12 Days Best Of Uganda Safari

OVERVIEW

This is tour we recommend to those who want a taste of the highlights of a Ugandan Safari. This trip takes you through some of the best national parks and the activities. this safari is suitable to the young and the elderly. this is the beauty of Uganda summarized but it is not all. The highlights of the safari are as follows!

NOTES

Safari Highlights
  • Rhino tracking/ Rhino Walking Safari
  • Top/bottom of Murchison Falls Visit
  • Game drives
  • Boat cruises on Kazinga Channel and River Nile
  • Community visits in Uganda
  • Chimpanzee tracking
  • Gorilla trekking
  • Tree-climbing lions research

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YOUR ITINERARY

Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative who will transfer you to your hotel. Depending on the time of arrival, you can choose to have the entire briefing of your trip upon arrival or the next day.
After breakfast, drive to Murchison Falls National park. You will have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will have a walking safari in search of the white rhinos. After the Rhino activity, you will proceed to Murchison and have lunch along the way. When you enter the park, you can choose to visit the top of the Murchison Falls and drive to your lodge.
Today, you will have a morning game drive. You will have an opportunity to look out for Elephants, hartebeests, antelopes and on a good day Lions and leopard. After lunch you will explore the mighty Nile on a boat that heads to the bottom of Murchison Falls. This trip takes two hours and offers an opportunity to see water birds and other big game that flock the river to cool off the heat of the day.
Today, you will drive south to the jungle of Kibale. You will have lunch along the way. You can choose to relax at the lodge or take a guided walk after the long drive.
After an early breakfast, drive to Kibale Forest National Park a tropical rainforest or you can call it the Primate Capital of the world with 13 species of primates and check in for a briefing. You will later on be divided into small groups and enter the forest with a Park ranger. This activity usually takes around three hours including a full hour of their company. You are advised to carry enough drinking water.
Drive south to Queen Elizabeth, the medley of wonders and check into your lodge at lunch time. After lunch head to the Northern sector of the park for the evening game drive. This is the most bio-diverse park yet not the biggest with a mammal checklist of 95species and 610 species of birds and much more.
After an early breakfast, head to the northern part of the park for a game drive. You will have a chance to take pictures of your moments with the animals. Queen Elizabeth offers a good opportunity to watch the big game and lots of birds considering the fact that it is the park with the highest number of species of birds-610 to be exact. Drive back to the lodge for lunch before heading to the starting point of your boat trip. The Boat trip will take you two hours offering an opportunity to see water birds and other big game which flock the Kazinga Channel for water in the heat of the day.
Depart for Bwindi, along the way have an opportunity to undertake a game drive in the Ishasha sector famous for the Tree Climbing Lions and later proceed to Bwindi.
After an early breakfast, you will drive to the briefing point in the forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to get to be enlightened about your adventure with the Mountain Gorillas. You are advised to carry enough drinking water and a lunch box. At a cost of 15 US dollars, you can get a potter to carry your bag and give you a hand in slippery or steep parts of the forest. After the briefing, you are distributed into groups of eight and led by a park ranger into the forest. A rain gear is important considering that Bwindi is a tropical rainforest.
Proceed to Lake Mburo National Park, Have a game drive on your way in. this is the smallest savannah park but heavily populated. Its gives good break from a gorilla safari or even a fresh start for a safari depending on the route plan of your Safari. As you drive through easy to see are Zebras, Impalas, Waterbucks and the list goes on. Please note that on a good day you can see a leopard but better still during the night game drive which can be arranged.