8 Days of a Ugandan Safari and Primate Encounter

8 Days of a Ugandan Safari and Primate Encounter, , explore the great Murchison falls national park with the most powerful waterfall in the world, Uganda’s biggest national park with rhino tracking in your way to the park, game drive, boat cruise and Nile trekking for chimpanzee of Kibale forest Adventure safari in Uganda for 8 days, explore the great Murchison falls national park with the most powerful waterfall in the world, Uganda’s biggest national park with rhino tracking in your way to the park, game drive, boat cruise and Nile trekking for chimpanzee of Kibale forest national park, transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park, thrilling activities gorilla trekking and concluding with the Bunyonyi visiting.

Day 1: Picking you up and Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park

Depending on your location in Kampala /Entebbe and you will arrive at Entebbe International Airport and meet our company representative who will pick you and transfer you to Murchison falls national park Ugandan as biggest national park. The park is habitant for big four including lions, elephants, buffalo and leopards. However, you will have a stopover for about 2 to 3hours at Ziwa rhino sanctuary for rhino tracking. Have lunch at Kabalega dinners or Masindi town after you will proceed to the home of magnificent falls, adding you 2 more hours to arrive at the park. Upon arrivals at the park, later afternoon connects to your lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Accommodational Options:  Hornbill safari lodge, Pakuba safari lodge, red chills, Murchison River lodge Ikorom safari lodge

Meal plan: full board

Day 2: Game Drive and Boat Cruise

After early morning breakfast you will go for morning game drive at the northern bank of the park. The activity will take place about 3-5hours. You will be able to view variety of wild life including elephants, giraffes, buffalo, lions, hartebeest (Jackson hartebeest), Uganda kobs, water bank and birds species like fish eagle, billed stock among others. Back to the lodge for lunch and rest.

After lunch go for boat cruise on the Nile with existing panoramic view at the bottom of the might Murchison falls. Along the cruise, you will encounter, crocodiles, hippos, elephants, antelope, come for water and birds on the river banks i.e., kingfisher, bee eater. After go back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: Top of the fall and Transfer To Kibale Forest National Park

After morning breakfast check out of the lodge. your driver guide will take you to the top of the fall, hiking through Baker’s trail and also be able to stand at Baker’s stone bringing you closer to the bottom of the falls, this hike is a bit tuff but its festinating as you will enjoy to see the fall at different points and finally when you reach at the top of the falls you will be amazed and eventually forget about the tuff hike.

After the top of the fall deepest Murchison to Kibale forest national park, it’s quite about five hours to drive to fort portal with En-route lunch at Hoima city or fort portal city. Kibale forest park is the best safari destination in Africa. With almost 13species of primates where chimpanzee is some most visited. Have dinner and overnight.

Accommodation Optional: Kibale forest camp, Kibale guest cottages, Kibale forest lodge, full board meal plan

Day 4: Chimpanzee Trekking and Nature Walk

Very early morning breakfast transfer to the park head offices for the briefing about the endangered chimpanzee and later enter the forest with the guidance of a park ranger along with your trekking devices, packed water. This tracking takes place about 2-5 hours in search of the chimpanzees. After finding these primates, stay with them for I hour while studying their behaviors and take photos. After return to your lodge for lunch and refresh.

Later after noon connect for a nature walk in Bigodi wetland, where you will get to enjoy walking through a wetland/swamp with a variety of bird species and monkey species like Red Columbus monkeys. later in the evening return to the lodge for relation dinner and overnight at the previous lodge

Meal plan: full board.

Day 5: Transfer to Bwindi via Queen Elizabeth National Park

After breakfast check out of the lodge, meet your guide to depart for gorilla tracking in Bwindi, you will first connect on to game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park in search for the tree climbing lions with lunch En-route at kihihi /Topi safari lodge Ishasha, proceed to Bwindi you will arrive late in the afternoon and check in to your lodge. Dinner and overnight.

Accommodation option: Broadbill forest lodge, KFC mist gorilla lodge, Buhoma rest camp, Bakiga gorilla lodge FB

Day 6: Gorilla Trekking Experience

After breakfast transfer to the office for briefing with your packed lunch and drinking water, after briefing you will start your gorilla trekking journey accompanied by armed ranger guides, this takes 1 to 3 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas, after finding them you will spend 1 hour with them. Return back to the starting point where you will find your driver guide to take you back to your lodge but don’t forget to take your certificate then to lodge in relaxation for evening activity that is Batwa trial experience in the forest and know their way of leaving in forest before they removed from forest to join the community the challenges they face and how heard they go through to fit in society, and learn more interesting way of leaving they in forest with the gorillas after back to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Transfer To Lake Bunyonyi the Deepest Lake in Uganda

After breakfast check out of the lodge and then connect to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale district. This is three hours’ drive. Arrive at Bunyonyi in Kabale with great sceneries at surrounding hills, this lake is in between Kisoro and Kabale in south western Uganda. It’s believed to be the depth between 44m and 900m deep is about 7 to 25kms wide and is the deepest lake in Uganda and 2^nd in Africa after Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and is the third in the whole world (L. Baikal, L. Tanganyika and L. Bunyonyi) (1642m, 1470m and 900m).

Here you will have lunch and then boat cruise and canoeing to some of the fascinating island on the lake i.e., the kyohugye Islands, this is where you will find variety of wild life including zebras, waterbucks, impalas, and kobs. Visit Akampeirwe islands, Punishment Island where the pregnant unmarried girl and most men and boys who not afford to pay dowry they pick them and marry them for free after the elders see that these girls where picked they changed their minds and took them to River Rwizzi where they damp into that River.

Return to the lodge for relaxation.

 Dinner and overnight stay at: Bunyonyi safari lodge, Bunyonyi overland Eco lodge.

Day 8: Transfer Back To Kampala via Lake Mburo National Park

After very early morning break, check out the lodge, you will depart from your lodge and head back to Kampala via lake Mburo national park to see wildlife like Zebras, Elands, Impalas because these animals is found in lake Mburo and Kidepo valley national park only in uganda , depends the flight time you will go for safari walk after you will proceed to Entebbe with stopover at equator the line which separates the world, and have lunch, take photos for the memories continue airport via Buganda tribe drum makers at Mpambire then proceed to Entebbe Airport for your flight back home.