10 Days Uganda Primate Safari
This 10 Days Uganda Primate Safari is tailored to offer you magical encounters with Uganda’s remarkable primates; the endangered mountain gorillas, chimpanzees in Budongo Forest and Kibale Forest National Park and other primate species in the Kyambura Gorge of Queen Elizabeth National Park.
This safari also offers intimate encounters with wildlife in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for tracking rhinos on foot and other wildlife species like elephants, buffaloes, lions and leopards in Murchison Falls National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park, the best wildlife destinations in Uganda.
Highlights of 10 Days Uganda Primate Safari
- Day 1: Arrival Entebbe Airport – Kampala
- Day 2: Kampala – Budongo Forest
- Day 3: Budongo Forest Chimpanzee Trekking Tour – Murchison Falls Safari Tour
- Day 4: Murchison Falls – Kibale National Park
- Day 5: Kibale Chimpanzee Habituation Experience
- Day 6: Kibale Primate Visit – Kyambura, Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 7: Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari – Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 8: Bwindi Gorilla Tracking Experience
- Day 9: Second Gorilla Trekking
- Day 10: Bwindi – Kampala/Entebbe
Detailed Itinerary of 10 Days Uganda Primate Safari
Day 1: Arrival Entebbe Airport – Kampala
On arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our representatives and drive you to an already booked hotel in Kampala for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Serena Kampala Hotel
Meal Plan: Dinner
Day 2: Kampala – Budongo Forest
Enjoy early breakfast and drive north-west through the famous Luwero Triangle and visit Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a walk with the rhinos, then continue to Masindi town where you will have lunch.
Proceed to the park with a drive to the beautiful Budongo Forest arriving in the late afternoon, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Budongo Eco Forest Cabin
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 3: Budongo Forest Chimpanzee Trekking Tour – Murchison Falls Safari Tour
Have early breakfast and head to Budongo Forest for chimpanzee tracking experience, you will join other trekkers at the park’s headquarters for briefing conducted by a ranger guide. Then enter into the forests in search for chimpanzees, the trek takes about 2 to 4 hours with one hour of being in the presence of the chimpanzee, watching their behavior and take amazing pictures for memory purposes.
Return to the lodge for lunch, later drive to the Murchison Falls National Park for a boat safari upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the Murchison Falls stopping just a few meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron”. Along the way, you will marvel at schools of hippos, crocodiles and elephants along the banks of the channel. This area hosts many water bird species like Goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork among others.
From here, you leave the boat and start a hike to the Top of the falls where you will see the world’s longest river explodes violently through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment to plunge into a frothing pool 43 meters below.
You will meet your driver and drive you back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Parra Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 4: Murchison Falls – Kibale National Park
After breakfast, you will drive south via Hoima heading to Fort Portal through verdant countryside and past traditional homesteads and farms along the scenic Albertine Rift Escarpments. Fort – Portal Town rests in the shadow of the fabled Mountains of the Moon, after lunch. You will proceed to Kibale National Park arriving in the late afternoon, check in for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Kyaninga Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 5: Kibale Chimpanzee Habituation Experience
Have early breakfast and head to the park for chimpanzee habituation experience, you will have briefing at the park’s headquarters. Meet your guide, researchers and scientists and head into the forest looking for the chimpanzees where they built their nests the night before.
You are going to be with the chimpanzee community with the rest of the day until they build their nests to sleep in, the day is filled with fun, take note of the behavior of the chimpanzees, learn to identify them individually by their markings that is scars and other unique features that make them stand apart from the rest.
After full day of fun and get more details about the chimpanzees, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Kyaninga Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 6: Kibale Primate Visit – Kyambura, Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you will drive to the south to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Along the way you will enjoy sightings of wildlife such as elephants, buffaloes, antelopes among others. You will have briefing at the starting point, then head into the Kyambura Gorge for chimpanzee trekking experience.
As you look for a habituated chimpanzee through the gorge, you will spot other primates like olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys and several species of birds. Head to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Mweya Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Full Board
Day 7: Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari – Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Have breakfast, proceed to Ishasha sector of the park with your packed lunch. This area is famous for hosting the rare tree climbing lions seen lounging on the branches of acacia trees.
On the drive, you will spot the tree climbing lions, buffaloes, antelopes, bush pigs, elephants among others.
Proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a drive that takes approximately 4 hours. Arrive in the evening, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mahogany Springs
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 8: Bwindi Gorilla Tracking Experience
Have early breakfast and head to the park for gorilla trekking, you will join other trekkers at the park’s headquarters for briefing conducted by a ranger guide who will take you through rules and regulations to follow while in the forest and in presence of mountain gorillas.
After being assigned a gorilla family to trek in groups of 8 people, you will head to the starting point and enter into the forests of Bwindi looking for mountain gorillas. The trek takes approximately 2 to 6 hours or more depending on the movement of mountain gorillas and where they spent the previous night.
When you encounter the gorillas, you are permitted to spend only one hour in their presence taking pictures and observing their fascinating behavior which is similar to human behavior. You are allowed to take pictures as long as your flashlight is off.
Return to the park’s headquarters and then to your lodge where you will spend the rest of the evening or go for a cultural visit to the Batwa Community.
Accommodation: Mahogany Springs
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 9: Second Gorilla Trekking
After breakfast, you will head to the misty forests of Bwindi for the second gorilla track. This time round, you will trek a different gorilla family. You will go through the same procedure like the first trek and after spending quality time with the gorillas, you will head back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Mahogany Springs
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 10: Bwindi – Kampala/Entebbe
After early breakfast, you will embark on a drive back to Kampala with a visit to Igongo Cultural Village to explore and learn about the Bahima and Ankole Culture, this is a place where the future meets the past.
You will have another stopover at the Equator crossing with your en-route lunch before driving off back to Kampala or Entebbe to catch your evening flight back home or to your next destination.
End of services on the 10 Days Uganda Primate Safari.
Inclusions
- Airport transfers.
- Transportation by a 4wd vehicle.
- Accommodation and meals as per the itinerary.
- Igongo cultural village visit.
- Boat trip Murchison.
- Two Gorilla permit per person to be secured and paid for in advance.
- Park fees.
- Kibale Chimpanzee Habituation Experience.
- Kyambura Gorge chimp Permits.
- Budongo Chimpanzee Permit.
- Community visits.
- Ziwa sanctuary Rhino Tour.
- Services of English speaking Driver/guide.
- Enroute lunches.
- Game drives only in Ishasha for tree climbing lions.
- AMREF Emergency Evacuation Medical Insurance.
Exclusions
- Expenses of personal nature like: Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, and tobacco.
