialize with each other, or even, occasionally hunt the whole afternoon up to 19:00pm and in the night go out to look for potos gal logos overnight at lodge.
Day 5:Safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
After your breakfast, we check out and start our drive to Fort Portal. We do a game drive in the northern part of the park, visiting the Crater lakes for its nice scenery, and good views of the shadows of the mountains of the moon – the Rwenzoris. Enjoy the drive back to the lodge through large expanses of savannah grasslands as you spot some wildlife enroute.
Day 6:Safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Game drive to see lions, leopard, elephant, buffallo, etc
We set out early in the morning for a game drive in the northern part of the park on the Kasenyi Track in search of lions, elephants, solitary buffaloes. This is the best time for opportunities of viewing the cats in action owing to the vast population of Uganda Kobs. We have an excellent chance to view just about every animal here at very close range. In the afternoon we will go for a launch trip along the Kazinga Channel. This gives you the opportunity to view wildlife up close: hippo’s huff and spray at a mere feet away from the boat, buffalo linger in the shallows. The shores of the channel are also home to an array of birds including pink backed pelicans, pied and malachite kingfishers, saddle billed stork and many others even look out for the Mongoose overnight
Day 7: Drive to Bwindi to track gorillas and other primates
Mid-morning after breakfast we drive further south through stunning savannah grasslands as we head towards the breathtaking adventures of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Either (roads permitting) we will pass the southern sector of the park – Ishasha, a remote and beautiful extension of Queen Elizabeth National Park that is host to a large variety and volume of wildlife. (It is a fabulous site to see the lions draped from the trees and nowhere in Africa do you stand a better chance of seeing this than in the large low limbed fig tree of Ishashasectors arrive late in the late evening.overnight in
Day 8: Gorilla trekking (Bwindi Impenetrable NP), Tracking the Mountain Gorillas and other primates
Today enjoy surely. After breakfast, proceed for the morning briefing before enjoying the highlight of the trip- Gorilla trekking, which may last the entire day. We trek through the rainforest and bamboo covered slopes, accompanied by a guide and trackers, in search of a mountain gorilla family. The walking can sometimes be tough and long, but when you catch a glimpse of the magnificent silverback, any discomforts will be quickly forgotten. When sighted, visitors will be guided to within 6 metres from the gorillas, sit around them for a whole hour while gazing into their big round eyes.
Gorilla trekking is unpredictable. It’s difficult to foresee how many hours you will hike. The gorilla excursion can take from 2 up to 8 hours. Expect to walk along distance in steep and muddy conditions, sometimes with rain overhead, before you encounter any gorillas. A good physical condition is recommended. For conservation purposes, time spent with the gorillas is limited to one hour. A ranger will brief you on how to behave with the gorillas.
While most of today’s forests are no more than 12,000 years old, Bwindi’s vegetation has been weaving itself into tangles over at least 25,000 years, in the process accumulating a lengthy species list. This includes 310 species of butterfly, 51 reptiles, 200 trees, 88 moths and an exceptional 120 types of mammal including 10 primates. The latter includes chimpanzee, L’Hoest’s, red tailed and blue monkey, black and white colobus, baboon, and Bwindi’s most famous resident, the mountain gorilla. Bwindi is a prime destination for birdwatchers. Its 350 species include seven which are IUCN red data listed and 90% of all Albertine rift endemics, species which are difficult or impossible to see in any other part of East Africa
Day 9: Depart from the Gorilla Tracking Park, Drive to Kampala
Early breakfast before embarking on our return to Kampala, driving down the grassed and terraced escarpments of southwestern Uganda while taking in the breathtaking sights of the hills of the region dubbed ‘the little Switzerland of Africa’. This area is a highly fertile, mountainous region with steep sided hills covered from top to bottom in neatly terraced cultivated rows. Not to miss as we traverse Mbarara are the impressing long horn Ankole cattle. A remarkable highlight of this journey is the Equator line and surely you will cross it as we have a brief stop here. We will be in Kampala in the evening before for your flight back home.
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