9 Days Uganda Safari Encounter

Pick up from the Airport by our company's driver / guide who will later transfer you to the Entebbe Botanical Beach Hotel to dine and stay overnight.

After breakfast, we drive northwards to Murchison Falls National Park, with a stopover for your lunch in Masindi and another at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track rare Rhinos that are protected in this sanctuary. Later arrive in Murchison falls National Park also Uganda’s largest well protected wildlife area covering 3,840 Sq. km. Move to the top of the falls to view the natural beauty of these falls. At this place, the river squeezes itself through a 7 meter narrow gorge from a width of more than 1 km and drops below with a thunderous roar forming a water spray that results into a stunning rainbow, the wonders of Nile River! You will dine and slumber.

Have an early delicious breakfast, explore the northern part hosting a high number of Savannah wildlife. This game drive offers great opportunities for photography of elephants, lions, Uganda kobs, buffaloes, giraffes, water bucks as well as hippos and in case you are fortunate the leopards too, in addition to a big number of bird species.

Following lunch, you will have a 2 hours boat-cruise to the bottom of the Murchison falls from where great volumes of water escapes through the small gorge forming an immense thunderous roar. During this boat ride you will see several water birds plus umpteen mammals like Hippos and crocodiles. Head back to the lodge have dinner and slumber at your lodge.

Have a hefty breakfast, depart from Murchison Falls National Park to Queen Elizabeth National Park as you drive Southwest through Fort Portal and the Albertine Escarpment of the Western Rift Valley. Have lunch on the way at Mountains of the Moon Hotel found in Fort Portal town.

From here continue to Mweya peninsula found in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will arrive in the park in the evening, have dinner and slumber at your lodge.

Following an early breakfast, you will have a morning game drive to see the nocturnal predators as well as the early morning risers like lions, buffaloes, antelope species, leopards, water bucks, elephants, hippos and warthogs. For birders, Queen Elizabeth is paradise, hosting a diversity of migratory and Albertine Rift endemics. You are to dine and slumber at any of these lodges.

Have breakfast and set out for a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel for wonder game viewing and bird watching, head back to the lodge for your lunch and then continue to the Kyambura Gorge to track chimpanzees. If you are still on time you can go for a forest walk in Maramagambo forest to explore the bat cave as you stare at pythons that feed on these bats. Dine and slumber at the lodge.

On this day you will have an early breakfast and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest via Ishasha region in the southern part of Queen Elizabeth to see tree climbing lions that are prevalent in this area. Continue to where you will have lunch along the way. Have a community walk (the Batwa -Pygmy cultural experience and entertainment) in the evening. Enjoy dinner and slumber at the lodge of your choice.

After breakfast, proceed to the park headquarter to be briefed about the Gorilla tracking before going into the verdant forest led by the rangers. In case you are fortunate, it may take you about 2 hours or even less to see amazing Bwindi giants. The experience of coming face to face with these peaceful primates is overwhelming. Head back to the lodge where you will have lunch after tracking the gorillas. Relax at the lodge the whole evening.

You will have breakfast and later return to Kampala, then have lunch along the way in Mbarara and eventually reach Kampala late in the afternoon where you will have a city tour. After, move directly to the airport for your outbound flight back home or transfer to your accommodation if you do not have a flight this evening. Note: city tour is optional.