Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park

After an early breakfast at your Hotel in Kampala, you will transfer to Murchison Falls National Park via Masindi town. You will have lunch in Masindi Town after which you will enter Murchison falls through the Kichumbanyobo gate. The  Park is well known for the spectacular Murchison Falls, where the world’s longest river detonates fervently through a tapered crevice in the Rift Valley escarpment to thrust into a foaming pool 43m below.   Here you will see the magnificent top of the falls and where it is believed to be raining all day throughout the year and also forming the Rainbow. Retire to your assigned place of accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at Paraa Safari Lodge for Luxury/Sambiya River Lodge for Mid range and Red Chill campsite for budget.

Day 2: Game drive and Launch cruise
Early in the morning after breakfast, you will set out for the game drive on the Northern sector of the Park. Expect to encounter animals like Giraffes, Lions, Elephants, baboons, and a number of different antelopes.  Return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon set out for the launch cruise on the Albert Nile to the Bottom of the falls. Expect to see animals like Hippos, crocodiles, Water bucks, and a wide variety of bird species. You will also reach the “Devils Cauldron” where you will be able to see clearly the majestic Murchison falls.  Return for dinner and overnight stay at Paraa Safari Lodge for Luxury/Sambiya River Lodge for Mid range and Red Chill campsite for budget.

Day 3: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
After breakfast, you will travel to Kibale Forest national park. The journey will take almost 7-8 hours drive. This journey will take you through the verdant country side of the Albertine Escarpment. Also you will pass by Hoima homesteads for a clear view of the true African culture. Lunch will be held en route in Hoima town. Proceed with the journey to Fort portal and later reach Kibale in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight stay at Chimp nest for mid range/Ndali lodge or primates lodge for Luxury/Chimpanzee guest house for budget

Day 4: Chimp trek and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you will set out for the morning briefing of the Chimpanzee tracking activity at Kanyachu the Park Headquarters and later after this, you will enter the forest to search for the man’s closest friend the chimps and all trackers must be above 18 years of age. The experience you will get when you are with these chimps, will enable you figure out the similarities between the Chimps and Man. Besides the chimps, you will also be able to see other primate species such as the grey cheeked mangabeys, baboons and vervet monkeys. Return back to the Lodge for Lunch and in the afternoon, transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. En route visit the crater regions for scenic viewing. Dinner and overnight stay at Simba Safari camp for budget/Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge or Hippo hill camp for mid range/ Mweya Safari Lodge or Jacana Safari lodge for Luxury

Day 5: Game drive and launch cruise
Early morning g after breakfast, you will set out for the game drive along the Kasenyi track for game viewing including the Buffalo, Elephant, Warthog and Lion. After this, return to the lodge for lunch and later depart for the 2 hours launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel. Here you will encounter a close look at the Hippos, crocodiles and other bird species. Dinner and overnight stay at Simba Safari camp for budget/Queen Elizabeth Bush Lodge or Hippo hill camp for mid range/ Mweya Safari Lodge or Jacana Safari lodge for Luxury

Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
After breakfast, you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the Ishasha sector an area commonly known for the rare tree climbing lions. After the game drive in Ishasha, have lunch and later proceed with your journey to Bwindi reaching in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Resort Camp or Gorilla Forest Camp for Luxury/ Lake Kitandara tented camp or Silverback Lodge for mid range/Buhoma community Bandas or Wagtail Safari Camp for Budget

Day 7: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi
After an early morning breakfast, gather at Buhoma the Park headquarters for a briefing from the Ranger Guide of Uganda Wildlife Authority. You will be briefed about the Gorilla tracking protocol and once this is done, you will set out with your packed lunch and penetrate the Jungle forest to search for the rare Mountain Gorillas. The time taken to track gorillas is unpredictable and it can take 2- 10 hours. Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Resort Camp or Gorilla Forest Camp for Luxury/ Lake Kitandara tented camp or Silverback Lodge for mid range/Buhoma community Bandas or Wagtail Safari Camp for Budget

Day 8: Transfer back to Kampala
After breakfast, you will transfer back to Kampala with lunch en route in Mbarara town. Reach Kampala in the afternoon. Drop off will be at your Hotel.

Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
After an early breakfast at your Hotel in Kampala, you will transfer to Murchison Falls National Park via Masindi  own. You will have lunch in Masindi Town after which you will enter Murchison falls through the Kichumbanyobo gate.

The Park is well known for the spectacular Murchison Falls, where the world’s longest river detonates fervently through a tapered crevice in the Rift Valley escarpment to thrust into a foaming pool 43m below.   Here you will see the magnificent top of the falls and where it is believed to be raining all day throughout the year and also forming the Rainbow. Retire to your assigned place of accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at Paraa Safari Lodge forLuxury/Sambiya River Lodge for Mid range and Red Chill campsite for budget.

Day 2: Game drive and Launch cruise
Early in the morning after breakfast, you will set out for the game drive on the Northern sector of the Park. Expect to encounter animals like Giraffes, Lions, Elephants, baboons, and a number of different antelopes.  Return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon set out for the launch cruise on the Albert Nile to the Bottom of the falls. Expect to see animals like Hippos, crocodiles, Water bucks, and a wide variety of bird species. You will also reach the “Devils Cauldron” where you will be able to see clearly the majestic Murchison falls.  Return for dinner and overnight stay at Paraa Safari Lodge for Luxury/Sambiya River Lodge for Mid range and Red Chill campsite for budget

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking and transfer back to Kampala
After breakfast, you will set out for the chimp trek in Kaniyo Pabidi. The rangers will help you search for these chimps as they also give you information about the other primates that you will en counter. Return to your lodge for lunch and after transfer back to Kampala. Drop off at your Hotel in Kampala

Day 1: Equator –Queen Elizabeth National Park

Depart from Kampala early in the morning. Our first stopover will be at the Equator for a bathroom break and equator experience. Dance, sing, jump between thehemispheres as you snap away tocapture the memories. Proceed to Mbarara town for lunch and in the afternoon game drive to your lodge in/ around Queen Elizabeth National Park. Check in and relax, Kuamka Tours is at your service.

Day 2: Game drive –Katwe Salt Lake – Launch cruise

Early morning breakfast and we depart for the morning game drive in the Kasenyi sector of the park. Keep your eyes peeled for the lions, elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, and many more plethora of world life, birds, and amazing scenery among others. In the afternoon after your lunch, go for a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel; a channel that joins two lakes that is Lake Edward and Lake George, its stunning, its beautiful if you love birds, you will even be blown away the more. Return to your lodge for the night.

Day 3:Game drive –Transfer to Kibale National Park

After breakfast, another game drive awaits you. You can never get tired of seeing animal in their natural habitats, never! Another rewarding one today. Return to your lodge, freshen up and you will then be transferred to Kibale National Park. Lunch will be in a town called Fort Portal.

Day 4: Chimp tracking –Bigodi community walk

In the morning, you will go chimp tracking in the forest of Kibale. It is also known as the primate capital of the world because it has over 13 species of primates found here. With your ranger guide you will mount a search following trails in the forest, on spotting them, you will be allowed an hour with then and then return to the lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you will visit a local community home to the great blue turaco and other bird species, take a swamp walk through the communities, interact with them and in the evening return to the lodge.

Day 5: Semuliki National Park –Nature walk, Sempaya hotspring

An early rise, have breakfast and you will be transferred to Semuliki National Park. A distance covering 2 hours from fort portal. This is a birders paradise, you will have a chance to spot quite a number of Albertine endemic bird species. Also you will take a nature walk climaxing all with a visit to the amazing female and male hot springs also known as the Sempaya Hotsprings. In the evening, you will be transferred to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Wake up at leisure, have breakfast and you will later be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park the home of over half of the surviving mountain gorillas. You will arrive in the midafternoon, check into your hotel, soak in the views of the African forests, rolling hills and take in wild breathes of fresh air. Get enough rest tomorrow is Gorilla tracking.

