5 Days Gorillas and Game Safari

• You’ll be picked up from the airport (or hotel)
• Accommodation before the tour departs can be arranged for extra cost

• Morning/Transfer

After Breakfast, you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Your guide will make a stopover at the Equator crossing in Kayabwe for photography, a brief talk and some experiments and then proceed with your journey

• Afternoon

You will have  a stop in Mbarara city for lunch and then proceed with a scenic drive past banana plantations, farms and the beautiful hills of Kigezi region

• Evening/Accommodation

You will be welcomed by the staff and check in at the lodge for relaxation and overnight

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest

Accommodation:

Budget: Rushaga Havens Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Ride 4 A Woman

Mid Range: 4 Gorillas Lodge/Gorilla Leisure Lodge

Luxury: Gorilla Heights Lodge/Buhoma Lodge/Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge/Kiho Lodge

Meals: Lunch & Dinner (Breakfast Not Included)

Drinks: Drinking Water

• Morning/Briefing

After an early morning breakfast, with your packed lunch, your guide will drive you to the Park Headquarters for registration and briefing at about 7:45 am. You will be briefed about what to expect while on your gorilla trek, the do’s and dont’s of gorilla trekking.

• Trek and Observation

Your guides will lead you through the thick creepers and undergrowth as you trek to find the Gorillas. This trek can take you half an hour to three quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The amount of time you take during the trek largely depends on the movement of the gorillas. But it is an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures.

• Evening/Accommodation

You will later return at the park headquarters for your certificate that shows you have successfully trekked gorillas, your driver will transfer you to the lodge for relaxation and overnight

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest
Accommodation:

Budget: Rushaga Havens Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Ride 4 A Woman

Mid Range: 4 Gorillas Lodge/Gorilla Leisure Lodge

Luxury: Gorilla Heights Lodge/Buhoma Lodge/Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge/Kiho Lodge

Meals: All Meals Included

Drinks: Drinking Water

• Morning/Transfer

After breakfast, you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park located in Western Uganda you will have several stops along the way for photography passing through the banana and tea plantations

• Afternoon

You will arrive at the lodge in time for Lunch at Elephant Hab or Buffalo safari lodge. After, lunch, you will check-in at the lodge and have a moment to relaxation

• Evening

You will embark on your vehicle for an evening game drive in the Savannah plains of Kasenyi. At the Kasenyi plains, you will sport herds of buffaloes, elephants, antelopes and some big cuts such as lions and leopards can be spotted based on sheer luck. Return to your lodge for overnight.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation:

Budget: Bush Lodge

Mid Range: Buffalo safari lodge/ Elephant Hab Lodge/ Parkside safari lodge

Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge/ Kyambura Gorge Lodge

Meals: All Meals Included

Drinks: Drinking Water

• Morning

This morning you will head back to the Plains of Kasenyi for yet another a morning Game drive to try and find what you could have missed during the previous Game drive, you will have an opportunity of seeing the morning raisers while on this game drive

• Afternoon

You will drive to the lodge for hot lunch and after lunch, will head to the jetty along Kazinga channel for the afternoon boat cruise. This cruise offers you chances of viewing animals like: hippos, elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles and many species of water birds.

• Evening/Accommodation

You will return at the lodge and spend the evening at leisure followed by dinner and overnight at the lodge

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation:

Budget: Bush Lodge

Mid Range: Buffalo safari lodge/ Elephant Hab Lodge/ Parkside safari lodge

Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge/ Kyambura Gorge Lodge

Meals: All Meals Included

Drinks: Drinking Water

• Morning/Transfer

After morning breakfast, you will bid farewell to the lodge and drive back to Kampala/Entebbe International Airport to end the tour

• Afternoon

You will have a stop for lunch at Kayabwe and later proceed your return journey to Entebbe or Kampala

• Evening

You will be transferred at Entebbe international airport or Hotel in Kampala or Entebbe depending on your next program

Main Destination: Entebbe

Accommodation: End of Tour, No accommodation

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Drinks: Mineral Water

End of Tour

• Additional accommodation can be arranged at an extra cost
• You’ll be dropped off at the airport (or hotel)