12 Days Best of Uganda Safari

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park

12 Days Best of Uganda Safari, arrive and have your morning breakfast, then drive to Lake Mburo National Park through the small towns of Uganda. Make a stopover at the Equator line for a photograph and some informative talks and experiments. Enjoy an en-route game drive as you drive to your lodge/ hotel for check-in and lunch. After lunch, you will have a game drive as you drive to the lake for a boat cruise in search of hippos, crocodiles, and water birds among others.

Accommodation: Rwakobo Rock, Mpogo Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Drive time: 3-4 hours

Day 2: Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

Morning breakfast checks out, enjoy an en-route game drive through Lake Mburo National Park, and then proceed to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park located in South Western Uganda. This journey takes you through the green rolling hills of Uganda with banana and tea plantations and good scenic views. Lunch en route and you will arrive in Kisoro at your lodge in the evening.

Accommodation: Lake Mutanda Resort, Kisoro Travelers’ Rest Hotel

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Drive time: 5-6 hours

Day 3: Golden monkey trekking in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

On this day, you’ll wake up to an early morning breakfast. You’ll then head to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for a briefing about golden monkey trekking. After, you’ll follow the lead of a senior guide to the forest in search of the golden monkeys. After finding them, you’ll spend an hour in their presence. Then, you’ll head to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You’ll check in at your lodge and then head out to the Batwa community for a cultural experience. The Batwa are indigenous people who once lived in the forest. Their strong attachment to the forest hindered them from embracing modernization. You’ll learn how they live their daily life through different skills. These include fruit gathering and hunting. You’ll also learn their local way of making fire, and they’ll entertain you with their traditional dance.

Dinner and overnight: Four Gorillas Lodge/Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge

Day 4: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

On this day you will have your breakfast with your packed lunch ready, drive to the Park headquarters for registration, and join other trackers in a briefing about the dos and the don’ts while on your Gorilla Tracking, You will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you half an hour to three-quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but accessible to tourists. It is an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures. Once you find them you will spend one hour with them before hiking back to the Park offices where you will be awarded a certificate as a souvenir after contributing to conserving for these great apes

Dinner and overnight: Four Gorillas Lodge/Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 5: Scenic drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park

This morning after your breakfast you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park, be prepared for some incredible scenery along the way. You will arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and then after you will go on an evening game drive in the plains of Kasenyi area the Northern bank of Queen Elizabeth National Park in search of savannah wildlife that may include herds of buffaloes, antelopes, elephants and if lucky, some wild cats such as lions and leopards.

Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Lodge/Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Drive time: 4-5 hours

Day 6: Morning Game drive and afternoon Boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel

This morning you will head back to the plains of Kasenyi for a morning game drive and try to find what you could have missed the previous evening. Lunch will be served at the lodge and after you will drive to the jetty along the Kazinga channel for the afternoon boat cruise. This cruise offers you chances to view animals like hippos, water birds, elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles, and much other wildlife that flop the channel for drinking water. The channel is famous for having the highest concentration of hippos in the world. After that, you’ll return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.

Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Lodge/Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 7: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

After early morning breakfast, check out of your lodge, and drive to the Northern bank of Queen Elizabeth National Park (Kasenyi) area for an en-route game drive in searches the wild animals which include: Elephants, Buffalos, and wild cats, Savanna birds, and deferent species of antelopes such waterbuck Uganda kobs among others. You will have lunch en-route and then drive to Kibale Forest National Park arriving at your lodge in the late afternoon.

Accommodation: Turaco Treetops Lodge/Chimpanzee Forest Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Drive time: 3-4 hours

Day 8: Chimpanzee Tracking and Bigodi Community Walk in Kibale National Park

This morning after breakfast you will drive to the park headquarters to join other trackers for a briefing about the dos and don’ts while in the forest and after you will be taken for your chimpanzee tracking, through Kibale Forest National Park. During this walk, you may have the chance to see some of the 13 different primate species native to Kibale Forest National Park. After lunch, you will drive to Bigodi for a community walk where you interact directly with the people neighboring the National Park.

Accommodation: Turaco Treetops Lodge/Chimpanzee Forest Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park and Hike top of the falls

Drive to Murchison Falls National Park with lunch en-route through small towns, villages, and great scenery and views of the escarpment of the Rift Valley arriving evening. Upon arrival, you’ll hike to the top of the falls for magnificent views of the world’s most powerful waterfall. Then check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge/Parkside Safari Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Drive time: 7-8 hours

Day 10: Morning Game drive and afternoon Boat cruise to the bottom of the falls

After early morning breakfast, drive to the northern sector of Murchison Falls National Park popularly known as Paraa for your morning game drive that will provide you an opportunity to spot wild game that may include, giraffes, buffaloes, elephants, different antelopes, hippos, and if lucky cats such as lions and leopards. Return to the lodge for a lunch break and then after driving to the pier for your two-hour boat cruise to the bottom of the falls to witness how the river Nile squeezes itself in a narrow gorge of 8 meters before exploding out producing an experience of a lifetime. You’ll see many animals including buffalos, elephants, hippos, crocodiles, and many others cooling off.  After your boat cruise return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge, Kabalega Safari Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 11: Morning Delta Cruise and Game drives.

You will enjoy the boat cruise to the delta today in the morning. You’ll see Lake Albert and several animals. After, you will enjoy game drives to look for would-be missed-out wildlife.

Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge/ Parkside Safari Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 12: Drive back to Kampala/Entebbe for your flight out.

After breakfast, you will return to Kampala/Entebbe International Airport for your next flight. You’ll pass via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking. This will mark the end of our 12-day Best of Uganda Wildlife and Primate Safari.

End of 12 Days Best of Uganda Safari