5 DAYS BEST OF PRIMATES SAFARI

Upon your arrival, our driver guide will pick you from the airport and drive you straight to Kibale National Park for your overnight and dinner. A separate hotel booking in Entebbe or Kampala can be arranged} This is a 5-6hour drive from Kampala city through spectacular views of tea plantations and beautiful scenery. You will have a stopover in Fort portal town for lunch and the proceed to Kibale forest national park. You will arrive in the park late in the evening at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

An early breakfast will be served at the lodge before you set out to the park headquarters ranger station for a short briefing to go for your chimpanzee tracking. You will be briefed about the whole process of tracking and then you will head along the tracks in the forest to search for chimpanzees. The walk through the park will be guided, providing information about not only on the dos and don’ts of chimpanzee trekking, but also on flora and fauna. You will then meet the chimpanzees and spend some time watching them feed and making their sweet calls. This takes between 1-4 hours, depending on the movement of the chips. It involves looking for chimpanzees in the forest, following them and watching them once you find them. If you are lucky to find them hunting this is the best time, as you watch them share the meat amongst themselves. You will have lunch and then take a
road trip to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where you will arrive late in the evening in time for your dinner and overnight. Travel time (7hrs)

Very early in the morning, you will carry your packed Lunch and be at the park headquarters by 7am for briefing about your gorilla trekking experience before you set off for this remarkable experience of searching for the famous mountain gorillas. The activity takes 2-9 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas in the jungle however the thrill of encountering these humble and gentle giants erases the memories you went through while looking out for the gorillas. Expect to meet a few other forest species such as monkeys, forest elephant duikers, birds and many more. After the trekking we can chose to return to your lodge and rest or go for community experience among the pygmies. Dinner and overnight at your lodge

Depending on your location in Bwindi National Park, you will set off early and head to Mgahinga National Park. This is the smallest national park in Uganda, located in the southwestern park of Uganda. The national park is home to different wildlife species, including mammals, primates like the endangered mountain gorillas, golden monkeys, I’hoest monkeys, and a variety of bird species. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park harbors one habituated gorilla family, Nyakagezi, which is available for trekking daily. Golden monkeys are small and fast, making them the rarest primates in the world, and only found in Mgahinga National Park. Golden Monkey Tracking can take 2 to 4 hours when you are allowed the opportunity to view, please take as many photos as possible. The route you take to find the monkeys may be attractive where you tread, looking for young bamboo branches as a clue to their location. A hike is taken through the bamboo forest. Along with this activity, always remember to carry your camera to freeze your golden monkey tour memories, a pair of binoculars for birding, hiking boots, hand gloves, a rain poncho, and a long-sleeved shirt, thus making you safer on your visit to the park.

You will have breakfast (time will depend on the time of your flight back home) and start the journey back to Kampala or to Kisoro airstrip. On arrival in Entebbe, we will transfer you to either your hotel or Entebbe International Airport for your flight back home.