GHS---14 DAYS-SAFARI WESTERN UGANDA

This trip specifically includes the well-known national parks of Western Uganda: Murchison Falls, Kibale Forest, Queen Elizabeth, Ishasha Sector, Bwindi Impenetrable, Lake Mburo National Parks and Mabamba Swamp for (Shoebill)

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 Ziwa 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.

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.

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).

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.

We will 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.

Game drive in the morning. Boat trip on the 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.

After breakfast, we drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park to the Ishasha sector in the South. This is the only place in Uganda where we find the tree climbing Lions, so we shall have to go and search for them. It will be a great pleasure to find them hanging in the trees after having made kills at night, males very lazy and associating with the pride.

After breakfast we drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park to the Ishasha sector in the South. 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!!!!

Mountain Gorillas Trekking!!!

Early morning breakfast, we drive to the Park offices meet with your ranger Guide brief you about the day’s activity guidelines and to search for one of the world’s most interesting and endangered animal, the Mountain Gorilla! Trekking takes 30 minutes to 5 or 8 hours, depending on where they were left the previous day, you’ll be rewarded with an experience you will never forget.

We shall have a morning breakfast and later check-out of lodge and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for Lake Mburo National Park.  We shall pass via the rolled mountains of Kigezi region which is normally called the Switzerland of Africa and continue to Mbarara town where we shall have our lunch from. After lunch, we drive again entering Lake Mburo Park with a simple game drive viewing lots of Zebras and Impalas in front of us. We check in the lodge later in the evening for our dinner.

We wake up morning, with a breakfast, check out of the lodge and go out with a game drive while we leave the park for Kampala/Entebbe for our late afternoon or evening flight. We reach Kampala late afternoon and continue at the Airport in Entebbe for our evening departure.

Have an early morning breakfast; we go for Shoebill in Mabamba Swamp a place with lots of promises. There is lots of water birds in there, later come back for lunch in the afternoon. In the late afternoon we drive to the airport for our evening flight back home.