7 Days Queen Elizabeth Bwindi and Lake Mburo Uganda Wildlife & Gorilla Safari

These 7 days Safari strikes a balance between wildlife and nature. This Uganda Wildlife & Gorilla Safari takes you to Queen Elizabeth, birds and primates. Crater lakes and rolling Savannah plains overlooking the snowcapped Rwenzori Mountains offer a view that will take your breath away. Activities like game drives, boat cruises, chimpanzee tracking and the glorious gorilla tracking in Bwindi. This adventure also encompasses a Batwa cultural trial that allows you to learn about the “pygmy” Bushmen who live in the forests.

Safari Highlights

• 1: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
• 2: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
• 3: Chimp tracking in Queen Elizabeth and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi.
• 4: Boat ride on Lake Bunonyi and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
• 5: Gorilla trekking and Batwa trail experience in Bwindi Impenetrable.
• 6: Transfer to Lake Mburo for an afternoon boat ride and nature walk.
• 7: Game drive in Lake Mburo and transfer to Entebbe.

Safari Inclusions and Exclusions

Included

• Park fees (For non-residents)
• Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
• Chimp permits (One per person, non-resident)
• All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
• All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
• A professional driver/guide
• All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
• All Taxes/VAT
• Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
• Drinking water (On all days)

Excluded

• International flights (From/to home)
• Roundtrip airport transfer
• 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.)
• Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees

Detailed 7 Days Wildlife Uganda Gorilla Safari

Day 1: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

After an early breakfast, you will depart you’ Hotel in Kampala / Entebbe and travel westwards through Uganda’s beautiful green countryside to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. The journey will take 6-7 hours with stopovers at areas of tourist attraction such as the Royal Drum makers’ village and the Equator for an opportunity to stand in two hemispheres at the same time. You will continue through the savanna grasslands with lots of banana plantations and several herds of local long horned Ankole cattle endemic to this part of the country. You will get to Queen Elizabeth National Park in the evening. Dinner and overnight at Engiri Game Lodge.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation: Engiri Game Lodge

Day 2 of 7 Days Wildlife Uganda Gorilla Safari: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park

You will set off early (about 6:30 am) for a morning game drive, an awesome experience to spot the animals in natural habitats. Expect to see the famous Big Five; Elephant, Buffaloes, Lions, Bush bucks, Kobs, Giant Forest hog, Hyenas leopards, antelopes, and Water-bucks as well as birds.

You will return for breakfast and relax till lunch. In the afternoon you will take a launch cruise along the amazing Kazinga channel to see, at close range, the water animals to include Hippos, Buffaloes, Crocodiles and elephants bathing on the channel banks. There is also a variety of bird species on the water banks especially the famous Shoebill, pelican and Jacana, Dinner and overnight at Engiri Game Lodge.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation: Engiri Game Lodge

Day 3: Chimp tracking in Queen Elizabeth and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi

After your breakfast early morning, head to the forest for chimp tracking, and chimp tracking takes 3-4 hours after proceed to Ntungamo town where you will have your lunch en- routes then proceed to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale, where you take an afternoon boat cruise on this Lake which derives its from bird Bunyonyi meaning a place for many birds and a good photographic experience. Later proceed to your Hotel to check in and later go for a canoe ride, Dinner and Overnight at Bunyonyi Safari Resort.

Main Destination: Lake Bunyonyi

Accommodation: Bunyonyi Safaris Resort

Day 4 of 7 Days Wildlife Uganda Gorilla Safari: Boat ride on Lake Bunonyi and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After an early breakfast, you will set off to tour 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 journey takes 6-7 hours and you will have your lunch en-route.

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 take a boat cruise to the different islands to know about their history and come back for lunch. Later in the afternoon transfer to Impenetrable National Park.
Dinner and overnight at Broadbill Forest Camp.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Accommodation: Broadbill Forest Camp

Day 5: Gorilla trekking and Batwa trail experience in Bwindi Impenetrable

After an early morning breakfast, with your packed lunch, will go for briefing by UWA rangers, after you enter in the jungle to trek the fascinating endangered gorillas the rare species that have almost human characters, you will also have a chance to sight other primates like the blue, red tailed monkey and other species of animals, your guides will help you so much to catch a glimpse and have a lot of information and you will come back with memorable moments. Trekking gorillas takes 6-7 hours. Then later comeback has lunch relax before heading for the Batwa trail experience in the evening, later return to your accommodation.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Accommodation: Broadbill Forest Camp

Day 6 of 7 Days Wildlife Uganda Gorilla Safari: Transfer to Lake Mburo for an afternoon boat ride and nature walk

After an early morning breakfast, you will depart to Lake Mburo National Park. The drive takes 3-4 hours with stopovers at areas of tourist attraction, You will have lunch at the lodge reserved for you, after which you will go for an afternoon boat trip on the lake rich with a variety of animals such as hippos and crocodiles and bird species. It will take you hours, in the evening take a nature walk before you retire for dinner and overnight Eagle’s Nest.

Main Destination: Lake Mburo National Park

Accommodation: Eagle’s Nest

Day 7: Game drive in Lake Mburo and transfer to Entebbe

After breakfast, you will have an early morning game drive through the park in search of plain game like zebra, hippos, crocodiles, eland, antelope, impala and a variety of birds. Later you will drop you to you’ Hotel in Kampala or Entebbe.

Main Destination: Entebbe International Airport – Entebbe

Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

End of 7 Days Wildlife Uganda Gorilla Safari