OVERVIEW
11 Days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour takes you to Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable national park to go gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking in primate capital of Kibale forest national park, amazing boat cruise with rewarding water sight on Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth national park, incredible game drive and a Nile boat cruise in Murchison falls national park where you will be able to adventure such wild mammals as buffaloes, antelopes, elephants, lions, and leopards You will also go to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to look for rhinos. This trip gives you a chance to see the "Big Five" animals of Africa, making it worth your time to visit the Pearl of Africa.
TOUR SUMMARY
- Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport.
- Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park - Afternoon Boat Ride on Lake Mburo.
- Day 3: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi.
- Day 4: Morning Canoeing and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
- Day 5: Gorilla Trekking.
- Day 6: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park-Afternoon boat cruise.
- Day 7: Morning Game drive and Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park.
- Day 8: Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale Forest National Park.
- Day 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls national park.
- Day 10: Morning game drive and afternoon Boat Ride
- Day 11: Departure Day - Rhino Tracking
DAY 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport.
- On the 1st day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Arrival at Entebbe Airport: When you get there, our professional driver guide to the pearl of Africa will greet you and brief you about the 11-day Uganda wildlife safari tour. Then you'll be taken to your hotel in Kampala, which will take a few hours to reach by car. Arrive check in for your meals and Overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Bed and Dinner.
DAY 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park - Afternoon Boat Ride on Lake Mburo.
- On the 2nd day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Wake up early in the morning and take a hearty breakfast, check out of lodge and meet your safari guide and then drive four to five hours to Lake Mburo National Park, which is on the road between Kampala and Mbarara you will have a stopover at Kayabwe for equator experience to take pictures and proceed with your journey. Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda is one of the smallest savannah parks, but it has a lot of natural beauty that will amaze you. The scenery is beautiful, and you can see herbivores like Eland, Impala, topis, buffaloes, hyenas, crocodiles, hippos, antelopes, and more. Over 350 species of birds have also been seen there. You will reach the park check in, have lunch.
- After lunch, you'll drive to Lake Mburo for a relaxing boat cruise of about two hours. Along the shores of the lake, you might see hippos, crocodiles, and a lot of interesting birds and animals that are thirsty. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 3: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi.
- On the 3rd day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Get up early, have breakfast, check out of the lodge and drive out of the park to be taken to Lake Bunyonyi, which is famous for being Africa's second-deepest lake. You will drive through Kigezi Highlands to get to Lake Bunyonyi, which is famous for being calm and full of birds. Kigezi Highlands, which are green and stepped, are in the area as well. It takes 3 to 4 hours to get to Lake Bunyonyi by vehicle. Once you get there, you can check in at your place of stay and have lunch. After lunch, you can go swimming because the water does not have Bilharzia. Dinner and overnight stay
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 4: Morning Canoeing and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
- On the 4th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Wake up have breakfast. Then set out for a canoe ride on the lake and during morning hour is quite cold. After you've enjoyed your ride and the beautiful views on the lake, you'll go back to lodge for lunch, check out and head to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, where half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas live. Check in at the lodge relax, dinner and Overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 5: Gorilla Trekking.
- On the 5th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. You'll eat breakfast early in the morning and bring lunch boxes with you. Your driver will take you to the park's headquarters by 7:30 am for the briefing to follow during gorilla trekking. After the briefing, meet the ranger who will accompany to trek the habituated gorilla family you’re met to trek in, in a group of 8 people and you must be holding your gorilla permit. You'll start hiking in the forest trail head to look for gorillas. This can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours, based on where the gorillas are. Once you find them, you'll have an hour to watch their exciting way of life. It will be a unique experience. Return to the lodge, dinner and overnight stay
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Overnight stay.
DAY 6: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park-Afternoon boat cruise.
- On the 6th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. After breakfast in the morning, check out of Bwindi and head to Uganda's most popular safari area, Queen Elizabeth National Park. Queen Elizabeth has some of the most beautiful scenery in Uganda and is home to more than 95 different kinds of animals. You'll get to the park in time to eat lunch there.
- After lunch, take a cruise on the Kazinga channel to get a close look at animals like hippos, crocodiles, monitor lizards, cows, and other animals like elephants and antelopes that come to the watering hole to drink. The Kazinga River is also a great place to watch birds. You might see an African fish eagle, Malachite kingfisher, hammerkops, skimmer, a saddle-billed stork, a cormorant, or pelican, yellow billed stork, among other birds. Return to your lodge for dinner and Overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 7: Morning Game drive and Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park.
- On the 7th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Get up early, have breakfast, and then go on an early morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth. You'll be able to see a wide variety of animals, such as lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants, hyenas, warthogs, baboons, jackals, waterbucks, bushbucks, grazing hippos, and more. Come back to the lodge for lunch and checkout.
- You will depart to Kibale forest national park expect to arrive in the evening time, rest, take dinner and overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 8: Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale Forest National Park.
- On the 8th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Wake up early, eat breakfast, and drive to the Kachuya Head Centre for a briefing about what to do and what not to do when tracking chimpanzees. After you meet the park ranger, he or she will take your group of six people to the forest trail head to look for chimps. Once you find them, you'll have an hour to watch these cute great apes play, fight in the fruit trees, swing from tree branches, and do other things. After one hour in the presence of the chimpanzees you will go back to the starting point and get a chimpanzee trekking certificates and go back to the lodge for lunch. After lunch you can go to Bigodi swamp areas to watch birds and sighting various animal species. Dinner and Overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
DAY 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls national park.
- On the 9th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. After breakfast in the morning, you'll check out from your lodge and drive to Murchison Falls national park, stopping for lunch along the way. Arrive at the park in the late afternoon rest, dinner and overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 10: Morning game drive and afternoon Boat Ride
- On the 10th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Wake up, eat breakfast and meet your safari guide, and then drive to the park to see animals. You might see lions, elephants, buffaloes, bush buck, waterbucks, leopards, Oribis, Uganda Kobs, Jackson's Hartebeest, Hyenas, giraffes, hippos, and more without forgetting bird species. Return to the lodge for relaxation and lunch.
- Afternoon Boat Cruise: Later, take an afternoon boat ride on the Nile to the base of the Murchison Falls, where you can see Nile Crocodiles, warthogs, buffaloes, Uganda Kobs, and many antelopes and other animals drinking water and cooling off from the hot sun. You can also get off the boat and take a 45-minute walk around these exploding waterfalls, where boiling waterfalls and take a great photo opportunities will amaze you. At the top your driver will be waiting for you and transfer you back to your lodge dinner and overnight stay.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
DAY 11: Departure Day - Rhino Tracking
- On the 11th day of 11 days Uganda Wildlife Safari Tour. Wake up early in the morning. After morning breakfast, check out go cross the Victoria Nile by ferry and drive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola district for Rhino tracking an activity that takes 2hours. You will have finished the "Big Five" game adventure if you find the Rhino. Thereafter continue to Kampala to be dropped to your hotel or place of resident or at Entebbe Airport to catch up your flight back home.