10 Days Best Of Uganda Safari
This 10 Days Best of Uganda Safari offers you a chance to meet Uganda’s primates and wildlife, meet the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Chimpanzees in Kibale Forest National Park.
You will also see several wildlife including lions, leopards, cape buffaloes, elephants and rhinos among others on game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Murchison Falls National Park.
Highlights of 10 Days Best Of Uganda Safari
- Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls national park, Rhino Tracking
- Day 2: Morning game drive and boat cruise
- Day 3: Transfer to Kibale National Park, Tea Plantation Visit
Tea Plantation - Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking and Transfer to Queen, Evening Game Drive
- Day 5: Game drive and Launch cruise
- Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 7: Gorilla Trekking experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 8: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
- Day 9: Full Day in Lake Bunyonyi
- Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe
Detailed Itinerary of 10 Days Best Of Uganda Safari
Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls national park, Rhino Tracking
After breakfast at your hotel in Kampala or upon arriving at Entebbe International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by an African Vacation Safari representatives and depart Kampala to Murchison Falls National Park. Have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking, then proceed to Murchison Falls National Park and upon arrival you will drive directly to the top of the falls where you will enjoy great views of the waterfalls and later connect to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight at Parkside Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Morning game drive and boat cruise
Wake up early for breakfast and go for a morning game drive on which you will be able to see several animals like elephants, buffaloes, jackson’s hartebeests, waterbucks, oribi, giraffes, warthogs, lions, leopards among others. After the game drive you will drive back to the lodge for lunch.
In the afternoon you will go for a boat cruise along the Nile which will give you an exciting panoramic view at the bottom of the might Murchison Falls. Along the cruise you will encounter hippos and crocodiles and several bird species on the river banks like Kingfishers among others. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Transfer to Kibale National Park, Tea Plantation Visit
After breakfast, embark on a long journey to Kibale Forest National Park – the primate capital of East Africa and home to 13 primate species including red colobus, black and white colobus monkeys, L’Hoest’s monkeys and many more. You will have lunch in Fort Portal ad proceed with the journey to the park with an en-route visit of the tea plantations. On a clear day, be sure to take amazing pictures and also learn about the way tea is grown, harvested and processed to your cup.
Overnight at Isunga Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking and Transfer to Queen, Evening Game Drive
Enjoy early breakfast, meet your driver guide and head out for chimpanzee tracking within the Kibale Forest. During your search for chimpanzees, expect to see other primate species including black and white colobus monkeys and other animals like forest elephants, bush pigs and duikers among others.
When you locate the chimpanzees, you will be allowed to spend only one hour in their presence watching them play, groom and pick fruits which they eat. Thereafter, proceed to transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park with an option of enjoying a late afternoon game drive.
Overnight at Elephant Hab Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Game drive and Launch cruise
Wake up early for breakfast, set out for a lion tracking experience and game drive in search of early risers in the Kasenyi Area. Queen Elizabeth National Park has a diverse eco-system of grassy plains, rivers, crater lakes, forests, swamps and lakes. These habitats are home to various wildlife and a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park will reward you with views of animals such as lions, antelopes, buffaloes, waterbucks, Uganda Kobs and many other types of antelopes.
Return to your lodge for lunch and afterwards, go for a 3 hours Launch Cruise along the Kazinga Channel into Lake Edward. On this cruise you will pass through a place of the highest concentration of hippos and see many animals at the water’s edge.
Overnight at Elephant Hab Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast, set out for a game drive in the Ishasha Sector and have a chance to see the rare tree climbing lions seen resting on the fig trees. However, it is not guaranteed that lions will be seen.
You will have lunch in the Ishasha Sector and after you will proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in preparation for your next day gorilla trekking experience.
Overnight at Buhoma Haven Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park
After an early breakfast, you will meet up with your driver guide and head to the park headquarters for briefing about rules and regulations to follow during trekking. With armed ranger guide, head into the forest looking for the endangered mountain gorillas.
The trek takes approximately 2 to 6 hours or more depending on the movement of the gorillas and where they spent their previous night. Enjoy time taking pictures, watching female gorillas breast feed their babies under a watchful gaze of a dominant silverback.
Return to the park headquarters to meet your driver-guide and return to your lodge for an afternoon of resting, relax as you wait for dinner and overnight as above.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 8: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
After a leisurely breakfast, proceed to transfer to Lake Bunyonyi – the deepest lake in Uganda and the second deepest in Africa. Check in at the resort, relax as you wait for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight at Arcadia Bunyonyi Resort
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Full Day in Lake Bunyonyi
Enjoy breakfast and go out for an amazing canoe ride where you will paddle along the shores with spectacular views of beautiful scenery, explore some of the 29 islands such as the punishment island where girls who got pregnant were left to die as a punishment, view terraced farmlands, bird species among others. After the experience, return to the lodge for lunch.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe
After an early breakfast, check out of the lodge and proceed on a transfer to Entebbe enjoying lunch en-route. You shall be dropped off at the airport in Entebbe in time for your flight, or hotel in Entebbe.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
End of 10 Days Best Of Uganda Safari
Quotation Includes;
- Gorilla trekking permit
- Chimpanzee permit
- All park entry fees and boat cruise
- All accommodations as per itinerary
- 4X4 safari Van with popup roof and Fuel
- Full time English speaking driver/ guide
- All meals as indicated including lunches en-route during transfers
- Vehicle entrance fees to the park
- Bottled mineral water while on safari
- Government taxes
- All activities mentioned
Cost excludes;
- Tipping
- Visa fees and Air tickets
- Optional activities of your choice
- All items of personal nature like laundry, beverages, phone calls, beer, e.t.c
- Anything else not included in the itinerary.
