9-DAY GORILLA & WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHIC SAFARI

A company representative from Ibis Adventure Safaris will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel either in Entebbe or Kampala Town. Depending on the time of your arrival, our guide will take you on a city tour for an exciting introduction of the Capital City - Kampala. You will choose to enjoy your city tour at the back of a Motorbike ‘Boda Boda’, on foot or in a car. Visit interesting historical sites and monuments will be visited, such as the Namugongo Martyrs Shrine, the Uganda Museum, Bahai Temple, the Gadhafi Mosque, The King’s Palace, the city’s main local markets, and the African Craft Village. 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

No meals today!

Our driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel, and you will travel by road to Murchison Falls National Park with a stop at the Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola to trek Southern White Rhinos in support of the initiative to reintroduce them in Uganda’s wild. This trek takes between ±1 hour depending on where the rhinos are located within the wildlife ranch. After the trek, enjoy your lunch and thereafter proceed to Murchison Falls National Park, where you will arrive at your lodge on time for your dinner and overnight stay.

Travel time: ± 7,5 hours

Mid-range accommodation: - Pakuba Safari Lodge (En-suite Cottages)Luxury accommodation: - Paraa Safari Lodge (En-suite Deluxe Rooms) or stay at Nile Safari Lodge (High-end Accommodation) at an extra cost.

Wake up very early in the morning to a cup of tea before setting up to go for your game drive in search of predators and early risers on the northern bank of the river Nile. You may have a chance to see animals like Hyenas, Giraffes, Lions, Birds, Hartebeests, Buffalos, Elephants, Primates, and others, as well as different species of birds, as you explore the Murchison Falls National Park with magical photographic moments of wildlife, nature, and landscape. After the game drive, return to the lodge/camp for lunch.

In the afternoon, go for a 2-hour boat cruise on the great Victoria Nile to the bottom of the falls. The boat ride will reward you with water animals like several Hippos and Crocodiles, as well as Elephants and plenty of birds dashing and walking along the banks. Capture moments in photos of the magnificent scenery, wildlife, and nature. After the boat ride to the bottom of the falls, you will hike to the top of the falls, where 1 km wide Nile is forced through a 7-metre narrow gorge forming the Murchison Falls, known as the most powerful falls, with a thunderous roar and breath-taking appearances of natural waterfalls. After this great moment, you will go back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Mid-range accommodation: - Pakuba Safari Lodge (En-suite Cottages)Luxury accommodation: - Paraa Safari Lodge (En-suite Deluxe Rooms) or stay at Nile Safari Lodge (High-end Accommodation) at an extra cost.

An early start departing from Murchison Falls National Park to Kibale Forest National Park. The park is best known for Chimpanzee tracking. You will arrive in the park late in the evening with a stop enroute for your lunch. You will be transferred to the lodge for dinner and overnight. If you are not tired, you choose to go for Bigodi Swamp walk which is a community Based project aimed at preserving the environment. Besides visiting the local community, the swamp is also a haven to over 138 bird species such as the Great Blue Turaco as well as animals like Bushbucks and Sitatungas.

Travel time: ± 7 hours

Mid-range Accommodation: - Turaco Treetops (En-suite Luxury Cottages)

Luxury Accommodation: - Primate Lodge (En-suite Luxury Cottages)

An early morning report to the park Headquarters ranger station for a short briefing for the start of your chimpanzee trekking. 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 not only about chimpanzees but also on flora and fauna. You will then meet the chimpanzees and spend one hour watching them feed and making their calls. If you are lucky to find them hunting this is the best time, as you watch them share the meat amongst themselves. After tracking you will have Lunch and later drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park to arriving at the lodge later in the evening in time for dinner and overnight. 

Travel time: ± 3,5 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 entrance gate for a game drive to be able to see predators as they return to their night hunting 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 heavy breakfast, then later have lunch and come return to the park for your afternoon Boat Cruise along the Kazinga Channel. The Kazinga channel is a large water body that connects Lakes George and Edward and will reward you with animals like Hippos, Elephants and Buffaloes at the shores not forgetting a variety of bird sspecies. Later after the boat cruise, you will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

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

After breakfast, proceed through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, famous for tree-climbing lions, and depart to Bwindi National Park. You have your lunch enroute and you will be expected to arrive in Bwindi impenetrable NP in time for your dinner and overnight.

Travel time: ± 7 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 7.30am for registration and briefing and start the Gorilla trekking experience at around 8:00am. This remarkable experience of searching for the famous Mountain Gorillas is strenuous 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. Later depending on the time of completion of the Gorilla trek, you will be transferred to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale. If time allows, take a boat ride on the lake to visit its 29 islands, neighboring pygmy tribes with their unique culture and the African traditional ironsmith. Enjoy your dinner and overnight.

Travel time: ± 3 hoursMid – range Accommodation: Birdnest @ Bunyonyi Resort (En-suite Rooms) or Arcadia Cottages Bunyonyi (En-suite Cottages)

You will have an early breakfast and then depart from Lake Bunyonyi to Entebbe passing through Mbarara Town with a Lunch Stopover at either in Mbarara or Masaka towns. We will also stop at the equator monument for your souvenir shopping, photo shooting and possibly for tea/coffee break. On arrival in Kampala, you will be transferred to your Hotel in Entebbe or to the airport for your flight back home. And if departing the next day, you will spend an overnight at the hotel at an extra cost.

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: ± 8 hours