7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda
7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda
This 7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda is tailored to offer you the best of Uganda, this package offers you the best wildlife experience in Uganda including gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale Forest and game viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Highlights of 7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda
Day 1: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking
Day 3: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 4: Morning Game Drive & Kazinga Channel Boat Cruise
Day 5: Kibale National Park
Day 6: Chimp Tracking- Bigodi Swamp
Day 7: Drive back to Kampala
Detailed Itinerary of 7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda
Day 1: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast at your hotel in Kampala or upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our driver-guide and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Along the way, you will have a stopover at the Equator Crossing and have lunch in Mbarara.
Continue to the park arriving in the evening, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters where you will join other trekkers for briefing about the rules and regulations to follow. In groups of 8 people you will be assigned a gorilla family to trek, then enter into the forest of Bwindi in search for mountain gorillas.
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi takes approximately 2 to 5 hours or more depending on the movement of the gorillas and where they spent their previous night. With a help of a ranger guide you will be able to locate the gorillas, spend one hour in their presence as you watch them play, feed and groom.
Later, trek back to the park headquarters, meet your driver-guide and return to your lodge for an evening of rest. Alternatively you can head to Batwa community for a cultural experience, here you will be entertained by local dances and drama, visit the medicine man and witness how they used to live in the forest.
Overnight at Buhoma Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, check out of the lodge and journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park with a game drive en-route through the Ishasha Sector. Here you will see the rare tree climbing lions, bush bucks, antelopes and many other animals.
Arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and in the afternoon you will be driven to the Crater Lakes Region to view the various crater lakes around the park plus Lake Katwe where salt is traditionally mined in the park.
Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Morning Game Drive & Kazinga Channel Cruise
After breakfast, drive to the Kasenyi Plains for a morning game drive in search for animals like lions, leopards, hyenas, Uganda kobs, and elephants among others. Return to your lodge for lunch and in the afternoon, go for a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel, a natural l water channel connecting Lake George to Lake Edward.
On your cruise, you will see hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of water birds such as herons, grey crested cranes among others. In the evening, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Kibale National Park
After breakfast, you will head to Kibale Forest National Park with a visit at the Amabere ga Nyinamwiru caves to view the stalacities and stalagmites. Then proceed to Kibale Forest National Park arriving in the evening, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight at Chimpudu Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Chimp Tracking- Bigodi Swamp
Wake up early for breakfast, and head to the Kanyankyu Tourist Centre for briefing about chimpanzee trekking. A senior ranger guide will take you through rules and regulations to follow while in the forest of Kibale.
Head into the forest looking for chimpanzees, during the trek you will see other primates such as black and white colobus monkeys, red colobus monkeys, olive baboons and many birds. Once you locate the chimpanzee troop, you will spend one hour with their presence as watch them feed and groom.
In the afternoon, you will go for a guided nature walk in the Bigodi Swamp Sanctuary for a sight of various bird species and primates. Later, return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Overnight at Chimpudu Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 7: Drive back to Kampala
Today is the last day of your 7 Days Gorilla Tracking Uganda, after breakfast you will transferred back to Kampala for drop-off at the airport for your departure flight.
INCLUSIONS
· Park fees
· All activities (unless labeled as optional)
· All accommodation as stated in the itinerary
· A professional driver/guide
· All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
· All Taxes/VAT
· Roundtrip airport transfer
· All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
· Drinking water on all days
· Camping Equipment
· Porterage
EXCLUSIONS
· International flights (from/to home)
· Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
· Tips (tipping guideline US$20.00 pp per day)
· Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
· Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
· Alcohol drinks
· Rescue Fee
· Climbing Gear
· Sleeping Bag
