Overview
Your 10-day Uganda Tour takes you to Lake Mburo NP, Bwindi National Park, Queen Elizabeth NP, Kibale National Park, and Semlik National Park. Here, have a great time exploring the unique attractions in each park through game drives, nature walks, boat cruises, gorilla trekking, chimpanzee tracking, and community Tours. This tour therefore is a great way to explore nature, wildlife, primates, and culture.
Detailed Itinerary
Day1. Head to Lake Mburo National Park from Kampala/Entebbe
Pick up and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park the smallest savannah national park in Uganda. The journey will take you about 4 hours’ drive including different stopovers like one on the Uganda equator point. Here, take part in the experiment to show the North and South Pole, buy souvenirs, take photos, and more. Proceed and find yourself at the booked lodge.
Day2. Game drive and boat cruise
Take part in the morning game drive where you spot animals like impalas, zebras, long-horned cattle, hyenas, warthogs, and more.
After lunch, take part in the boat cruise on Lake Mburo where you encounter water-loving animals like crocodiles, hippos, and different unique birds.
These experiences will reward you with great memories on your Uganda Tour.
Day3. Head to Bwindi National Park
Leave Lake Mburo and head to Bwindi National Park the home of the endangered mountain gorillas. This park is famous for homing almost half of the remaining mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Arrive and head to the lodge to mark the end of the day.
Day4. Gorilla trekking and Batwa community tour
Be served with breakfast which will be followed by a short drive to the briefing point in the park.
The briefing covers different aspects like rules and regulations, proper dress code that reflects the environment, materials to carry, and more.
Begin the trek with the help of the park guide and Porters. The experience can last for about 7 hours which includes an hour in their presence taking memorable photos.
Head for Batwa community tour after lunch where you get to learn about the culture of these short pygmies that are believed to be early inhabitants of the forest before they were chased away due to conservation efforts. Take part in traditional music and dances, dress code, natural fire makings, and more. Head back to the lodge for dinner.
Day5. Head to Queen Elizabeth National Park and lion tracking
Leave for Queen Elizabeth National Park after a leisurely breakfast.
Arrive in the Ishasha sector and trek these beautiful rare tree-climbing lions in their natural habitat.
These lions can also be found in Lake Manyara of Tanzania in the when of East Africa. Trekking can last for about 2 hours but is very rewarding since a lot of other animals and birds will be spotted like different antelopes, elephants, and more. Proceed to the lodge with en route game drive.
Day6. Game drive, boat cruise
Have a great time as you encounter the the morning game drive in the savannah plains of the park and here, have a chance to spot animals like lions, elephants, buffalo, warthogs, Uganda kob, hyenas, and more others.
After lunch, have a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel a place where you enjoy schools of hippos, crocodiles, isolated buffalos, elephants, antelopes quenching thirst, different bird species including migratory birds, and more. Return to the lodge en route to game drive.
Day7. Head to Kibale National Park through craters lakes
Leave Queen Elizabeth National Park and head to Kibale National Park for another great adventure with primates/chimpanzees and a community tour.
The journey passes through the crater lakes of Ndali Kasenda hence having the view of the twin lakes.
Arrive and head to that lodge with the optional activity of a community walk of the tea plantation with Isunga Cultural Community Association guides.
Day8. Chimpanzee tracking and Isunga homemade coffee experience
Wake up on breakfast and head for Chimpanzee tracking at Kanyanchu visitors gate one of the big gates of Kibale National Park.
The briefing will commence when the park ranger outlines the rules and regulations, talks about the dressing code, materials to have while trekking, and more.
Begin the search with the help of the park guide and escorts, meeting a community/group of chimps is a rewarding experience where you get to learn about their behaviours. These primates are playful while jumping from one tree to another, feeding, and more. Spend an hour following them and then head back to the park offices to receive your certificate of trekking.
Visit Isunga Cultural Community Association where the local guide will take you for a homemade coffee tour and experience. This begins with visiting the coffee plantation and the process of the beans into the powder. The experience ends by tasting a cup of homemade coffee. Return to the lodge for dinner.
Day9. Visit Sempaya hot springs and Amabere Ga’Nyinamwiru caves
Head to Semliki National Park a journey that takes about 2 to 3 hours’ drive through the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park.
Have a view of the Rift Valley, pass through different towns and markets, and enjoy fruits like bananas, pineapples, and more.
Arrive and attend the briefing then the park guide will take you for a nature walk where you get to spot many monkeys like the red-tailed monkeys, varvet monkeys, red colobus monkeys, baboons and more. The trail will take you to the male and female hot springs where water bubbles at 100 degrees giving you a chance to boil your food like eggs.
After head back to Fort Portal and enjoy a hot lunch followed by a visit to Amabere Ga’Nyinamwiru caves a Historical place where the stalagmites and stalactites that are believed to be beasts of the Bacwezi kingdom. Enjoy the Nyakasura Falls and have an option 9f thinking Mweganywa hill to have an aerial view of the surroundings with 3 crater lakes, and Rwenzori mountain ranges. Head back to the lodge for dinner and last night’s ambience.
Day10. Depart back to Kampala and fly home
Leave Kibale National Park in the morning and head back to Kampala as you enjoy the beautiful scenery of green vegetation cover such as tea plantations, forests, and banana plantations. En route, lunch will be at one of the local restaurants and later on be dropped at the airport.
