17- Days Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Rhino Trekking And Game Viewing Safari

Kent safaris’ representative/ guide will warmly receive you upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, drive you to your city/town hotel to get Itinerary briefings. rest, have dinner and an overnight stay.

0800hrs: Wake up to early morning breakfast before we set off for our road trip to western Uganda, with Lake Mburo National Park as our destination.
• Boat safari ride on Lake Mburo
• An evening game drive to wrap up our day
• temporary stops at places of interest; Equator mark and Mpambire Drum makers
• Lunch break at Igongo cultural center
• A memorable visit to museum with artefacts that depict the culture of the people of Western Uganda

Wake up very early before Dawn for a morning game viewing drive in the savannah plains.
• Tracking big cats like; Lions and Leopards, Hyenas, Elephants, herds of Buffaloes and small games like antelopes, Topis and Impalas (keep in mind that Lake Mburo National Park is the only park in Uganda with Impalas)
• Return for Breakfast after the Game Drive
• Lunch break
• Safari boat trip on Lake Mburo
• A brief evening game drive once again (optional)

• Breakfast
• Checking out of the lodge and the park for Nshenyi Cultural village in Kitwe
• Cultural tour (experience the lifestyle and culture of the people of Western Uganda)
• Lunch

• Breakfast
• Cultural experience (visiting schools, local market, Batwa pottery makers,
• An epic safari road trip to Bwindi Impenetrable Forests for mountain gorillas trekking

• Be at the Checkpoint by 0800hrs for briefing from experienced gorilla trackers about trekking the mountain gorillas
• Ultimate mountain gorilla trekking experience. The activity takes a minimum of two hours and a maximum of 6hours, but kindly note that it is not advisable to carry cameras with flashlights during the trekking as they may discomfort the gorillas which may incite them against humans
• Return to the lodge for relaxation
• Engage in fraternal activities with the Batwa Community (optional)

Wake up to another cultural experience of the ‘Batwa’ people as a perfect way of relaxing the muscles after gorilla trekking. Batwa people are mainly hunters and are the first settlers in the forests. Their cultural lifestyle, iron making, pottery and basket weaving are some of the activities and experience a traveler to Bwindi forests shouldn’t miss out.

• Breakfast
• Check out of Bwindi Forests
• Recreational activities and adventure to cushion your holiday plan
• Bird viewing, cognizant of the fact that this amazing lake ‘Bunyonyi’ gets its name from its character of having many birds of different species
• Canoeing, fishing, traditional dance and music, among other activities

• A peculiar view of Tree ‘Climbing’ lions of Queen Elizabeth national park in Ishasha
• Another memorable game viewing drive and wildlife experience

• Breakfast
• A game drive along Kasenyi track and Queen’s Mile in anticipation of lions, elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, hippos, antelope species, warthogs and many other animals. The Kasenyi Track is one of the most excellent game viewing areas in Queen Elizabeth National Park, and a birders’ haven at the same time
• An unforgettable experience of the amazing savannah grassland that is home to many White and Abdim’s Storks in a season, lesser numbers of Wooly-necked and the spectacular Saddle-billed Stork
• A great number of Raptors, including the Brown Snake Eagle and Grey kestrel
• Lion kills that attract up to six species of vulture including Egyptian, Reppell's Griffon and the enormous Lappet- faced, Senegal, Crowned and African Wattle Plovers are very common in the short grassland
• Lunch
• A 2-3hour boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel. The channel is a natural magnet for water birds Along the channel you will see birds such as Great White and Pink-backed Pelicans, African Open-billed Stork, Black Crake, Great and Long-tailed Cormorants, Common Squacco Heron, White-faced Whistling and Knob-billed Ducks, African Fish Eagle, Spur-winged and African Wattle Plovers, Water Thick Knee, Swamp Flycatcher, African Jacana, Malachite, and Yellow-backed Weaver.
• A cruise along the Mweya peninsula that acts as a migrant trap for the Albertine Rift Endemics.

• Breakfast
• A visit to Lake Katwe Salt mining site before leaving Queen Elizabeth National Park to Kibale
• Another interesting road trip through the Rwenzori Mountain ranges on the way to Kibale forest National Park

• Breakfast
• Chimpanzee trekking. Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best safari destinations in Africa for chimpanzee trekking
• Kibale’s 795KM2 National Park contains one of the most beautiful and the most varying tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda
• Kibale National Park is habitat to different species of wildlife, most especially 13 species of primate coupled with chimpanzees
• Lunchbreak
• A visit to Bigodi wetland for nature walks and bird viewing
• A visit to / sight viewing of Tea shambas (estates)

After Breakfast, we check-out of Kibale forests to embark on our road trip to Murchison Falls National Park
• Amazing thunderous strong falls that roar in a shallow gorge
• A drive to the ‘Top of the Falls’ before checking in to the lodge

• Breakfast
• Game drive where you will spot various animal species like elephants, giraffes, lions, Uganda kobs among others.
• Afternoon lunch cruise on the park’s main tourist attraction the unique Murchison Falls as well as the Nile river
• Streaming hippos and serried ranges of crocodiles along the sandbanks, as well as large numbers of different species getting down to drink & bathe

Trekking for Rhinos is another holiday experience any traveler shouldn’t miss especially those interested in Big 5 safari sightings. Rhinos faced extinction in Uganda, and therefore, the love of the Big 5 saw Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary opened up as a wildlife orphanage home to raise up numbers of Rhinos before they are reintroduced into the National Parks.

• Breakfast
• Wild trekking for the Rhinos with experienced game ranger from the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
• Photography after tracking the Rhinos
• Lunch break and relaxation
• Afternoon swamp walk in search of the elusive Shoe-bill stork and other birds

After an early morning breakfast then board a car back to Kampala for a city tour, if time allows, then drive back to the airport for departure.
• Winding up our 17-days safari holiday / tour of Uganda
• Driving back to Kampala for a city tour
• Driving straight to the Airport, in case your return flight is on this day, to avoid flight delays.