7 Days Wildlife and Gorilla Tracking Uganda Safari

Your guide will pick you from your hotel early in the morning and drive you to the south western side of Uganda through a verdant country side. You will be fascinated by the traditional drum makers, a photographic moment at the Equator in Kayabwe is an ideal and the Ankole long horned cattle near Mbarara town.

With a lunch stop in Mbarara at Igongo cultural center, proceed further south west through the fascinating scenery of Kabale with rolling hills adorned with terraces.

You will reach Bwindi impenetrable forest national park in the evening and check in at your lodge.

Meal plan

Early in the morning, report to the park headquarters with a picnic lunch for briefing by the senior park ranger guide. After briefing, you will be assigned a group with a ranger guide, enter the forest and enjoy its beauty and freshness being home to more than half of the world's mountain gorillas.

Proceed through the dense vegetation to trek for these endangered primates depending on where they built their nest the previous night.

For conservation purposes, time allowed with the Gorillas is one hour. Observe the gentle giants as they feed, groom the young, make love and play.

You will the trek back to the lodge for a hot lunch then after noon for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan

After breakfast, you will drive to Queen Elizabeth national park, arrive in time for lunch, after lunch, transfer to the park for an evening game drive in search of cats; you will also get to see other animals like kobs, elephants among others.

There after drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan

Take a 6:30 am morning game drive to catch up with the early raisers like the leopard, lion, spotted hyena among others. As you take the Kasenyi trail, look out for buffalos, elephants, warthogs, topis, kobs, waterbucks, bush bucks, bush duikers among others.

Also to expect is a stupendous bird life that includes the martial eagle, the Woodland kingfisher, the great blue turaco, the grey plantain eater among the 606 species recorded in the park.

Return to the lodge for a late breakfast.

After lunch go for the afternoon boat safari on the Kazinga Channel. This is a home of a variety of water birds including the African Fish eagle, the African Skimmer, pelican, the pre-historic looking shoe bill and on a hot day, hippos, elephants, buffaloes and waterbucks can be sighted as they bathe and drink water at the water edge. Crocodiles are common residents and are regularly sighted along the channel banks.

Drive back to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Meal plan

After breakfast, You will transfer to Kibale forest national park famed for its highest population of primates in Africa and home to the Chimpanzee.

You will pass through Kasese as you enjoy the captivating sight of the Rwenzori glacial peaks' well decorating the sky line's back ground and arrive in Kibale in time for lunch and check in at the lodge.

After lunch, You will embark on a crater hike in the hills of fort portal.

The crater hike awards you with great views of the beautiful carter lakes and the view of the park from an aerial point.

Walk back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Meal plan

After an early morning breakfast, report to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for briefing by the senior park guide. Proceed to track man's closest relative of all the apes in this vast forest.

You are likely to encounter other primates like olive baboons, bonobos, red colobus, black and white colobus, red and blue monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey among others as well as a wide diversity of birds.

Meal plan

You will check out at the lodge after breakfast as you drive back to Kampala through Mubende. Proceed with an en route lunch in Mityana or Kampala depending on where time for lunch will find you. Then transfer the lodge in Kampala/Entebbe or to the airport arriving in time for your departure.

Meal plan