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7 days:Gorilla Safari

This tour starts from Kampala/ Entebbe, visiting the mountain gorillas in Uganda, Rwanda, or Congo and game viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Top or local hotels and lodges are used throughout, and transport is by customized 4x4 vehicles.

DAY ONE

You will be picked from your hotel in Kampala and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National park. Drive through the scenic country sides of western Uganda, via the beautifully placed Kigezi hills with nice terraces through the “scenic little Switzerland” of Uganda with good views of this beautiful evergreen area. You will have your lunch en route and arrive late in the evening at Bwindi national park for dinner and overnight at Luxurious Gorilla resort camp or Buhoma Community bandas.

DAY TWO
Wake up very early in the morning and assemble for briefing from the guides. The later proceed to the forest for Gorilla tracking. The time taken to encounter the gorillas is unpredictable so you are advised to carry packed lunch. On encounter of a family of gorillas, one may be forced to say that it is exhilarating!! You will be privileged to spend some time with the endangered gorillas and after return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY THREE
After your breakfast you will proceed to Queen Elizabeth National park. A game drive en route through the Ishasha sector is rewarding with tree climbing lions, bush bucks, antelopes and many other animals. You will arrive for lunch at the lodge. In the after noon, you will be driven to the crater lakes region to view the various crater lakes around the park plus the Katwe salts lake where salt is traditionally mined in the park.
Dinner and overnight at luxurious Mweya safari Lodge or Institute of Ecology.

DAY FOUR
The guide will pick you up from the lodge and take you through the Kasenyi track for a Morning game drive in search for animal like the Leopards, Lions, Elephants, Hyenas and many others and in the afternoon go for a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel where you will see schools of Hippos, Crocodiles and a variety of water birds overnight Hotel. FB.

DAY FIVE
Take break fast and drive to Fort portal. Visit the ‘Amebere ga Nyinamwiru’ caves to view the stalactites and the stalagmite. Then proceed to Kibale National park for dinner and over night at Ndali lodge, Kanyankyu tourist centre or in Fort portal you can stay at Rwenzori view guest house.

DAY SIX
Assemble at Kanyankyu tourist centre for a morning chimp tracking and afternoon swamp walk for a variety of primates like the Vervet Monkey, L’hoest Monkey, Black and white and the Red colobus Monkeys, Olive Baboons and many others. In the afternoon, you will be taken for a nature walk around Bigodi swamp to view the various bird species in the park as wait for dinner and overnight at your lodge.

DAY SEVEN

After breakfast, you will be driven to Kampala or the Entebbe for your flight back home.

QUOTATION:

No. of clients
2 clients
4 clients
Price-Luxury
$2,590 per person
$2,150per person
Price-Budget
$2,210 per person
$1,710per person

The above price includes;

  • The cost of all ground transportation and Fuel
  • Gorilla tracking and permit
  • Chimpanzee tracking
  • Full time safari guide and his associated expenses
  • Park entrance fees
  • Accommodation and meals
  • Boat trip
  • Game drives and other related activities
  • But it excludes; Items of personal nature like Laundry, Beers, tipping of staffs at the lodges.

The tour operator for this safari is Access Africa Safaris

 

Gorilla Safaris

The endangered mountain gorillas are almost exitinct with only 750 in number shared between Bwindi National Park, Parc de volcanoes National park of Rwanda and Virunga of Congo.A safari to Uganda's remaining mountain gorillas in Bwindi NP is memorable experience that contribute greatly to the survival of these mountain gorillas.More information on the mountain gorillas

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