6 days Gorillas and Game Safari

Our driver guide will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel either in Entebbe or Kampala. Depending on the time of your arrival, you can choose to go on a city tour for an introduction to Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. You can choose to either enjoy your city tour on the back of a Motorbike ‘Bodaboda’, on foot or in a car. Visit interesting historical sites and monuments such as the Independence Monument, Bahai Temple, King’s Palace, the City’s main local markets, religious sites, and the African Craft market. You will later be transferred to your Hotel for dinner and overnight. 

Travel time to Kampala: ±1 hour

Mid-range Accommodation: The Boma Entebbe (En-suite Rooms) or Fairway Boutique Hotel in Kampala (En-suite Standard Rooms) 

Luxury Accommodation: Protea Hotel Entebbe (En-suite Deluxe Rooms) or Protea Hotel Kampala

After your breakfast, our very experienced driver-guide will pick you up and drive you to Bwindi Impenetrable NP with two stopovers: one at the equator to witness the water experiment taking place, take pictures, buy a souvenir, and proceed. We will make be the second stopover in Mbarara for lunch before embarking on another 4 hours on to Bwindi. The road is a murram dry weather road that should give you the ‘African massage'; brace yourselves! We should be arriving at the lodge in time for your dinner and overnight. Alternatively, you can choose to fly from Entebbe to Kisoro Airstrip and the lodge shuttle will transfer you from the airstrip to the lodge (for about a 2-hour drive). The safari guide for the tour will meet you at the lodge later in the evening. 

Travel time: ± 9 hoursMid-range/Luxury Accommodation: Gorilla Leisure Lodge (En-suite Cottages)

Very early in the morning, after breakfast, you will carry your packed lunch and be at the park ranger station by 7.30 am for registration and briefing, and then start the gorilla trekking experience at around 8:00 am. This remarkable experience of searching for the famous Mountain Gorillas is strenuous and thus requires one to be physically fit, however, the thrill of encountering these humble and gentle giants erases the poor memories you went through while finding them. The trekking takes 2–9 hours, depending on the movement of the gorillas in the jungle, and you will spend one hour with them as you take photos and learn about their behaviors. After the trekking, we will return to the lodge, where we will spend the rest of the day relaxing or going for an optional activity that is;

• Batwa Trail Experience at USD $80 per person
• Hike to the waterfall inside the park at USD $75 per person
• Nature walk inside the park at USD $75 per person
• Hike to the waterfall outside the park at USD $35 per person
• Nature walk outside the park at USD $35 per person

Dinner and overnight at our lodge.Mid-range/Luxury Accommodation: Gorilla Leisure Lodge (En-suite Cottages)

After your early breakfast, you will travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park via Ishasha, the southern sector renowned for the tree-climbing lions. We will have lunch and an evening game drive here in search of the Lions. Various Antelope species, Elephants, Hyenas, Leopards Buffaloes, and a lot of other land mammals can also be seen. We will later continue and drive to the Kasenyi side of the park, arriving later in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.

Travel time: ± 7 hours

Mid-range Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge (En-suite Standard Cottages)Luxury Accommodation: Mweya Safari Lodge (En-suite Deluxe Rooms)

Wake up before sunrise to a cup of tea or a glass of water and then set off to the park tracks for a game drive to be able to see predators as they return to their hideouts and the early risers. During the drive, watch out for animals like the Leopards, Lions, Giant Forest Hogs, Hyenas, Uganda Kobs, Warthogs,, and others. After the game drive, you will drive back to the lodge for a heavy breakfast and then later have lunch and later transfer for your afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. Kazinga Channel is a large water body that connects Lakes George and Edward. The boat cruise on this channel will reward you with animals like Hippos, elephants, buffaloes and crocodiles, monitor lizards, waterbucks and hyenas at the shores not forgetting plenty of birds species. Later in the evening, return to the lodge for Dinner and overnight.

Mid-range Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge (En-suite Standard Cottages)Luxury Accommodation: Mweya Safari Lodge (En-suite Deluxe Rooms)

We will have breakfast and start the drive back to Kampala; on arrival, we will transfer you to your hotel or Entebbe International Airport for your flight back home. 

Day use Rooms + Dinner at either The Boma Entebbe (En-suite Rooms) for Mid-range or Protea Hotel Entebbe (En-suite Deluxe Rooms) for Luxury

Travel time: ± 7.5 hours