Day 1: Welcome in Uganda!
You will warmly be welcomed by our professional guide at Entebbe International airport. After a short transfer to your hotel the guide will be brief about you safari. Dinner and overnight at your lodge
Day 2: To Fort Portal/ Kibale Forest
After an early breakfast, you be picked up from the Hotel to start your 6-7 hours drive to Fortportal/Kibale Forest National Park. The drive to Fort Portal is long, but incredibly scenic. You’ll pass through villages, lush green forests and hills dotted with tea plantations which characterize this part of Uganda. You will then proceed to your Lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking & Bigodi Swamp 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. The aim for your trekking through the jungle under the care of professional guide, is 1 hour of eye to eye contact with the chimpanzees. We can however cannot guarantee 100% for you to see them as they are still wild animals, nevertheless your chances are very good.
After lunch, you will have lunch at the lodge then proceed to the Bigodi Swamp Community Walk before proceeding to the lodge for overnight.
Day 4: To Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
You will continue with the exciting journey which will take you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park which is one of the most biologically diverse forests in Africa. Getting to this home of the Mountain Gorillas you pass through the Kigezi highlands, known as the Switzerland of Africa with terraced farming and mountain scenery at its best. You will proceed to your Lodge for dinner and overnight
Day 5: Gorilla Tracking
This morning you will have to wake up very early to get ready for Gorilla tracking one of the most exciting wildlife experiences on earth. You will drive to the reception for registration at 7.30am, then briefly will follow at 8am and the Gorilla tracking will start at 8.30am. There are now only 650 left in the world! Expect to adventurously track through the Impenetrable Forest before you encounter any gorillas which is definitely worthwhile as you observe them closely while they eat, play with the young ones, rest and act like Humans. A unique and inspiring experience which one can’t miss! The Gorilla is a shy and peaceful animal and it is an unforgettable experience to watch and photograph them as they interact. There are always Park Guides with who you interpret the flora and fauna and the lifestyle of the Gorillas. Tracking the gorillas will last for a few hours to a whole day depending on how far the gorilla group you are tracking is. When you get to the Gorilla Family, you will take 1 hour with them which is a very memorable experience.
Day 6: Transfer To Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast, drive to Lake Mburo National Park, a small game national park found in the central region of Uganda, the home of the Zebras. After lunch, go for an afternoon boat cruise on Lake Mburo which will give you an opportunity to see different bird species, crocodiles and hippos. You will then drive to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Lake Mburo – Entebbe
After breakfast, game drive in search for the beautiful impalas, Giraffes, elands, topi and many antelopes, buffaloes, zebras. Then drive to Entebbe for your flight out from Entebbe.