Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport
Pick up from the Airport by your driver guide who will later transfer you to the Entebbe Botanical Beach Hotel or any other where you will dine and spend the night. (FB)
This 9-day Uganda safari begins in Entebbe and takes you through some of the country’s most iconic wildlife destinations. The journey starts with rhino tracking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary before continuing to the powerful Murchison Falls National Park, where the Nile River forces through a narrow gorge, creating one of Africa’s most dramatic waterfalls. Game drives and a boat cruise offer sightings of elephants, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, and abundant birdlife.
The safari continues to Queen Elizabeth National Park, known for its diverse ecosystems, lion sightings, and scenic Kazinga Channel boat cruises. You will also explore chimpanzees in Kyambura Gorge and the famous tree-climbing lions of the Ishasha Sector. The adventure culminates with unforgettable gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, followed by a return journey to Kampala, completing a rich primate and wildlife experience in Uganda.
Explore your safari journey with a detailed, day by day itinerary breakdown. Discover each day’s activities, highlights, and experiences to make the most of your adventure.
Pick up from the Airport by your driver guide who will later transfer you to the Entebbe Botanical Beach Hotel or any other where you will dine and spend the night. (FB)
After breakfast, drive north to Murchison Falls National Park, with a stop at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking and lunch in Masindi. On arrival, continue to the top of Murchison Falls, where the Nile River dramatically squeezes through a narrow gorge and plunges into a powerful waterfall, creating mist and rainbows before relaxing for dinner and overnight stay.
After an early breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in the northern section of Murchison Falls National Park, where you may spot elephants, lions, giraffes, buffaloes, Uganda kobs, and other wildlife, along with a variety of bird species. In the afternoon, take a boat cruise on the Nile to the base of Murchison Falls, where you can observe hippos, crocodiles, and abundant birdlife before returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Have a hefty breakfast, depart from the Murchison Falls NP to Queen Elizabeth NP as you drive Southwest through Fortportal and the Albertine Escarpment of the Western Rift Valley. Have lunch on the way at Mountains of the Moon Hotel found in Fort Portal town. From here continue to Mweya peninsula found in the Queen Elizabeth national park. You will arrove in the Park in the evening, have dinner and slumber at your lodge.
Following an early breakfast, have a morning game drive to see the nocturnal predators as well as the early morning risers like lions, buffaloes, antelope species, leopards, waterbucks, elephants, hippos and warthogs. For birders, Queen Elizabeth is a paradise for birders hosting a diversity of migratory and also Albertine Rift Endemics. Dine and slumber at any of these lodges.
Have breakfast and set out for a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel for wonder game viewing and bird watching, head back to the lodge for your lunch and then continue to the Kyambura Gorge to track chimpanzees. If you are still on time you can go for a forest walk in Maramagambo forest to explore the bat cave as you look for pythons that feed on these bats. Dine and slumber at the lodge.
On this day have an early breakfast and drive to Bwindi impenetrable Forest via Ishasha region in the southern part of Queen Elizabeth to see tree-climbing lions that are prevalent in this area. Continue to where you will have lunch along the way. Have a community walk (the Batwa -Pygmy cultural experience and entertainment) in the evening. Enjoy dinner and slumber at the lodge of your choice
After breakfast proceed to the park headquarter to be briefed about the gorilla tracking before going into the verdant forest lead by the rangers. In case you are fortunate, it makes take you about 2 hours or even less to see amazing Bwindi giants. The experience of coming face to face with these peaceful primates is very overwhelming. Head back to the lodge where you will have lunch after tracking the gorillas. Relax at the lodge the whole evening.
You will have breakfast and later return to Kampala having lunch along the way in Mbarara and eventually reach Kampala late in the afternoon where you will have a city tour. You will be transferred direct the airport for your outbound flight back home or transfer to your accommodation if you do not have a flight this evening.