Visit western Uganda and spend nine days exploring why it is Uganda’s top-visited tourist region. This 10-day trip includes places like Kibale National Park, Africa’s primates’ capital; Queen Elizabeth National Park, known for the unique tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector; Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the home of Mountain Gorillas; and Lake Mburo National Park. Throughout the tour, you'll stay at comfortable accommodations and be accompanied by experienced guides to ensure a memorable and enriching travel experience.
Arrival at Entebbe Airport. Your guide will pick you up and take you to the hotel for relaxation. If you arrive early, you can go on a shoebill excursion and enjoy a canoe ride on the Mamba swamp, where you can search for the unique shoebill stork and other visitor bird species.
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Included: Airport Transfer
After your relaxed breakfast, we shall drive to the picturesque southwestern region of the country to Kibale National Park. The drive takes you through stunning landscapes with beautiful views of plantations, forests, gardens, homes, and markets. You will stop at several local markets selling fruits, vegetables, and seedlings, to mention a few. Enjoy the drive through Fort Portal town to your accommodation in Kibale. Check into the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
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After breakfast, you will meet your fellow trackers at the Kibale National Park Headquarters, where the park ranger and guides brief you about the activity and give you instructions on how to follow during the trek in the forest. You will see a variety of monkey species, such as the red-tailed monkeys and white and black colobus monkeys, among others. When you spot the chimpanzees, you can see them for one hour while taking photos and short videos with non-flashlight cameras.
Optional: In the afternoon, we will take a nature walk in the Bigodi wetland, which will take us through the swampy area to the community. You will participate in interesting local activities, such as a coffee experience, banana winemaking, and visiting the traditional healer.
Accommodations:
Included: Chimpanzee tracking
Optional: Bigodi Swamp Walk
Have a relaxed breakfast and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will stop for a crater tour on your way to the Medley of Wonders. Afterwards, proceed to your accommodation in the park. Check-in and do an afternoon game drive, and it’s also possible to visit communities.
Accommodations:
Included: Crater tour
After a morning game drive in the Kasenyi Plains, return to the lodge for lunch and prepare for a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel in the afternoon. You will see various birds and animal species, including buffalos, hippos, crocodiles, and elephants. Return to your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodations:
Included: Game viewing, Boat cruise
After a relaxed breakfast, we drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through the Ishasha Sector, famous for its unique tree-climbing lions. Enjoy the drive and journey through the beautiful scenery and stop over at fresh markets en route to your accommodation for relaxation.
Accommodations:
Included: Search for tree-climbing lions
Early departure with your ranger guides in search of one of the world’s most interesting, endangered animals, the Mountain Gorilla. You will spend one hour with one of your closest relatives. Coming up close to endangered Mountain Gorillas in the forests of Uganda is a thrilling lifetime experience that surely ranks on most people’s travel bucket lists. Trekking at a high altitude through dense forests and up steep terrain can be challenging, especially in the African heat, but the hour you get to spend with these gentle giants is worth every step. Only eight guests may visit one gorilla family at a time - one trek per day/ family. Gorilla Tracking - is managed entirely by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, with a head ranger, security personnel (armed as a precaution against wildlife, etc.) and trackers, with optional porters – who walk with the guests until a family is located. Once the gorillas are found, the rangers only take the guests closer to the gorillas – and your viewing time commences – which is one hour. Porters are from the local communities, rotated for revenue sharing, which goes directly to them. It is recommended that at least one porter be hired per person trekking. Fees are usually additional to your tour and paid directly.
Accommodations:
Included: Gorilla permit and transfers
Start your day with breakfast and tighten your hiking boots for this full-day adventure. It begins with a 3–hour hike through the forest to a Batwa settlement. The Batwa, originally known as the “Forest Keepers,” are an enchanting group of people uniquely described by their lifestyle and character. The Batwa pygmies are a hunter-gatherer tribe that settled in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for many years before they were brought out for conservation purposes. During this unique experience, you will observe how they cook and serve a meal, how they gather and use herbs as medicine and learn more about their distinguished culture. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodations:
Included: Batwa Experience
Have breakfast and then drive to Lake Mburo National Park. Stop at the Igongo Cultural Center for a cultural experience of the western Uganda tribes and a local lunch. Proceed to your accommodation in the park for dinner and overnight. Lake Mburo National Park is Uganda’s smallest national park. It is the second national park in Uganda with zebras and the only one with impalas. Lake Mburo National Park has no elephants or lions, making it ideal for walking safaris and biking.
Accommodations:
Included: Igongo Cultural Center
After an early breakfast, we drive out of the national park to Kampala. On our way, we stop at the Equator for a photo opportunity and some magical demonstrations at the point where the northern and southern hemispheres are. Afterwards, we proceed to the airport for your outbound flight back home.
| Price | Mid-range | High-end |
|---|---|---|
| Per person | \$5,970 | \$6,989 |
| Single room surcharge | \$1,170 | \$1,760 |
The prices are based on 2 people sharing a room. A single room surcharge applies for clients who would like to stay in single rooms.