7 Days Explore Uganda Safari – Primates & Wildlife Tour

Overview

The 7 days’ trip takes you 3 of Uganda’s national park: Lake Mburo
where you will do a game drive and boat cruise encountering
Zebras, Elands, Giraffes and other wildlife. Then Bwindi
impenetrable national park for a breathtaking encounter with the
giant Apes-Mountain gorillas and Batwa community.

You there after visit Uganda’s famous national park- Queen
Elizabeth for the search of the tree climbing lions, other wildlife and
a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel.

Travel Plan

• 01

  Day 1: Arrival and Pick up

  Our representative will meet you upon your arrival at the airport.
  He will drive you to your pre-booked lodge or hotel for dinner and
  overnight.

• 02

  Day 2 : Transfer to Lake Mburo and afternoon boat cruise

  After breakfast, Drive from Kampala with your guide to Lake Mburo
  national park. Uganda’s smallest savanna park and home the
  largest number of Zebras in Uganda. Your eyes will be fed with lots
  of sightings and birds along the way.
  You will have a stop at the Equator for the equator experiment and
  then continue to the park and check in at your lodge. After lunch,
  you will go for a boat cruise on lake Mburo where you will
  encounter different birds like the Giant and pied Kingfishers,
  African fish eagle and animals like Hippos and crocs. Later return
  to the lodge for overnight.

• 03

  Day 3: Morning game drive and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable
  National park.

  You will have breakfast and leave for an early game drive. There you
  will see numerous zebras, Impalas, Giraffes, elands, warthogs and
  antelopes living in their habitats. After breakfast, return to the
  lodge, check out and head for Bwindi.
  You will go through the flat lands of Ntungamo, outstanding
  scenery in Kigezi region which is a combination of terraced hills,
  forests, banana plantations among others. Arrive at the park in the
  evening and check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

• 04

  Day 4: Gorilla tracking and Batwa community visit.

  After breakfast, carry your packed lunch and you will head to the
  park head offices with your guide, have a briefing about the dos and
  don’ts while in the park while tracking the gorillas. You will be led
  by a ranger guide as you head for gorilla trekking through the
  forest, trekking can take 2 hours or up to 6 hours and this is based
  on the location of the gentle giants and 1 hour is allowed to trackers
  with the gorillas.
  Later return to the lodge and relax. In the evening, go for a
  community walk where you will visit the Batwa, which is an
  indigenous group of people that has lived in the forest for many
  years, enjoy traditional dances, performances and displays of their
  art facts. Head back to the lodge for Dinner and overnight.

• 05

  Day 5: 5-Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park via Ishasha
  region.

  After breakfast we drive to Queen Elizabeth National park just
  62km through stunning savannah grasslands. We shall enter
  Queen Elizabeth from the southern sector and do a game drive in
  the Ishasha-sector.
  Game views here are high, and this region has reported some of the
  largest herds of Elephants anywhere in Uganda and famous for its
  tree climbing lions. We shall then have lunch and continue to the
  north part of the park.

• 06

  Day 6: 6-Morning Game drive and afternoon boat cruise on
  Kazinga Channel.

  Early in the morning after breakfast, you will go for a game drive in
  the Kasenyi plains to have an encounter with more of the big game
  that include predators like lions, Leopards and other wildlife. Over
  600 bird species occupy this park, making it a haven for bird
  watchers.

  After lunch take you will take a 2-hour return boat cruise on the
  Kazinga channel. This joins Lakes Edward and George and it is
  known for its number of hippos, crocs, buffaloes with elephants at
  the banks. You are likely to meet grazing hippos, elephants, lions,
  spotted hyenas and leopards, bushbuck, waterbuck. After the
  launch cruise will take short evening game drive and do a sun
  downer. Then return to the lodge for Dinner and overnight.

• 07

  Day 7:Return back to Kampala and Departure.

  After breakfast you will be transferred to Kampala and continue to
  Entebbe. Lunch will be en-route and this therefore marks the end of
  your seven days Uganda wildlife and Gorilla safari.