Embark on an unforgettable 13-night safari through Uganda’s most iconic wildlife destinations. Your adventure begins at Murchison Falls National Park, where you will witness the spectacular waterfalls and enjoy thrilling game drives along the Nile River. Next, journey to Kibale Forest Reserve for an immersive chimpanzee trekking experience. Continue to Queen Elizabeth National Park, known for its diverse wildlife and scenic game drives. We head to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to encounter mountain gorillas up close and we conclude your journey at Lake Mburo National Park, where you can enjoy game drives, boat safaris, and the serene beauty of this picturesque park. This trip promises to create memories that will last a lifetime.
2-hour sunset cruise on Lake Victotia
Day trip to Mabamba Swamps to search for the Shoebill Storks
Game Drive
Boat Safari on the Victoria Nila River
Chimpanzee Trekking
Game Drives
Boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel
Game Drive in the Ishasha Sector
Gorilla Trekking
Game Walk
Boat trip on Lake Mburo
Flight from Johannesburg to Entebbe Airport. Depart from Johannesburg to 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 an early morning breakfast, drive to Mabamba Swamps. Upon arrival in Mabamba Swamp, you’ll meet your local guide. The canoe trip through the papyrus swamp will take you to the unscathed attractiveness of the wetlands, where you will have the highest chance of seeing Shoebill and other papyrus specialist birds like Saddle-billed Stork, Malachite Kingfisher, African Jacana, and other swamp specialities.
Stay: 2 Friends Beach Hotel
Room: Pool view room
Meals: Dinner, lunch & 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: Dinner, lunch & 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 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
Rooms: 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: Elephant Hab Lodge (just outside Kyambura Gorge)
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: Elephant Hab Lodge (just outside Kyambura Gorge)
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
After an early game drive, we head towards the Ishasha Sector of the Queen Elizabeth National Parki. This area is famous for its tree-climbing lions. While experiencing the verdant countryside, you will pass traditional homesteads and enjoy panoramic views of the Rwenzori Mountains. In the afternoon, we will reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home of the endangered mountain gorillas.
Stay: Embogo Lodge (just outside Ishasha Sector)
Room: Standard Room
Meals: Lunch, dinner &breakfast
After an early game drive, we head towards Bwindi. We will pass traditional homesteads and enjoy panoramic views of the Rwenzori Mountains. In the afternoon, we will reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home of the endangered mountain gorillas.
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 the aspects of 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 level of fitness is required. Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is one of the most memorable wildlife encounters in Africa, if not the world. This is adequate time for photography and observing these great primates in their natural habitat. Afterward, 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
After an early breakfast in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, we depart for Lake Mburo National Park, enjoying a scenic drive through southwestern Uganda. Along the way, there are opportunities to stop for refreshments and photos, before arriving at Lake Mburo in the afternoon to relax and prepare for the activities ahead.
Stay: Rwakobo Rock Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner &breakfast
Spend an entire day in Lake Mburo National Park, where you can enjoy its diverse wildlife and peaceful scenery. Start your day with morning and afternoon game drives and enjoy the park’s rolling savannahs. Consider taking a boat trip on Lake Mburo to observe various bird species and hippos in the tranquil waters. This experience offers a unique perspective of the park’s natural beauty, making for a relaxing and memorable day.
Stay: Rwakobo Rock Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast
After breakfast, we leave Lake Mburo National Park and drive back to Entebbe airport for your onward flight home, concluding your Uganda safari.
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA:
International flights from Johannesburg are available on Air Uganda.
GORILLA PERMITS:
A vast wetland area on the northern shores of Lake Victoria, west of Entebbe, covering approximately 16,500 hectares. Designated as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, it is one of the best places in Africa to see the rare shoebill stork. The swamps also support a rich diversity of birdlife, including papyrus gonolek, malachite kingfisher, and African jacana. Canoe excursions through the papyrus channels offer excellent birdwatching and chances to spot sitatunga antelope and other wetland species.
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 compact 260 km² park in central Uganda that is a mosaic of rolling acacia woodlands, open savannah, and papyrus wetlands. Lake Mburo NP contains five lakes within its borders, providing habitat for hippos, crocodiles, and waterbirds (like fish eagles and kingfishers). Notably, it’s one of the few parks in Uganda with zebra and impala, and it also hosts eland, buffalo, leopard, hyena and giraffe – making it an accessible spot to see a variety of wildlife on foot, by vehicle or even by boat.
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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