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Overview
- Duration: 14 days 13 nights
- Tour Type: Private tour
- Travelers: 1 - 999 guests
- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese
This 14 Days Uganda Ultimate Primate Safari Holiday takes you to the savannas of Queen Elizabeth for a game drive in Kasenyi plains and a boat ride on the Kazinga Channel, Murchison Falls for a game drive and a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls, Gorilla trekking in the Bwindi Forests and the rainforests of Kibale for Chimpanzee trekking, a mind-blowing while Canoeing on the deepest lake in Uganda Bunyonyi and unforgettable experience mixing with the wild on Foot in Lake Mburo National Park the Whispers of the World. This tour through Uganda is the perfect combination of nature, culture & animals, and a blend of a city tour.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
- Pick up from the Airport and Drive to the Lodge
- Kampala City Tour.
- Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park via Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
- Morning game drive and boat cruise to the bottom of the falls.
- Transfer to Kibale National Park.
- Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi community walk.
- Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
- Morning game drive and afternoon Boat cruise on the Kazinga channel
- Transfer to Ishasha Sector for a Game drive.
- Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
- Gorilla trekking and optional activities around the Park.
- Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
- Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park.
- Walking Safari and Transfer to Kampala/ Entebbe to end the safari.
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Pick up from the Airport and Drive to the Lodge.
Pick you up from Entebbe airport and transfer you to the Guesthouse, this is where your Alive Africa Adventure safaris guide will find you tomorrow morning for the start of your 14 days Uganda safari after a good breakfast. Depending on the time of your arrival, you might be able to explore the area. There are many options in Entebbe and easily organized. For example, a visit to the Botanical gardens or Kampala City Tour
Accommodation Option:
Luxury: Serena Hotel Kigo
Mid-Range: K Hotel Entebbe
Budget: Via Via
Day 2: Full Day Kampala City Tour
In the morning after breakfast, you will embark on Kampala city tour. Visit Gadhaffi mosque, Kasubi tombs (currently under construction), King’s palace, Bahai temple, local markets, Uganda museum, Namugongo martyrs’ shrines among others.
Accommodation Options:
Luxury: Kampala Serena Hotel
Midrange: Acacia Lodge
Budget: Dolphin Suites.
Day 3: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park via Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
After an early breakfast, our driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel at 7:00 am, he will also brief you about your 3 Days safari to Murchison falls and you will start your 6 hours journey to Murchison Falls National park. You will go through the Luwero, and later have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for Rhino tracking; here you will find both black and white rhinos.
After tracking has another stop in Masindi where you will have lunch, lunch proceeds to the park, after making payments for park entry drive towards the top of the falls, here along the way you will see various animals such as warthogs, baboons among others. 14 Days Uganda Ultimate Primate, Being at the top of the falls is an amazing experience as you will watch the magnificent falls squeezing through the rocks in an 8m gorge. Take as many photos as you can. Later drive to the lodge, relax the whole evening, have dinner, and overnight.
Accommodation Options:
Luxury: Paara Safari Lodge
Midrange: Pakuba Safari Lodge
Budget: Heritage Safari Lodge.
Day 4: Morning game drive and boat cruise to the bottom of the falls.
After breakfast at your accommodation, depart right away for Kibale Forest National Park. The drive is quite long but incredibly scenic – passing through villages, lush green countryside and hills dotted with tea plantations that characterize this part of Uganda. The beautiful scenery will amaze you all the way. Kibale NP is popular for its primates like the chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, L’Hoest’s monkey, Uganda mangabey (Lophocebus Ugandan). While on your chimpanzee trails, you will see them swinging in the forest trees and others feeding on the wild fruits. You will reach and do little but check into your accommodation where you will have dinner and the overnight rest.
Accommodation Options.
Luxury: Primate Lodge
Midrange: Isunga lodge
Budget: Kibale forest Camp.
Day 5: Transfer to Kibale Forest National park
After an early breakfast you will transfer to Kibale Forest National Park headquarters for the briefing before setting off for a forest walk in search for chimpanzees. The forest walk will be guided to provide information not only on chimpanzees and primates but also on small organisms that form part of its bio-diversity. The walk will reward you with other primates like Colobus monkeys, lhoestes, Grey-cheeked Mangabeys, Red-tailed monkeys, and butterflies.
