8 Days Gorilla Tracking Tour

• 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 meet your driver guide and drive to Lake Mburo National Park with a stopover at the Equator crossing in Kayabwe for photography, stretching and simple experiments.

• Afternoon

You will arrive in Lake Mburo National Park in time for lunch you will have hot lunch at the lodge and  an en route game drive to see wildlife

• Evening

You will have an evening boat cruise on Lake Mburo you will see aquatic wildlife such as hippopotamus, crocodiles and other bird species, you will later depart for sun set game drive and later drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Accommodation

Budget: Rwakobo Rock Lodge/Eagles Nest

Mid Range: Mihingo Lodge/Kigarama Wilderness Lodge

Luxury: Lodge: Kigambira safari Lodge

Drive time: 4-5 hours

• Morning/Transfer

After breakfast, you will enjoy an en route game drive through Lake Mburo National Park as you proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park located in Southwestern Uganda.

• Afternoon

You will have Lunch en route and you will later proceed your journey which gives you great opportunities for scenic viewing as you pass some of the green rolling hills of Uganda with banana and tea plantations.

• Evening

You will be welcomed at the lodge by the staff, check in and followed by relaxation, you will have dinner and later overnight

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Accommodation

Budget: Rushaga Havens Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Ride 4 A Woman/Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Mid Range: 4 Gorillas Lodge/Gorilla Leisure Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge

Luxury: Buhoma Lodge/Gorilla Heights Lodge/Sanctuary Forest Camp/Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge/Kiho Lodge

Drive time: 6-7 hours.

• Morning/Briefing: After your early morning breakfast, your guide will drive you to the Park Headquarters for briefing and joining others for briefing before heading into the forest for your gorilla trek. This trek can last for between 30 minutes to 7 hours depending on the location of mountain gorilla family on that particular day.
• Trek and observation: Once you find the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend one hour with them while observing their behaviour, taking photographs before you return to the Park Headquarters for your certificate that confirms that you have tracked gorillas in Uganda.
• Evening: you will return to the hotel for relaxation, dinner and overnight

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Accommodation

Budget: Rushaga Havens Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Ride 4 A Woman/Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Mid Range: 4 Gorillas Lodge/Gorilla Leisure Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge

Luxury: Buhoma Lodge/Gorilla Heights Lodge/Sanctuary Forest Camp/Nkurongo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge/Kiho Lodge

• 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.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Accommodation:

Budget: Bush Lodge

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

Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge/ Kyambura Gorge Lodge

Drive time: 4-5 hours.

• 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

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Accommodation:

Budget: Bush Lodge

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

Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge/ Kyambura Gorge Lodge

• Morning/Transfer: After an early breakfast, you will drive to the Northern bank of the Queen Elizabeth National Park (Kasenyi) area in search of some wild animals which include: Elephants, Buffalo, and some wild cats, different species of antelopes such water buck, Uganda kobs etc. as well as Savannah birds.
• Afternoon and Lunch: You will proceed to Fort Portal for Lunch and After lunch you will drive to Kibale National Park arriving at your lodge.
• Evening: You will spend the evening at Leisure, Later Dinner and overnight.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner.

Main Destination: Kibale Forest National Park

Budget: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge/Isunga Lodge/Kibale Forest Camp

Mid Range: Turaco Tree Tops Lodge

Luxury: Primate Lodge/Tabebuia Spa and safari Resort/ Ndali Lodge

Drive time: 3-4hours.

• Morning/Briefing: After breakfast, you will drive to Kibale National Park Headquarters for briefing on the Dos and Don’ts of Chimpanzee trekking. You will be divided into small groups of six people headed by one guide who will then move with you into the forest to find one of the Chimpanzee families. Chimpanzees live in communities of between 50-250 individuals but usually break-up into small parties during the day to reduce competition on food. They will then recollect in the evening to build their nests.
• Trekking and Observation: Once you find the Chimps, you will be allowed to spend one hour with the Chimps before returning to the lodge for lunch.
• Afternoon: After lunch, you head out for wetland walk in the nearby Bigodi Village. Kibale National Park is popular for 13 recorded primates species and several bird species.
• Evening: You will then return to the Hotel, relax, have dinner and overnight to end your day.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner.

Main Destination: Kibale Forest National Park

Budget: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge/Isunga Lodge

Mid Range: Turaco Tree Tops Lodge

Luxury: Primate Lodge/Tabebuia Spa and safari Resort/ Ndali Lodge

• Morning/Travel

This morning, after breakfast you will bid fare well to the lodge and transfer to Kampala/Entebbe International Airport

• Afternoon

You will have several stops along the way for scenic views of the plantations and you will have astop ofr lunch in Mubende town and later proceed to Kampala or Entebbe to end the trip

• Evening

You will be transferred to your Hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or at Entebbe international airport for your night flight back home