Go on the best Uganda safari you’ll ever experience with a broad taste of everything Uganda offers. Go with us on an unforgettable 10-day safari adventure! Marvel at the incredible power of Murchison Falls, where the mighty Nile squeezes through a small seven-metre gap, and hikes through lush rainforest searching for chimpanzees in Kibale Forest. Listening to the chatter of some 600 species of birds in Queen Elizabeth National Park and getting up close and personal with hippos along the Kazinga Channel. Trek to meet the rare mountain gorilla in the misty rainforests of Bwindi! The atmosphere of the trek through the jungle mist is unreal. With each step, your anticipation builds, and the reward of seeing the last remaining mountain gorillas in the World is spectacular.
Flight from Johannesburg to Entebbe Airport. At Entebbe, you will be welcomed by our friendly safari team and transferred to your hotel. Enjoy a 2-hour sunset cruise on Lake Victoria.
Stay: 2 Friends Beach Hotel
Room: Pool view room
Meals: Dinner & breakfast
After breakfast, we depart for Murchison Falls National Park, traveling through scenic rolling hills and quaint villages. Enjoy lunch en route at a local restaurant and we continue to arrive at your hotel in the late afternoon to check in.
Stay: Paraa Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
Spend a full day at Murchison Falls National Park exploring its rich wildlife and stunning scenery. Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the park or take a boat safari on the Victoria Nile, cruising toward the base of the dramatic Murchison Falls while spotting hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of birdlife. You can also visit the nearby Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to see rhinos up close, adding a unique wildlife experience to your day in this remarkable park.
Stay: Paraa Safari Lodge
Room: Standard Room
Meals: Dinner, lunch & breakfast
After a relaxing breakfast, we depart from Entebbe and head west to Fort Portal, with lunch en route at a local restaurant. Fort Portal rests in the shadow of the fabled “Mountains of the Moon” (Rwenzori mountains) and is famous for its many tea plantations. From this lovely town, we continue to Kibale Forest National Park.
Stay: Turaco Treetops
Room: Cottage
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
Today, the forest opens its doors for an exhilarating chimpanzee trekking experience in Uganda. Kibale Forest is known for having the greatest variety and the highest concentration of primates in East Africa. Enjoy a guided nature walk in the tropical rainforest, searching for the chimpanzee, red-tailed monkey, black and white colobus monkey, and many others. Upon sighting the chimpanzees, you will spend an unforgettable hour with them as they go about their daily life - feeding, playing, grooming, caring for their young, howling and screeching, all in their natural habitat. Return to the lodge for lunch. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure or visit one of the many wetlands in Uganda, the Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary, for a nature walk. The sanctuary features 8 primate species, numerous other fascinating mammals, over 200 bird species, many reptiles, and uncounted varieties of trees, shrubs, and vines.
Stay: Turaco Treetops
Room: Cottage
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park (following the mystical Rwenzori Mountain range for most of the journey) and delight in an en-route game drive to the lodge, where you will have lunch. Enjoy an afternoon game drive around the Mweya Peninsular and the Kasenyi, the mating ground of the Ugandan kobs. Search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, and other wild animals in their natural habitat, or simply relax around the pool.
Stay: Mweya Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
The day begins early, and we start with a morning game drive. The park's diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forests, rivers, swamps, lakes, and volcanic craters is home to abundant wildlife. Look out for buffaloes, lions, elephants, and other wildlife in their natural habitat. Join us for an afternoon boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, a natural waterway between Lake Edward and Lake George. This promises to be one of the highlights of your safari, as you will be spoiled with spectacular views of abundant birdlife, elephants, buffaloes, and hundreds of hippos cooling off at the shores. Game drives follow the boat cruise in the Kasenyi Plains area, where you will see Ugandan kobs, lions, elephants, buffaloes, and more.
Stay: Mweya Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
After an early game drive, we head towards Bwindi, driving through the Ishasha Sector, famous for its tree-climbing lions. While experiencing the verdant countryside, you will pass traditional homesteads and enjoy panoramic views of the Rwenzori Mountains. We will reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home of the endangered mountain gorillas, in the afternoon.
Stay: Haven Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner &breakfast
Early morning departure from the lodge to the trailhead at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for your mountain gorilla trekking experience. After a comprehensive briefing about gorilla behaviour, details about the gorilla family you’ll be trekking, and safety precautions, your adventure will start! Gorilla trekking can be strenuous, and a certain fitness level is required. Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is one of Africa's most memorable wildlife encounters, if not the world. This is adequate time for photography and observing these great primates in their natural habitat. Afterwards, you will return to the base, where your driver will be waiting to transfer you to the lodge to enjoy leisure time or partake in the Batwa Experience (the cost will be for your account and is not included in your package). Known as the “Keepers of the forest”, the enchanting Batwa pygmies of Bwindi are a hunter-gatherer tribe that has lived side-by-side with the wildlife of these parks for hundreds of years. The Batwa Experience is a hands-on historical and cultural encounter during which the Batwa demonstrate and describe their traditional way of life as hunter-gatherers.
Stay: Haven Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
Enjoy the morning at leisure, before your transfer to the Kihihi airstrip (about 1 hour from the lodge) for your flight to Entebbe Airport for your onward flight home.
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA:
International flights from Johannesburg are available on Air Uganda.
GORILLA PERMITS:
Uganda’s most visited park, Queen Elizabeth NP stretches from Lake George to Lake Edward and includes diverse ecosystems (savannah, bushland, wetlands and rainforest) over ~1,978 km². It boasts 95 mammal species – notably tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector, large herds of Uganda kob, elephants, hippos and more – and over 600 bird species. Popular activities include game drives on the Kasenyi plains, boat cruises on the Kazinga Channel (to see hippos and waterbirds), and chimpanzee tracking in the Kyambura Gorge.
Uganda’s largest national park (3,840 km²), encompassing the Victoria Nile as it dramatically forces through a 7-meter-wide gap at Murchison Falls – one of the world’s most powerful waterfalls. The park’s savannahs and riverine forests support 76 mammal species (elephants, Rothschild’s giraffes, lions, Ugandan kobs, hippos, etc.) and over 450 bird species. Visitors can take game drives on the Buligi plains, boat safaris to the base of the falls, and spot the rare shoebill stork in the Nile Delta region.
A lush 795 km² tropical rainforest in western Uganda, regarded as the best place in Africa to track wild chimpanzees. Kibale NP boasts one of the highest diversities and densities of primates in the world – 13 species including over 800 chimps, plus red colobus, L’Hoest’s monkey and more. The park’s varied habitats (lowland and montane rainforest, swamps) also support over 300 bird species and other mammals, all accessible via guided forest walks.
A 331 km² primeval rainforest in southwest Uganda, famous as a refuge for roughly half of the world’s mountain gorillas (several gorilla groups are habituated for visits). This UNESCO World Heritage Site is exceptionally biodiverse – the “Impenetrable Forest” lives up to its name with dense jungles harboring over 1,000 flowering plant species, 120 mammal species (from elephants and duikers to chimpanzees), and 350+ bird species, offering one of Africa’s richest ecosystems in a compact area.
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