9 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife
Your 9 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife to explore Uganda, will be an amazing life time adventure, as you get thrilled into wilderness and into the hearts of the jungles of tropical rain forests and savannah parks, doing game drives, boats cruise in search for numerous wildlife and bird species, not leaving behind various trekking in search for relevant primates including the gentle forest giants “the gorillas”, chimpanzees and the lovely golden monkeys. Request a Quote This is an amazing adventure with relaxing trips to the river base for rides, get an opportunity to trek the chimpanzees and famous gorillas. You will also get an opportunity for a community encounter to know about the African social ways as you will interact with them in their local settings within their community. You have a great chance to do a gorilla trekking experience visit the world known gorilla park, in Uganda, harboring half of the remaining world mountain gorillas. This will be once a life time moment, safari encounter. You will encounter the primates, wildlife and the lovely hospitable people, you ever wished to meet. This sounds amazing, let’s get the safari started. This an active adventure show, full of energy, and amazing experience, you will share for a life time.
Day 1. Arrival and transfer to hotel in Kampala. Travel time 1.30 hrs
Upon arrival, you will be picked from the airport by our driver guide and transfer you to Kampala to your booked hotel accommodation, with a stunning view of the city, you will be briefed about 9 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife and later check in to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Cassia Lodge (mid-range hotel)
Meal Plan: Dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Kibale National Park. Travel time + 6hrs
In the morning, you will set off a relaxed drive through the verdant countryside to Kibale Forest National Park with en route stops for sightseeing including the distant views of number of tea plantations along the way. You will reach Kibale Forest NP in the afternoon, and check in for lunch in your booked accommodation. You will spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure. Dinner and Overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House (mid-range lodge)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi Nature walk
In the morning, you will set off to the park headquarters for briefing before going for Chimpanzee tracking, where you may encounter other primates like Vervet Monkeys, Blue Hoest Monkeys, Black and white colobus Monkeys among others. The park is known as home of primate with 13 primate’s species including the famous chimpanzees. The trek takes roughly 2 – 4 hours, depending on the chimpanzee movement. One hour will be allocated to you, to have a wonderful interaction with the chimpanzees, as you take pictures and short videos, as your local guide explains to your all the biological back ground of the chimpanzee as you interact. You will later return from trek and head for lunch, in the afternoon; go for a nature walk to the Bigodi wetland sanctuary for primate and bird viewing, 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. Later drive to your lodge
Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House. (Mid-range lodge)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Travel time +3hrs
Have a relaxed morning breakfast, and drive to drive to Queen Elizabeth with the beautiful view of the crater lakes, you will do a brief crater lakes tour around and later drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, with a stopover at Equator for photography. Dinner and Overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge (Mid-range lodge)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5: Game drive & boat cruise at Queen Elizabeth National Park
After an early morning breakfast at 6:00 am, you will head for morning game drive in search for the morning hunters and grazers such as the buffalos, elephants, waterbucks, bushbucks, Uganda kobs, lions and variety of bird species that you will encounter on your game ride and later head for lunch.
After lunch you will proceed for a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel to view the water dwelling birds and animals such as the pied king fisher, African fish eagle, herons, darters to mention but a few and see animals such as buffalos, crocodiles, monitor lizards, elephants wallowing at the mad and much more. After boat cruise, you will proceed for a short game drive as you find you way back to lodge for dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge (Mid- range lodge). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi. Travel time +5hrs
After having a morning relaxed breakfast, you will check out of your lodge, visit the fishing village, around Kazinga channel, proceed to Ishasha, for tree climbing lion search, with a short game drive and later drive to Bwindi with a panoramic view along the way, with an en route lunch. Overnight and dinner at the lodge.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Haven Lodge (Mid – range lodge)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking Experience.
Early morning, with packed lunch, you will go to the park headquarters for briefing before embarking on the gorilla tracking adventure. The gorilla trekking is always referred to as a life time moment, as it leaves with a great experience of meeting the gorillas face to face in the jungle. You will be given an hour upon finding the gorillas to take a great moment with them as you watching the juveniles swing from one tree branch to another. You will return for lunch at the lodge, for lunch. In the afternoon, you will spend the evening at your leisure. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Haven Lodge (Mid – range lodge)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8: Transfer to Kigali. Travel time +4hrs
After having a relaxed morning breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and drive to Kisoro, at Lake Bunyonyi, for a wonderful boat/ canoe ride in this beautiful spectacular lake, having a number of beautiful islands, making it a birding paradise, with so many numerous bird species. You will encounter the locals doing their daily fishing, using their canoes and fish nets. You will later proceed with a relaxing drive to Kigali, with an en route lunch. You will reach in Kigali, and visit the Kigali genocide museum before proceed to your hotel. Overnight and dinner at the hotel.
Accommodation: Chaz Lando Hotel (Mid-range lodge),
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 9: Transfer to Kigali airport. Travel time +8hrs
Finally, we hit our last day of the trip, which starts with breakfast at the hotel, depending of your flight time, airport drop off, hugs and greetings, full of the great tour will be exchanged, as we say bye bye, till we meet again. Greetings way back home, as we look forward to receive your review and recommendations to family and friends. End of service!Meal Plan: Breakfast & Lunch
The 9 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife includes. Request a Quote
- Transportation on a 4 x 4 safari vehicle with pop up roof
- Accommodation and meals as listed on the itinerary
- Service of an English speaking driver guide
- 1 Chimpanzee permit per person.
- 1 Gorilla ($ 700) permit per person to be paid in advance
- Bigodi nature walk
- En route lunches
- Boat rides
- Boat cruises as mentioned in the itinerary
- Park entrance fees
- Community encounter
- Bottled mineral water
- Game drives as mentioned in the itinerary
- And other day excursions as described in the itinerary
- Lot of fun on African soil
The 9 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife excludes expenses of personal nature like: air fare, Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills and cigars.
NB: You can as well request a rate based on Upgrade on accommodations and self-tailored alternative to combine this safaris with Tanzania safaris and cultural tour
