6 Day Primate Trekking and Game Safari: Uganda National Park Tour

Itinerary

Itinerary for the 6 Day Primate Trekking and Game Safari and Uganda National Park Tour

Day 1: Arrival Entebbe Airport- Entebbe
Welcome to Uganda! On arrival, you will be met and greeted at the Airport by a Valiant Safaris driver-guide who will be your Driver for the safari, and then transfer to your hotel for an overnight.
Approx. Distance. 4km, 10 Minutes
Meals. None
Accommodation. Airport Guest House
No. 5 Guest House

Day 2: Entebbe - Kalinzu - Queen Elizabeth N.P.
Pick up from your hotel early in the morning and drive westward with a stopover en-route at the equator for a picturesque moment, an en-route lunch lunch before before heading to the Kalinzu forest offices. Here you will get your rangers guides a briefing and head into the forest for an afternoon Chimpanzee tracking experience. Trekking begins at 2 pm, an advance team already in the forest keep tracking the chimps and communicates with your ranger on the radio call. The tracking can last for 2 to 4 hours depending on how far the chimpanzees could be feeding. Once you find the them, you are allowed an hour to watch them and take pictures.
Driver to your lodge in queen Elizabeth for an overnight.
Approx. Distance. 410kms, 7hours’ Drive
Meals. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation. Buffalo Safari Lodge

Day 3: Queen Elizabeth N.P
A morning game drives in the Kasenyi plains through to Katwe Kob mating grounds. Most of the animals you are likely to find here include impalas, sitatungas and lions when lucky enough. You will have a chance to visit the Katara women project on a community visit, here women make paper products out of elephant dung. Alternatively you can go for a lion tracking experience at an extra payment.
Continue the drive to Mweya where you will have lunch before a boat safari on the Kazinga Channel, this will give you great views of several game including Hippos, Buffaloes, elephants and birdlife that queen Elizabeth National Park has to offer. off the boat cruise and continue with and evening game drive in the park en-route to your lodge for an overnight.
Approx Distance.
Meals. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation. Buffalo Safari Lodge

Day 4: Queen Elizabeth N.P. - Bwindi N.P.
A morning game drive in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha sector searching for tree climbing lions and many more animal species to spot on the game-drive. Ishasha sector is the most endowed with animal species including Impalas, Elands, Buffaloes, elephant, famous tree climbing lions and depending on how lucky you are; you may also find a Leopard.
Lunch before starting the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. The drive will take you along a murram road with some bumpy areas but a very scenic drive in this region. After check in at the lodge you will have a well earned rest contemplating on the gorilla trekking experience the following morning.
Approx. Distance. 160km, 4hours’ Drive
Meals. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation. Bakiga Lodge
Mahogany Springs Lodge

Day 5: Bwindi N.P Gorilla Trekking Experience
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is located in south-western Uganda edge at the edge of the great east African Rift Valley. It is a home to over 400 species of mountain gorillas about half of the world’s population. Many of these are habituated in families that are daily visited by tourists. The forest is also a home to over 350 species of birds and 400 flora species.
Gorilla trekking starts at 8am after a briefing at the park headquarters, you will trek through the dense steep forest searching for the gorillas depending on where they were seen making nests the previous evening. The trekking can last 2-7 hours depending on how soon you find the Gorillas, this is influenced by the location they stayed overnight. Trekking can be a tasking adventure, but coming to a facial close-up with these close relatives to human is a reward worthy to earn.
After gorilla trekking, transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for a relaxation on the lake, depending on time you arrive you will go for a canoe trip on the lake and visit some of the islands.
Approx. Distance. 60kms, 2hours’ Drive
Meals. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation. Birdnest Resort

Day 6: Lake Bunyonyi – Entebbe
After a morning relaxation at the resort, it is time to drive back to Entebbe. The drive will take you through beautiful sceneries, plantations and homes always visible en-route. This is a long drive, but rich with a lot to see en-route as you drive in the country side. A hot lunch stopover en-route, you are expected to arrive Entebbe late afternoon in time to check in for your evening flight back home.
Approx Distance. 420kms, 7hours’ Drive
Meals. Breakfast and Lunch En-route
Accommodation. None
End of Safari