8 Day Uganda Gorilla Safari and Chimpanzee Trekking
Discover everything from Bwindi mountain gorillas, Uganda’s game parks, wildlife and birds on the 8 day safari itinerary. Visit Bwindi forest park, Queen Elizabeth National park, Murchison falls, and the chimpanzees of Kibale National park.
Day One: To Murchison Falls National Park
Early departures to Murchison falls National Park in western Uganda on a 6 hours drive into Masindi. Stop by Ziwa Rhino sanctuary and be par to the rhino conservation drive by just visiting the sanctuary.
Continue north to Murchison falls that explodes from the river Nile that crosses Murchison falls National Park. The short game drive leads to your preferred lodge within the park. Dinner and overnight is available from Paraa safari Lodge, Red chilli, Nile Safari camp, Sambiya River Lodge and others
Day Two: Murchison Falls National Park
Rise to the call of chirping birds and a game drive for the animals like hyenas, Leopards, elephants, hartebeests, Oribis, Uganda Kobs, giraffes and antelopes often seen visiting the banks of Victoria Nile in the early morning.
Return to the lodge for lunch and then enjoy the late boat ride on the Nile taking you to the top of Victoria Falls. The river plunges on a raised rift valley gorge to make 43m high waterfall and a white water boiling caldron below. On the ride, you’ll notice 6m long Nile crocodiles resting on the banks, hippos, and several birds including fish eagles, king fishers, shoe billed stork, skimmers, cormorants, malachite eagles and many others
Day Three: Transfers to Kibale National Park
Begin the trip to Kibaale National Park after a good breakfast meal. Drive for about 4 hours into the town of Fort Portal where you’ll find lunch at a hotel. With backdrop views on the Rwenzori Mountain in the misty clouds, you’ll be finally at Kibaale Forest National park.
Check into a hotel or safari lodge near the forest park from Ndali Lodge, Primates Lodge or Mountains of the Moon Hotel and at other private camp site. Go on a guided town visit either on foot or using a shuttle van and experience the tea estates, the monument of Sir Lugard Portal and Toro Kingdom palace building
Day Four: Chimpanzee tracking & Transfer to Queen Elizabeth
Set your chimpanzee tracking adventures in motion after breakfast and meet you r tracker guides at the park offices. Follow a given tour guide into the forest meeting several chimpanzees feeding on the vines and wild fruits, other playing and swinging from one tree to another and other primates too are seen; olive baboons, mangabeys, bush baby, vervet monkeys, popots, black and white colobus, red tailed colobus and other animals.
After lunch is time to visit the birds from Bigodi swamp that is found within the park’s protected area. Travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park and get your affordable overnight lodge at Mweya Safari Lodge , Mweya Institute of ecology Hostel, Hippo Camp or Jacana safari Lodge .
Day Five: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Wake up to an early served breakfast and then a game drive within the park. Lunch is served at the lodge before an arranged boat cruise to the Kazinga Channel that connects the crater lakes of Lake Edward and Lake George. Much of the sight down the channel is of snuffing hippo schools, wallowing buffalos, crocodiles and birds tossing along the water.
Day Six: Game drive / Drive to Bwindi Gorilla Park
On a morning game drive are loins, warthog, the Uganda kob, hyena, leopard, stripped jackal, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and many others. Return to a hearty breakfast at your lodge and then pack for another exciting adventure to Bwindi forest park, crossing through south Ishasha sector for sights of the tree climbing lion.
Find ready dinner and overnight accommodation from Gorilla Nest resort, Gorilla forest camp, Engagi Lodge, Clouds Lodge or Buhoma community Bandas.
Day Seven: Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
Wake up early enough 6h00 and head for the ranger station with your packed lunch and get some briefing session with tracker guides and forest authorities. Head into the dense forest, cutting through the dense forest canopy behind a trained tracker
It is often more than 2 hours of trekking before you make sight of a silver back family or a black family feeding on wild fruits and leafy vegetation.
The sight is an exhilarating encounter that Uganda safari is proud to conserve for many generations to come.
The afternoon leads to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale where you will go on a birding trip along the lake that was named after its thousand birds that nest around it. Overnight and dinner will be from Arcadia cottages, Bushara lodge or Kyahungye island resort.
Day eight: Return to Kampala
The return trip to Kampala gets underway after breakfast with photographic moments, snacks and drinks at the equator crossing near Masaka.
