10 Days Uganda Wildlife Safari And Primate Tours

After having breakfast, leave your hotel to Murchison falls national park with an en-route visit to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for the white rhino experience. Ziwa Rhino sanctuary is the only place in Uganda where you can find white rhinos in the wild. During rhino tracking experience, you will have an opportunity to see rhinos close to their feet with the help of your local site based guide and to stay with them for a maximum of one hour so your camera has to be on standby to capture all moments during without missing any. After Rhino experience, have a short break to relax, have refreshments and then continue with your drive to Masindi town to have lunch and thereafter drive straight to Murchison falls national park to explore the “Murchison Falls” with a hiking to the bottom and top of the falls to watch how the Victoria Nile river pushing through a tiny gorge of about 7 meters  wide and dropping over 42 meters which makes it to become violent and form the Murchison falls which are said to be the worlds’ strongest falls in the world. Later, drive through the park and go to check in at your booked lodge for dinner and an overnight.

Accommodation Option
Hornbill Bush Lodge (Budget)
Pakuba Safari Lodge (Mid-range)
Paraa Safari Lodge (Luxury)

Meal plan; Breakfast/ Lunch / Dinner

After breakfast, leave your lodge and go for the early morning game drive for wildlife sighting both mammal and bird species. Murchison Falls National park is a home-based to over 76 mammals both big and small mammals including 4 members of the big five family (Lion, Elephants, Caped buffaloes and Leopards) and 450 recorded bird species. Therefore, during your game drive, your driver guide will help you to spot numerous wildlife species such as Uganda kobs, Giraffes, the fearless Lions, hug Elephants, Jackson hartebeest, Oribis, Warthogs and many others including bird species. After your adventurous wildlife sighting game drive, have a short break to relax, have lunch and go for your afternoon boat cruise on the Victoria Nile for 3 hours which will take you up to the bottom of the Murchison falls to watch how the River drop 43 meters as it is on its way to Mediterranean sea. While on the Nile boat cruise, you will enjoy viewing a variety of water animals such as hippopotamuses, Nile crocodiles and others on the shores as they have come to drink water and swimming such as elephants, waterbucks, caped buffaloes, Uganda kobs and many water lover birds such as red throated bee-eater, malachite king fisher, African fish eagle, rare shoebill stork. After enjoying your 3 hours boat cruise, have a short break to have some refreshments and later go for your evening game drive specifically to search for the big predators of the park such as Lions, Leopards and Spotted hyenas since they are so active during evening hours. Dinner and an overnight

Accommodation Option;
Hornbill Bush Lodge (Budget)
Pakuba Safari Lodge (Mid-range)
Paraa Safari Lodge (Luxury)
Meal plan; Breakfast/ Lunch / Dinner

This day after having breakfast, check out your lodge to drive to Kibale Forest national park through villages while watching the indigenous people carrying out their daily activities and enjoying beautiful sceneries of the countryside that will make your drive so adventurous and thrilling. Kibale forest national park is more popular to have the highest number of different primate species in Africa totaling to 13 species these include chimpanzees our closest relatives with 98.8% human DNA. Other primates you may see include; the grey-cheeked mangabey, Blue monkeys, Olive baboons, L’Hoest monkey, vervet monkeys and many others. On your arrival at Kibale Forest national park, check in at your lodge, lunch and later go for your evening guided nature walk to Bigodi swamp sanctuary. Bigodi swamp sanctuary, is a home to over 200 bird species which makes it a bird lover’s paradise and it is possible for some bird species to miss in the Park Forest and find them in Bigodi swamp sanctuary, it is also home to over 8 primate. After your adventurous nature walk, return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.

