12 Days to the Big Five and Mountain Gorillas

Itinerary

Day 1

Entebbe to Kampala

Arrival at Entebbe airport. Your guide will be there waiting for you. Pick up and proceed to your accommodation.

Day 2

Kampala to Murchison Falls National Park

Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park. In Murchison Falls we visit the top of the falls if time allows. On the way, we pass via Zziwa Rhino sanctuary for Rhinos tracking.Murchison Falls is one of the most beautiful national parks of Uganda. One of the main attractions is the Nile, with the spectacular Murchison Falls, where the whole Nile is forced through a narrow gorge and falls 60 meters. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, lions, hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes and maybe leopards.

Day 3

Murchison Falls National Park

Early morning game drives in this beautiful national park. Afternoon boat launch on the Victoria Nile up to the bottom of the falls. The boat is the perfect platform to see and photograph many different bird species.

Day 3

Murchison Falls National Park

Early morning game drives in this beautiful national park. Afternoon boat launch on the Victoria Nile up to the bottom of the falls. The boat is the perfect platform to see and photograph many different bird species.

Day 3

Murchison Falls National Park

Early morning game drives in this beautiful national park. Afternoon boat launch on the Victoria Nile up to the bottom of the falls. The boat is the perfect platform to see and photograph many different bird species.

Day 4

Murchison falls to Kibale Forest

After breakfast we drive to Kibale Forest National Park. You can make a walk around the lodge in the afternoon. During this walk it is possible to see monkeys and birds. It is also possible to make a night walk through the forest to see the animals of the night, like bush babies (both activities optional).

Day 5

Kibale Forest National Park

After breakfast, we drive to the Park for briefing and Chimpanzee tracking in the morning with a Ranger Guide. Kibale Forest is a spectacular jungle, with 13 primate species! Including Chimps, Baboons, Black and White Colobus, Red Colobus, Grey cheeked Mangabey and L’Hoest monkeys. This is the reason why Kibale National Park is regarded as the Primates Capital.

Day 6

Kibale Forest to Queen Elizabeth National Park

In the morning after our breakfast we drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. We’ll enter the park with a simple game drive, we happen to see a few animals meanwhile heading to our lodge.

Day 7

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Game drive in the morning. Boat trip on Kazinga Channel in the afternoon.Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the best places in Uganda to see lions.

Expect to see elephants, lions, many hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes and maybe leopards.The Kazinga Channel is one of the highlights of Uganda and has the highest concentration of hippos in the world.

Day 8

Queen Elizabeth to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After breakfast we drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park to the Ishasha sector in the South. Game drive in the afternoon in search of the tree climbing Lions. InIshasha there are 4 prides of Lions that climb the trees. Unique in the world! The other attraction of Ishasha is the Topis, not found anywhere else in this National Park.

On our way we pass through interesting villages and have some breath taking views of the mountains.

Bwindi Impenetrable is a unique jungle, with many monkey species. Bwindi is one of the 2 places in the world where you can find Mountain Gorillas!

Day 9

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Mountain Gorillas tracking!!! Early morning departure with your ranger Guide to search for one of the world’s most interesting and endangered animal, the Mountain Gorilla! You will spend one hour with one of our closest relatives. An experience you will never forget.

Day 10

Bwindi Impenetrable

Community Village Walk and Pygmy/Batwa Cultural Experience. These are initially the forest dwellers before Forests were gazetted to become National parks. They could depend on wild meat and hunting was the best activity they knew. But now they live in the community with other local people. They’re good story tellers, will be good to share. We can go to the waterfalls in the morning afternoon we visit the Community.

Day 11

Bwindi to Lake Mburo National park

In the morning after breakfast, we check out of Bwindi Forest, on our way back we can make a stopover in Mbarara town for lunch. We continue into lake Mburo National park with a simple game drive.

In the evening we make a night game drive with high chances of seeing leopards.

Lake Mburo is one of the 2 national parks with zebras and the only national park with impalas in Uganda. There are no elephants and lions, so walking safaris are possible.

Day 12

Lake Mburo to Kampala

In the morning after breakfast, we check out of Lake Mburo National Park for Kampala passing the equator, have a stopover for photos.