5 DAYS UGANDA GORILLAS AND WILDLIFE SAFARI
5 DAYS UGANDA GORILLAS AND WILDLIFE SAFARI
Our 5-day Uganda Gorillas and Wildlife Safari will take you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is a great opportunity to combine Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (home to half of the world’s endangered mountain gorillas) with a game-viewing safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park. On your visit to Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will have a chance to see all the Big 4 animals including other wildlife, and do a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel. This is an all-inclusive tour that will start and end in Kampala/Entebbe and includes return airport transfers.
Tour Highlights
- Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer from Bwindi
- Gorilla tracking experience
- Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park for an evening game drive
- Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga Channel
- Morning game drive and transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe to end your 5 Days Uganda Gorillas and Game Safari
Tour in Detail:
DAY 01: Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Safari Vacations and Travel Services driver-guide will welcome you for your 5 Days Uganda Gorillas and Game Safari will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or Entebbe Airport and start the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, this drive is long but worth it, you will enjoy amazing sceneries and meet up with the local communities along the way. You will have a stop at the Equator for photographs, lunch en route, and other optional multiple stops depending on your request and time.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/Buhoma Community Rest Camp
DAY 02: Gorilla tracking Experience.
After breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides who will allocate you a gorilla family group you will trek that day. Once you have your group confirmed 8 people, the 2 ranger guides will lead you into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day. Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, only allow you to interact with them for only one hour and you should always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. You are allowed to take photographs and so on.
Gorilla tracking can sometimes be strenuous depending on the trek that day which is normally determined by weather and the movement of the gorillas in the forest but given the fact it is a very well-organized activity, you have a 99% chance of seeing the gorillas on your trek. The trek is guided by advanced trackers who monitor the gorilla movements all day in the forest with this they will know where they nested for the last night and that’s where you start looking for them. The 2 ranger guides will lead you all through the trek clearing trails, creating new trails, and sharing with you information about the mountain gorillas and Bwindi Forest. After the trek, you will return to the starting point to pick up your certificates as a sign of successful tracking of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/Buhoma Community Rest Camp
DAY 03: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast you will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park arriving in the afternoon at the park, you will have an en-route and stops along the way for sightseeing. On arrival at the hotel, with a warm welcome, check-in for relaxing, later you will go for an evening game drive to search for late grazers and after return to the Lodge for overnight.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most popular and diverse conservation area with a variety of habitats ranging from grassland, acacia woodland, forests, wetlands, and open water this sustains a wide range of mammals with the major ones the Big 4 animals and a remarkable tally of bird life boosting to over 604 bird species.
Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge, Buffalo lodge and Ishasha jungle lodge
DAY 04: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel.
After your breakfast, you will drive to Kasenyi plains for a morning game drive to search for early bird wildlife. Some of the animals you will see include are elephants, large herds of buffalos, leopards, lions, bushbucks, kobs, antelopes, bushbucks, and more.
The morning game drive will take you approximately 2-3 hours and then after you will drive to the Mweya peninsula for hot lunch, relax and go for an afternoon boat cruise safari on Kazinga Channel, this boat ride is something worth it and considered as a highlight of your safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will have a chance to see various wildlife as they enjoy the shores of the channel, hippos enjoying the swim and various bird species. After the cruise return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Accommodation:Elephant Hab Lodge, Buffalo lodge and Ishasha jungle lodge
DAY 05: Morning Drive/Visit Katwe Salt Lakes and drive back to Kampala/Entebbe to end your trip
Morning Drive/Visit Katwe Salt Lakes and drive back to Have a morning game drive through the Mweya Peninsula with all your belongings in the Car. After the 3-hour game drive, you continue with the Journey back to Kampala/Entebbe. If not game drive, you can visit Katwe Salt Lakes.
End of the 5 Days Uganda Gorillas and Game Safari
Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a Local tour operator based in Uganda with its head offices in Entebbe. Moreover, Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a business for a Ugandan native, we specialize in life-changing experiences and sustainable tours and holidays to all East African countries. We are members of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators and with registration from the Uganda Tourism Board. We have a good and long working relationship with Uganda Wildlife Authority making it easy to book your gorilla permits and gorilla trekking safari. Safari Vacations and Travel Services is high in reviews on Trip Advisor as well.
