9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari

This 9-day Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari takes you to the misty Bwindi, which is home to more than half the population of the remaining 720 Mountain Gorillas in the world. Gorilla tracking is the most enchanting experience in this forest. You will visit Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda’s second-largest national park. You will enjoy game drives and a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel. You will visit to Kibale Forest the natural habitat of our chimpanzees, before winding up at Murchison Falls National Park.

Safari Highlights

• Day 1: Transfer from Entebbe/Kampala to Lake Bunyonyi
• Day 2: Boat ride and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and transfer to Ishasha
• Day 4: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park
• Day 5: Morning game drive and transfer to Kibale National Park
• Day 6: Chimpanzee Tracking and Bigodi Swamp Walk in Kibale National Park
• Day 7: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
• Day 8: Game drive and Launch cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
• Day 9: Rhino tracking in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and transfer to Entebbe/Kampala

Safari Inclusions and Exclusions

Included

• Park fees (For non-residents)
• Chimp permits (One per person, non-resident)
• All activities (Unless labelled as optional)
• All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
• A professional driver/guide
• All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
• All Taxes/VAT
• Roundtrip airport transfer
• Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
• Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)

Excluded

• International flights (From/to home)
• Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
• Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
• Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
• The government imposed increase in taxes and/or park fees

Detailed 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari

Day 1: Transfer from Entebbe/Kampala to Lake Bunyonyi

After an early breakfast, you will set off for an 8–9-hour drive to the south western part of the country. You will have a stopover at the Equator where you will have an opportunity to stand in 2 hemispheres at the same time and take some photos. You will make another stopover for lunch en-route, with a last stopover at Lake Bunyonyi. This lake is said to be one of the most beautiful places in western Uganda.

It is the second deepest lake in Africa [900 meters deep] and also one of the few places in the country where it is considered safe to swim as it is bilharzias free. The landscape around the lake is made up of terraced hills protruding from the water’s edge. Bunyonyi means “place of little birds” and as the name suggests, there is plenty of birdlife around the lake. Check in you’ room for dinner and overnight at.

Destination: Lake Bunyonyi

Day 2 of 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari: Boat ride and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After an early breakfast, you will set out for a Boat ride at Lake Bunyonyi this takes 2 hours, the landscape around the lake is made up of terraced hills protruding from the water’s edge. Bunyonyi means “place of little birds” and as the name suggests, there is plenty of birdlife around the lake.

You will in the afternoon transfer to Bwindi where you will do some nature walk or Batwa cultural experience, you will go through their villages to have an experience of how they go about their daily routine activities and be amazed by the way they skillfully cultivate the hill sides and how they care for their animals (cows) that are a prime source of pride later return for dinner and overnight at.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and transfer to Ishasha

After an early breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters where you will be briefed by the guides before you begin the search in the thick Bwindi Forest for the giant gorillas. Bwindi National Park is renowned for its impressive mountain gorillas, although it is unpredictable for how long you will track before finding them since it all depends on their movement.

Though the time spent to track down these Gorillas is unpredictable, the thrill of spending time and observing these gentle giant gorillas is a rare, moving, awesome and exciting adventure that will leave you with long lasting memories of a truly unique experience. Return for lunch you will transfer to Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will reach late evening Dinner and overnight at:

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

Day 4 of 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 5: Morning game drive and transfer to Kibale National Park

After breakfast you will go for a brief morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth then head to the scenic Explosion Craters and Explosion Crater Lakes along the Western Ugandan Explosion Crater Lake Trail are one of the Pearls in the Pearl of Africa, have you’ lunch en-routes after transfer to Kibale National Park check in at your lodge for some rest in the evening go for the nature walks at Bigodi swamp where you will do birding there you will spot some bird species, butterflies are abundant and some women cultural group’s activities which are also adventurous to attend it can take you 2/3 hours, after get back to your respective hotel for dinner and overnight at :.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park

Day 6 of 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari: Chimpanzee Tracking and Bigodi swamp walk in Kibale National Park

You will, after breakfast, head to Kibale Forest with our packed lunch to view the primates. The activity begins at 8.00am with a briefing of the rule for trekking the chimpanzees after which you set off to search for them in the forest.

The exercise takes half a day and along the way you will see other primates such as Grey cheeked Mangabeys, Phoestes, Red-Colobus and the Blue tailed and the Red-tailed monkeys swinging in the branches of this thick forest. Approximately 5,000 chimpanzees live in the wild in Uganda, which makes it a perfect place to spot them! An experienced ranger will take you chimp tracking in the morning.

Once you locate the chimpanzees, you will spend one hour with them, after get back to your respective hotel for lunch, Post Lunch you will be taken for Bigodi Wetland walk. This is a guided swamp walk that takes you closer seeing primates mostly monkeys, birds and butterflies. You will need good walking shoes since part of the walk is sometimes muddy.

Main Destination: Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary

Accommodation: Kibale Forest Lodge

Day 7: Transfer to Murchison falls National Park

After breakfast you will be transferred to Murchison Falls National Park which will take around 7/8 hours of drive, Head straight to tour the Top and bottom of majestic falls, where the Nile crashes through a 7 metres gorge to the falls 45 metres. Numerous scenic viewpoints are a photographers’ delight, The most impressive view of the foaming waters rushing into the gorge with a deafening roar, you will have dinner and overnight at.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Day 8 of 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari: Game drive and Launch cruise in Murchison falls National Park

You will set off at 6:30 am cross to the northern bank of river Nile head for a sunrise game drive in the Nyamsika plateau to see the Cape buffaloes, Rothschild’s giraffes, Uganda kob, hartebeest and waterbucks. You may also spot o shy sitatunga, bush duiker, warthog and bush pig plus large carnivores including lions, leopards and spotted hyenas. Crocodiles and hippos will be seen along the banks of the Nile. Some of the more common birds that can be seen include goliath heron, Egyptian geese, pelican, hornbill, saddle-bill stork and the rare shoebill stork.

You will go for lunch in the afternoon take a boat cruise on the placid Victoria Nile, upstream, to the base of the falls. En route you will see hippos, crocodiles and a wide variety of birds including the unusual shoebill stork. The boat stops just a few meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron” for pictures to be taken of the photogenic and majestic Murchison Falls. You will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight at.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Day 9: Rhino tracking in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and transfer to Entebbe/Kampala

After an early morning breakfast, depart with great memories of the moments spent at Murchison falls, you will be driven to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, after a briefing from the ranger you trek the sanctuary for close to two hours. Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe with lunch en-route.

Main Destination: Entebbe (City)

Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

End of 9 Days Uganda Gorilla Chimpanzee & Wildlife Safari