Multi day tour Uganda Chimps and Waterfalls Safari

Kampala, Uganda
Duration12 days
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 8 travelers
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Overview

Guests to Uganda will enjoy amazing varied landscapes, with open savannah, thick forest and astonishing mountain scenery.
The country offers enormous biodiversity with its game reserves which act as protected homes for varied flora and fauna.
The guest will watch the powerful waterfalls that squeezes itself in a narrow gorge forming a rainbow, go tracking the chimpanzees, endangered mountain Gorillas and get rewarded with great views of wildlife along the shores on boat cruises.

What's included

  • Gorilla Permit (Non refundable) x1
  • All National Park Entrance fees
  • English speaking Guide
  • Dinner
  • Breakfast
  • Chimpanzee Permit (Non Refundable) x1
  • Ground Transportation and accomodation to all destinations
  • Meals not included in your accommodation
  • Expenses of personal nature like drinks, souvenirs, laundry
  • Personal Travel and Medical Insurance
  • Tips and gratuities
  • International Air fares
  • Entry Visa to Uganda $50

What to expect

Day 1: Welcome to Uganda
  1. Kampala
    1h
    Upon your touch down today, you will be met by our representative who will welcome you to Uganda. Your will later be transferred to your accommodation to relax or before you retire depending on your arrival time, you will get the chance to explore some of Kampala or Entebbe cities historical and cultural sites.
Day 2: Murchison Falls via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
  1. Murchison Falls National Park
    8h · Admission ticket included
    After Breakfast drive to Murchison Fall national Park via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and the top of the falls a scenic point where you will see the Nile force its way through a narrow gap to start its continued flow into Lake Albert.
    Sir Samuel Baker named the Falls after Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park.
Day 3: Game Drive and Boat Safari
  1. Murchison Falls National Park
    7h
    Today is your day to venture into the wild. You will go for a game drive giving you an opportunity to see animals like antelopes, Rothschild giraffes, lions, elephants, warthogs, buffaloes . Return for lunch and relaxation and later go for Nile cruise to the bottom of the falls. You will see hippos, crocodiles and birds along River Nile.
Day 4: Travel to Fort Portal
  1. Kibale National Park
    9h
    Today, you will begin your journey to Kibale Forest. The drive will take through a beautiful scenery of tea plantations.
    You stop for lunch in the Fort Portal town.
Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking and Swamp walk
  1. Kibale National Park
    6h
    Chimpanzee day. You will prepare yourself for the chimpanzee tracking mission the most exciting activity in the park. An experienced forest ranger will take you chimp tracking in the morning. along the forest walk you will be able to see other primates like red-tailed monkey, black-and-white Columbus monkey. After Lunch go to Bigodi Wetland sanctuary for nature walk with is a local community initiative.
Day 6: Semuliki National Park
  1. Semuliki National Park
    8h
    Semuliki is an interesting area, party forested and partly savannah. Visit the Sempaya Hot Springs and have the chance to boil eggs and go for a nature walk through the forest.

    Later on you will visit Amabere’ganyinamwiru caves. This site has an interesting legendary tale. A guide will tell you about Nyinamwiru a daughter of Bukuku one of the historical rulers of the Cwezi Dynasty that consists the current Bunyoro and Toro Kingdoms. She was an attractive beautiful girl who declined to marry the man her father had chosen for her.
Day 7: Queen Elizabeth National Park
  1. Queen Elizabeth National Park
    6h
    In the morning, you can relax at your lodge. You will then continue your journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park via the Bunyangabu Beekeppers Cooperative Bunyangabu Beekeeping Cooperative (BBC), is a community organization along the kasese - fortportal road. Fresh comb honey is available from BBC between March-May and August-November.
    It is a true honey experience, where visitors can see honey processing, taste honey from the comb, and even make their own candles to take home.
Day 8: Game Drive at Queen Elizabeth National Park
  1. Queen Elizabeth National Park
    7h
    The day begins early as we start with a morning game drive after an early breakfast. We will search for the lions, elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals in their natural habitat before returning for lunch. In the afternoon you go for a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, a water channel between Lake Edward and Lake George. You will be able to see birds, hippos cooling off in the waters, elephants, and buffaloes. Overnight at your accommodation.
Day 9: Queen Elizabeth to Bwindi Forest National Park
  1. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
    8h
    Depart for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest the home of the endangered Mountain Gorillas. Explore the village and the native communities through the Queen Elizabeth National Park Southern sector.
Day 10: Gorilla Adventure day
  1. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
    8h
    Have an early morning breakfast and then go for a briefing by park officials at the Park headquarters. Proceed to the Impenetrable forest for gorilla tracking with packed lunch. You should wear jungle boots since tracking involves walking up steep densely forested hills before finally coming across the gorillas in the dense tropical vegetation their favourite habitat. After lunch go for a community visit to the local communities living around the park to learn about their history.
Day 11: Kampala City
  1. Kampala
    9h
    This marks the end of your Wild tour of Uganda. Travel back to Kampala with a stop over at the Equator.
Day 12: Travel back Home
  1. Entebbe
    1h
    Today you will be picked by our representative at the lodge to catch up with your flight back home.

Additional information

  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have a high level of physical fitness

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