7-Day Uganda Safari Unforgettable Chimp, Gorilla Trekking

Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Kibale Forest NP

Hopefully, Your safari will start from Entebbe International Airport where you will be received by the assigned driver/guide and depart for Kibale Forest NP. The park is popular for its primates’ population like the chimpanzees, colobus monkeys and red-tailed monkeys. You will arrive in the late afternoon (evening) and just check into your accommodation, relax and later enjoy your dinner plus the overnight stay. Dinner and Overnight at Isunga Lodge.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park.

Meals plan: Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water.

Today you will track the most famous inhabitants of Kibale National Park, the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share 98% of human genes making them our closest living relatives. They are found in 21 countries throughout Africa, but are most easily sighted in Uganda due to their dense populations. There is also a wonderfully diverse concentration of other primates, more than any other forest in East Africa, in fact. Besides our delightful cousins, the chimpanzees, you can find red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L’Hoest’s monkey, and the black and white colobus monkey. In addition, you may see olive baboons, bush babies and nocturnal pottos. Later transfer  to Queen Elizabeth National Park for overnight at Irungu Forest Safari Lodge.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water.

After you have enjoyed your breakfast you will be taken for a morning game drive in time to see the sun rise. The morning is the best time for a game drive as the African animal kingdom tends to be most active when during the golden hours of the first sunlight touching the savannah. You will continue the search for all the wildlife; elephant, buffalo, lion, waterbuck, leopard, Uganda kob, warthog and do not forget about the birds and the primates.

After lunch, you will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel. Here, you will see a lot of hippos (more than you can possibly imagine), as well as a variety of other animals which come to the waterhole to drink or bathe. You can expect to see: Buffalo, Crocodile, bathing Elephant, and a range of beautiful birds. This will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of your tour. Retire to Irungu Forest Safari Lodge, rest and prepare for the following day.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water.

Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi with En route Game Viewing in Ishasha Sector.

Have breakfast then set off for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park – famously known for its resident tree-climbing lions. The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% though sometimes they are really hard to spot (most especially when they’re down in the grassland looking for prey). Hoping you get the chance to spot them, the sight will be spectacular!

Continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda (harboring an estimated 400 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population) including several habituated groups, which can be tracked. Your overnight stay  at Gorilla Valley Lodge.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water.

Day 5: Gorilla Trekking  and Optional Community Visit.

Encountering the rare and endangered Mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is an experience of a lifetime. Half of the world’s population of gorillas live under the mist-covered canopies of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforest. With an experienced park ranger you will be tracking the whereabouts of one of the nine habituated family groups who live in the park. En-route, your ranger will point out telltale signs of previous gorilla activity like dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. Depending on the location of the gorillas on any given day the walk can take anything from 2 to 7 hours. Once the family of gorillas has been located, settle enjoy the hour you have to quietly observe these fascinating primates whose habits and mannerisms remind us so much of our own. Encountering the mountain gorillas in the wild is a truly humbling and emotional experience, one that you are sure to remember for the rest of your life.

You later transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for overnight stay at Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park