12-Day Gorillas, Chimps & Wildlife Epic Safari

Our friendly guide will welcome you to Uganda at Entebbe Airport and transfer you to your hotel in Kampala or Entebbe. Enjoy the fresh breeze from Lake Victoria, the 2nd largest lake in the world. Get a good night’s rest, your adventure starts the next day.

Have an early breakfast and depart for Murchison Falls National Park. The journey is a magical adventure with a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track rhinos.
Continue on to Murchison Falls and proceed to the top of the falls where you will behold the Nile as it's forced through a 7-meter gorge with a thunderous fall before your very own eyes.

Murchison Falls National Park is the biggest park in Uganda offering fulfilling game viewing. After an early breakfast, we will start the day with a game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile. Look out for giraffes, elephants, hartebeests, buffaloes, leopards, lions and different bird species.
Indeed, it is a privilege to watch wild animals in their habitat as they eat, play, and protect the young. In the afternoon, the safari will continue on River Nile. The relaxed boat safari provides more opportunities for spotting a variety of animals and birds. Watch the water the Murchison Falls, the ‘devils cauldron’. This kind of boat cruise is only found in Uganda in the whole of Africa.

Today we will depart to the home of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park—the primate capital of East Africa. Kibale Forest is home to 13 species of primates with the main attraction being chimpanzee tracking. On this journey, you'll have stunning views as you pass small villages, local markets and several birdlife. This is a day’s trip with packed lunch or in a town en-route.

Kibale National Park is the primate capital of East Africa. Chimpanzee trekking is a fulfilling adventure that takes you deep in the tropical forest across streams of water. You may also have sightings of red-tailed monkeys, black and white Columbus monkeys, butterflies, and birds calling from the canopies. With the help of your guide, you will locate the chimps. Enjoy picture moments and watch them as they play and feed. After lunch, visit Bigodi Village and the swamp known for its rich diversity of birds and primates depending on the availability of time.

Today after breakfast, our tour continues to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Enjoy views of several crater lakes and the mystical Rwenzori Mountain Ranges en-route. On arrival in the park, we shall have a small game drive as we proceed to the lodge for lunch and a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. The boat safari offers you great photo sessions in a relaxed way with lots of birdlife on the shores, crocodiles and elephants.

The animals in their different families, clans, and groups are out starting on their day. Notice the difference between the animals in their natural habitat and those caged in zoos. Have a game drive in Kasenyi plains in the open-roof safari cars. Proceed to Ishasha, famed for the tree-climbing lions and search for them with help of rangers. Lunch will be a picnic or at the lodge.

Today we will start our journey to the home of the gentle giants of Bwindi. This fulfilling journey takes us through the Kigezi Highlands with great scenery of terraced hills. Lunch will be along the way or at the lodge depending on the time of your arrival. You'll lodge in or adjust to the impenetrable forest. This will offer you great resting as you prepare for the next day’s trek.

The highlight of your safari will be meeting the gentle giants of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park! Enjoy the fullness of the impenetrable forest abounding with life, host to several species of birds, butterflies, primates and mammals. Eventually, with the help of your guide who is also a park ranger. You will find yourself face to face with the enormous and rare mountain gorillas. The trekking experience takes anything from one hour (rarely) to about 8 hours to accomplish. However, you only have one hour with gorillas to capture your finest moment. Suggested activities for those not interested in gorilla tracking are a community village walk or a short guided forest walk.

Early morning drive from Bwindi and head to Mgahinga gorilla national park. This is about 2 hours drive. Embark on golden monkey trekking. This trekk will take you to the golden monkeys, an endemic species of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in southwestern Uganda, you will trekk through the jungles of Mgahinga National park, consisting of bamboo and a variety of indigenous plants like giant lobelia. Your ranger guide will tell you about the national park’s history and the fauna and flora that the park holds during the trekk. The trek takes about 2-3 hours, Get back to your reserved accomodation for an overnight stay.

The journey to Lake Mburo National Park is through beautiful landscapes, plantations, and farms. Have a visit to a Cultural Museum—exhibiting the life of the native people of the area. Have lunch/picnic at a restaurant along the way. Arrive in the park later that afternoon and take a boat trip on Lake Mburo.

After an early breakfast, we will go on a game drive in Lake Mburo National Park. We will later head to Entebbe, with a stopover at the famed Equator line. Have lunch and then proceed to the airport arriving in the afternoon.