9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

This 9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter is an amazing life time adventure offering visitors opportunity to enjoy a thrill of wilderness and the hearts of the jungles of tropical rainforests and savannah parks on game drives, boat cruise in search for numerous wildlife and birdlife.

You will also encounter the gentle forest giants “the gorillas” and chimpanzees in their natural habitat and encounter lovely hospitable people.

9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

Highlights of 9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

Day 1: Arrival and transfer to a hotel in Kampala

Day 2: Transfer to Kibale National Park

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi Nature walk

Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park 

 Day 5:  Game Drive and Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel

Day 6 Transfer to Bwindi 

Day 7 Gorilla Trekking Experience

 Day 8: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi

Day 9: Transfer to Kigali airport

Detailed itinerary of 9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

Day 1: Arrival and transfer to a hotel in Kampala  

Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be picked by our driver guide and transfer you to your booked hotel in Kampala with stunning view of the city.

Have dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Cassia Lodge

Meal Plan: Dinner

Day 2: Transfer to Kibale National Park

In morning after breakfast, you will set off on a relaxed drive through the verdant countryside to Kibale Forest National Park with en-route stops for including the distant views of a number of tea plantations along the way. Reach in Kibale Forest National Park in the afternoon and check in for lunch at your lodge, you will spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi Nature walk

Enjoy early breakfast and head to the park headquarters for briefing at the park headquarters where a ranger – guide will take you through rules and regulations to follow. Head to the starting point and enter into the forest in search for chimpanzees, along the trek you will encounter other primates like vervet monkeys, Blue Hoest Monkeys, Black and White Colobus Monkeys among others.

Kibale Forest National Park is known as home of primates with 13 primate species including the famous chimpanzees, the trek takes about 2 – 4 hours depending on the movement of the chimpanzees. One hour will be allocated to you to have a wonderful interaction with the chimpanzees as you take pictures and short videos under the guidance of a ranger guide who will also explain to you all the biological background of the chimpanzees as you interact.

Later you will return to your lodge for lunch, in the afternoon you will head for a nature walk to the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary for primate and bird watching. The walk can take roughly 2 hours to explore the hidden treasure of this swamp with great chance to see a number of bird species and monkeys. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House. (Mid-range lodge)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 4-5 : Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park  

Have a relaxed morning breakfast and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, along the way you will enjoy beautiful views of the crater lakes on a brief crater lakes tour around and later drive to the park with another stopover at the Equator for photography.

Check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 5:  Game Drive and Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel

Have early breakfast at 06:00 am, you will head in search of the morning hunters and grazers such as the buffaloes, elephants, waterbucks, bushbucks, Uganda kobs, lions and a variety of bird species that you will encounter on your game drive. Later head back to the lodge for lunch, later in the day you will proceed for a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel. You will enjoy view of water dwelling birds and animals such as pied kingfisher, African fish eagle, heron, daters among others and animals like buffaloes, crocodiles, monitor lizards, elephants among others.

After the boat cruise, you will proceed for a short game drive as you head back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge (Mid- range lodge).

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 6 Transfer to Bwindi  

Enjoy a morning relaxed breakfast, check out of your lodge and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with a visit to the fishing village around Kazinga Channel. Proceed to Ishasha Sector for sight of tree climbing lions with a short game drive, later drive to Bwindi with panoramic view along the way with an en-route lunch. Overnight and dinner at your lodge.

Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Haven Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 7 Gorilla Trekking Experience

Have early morning breakfast and with your packed lunch, you will head to the park headquarters for briefing before embarking on the gorilla trekking adventure.

Gorilla trekking is a lifetime moment that will leave you with a great wildlife experience of meeting the gorillas face to face in their nature habitat, you will spend 1 hour with the gorillas watching them go on with their life, watch juveniles swing from one tree branch to another.

Return to the lodge for a short rest, in the afternoon you will head the Batwa Village for a cultural experience, you will have a deeper insight on how they used to live in the forest and how they thrived. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Haven Lodge (Mid – range lodge)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 8: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi   

Have a relaxed morning breakfast, check out of your lodge and drive to Lake Bunyonyi – a beautiful lake and the second deepest lake in Africa. The lake has many islands which you will explore on a boat cruise while the guide is the narrating the stories behind them.

Head to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 9: Transfer to Kigali airport  

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast, check out of your lodge and embark on a journey to Kigali City for a drop-off. You will have border crossing at Cyanika border and continue to the Kigali, you will be dropped off at the airport for your flight back home.

Meal Plan: Breakfast & Lunch

End of 9 Days Magical Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Encounter

Price Includes

  • Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
  • Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
  • Services of English/French speaking driver/guide
  • Gorilla permits: 800 $ one per person
  • 1 Chimpanzee permit per person.
  • 1 liter bottle of mineral water per day per person during safari
  • Sightseeing and excursions as described in the itinerary (inclusive of applicable entrance fees)

Price Excludes

  • Expenses for personal spending e.g souvenir purchases,etc
  • International Flights
  • Any extra activity not listed on the itinerary

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