9 Days Uganda Safari Holiday

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Entebbe – Kampala

A warm meet and greet at Entebbe International Airport  to transfer to Kampala city about 45 km away. Check into your overnight accommodation to refresh. If your flight arrives in the day time you will have a chance to look around Kampala. Use this opportunity to acquire some local currency and enjoy a cup of Uganda’s aroma coffee.

Dinner and overnight at Serena Hotel (high end) or Cassia Lodge (mid range) or Emmaus Hotel ( budget facility

Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner

Day 2: Kampala – Kibale National Park – Bigodi walk

Wake up to a sumptuous Ugandan breakfast and thereafter head to Kibale National Park at 7:00 am via Mubende and the tea plantations with a lunch stop in Fortportal town. Continue to check in refresh and rest before going out to Bigodi wetland in the evening to search for the rare shoe bills, sitatungas and many more primates.

Dinner and overnight at Kyaninga Safari Lodge (High end lodge) or Primate Lodge Kibale (Moderate facility) or Rwenzori View Guest House (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: Kibale Chimpanzee Trekking  – Queen Elizabeth National Park – boat cruise

After breakfast, head to the park headquarters for the planned Uganda Safari Holiday briefing about the park and chimpanzee rules and regulations before heading into this tropical rain forest. Here search for the chimpanzees and other primates like the white and black Colobus, vervet monkeys, and mangabey among others.

Return to the Lodge  and get bags ready to head to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Arrive to have lunch and thereafter go out for a two hour boat ride along the famous Kazinga channel. This activity provides an opportunity to encounter hippopotamus, buffalo, kobs, elephants, warthogs etc. This trip also enables visitors a chance to see a variety of countless bird species.

Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge (High end lodge) or Ihamba Lakeside Safari Lodge Kibale (Moderate facility) or Simba Safari Camp  (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: Queen Elizabeth National Park – Bwindi National Park

With bags ready and packed breakfast start off with an early morning game drive along Kasenyi and Queens Mile bringing visitors to encounter elephants, buffalo, water bucks, warthogs, lions, Uganda Kobs, lakes and a variety of birds. Your Uganda Safari Holiday game drive will last about 3 hours. Thereafter continue to Bwindi – arrive to have lunch and rest in preparation for the next day gorilla trek.

Dinner and overnight stay at Mahogany Springs (High end lodge) or Gorilla Mist Camp (Moderate facility) or Trekkers Tarven Cottages (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: Bwindi Relaxation

Today is dedicated for relaxation with some spare time to go on a foot safari around the local communities living around the park.

Dinner and overnight stay at Mahogany Springs (High end lodge) or Silverback Lodge (Moderate facility) or Trekkers Tarven Cottages (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 6: Bwindi Gorilla tracking

After breakfast, your private Uganda Safari Holiday will lead you to the park headquarters for a briefing on tracking mountain gorillas and then you’ll be assigned a gorilla trekking team of guards and trackers that will lead you to a selected gorilla group. The thrill of your encounter will erase the difficulties of the potentially strenuous trek. Bring jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet.

Spend time in awe watching the gorillas go about their activities. Each gorilla safari encounter is different and has its own rewards, but you are likely to enjoy the close view of adults feeding, grooming and resting as the youngsters frolic and swing from vines in a delightfully playful display.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swathe of dense rainforest, so ancient that survived the last ice age. A recently proclaimed World Heritage site, it’s one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas – believed to number just 720.

There’s also a substantial chimpanzee population and research shows that Bwindi is the only forest in Africa in which these two apes live together.  Return to rest and unwind.

Dinner and overnight stay at Mahogany Springs (High end lodge) or Silverback Lodge (Moderate facility) or Trekkers Tarven  Cottages (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7: Bwindi – Lake Bunyonyi

With memories of the gorillas head out to Lake Bunyonyi via Kabale a region popularly known by many tourists as the ‘Switzerland of Africa’. Arrive to have lunch and rest at your accommodation before heading out for a magnificent sun-downer.

Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Bunyonyi Safari Resort (High end lodge) or Lake Bunyonyi Bird Nest (Moderate facility) or Crater bay cottages Bunyonyi (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 8: Lake Bunyonyi

Morning cultural visit to the Batwa Pygmies community to explore their life style and do some birding along Lake Bunyonyi. Afternoon boat trip to the islands for a guided nature walk and sightseeing.

Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Bunyonyi Safari Resort (High end lodge) or Lake Bunyonyi Bird Nest (Moderate facility) or Crater bay cottages Bunyonyi (Budget facility)

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 9: Lake Bunyonyi – Kampala – Entebbe

Wake up to an early breakfast to head out along the scenery of a winding road, hills and valleys, a terraced landscape and friendly big people on a guided nature walk, before proceeding to back to Kampala with lunch en-route.

Stop at the equator for photography and to shop curios to take home as unforgettable souvenirs from Uganda the pearl of Africa.

Drive to the airport for your return flight home.

Meal Plan Breakfast – Lunch

End of the Uganda Safari Holiday.

This Safari Package Includes

• Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle,
• Fuel expenses
• Accommodation and meals as per the safari program
• An English speaking driver/guide
• 1 liter of drinking water daily
• Park entrance fees
• Boat ride along the Kazinga channel
• One gorilla permit per person
• One Chimpanzee permit
• Bigodi Guided nature walk
• Batwa pygmies visit in Lake Bunyonyi
• Guided walk to Crater Lakes
• Visit to Bat Cave
• Village visit
• Crater walk Kibale
• Ranger fees

The Safari Exclusions

The expenses of personal nature like: Air fare, Visa, soda/alcoholic drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, and porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills.

See the prices for this tour package

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Budget accommodation

• 2 travelers -$2684
• 3 travelers -$2499
• 4 travelers – $2345
• 5 travelers – $2250
• 6 travelers – $2187

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Mid range

• 2 pax -$3146
• 3 pax – $2847
• 4 pax -$2700
• 5 pax -$2610
• 6 pax- $2550

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