Accommodation options;
Rwetera Safari Park (Budget)
Isunga Safari Lodge (Mid-range)
Crater Safari Lodge

Meal plan; Breakfast/ Lunch / Dinner

On this day, rise up early to have heavy breakfast and meet your driver guide for a transfer to the park office center to join other guests for the pre-trekking briefing about the guideline to follow during chimpanzee trekking and then start your forest walk to search for chimpanzees.  Your chimpanzee tracking safari will be guided by a professional UWA guide to give you information about everything that you will encounter like bird species, other primates and mammals which will make it so thrilling and adventurous. The time taken during chimpanzee tracking is not known however, it is expected to be between 30 minutes to 4 hours depending on the location and movements of the family you are tracking. When you meet them, you will have a maximum of 1 hour of watching them, taking as many photos as you would want and asking questions regarding chimpanzees and all other creatures found in the forest. After meeting chimpanzees, return to the park information center to have refreshments, lunch and later drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Queen Elizabeth National Park was named after Queen Elizabeth II of England after her visit in Uganda in 1952. It is one of the best Africa safaris destinations found in southwestern Uganda and lies across the Equator with monuments on both sides of the road making latitude 00. The rich bio-diversity that is made of crater lakes, savannah, forest, woodland, and acacia and plentiful of wildlife species and plants makes it a worth to visit destination for wildlife sighting and relaxation. On your arrival to Queen Elizabeth national park, you will check in at your reserved lodge and later visit Kasoga community. The Kasoga community is one of communities surrounding Queen Elizabeth and visiting them is the best way to directly get in touch indigenous people to share with you their life style and relationship with wildlife and take you through many of their cultural life, marine practices, local fish activities, visiting women art shops and later, canoeing which will reward you with remarkable community experience. Return to your lodge to relax, dinner and an overnight

Accommodation options
Pumba Cottages (Budget)
Elephant Hab Safari Lodge (Mid-range)
Mweya Safari Lodge

Meal plan; Breakfast/ Lunch / Dinner

This day, you will rise up early to have breakfast and leave the lodge Kasenyi track for your early morning game drive to search for the wildlife sighting. Kasinyi track is proudly known as the mating ground for Uganda Kobs and hunting ground for the big predators such as lions, leopard and spotted hyenas. During the game drive you will encounter a variety of  wildlife species such as the huge Elephants, Caped buffaloes, Uganda kobs and other antelope species, Warthogs, Forest giant hog, Lions, Leopard and many other species because this park has is a home to about 95 mammal species and over 600 bird species. Have a short break to have refreshments and lunch, thereafter go for your remarkable afternoon boat cruise safari on the Kazinga channel. Boat cruise safari in Queen Elizabeth national park is one of the most amazing activities where you will meet variety of both water and land animal species leaving together in harmony. Kazinga channel is the water stream of 32 km which connects Lake Edward and George and it’s very popular for having the highest population of hippopotamus in Africa and many Nile crocodiles plus a variety of bird species which makes it a birders paradise. Therefore, during your afternoon boat cruise you spot a number of animals such as African crocodiles, hippopotamuses, waterbucks and others land mammals as they have come to drink water and swimming such as Buffaloes, Elephants and other among others and many bird species. After a boat cruise safari, have a short break and later go for an evening game drive where the emphasis will be put at searching for the big predators of the park such as Leopards, Lions, spotted hyenas and others since evening time is when they come out of their thickets to start hunting. Dinner and an overnight

Accommodation options;
Pumba Cottages (Budget)
Elephant hab Safari Lodge (Mid-range)
Mweya Safari Lodge

Meal plan; Breakfast/ Lunch / Dinner

After breakfast, check out and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest national park in the southwestern Uganda which is proudly known for being a home to half of the world’s remaining population of mountain gorillas. Seeing the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park from all the four sectors of the park is 99.8% guaranteed. On your way to Bwindi Impenetrable forest national park, you will have a mid-morning game drive through Ishasha sector in the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth national park to search for the unique tree climbing lions. In the whole world, the tree climbing lions can only be found in the two East African national parks that is Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. Queen Elizabeth national park is the best destination to see them since there are over 4 prides. After your game drive to search for the tree climbing lions, have lunch and then proceed with your drive to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park which is a home to half of the worlds’ remaining population of mountain gorillas, 120 mammal species, over 346 bird species, 400 plant species among. On your arrival to the park, drive straight to check in at your reserved lodge

Accommodation option
Broadbill Forest Camp (Budget)
Silverback Lodge (Mid-range)
Mahogany springs (Luxury)