After tracking the chimps, retire back to the lodge for lunch, Check out and Proceed on the road drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, the park is nestled between two lakes, George and Edward with the kazinga channel joining the two, its lush Savannah offers prime grazing ground for the African buffaloes, African elephants and various antelopes, the parks hosts over 600 bird species. Drive straight to the lodge check-in and go evening nature walks to explore the crater lakes. Dinner and Overnight.
Accommodation options.
Luxury: Elephant Plains lodge
Midrange: Elephant Hab Lodge
Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages.
Day 6: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi community walk.
Chimpanzees share 98% of human genes making them our closest living relatives. They are found in 21 countries throughout Africa but are most easily sighted in Uganda due to their dense populations. Today, in Uganda, there are approximately 5,000 chimpanzees left in the wild. The Chimpanzee Trekking experience here is done on several well-maintained walking trails. There is also a wonderfully diverse concentration of other primates, more than any other forest in East Africa, in fact. Besides our delightful cousins, the chimpanzees, you can find red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L’Hoest’s monkey, and the black and white colobus monkey. In addition, you may see olive baboons, bush babies and nocturnal pottos.
In the afternoon of this 14-day Uganda safari, you will go for a walk in Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary which features 8 primate species, over 200 bird species and many reptiles. During the walk – which takes 2 to 3 hours – you have a chance to many animals, but the highlight is catching a glimpse of a famous bird; the Great Blue Turaco.
Accommodation Options.
Luxury: Primate Lodge
Midrange: Isunga lodge
Budget: Kibale forest Camp.
Day 7: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park is in southwestern Uganda and is most often included in visitors’ itineraries. It is the second-largest park in the country and is located at the base of the majestic Rwenzori Mountain range, next to Lake Edward and Lake George which are joined by the Kazinga channel. Few reserves in the world have such high biodiversity with landscapes including savannah, bushland, wetlands, and lush forests. On your first game drive, it is time to explore the Queen Elizabeth National Park with her 200 kilometers of well-maintained game viewing tracks. We advise you to be alert and proactive on your game drive to help the ranger spot as many animals as possible.
With an astonishing 5000 hippos, 2500 elephants, and over 10,000 buffalo thriving in its grasslands and shorelines, this park guarantees sightings of some of Africa’s most iconic species. All being well you see elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, different species of antelope, and just maybe some of the exciting predators such as; lion, leopard, civet, genal, and serval cats. Ten species of primates enjoy the park’s diverse habitats. 14 Days Uganda Ultimate Primate, Vervet and black-and-white colobus monkeys are easily spotted in the trees, and of course the boldest species; baboons!
Accommodation Options.
Luxury: Elephant plains Lodge
Midrange: Elephant hab lodge
Budget: Pumba Safari cottages.
Day 8: Morning game drive and afternoon Boat cruise on the Kazinga channel
The morning is the best time for a game drive as the African animal kingdom tends to me most active when during the golden hours of the first sunlight touching the savannah. You will continue the search for all the wildlife; elephant, buffalo, lion, waterbuck, leopard, Uganda kob, warthog and do not forget about the birds and the primates.
In the afternoon will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel. Here, you will see a lot of hippos more than you can imagine as well as a variety of other animals which come to the waterhole to drink or bathe. You can expect to see: Buffalo, Crocodile, bathing elephants, and a range of beautiful birds.
Accommodation Options.
Luxury: Elephant plains Lodge
Midrange: Elephant hab lodge
Budget: Pumba Safari cottages.
Day 9: Transfer to Ishasha Sector for a Game drive.
Drive for approximately 2.5 hours to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park. This part is famous for its’ tree-climbing lions. While lion cubs around the world frequently climb trees for fun, adults rarely do. However, these lionesses enjoy spending the hot afternoons snoozing in fig trees to get away from the tsetse flies and to enjoy a cool breeze. This is the most memorable sight in the park as you have never seen such photogenic lions posing for your camera before. During a game drive, you will try your luck! Meanwhile don’t miss the stunning scenery and superb birdlife in this southern remote section of the park either.
There is amazing birdlife is and many herds of elephants, buffaloes, and antelopes are regularly spotted. Vervet monkeys, baboons, black- and white colobus have become residents of the lodge
Accommodation Option:
Luxury: Ishasha Jungle Lodge
Mid-Range: Enjojo Lodge
Budget: Topi Lodge
Day 10: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park
Have breakfast then set off for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park from Ishasha sector and Continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda (harbouring an estimated 400 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population) including several habituated groups, which you will trek. Uganda Gorilla & Chimpanzee Tracking. With a strenuous day ahead, you will do less on arrival but just check in your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the following day.
