Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport

As you land on the pearl of Africa, a professional tour guide from monumental expeditions and the tour will be happily waiting for you after a pre-tour briefing. He will drive you to your hotel for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay.

Day 2: Entebbe-Mabamba Swamp 

After an early breakfast, begin your Uganda Safari Highlights journey by heading to the Mabamba wetland on the banks of Lake Victoria for a brief birding excursion.

This is one of the country’s few surviving wetlands, which are preserved by local communities. It is a vast papyrus swamp with a maze of canals and lagoons that is home to numerous pairs of Uganda’s most renowned avian residents, the Shoebills. This spectacular genus species is undoubtedly one of Africa’s most sought-after birds. Paddle your boat across the waterways. View an excellent collection of classic East African water birds to view on your journey.

This requires a supply of four hours on the road between locations. Take an evening wildlife drive to see zebras, elephants, buffaloes, impalas, and topis, as well as bird your way around the property.

Day 3: Entebbe-Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After an early breakfast, meet your guide and head to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the park’s game paths, with the final capture of the morning wild in the savanna lowlands. Drive via Mbarara, Kabale, and Kisoro towns before arriving at your lodge. This requires 6 to 7 hours on the road between places.

Advance to the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park’s Nkuringo sections. This large reserve is home to 23 of Uganda’s 24 Albertine Rift unique bird species, making it possibly the most prolific montane forest birding destination in Africa.

Day 4: Gorilla Trekking Experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After breakfast at around 7:45 am with a packed lunch and drinking water in your backpack, the Uganda Safari Highlights get more interesting as you head into the African jungle to find the elusive mountain gorilla. Your driver will transfer you to the trailhead for a briefing on the dos and don’ts while tracking and spending time with the gorillas

The trekking can continue anywhere from a few hours to a whole day, according to where the gorillas are in the dense jungle. To keep you safe and the gorillas in their accustomed state, rigorous restrictions must be followed.

Day 5: Hike Across Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

After an early breakfast, travel down the Nteko Ridge till the Ivy River Trail meets the forest (7 km), and then begin the wonderful journey into the forest (13 km–4-5 hours). Monkeys, duikers, bush pigs, and several of Bwindi’s globe bird species, as well as many butterflies, may be seen in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

The objective of this Vintage Primate Safari excursion is for your walking guide to share his expertise in the forest with you; it is not just a stroll from point A to point B. The track is also a popular route for locals, especially on market days, connecting Nkuringo and Nteko to Buhoma, on the park’s northern edge. Because there is no road through Bwindi.

Join the car at the park offices in Buhoma and leave for Queen Elizabeth National Park for its resident ‘tree-climbing lions‘.

Day 6: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park Savanna

At Queen Elizabeth National Park Mornings are allocated to game drives, and boat rides on the Kazinga Channel are experienced during the evening. The park is one of Uganda’s oldest, having been founded in 1952. The park was originally titled ‘Kazinga National Park,’ but it was renamed in 1954 to mark a visit by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth National Park is home to 95 species of animals, more than any other park in Uganda, and 619 bird species.

return to the accommodation for lunch before embarking on an afternoon launch sail down the Kazinga waterway. When going west towards Lake Edward, look for the spectacular sight of hundreds of hippos along the banks as well as other bird species.

Day 7: Queen Elizabeth National Park—Kibale Forest National Park

After an early breakfast, continue your Uganda Safari Highlights savanna wildlife drive. View more African safari wildlife as they return from their hunting adventures.

Your private driver will enter the highway with elegance and head to Kibale Forest National Park. Enjoy the scenery as you drive along the Kaseses-Fort Portal route on Uganda’s southwestern border. Kibale Forest National Park honours a high number of primates.

The driving time from Kasese to Kibale is around 3 to 4 hours.

Day 8: Chimpanzee Habituation Experience in Kibale

This is your second Uganda Safari Highlights rainforest jungle challenge: identify the eager chimp troop and follow up with their daily natural behaviours. Can you handle it? It’s thrilling and exhausting, but it’s well worth it.

Wake up at 6:30 a.m. and travel to the trailhead (5-minute walk), where you will be informed on the chimp habituation process and then go into the forest with a ranger guide, physicians, and researchers; you will spend the entire day tracking chimps. While tracking, you may see several animal species, such as the Red Colobus, Black and White Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, and other bird species.

Day 9: Kibale-Murchison Falls National Park

Own an early breakfast, drive over the hillside, and take in the scenery as you depart for Murchison Falls National Park; this will be a long driving day of 7-8 hours.

Day 10: Murchison Falls NP Game Drive & Boat Safari

After breakfast, a savanna game drive in the Murchison Plains. Giraffes, elephants, lions, hartebeests, and several bird species may be seen. Look for the beautiful Rothchild Giraffe, Jackson’s Hartebeest, Uganda Kob, Defassa Waterbuck, Buffaloes, Elephants, Warthogs, Hippos, Oribi, and, if you’re lucky, a leopard and lions. After that thrilling wildlife drive, you’ll go on a morning delta boat safari to the base of the Murchison Falls. Keep an eye out for Nile crocodiles, hippos, waterbucks, and a variety of bird species. You will dismount at the foot of the waterfalls and climb up to the top of the falls.

Day 11: Transfer back to Entebbe

After breakfast, depart Murchison Falls National Park for Entebbe, where you will visit the Ziwa rhino sanctuary for rhino tracking, then keep going on to Entebbe for your flight or hotel stay in case the flight is the next day or during the night.

End Of Tour