Description
Day 1: Arrival and overnight
7SEASON HOTEL (FB).
Day 2: Departure from Kampala to Kidepo valley National park.
Early morning pick up from your place of stay in Kampala, and travel to Kidepo valley National park
along Gulu- Kitgum- road to the north eastern part of Uganda. Check in to your booked accommodation
on arrival.
Depending on the time of arrival, where you will standan opportunity to view beautiful sceneries of River
Narus plus viewing a diversity of wild animals including, buffaloes, elephants, lions, hartebeests and
klipspringer. Dinner and overnight at your lodge
Accommodation: Apoka Lodge. (FB)
Day 3: Game drives in Kidepo National Park.
Today, you go for an early morning game drive. Stand chances of seeing a number of fauna and flora.
Return to the lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you will set off for a cultural walk, getting a chance to meet
the Karamajong people at Kapedo and Karema.
One of the cultural items that you will see are the ‘Kraals’-the grinding stones, and many more African
crafts which are so amazing Return to the lodge for dinner. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Apoka Lodge. (FB).
Day 4: Game drives in Kidepo National Park.
Accommodation: Apoka Lodge (FB).
Day5: Game Drives in Kidepo National Park.
Accommodation: Apoka Lodge (FB).
Day6: Game drive in Kidepo National Park.
Accommodation: Apoka Lodge (FB).
Day 7: Transfer from Kidepo National Park to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
After breakfast, you will be picked up by your driver to transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary via Kitgum and
Gulu towns.You will have lunch in Gulu city and proceed with the safari. The transfer takes approximately
a full day and you will be most likely to reach your accommodation in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in the evening.
Accomodation: Ziwa Sanctuary (FB)
Day 8: Shoebill Trek and Canoe Ride
To catch the worm, we shall be up by the dawn on our day 2 of the 2 days Rhino Tracking Tour and head
to Lugogo Swamp for shoebill trekking. You will ride in a canoe to view the whale-headed birds, shoebills
nests in wetlands (swamps) as they feed on lungfishes, frogs and other creatures living in swamps.
This early morning canoes ride gives opportunity to view shoebills in the swamp and a colorful sunrise over
the Lugogo swamp of Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary Uganda. The swamp is rich in nature and is also a home to
plenty of water birds. Shoebill at Ziwa rhino sanctuary
It is recommended to sleep with in the sanctuary as gates are opened at 07:30 am yet this activity is best
done in the morning.
Approximately 4hrs are spent on shoebill trekking and canoe riding at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
You will there after go for a guided nature walk where you will see rhinos.After, you will have lunch and
the transfer to Murchison Falls National Park.
Accomodation: Kalalo Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 9: Drive to the top of Murchison Falls
You will be picked up from your accommodation and driven to the top of Murchison Falls.In the afternoon,
after lunch, you will go for a boat ride to the bottom of the falls.In the evening, you will go back to your
accommodation.
Accomodation: Kalalo Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 10: 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 sideHas 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,
Jacksons 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.
Accommodation: Kalalo Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 11: Transfer to Kibale NP
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.
Accommodation: Bigodi Community Lodge (FB)
Day 12: Chimpanzee tracking over 12 primates in Kibale
National ParkAssemble at Kanyankyu River camp at 06:30hours to go for the most popular
activity in this park which is Chimpanzee tracking. 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 checked Mangabey, 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 thisWalk.
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.
Accommodation: Bigodi Community Lodge (FB)
DAY 13: Another tracking activity then transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
The second individual(s) will be taken for a gorilla tracking experience same as Day 10.After when you
will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
After your lunch, 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.
Parkview Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 14: 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
Accommodation: Tembo Safari Lodge (FB)Day 15:30th 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
Accommodation: Ruhondeza Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 16: Gorilla trekking (Bwindi Impenetrable NP), Tracking the
MountainGorillas 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 meters 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. Thegorilla
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 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
anexceptional 120 types of mammal including 10 primates. The latter includes
chimpanzee,L’hoests, red tailed and blue monkey, black and white colobus, baboon, and Bwindi mostfamous
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 Crested
Accommodation: Ruhondeza Safari Lodge (FB)
DAY 17: Another activity.
Accommodation: Ruhondeza Safari Lodge (FB)
Day 18: Transfer 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 on the next day
overnight in
7SEASONS (FB).
DAY 19: Transfer to Entebbe international Airport for your flight home.
END OF THE SAFARI.
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