Accommodation Option:
Luxury: Buhoma Lodge
Mid-Range: Broadbill Forest Camp
Budget: Buhoma Community Haven Lodge
Day 11: Gorilla trekking and optional activities around the Park.
This is the major highlight of your safari. Today is the big day… Prepare yourself for an encounter with one of Bwindi’s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla. For most people, this is the absolute highlight of their 14-day Uganda safari. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a highlight for many visitors as this is where they will be visiting the home of the gentle giants. The park lies in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley.
Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests lies on the mist-covered hillsides. This magnificent forest dates back over 25,000 years, even surviving the last Ice Age (most forests disappeared). The bwindi forest has an incredible diversity of flora and fauna and is the only forest in Africa that can make claim to host both mountain gorillas and chimpanzees. In fact, half the worlds’ population of gorillas live here divided over nine habituated family groups. Also 5 other primate species, 120 species of mammal, over 220 butterflies and 360 bird’s species call Bwindi home. This the place to see the critically endangered mountain gorillas up close for your very own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ moment.
Your gorilla encounter will be an exciting (for some also challenging) journey along forested (sometimes slippery) slopes, entwined vines, bushes and bamboo before you eventually reach the gentle giants. En route, your guide will point out signs of previous gorilla activity. Think of dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. The time to complete the gorilla trekking can be as little as 2 hours to as much as 7 hours! Drive back to the lodge for relaxation and optional activities like visiting the Batwa.
Accommodation Option:
Luxury: Buhoma Lodge
Mid-Range: Broadbill Forest Camp
Budget: Buhoma Community Haven Lodge
Days 12: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Today we will take you to another exciting lake Bunyonyi ‘Lake of many small birds” this stunning location offers some wonderful optional activities. The southwestern part of Uganda is known as” Little Switzerland”, a lush, mountainous region dotted with freshwater lakes, which makes it the perfect base for a number of activities beyond gorilla tracking. The area is great for walking, hiking, mountain biking, cultural village tours, and bird watching or water sport activities.
Accommodation Option:
Luxury: Arcadia lodges
Mid-range: Bunyonyi Echo Resort
Budget: Supreme Adventure Park.
Day 13 Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo is a small national Park (on the route from Bwindi National Park back to Entebbe) but should certainly not be underestimated. This is the only place in southern Uganda to see zebras and the only park in the country with impalas, slender mongoose, and giant bush rats. You can also look for hyenas, leopards, topis, elands and the beautiful Rothschild’s giraffes, not to mention the lake itself which is teeming with hippos and crocodiles! There are a lot of wonderful activities on offer, such as horse-riding, bush walks, boat safari on the lake, and a mountain bike safari. It is exciting to approach the wildlife at such close range, especially combining the fresh air with the beautiful scenery of Lake Mburo National Park.
Accommodation Options.
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Midrange: Rwakobo Rock
Budget: Mpogo safar lodge.
Day 14: Game walk, and transfer to Kampala/ Entebbe to end the Safari.
Lake Mburo N.P. is one of the two parks in Uganda where it is permitted to go for a safari walk with an experienced ranger. Footprints and animal droppings tell which animal has been here and how long ago. It is exciting to approach the wildlife at such close range. This activity is included this morning. After the Nature walk, you continue en-route lunch and a stop at the Uganda Equator line mark in Kayabwe for some memorable photos and maybe buying some art pieces of interest. Proceed with the journey arriving late afternoon/evening for drop-off at the airport to catch your flight back home recommended for 19:00 onward. We hope to see you (or any referral) when next, you visit and thanks for choosing Alive Africa Adventures, See you again!
INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS
INCLUSIONS
- Gorilla Permit
- Chimpanzee Permit
- Bottled Water
- English Speaking Guide
- Park Entrance Fees
- Boat Rides
- Cultural Tours
- Full board meals and accommodation
- All Activities Mentioned
EXCLUSIONS
- International flight fare
- Entry Visas
- Laundry services
- Items of Personal Nature like Tips
- Alcoholic drinks and Liqours.
- Kampala Hotel Fees
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Midrange $5272 Per Person
Luxury $8548 Per Person
These prices may vary depending on number travellers in your party or if you require a change in hotels for your tour
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