Meal Plan; Breakfast/ Lunch /Dinner

On this day after having your heavy breakfast with packed lunch, meet your driver guide and drive to the park offices to meet other guests for briefing about the dos and don’ts to follow during mountain gorilla trekking and then start your guided forest walk to search for the endangered mountain gorillas. In the course of mountain gorilla trekking, you may encounter many other wildlife species such as forest Elephants, Bush pigs, chimpanzees, white and black colobus monkeys and many bird species and your guide will be able to give you information about everything that you will meet which will make your forest walk so exciting. The time taken during mountain gorilla trekking is not known since it highly depend on the location and movements of the mountain gorilla family that you are tracking so, it may last between 30 minutes to 6 hours and once you them, you given a maximum of 1 hour to watch them, capturing photos and asking questions you want about the mountain gorillas. Meeting the endangered mountain gorillas in their natural habitat is the most adventurous and exciting wildlife experience in Africa so your camera has to be on standby and fully charged to a capture all your interesting moments during mountain gorilla trekking. After spending your 1 hour of watching mountain gorillas, return to the park office to pick your trekking award certificate, have lunch and other refreshments and later drive to Lake Bunyonyi to spend your evening relaxing while canoeing and bird watching.

Accommodation;
Bunyonyi Rock Resort (Budget)
Arcadia Lodge Bunyonyi (Mid-range)
Bird nest Resort (Luxury)

Meal plan; Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

On this day after having breakfast, go for your morning canoeing on Lake Bunyonyi. Canoeing and bird watching on Lake Bunyonyi are the most exciting tourism activities, Lake Bunyonyi is the deepest lake in Uganda and second deepest in Africa with over 29 small islands and each island has its unique interesting story such as the Akampene Island that was used to punish girls whom the Kiga communities would find pregnant before official marriage by isolating them there to death. This would teach lesson to others not do the same mistake since sex was only for married adults. After your adventurous morning canoeing and visiting some Islands on Lake Bunyonyi, return to your lodge to check out and start your drive to Lake Mburo national park with stopover in Mbarara city to have lunch and proceed with your drive to check in at your booked lodge to relax, then later in the evening go for your evening and night game drive to look for wildlife in Lake Mburo National park. Lake Mburo national park is the smallest savannah park in Uganda but one of the most beautiful and blessed with many small lakes, woodland vegetation, valleys and rolling hills which provides habitats a diversity of wildlife both mammals and birds such as; zebras, buffaloes, impala, elands, hippopotamuses, warthogs, Nile crocodiles, Giraffes and many others including over 300 bird species. Lake Mburo national park is the best national park for a night game drive. Night game drive is the best way to search for some wildlife species that are not easy to see during day such as leopard, porcupine, bush babies, white tailed mongoose and spotted hyenas and it will be so much interesting to meet any of the nocturnal in action. Dinner and an overnight

Accommodation Options;
Mpogo Safari Lodge (Budget)
Rwakobo rock lodge (Mid-range)
Mihingo Safari Lodge (Luxury)

Meal plan; Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

Have a simple breakfast and go for your morning horseback riding safari.  Lake Mburo national park is the only park in Uganda where horseback riding in wilderness can be done, it will enable you to watch a number of the wildlife species such as Zebras, Elands, Buffaloes and Impala from a closer distance without being scared as it is when doing a game drive by a safari vehicle which makes it to be the best way of exploring the park and getting off the usual game drive tracks which enables to encounter more wildlife species than when you are using a vehicle. After your morning horseback riding safari, return to the lodge to have full breakfast and check out to embark on your road drive back to Entebbe international airport with a stopover at Kayabwe Equator landmark to watch water experiments showing difference in the movement of forces on northern and southern hemispheres. On the northern hemisphere, waters rotates clockwise and rotate anticlockwise on the southern hemisphere whereby there is no rotation in the imaginary line because all forces from different points sink in, take a memorial photo at this landmark, have lunch and proceed with your drive straight to Entebbe international airport to meet your return flight and this will be the end of your 10 days best of Uganda wildlife safari and primate tours.

Meal plan; Breakfast / Lunch