Day 7: Gorilla Tracking

An early rise, have breakfast and with packed lunch, you will be taken to the briefing point where you will find other trackers. After the brief you will start the journey to the African jungles of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in search of the gorillas. Depending on where they are, the trek takes between one hour to even 6 hours or more. Once spotted you will be allowed a hour with the gorilla family, take photos and then trek back to the hotel for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Transfer to Kampala/ Airport

Today is our final day, but before we exit the fore stand head for the airport. Duration:8day

Day 1: Equator –Great Lakes Museum -Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

This is a long drive but very scenic, we bet you have never experienced it before, so we will leave very early at 7am. Our first stop over will be at the equator for a bathroom break, equator experience and photo shoot opportunity. Next stop over will be in Mbarara where we have lunch. Then the last stop over is at the great lakes museum which is also called the Switzerland of Africa, electrifying views! We embark on our last leg deep into the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest where you will be spending the 2 nights in this African rain forest.

Day 2: Gorilla tracking –Nature walk

Today is the most awaited day. Going gorilla tracking is one in a lifetime experience. Only 800 of them are alive and more than half of them live in Uganda. You will go trekking in the jungles of the African forests once you see the gorillas, you will be allowed an hour with them and then trek back to base camp where you will be transferred to your lodge to relax. Depending on the time you come back, there is an option of a nature walk on one of the developed nature walk trails in the forest park. Return to your lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Day 3 : Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Wake up at leisure, after your breakfast you will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park. A chance to see the big game. Check into your lodge, relax, dinner and overnight

Day 4: Game drive –Katwe Salt Lake –Launch cruise

Early morning breakfast and we depart for the morning game drive in the Kasenyi sector of the park. Keep your eyes peeled for the lions, elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, and many more plethora of world life, birds, and amazing scenery among others. In the afternoon after your lunch, go for a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel; a channel that joins two lakes that is Lake Edward and Lake George, its stunning, its beautiful if you love birds, you will even be blown away the more. Return to your lodge for the night.

Day 5: Transfer to Kampala/ Airport

In the morning, we will drive back to Kampala/ airport. Accommodation on this day is not included.

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On arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be welcomed by our representative and then transfer you to your hotel in Kampala.

Day 1: Arrival

Arrival at Entebbe and meet our staff to welcome you and brief you about the entire journey. Continue to your hotel for your overnight and dinner at Grand Imperial Hotel

Day 2: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast, drive to Murchison falls national park with a stopover in Masindi for your lunch. Continue for your journey to the park. The park has a recorded number of 76 mammal species and 450 bird species. Depending on your time of arrival, drive to “The Top of the Falls” for a breathtaking sight of the raging Nile as it forces its way through a rocky gap barely six meters wide. Overnight stay at Paraa Safari Lodge

Day 3:

The Boat cruise on the river Nile
Start the day with an early morning game drive in search of the wild game that are unique to the African Savannah like giraffes, antelopes, lions, elephants and the Uganda kobs. The bird life is also impressive, with the eagle and the rare shoebill being among the prized sightings. During your game drive, you are able to view the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning. After lunch, go for an afternoon launch cruise on the Nile River. The cruise takes you to the bottom of the thundering falls expect to see crocodiles, schools of hippos, buffaloes, elephants and a variety of water birds. Dinner and Overnight at Paraa Safari Lodge

Day 4: Transfer to Kibale National Park
After an early breakfast, embark on your journey from Murchison Falls National park the Albertine escarpment of the western rift valley to Fort portal town with lunch enroute. The drive will bring you closer to the spectacular views passing through verdant country side, tea plantations and traditional homesteads. Arrive late in the evening.

Dinner and overnight at Primate Lodge / Ndali Lodge.

Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking
Go for an early morning chimpanzee trek in Kibale National Park. Have Lunch after the trek and continue for the afternoon village walk that will take you through the Bigodi swamp, visiting the local homesteads and getting to know their way of life. Return to the lodge for your Dinner and overnight stay at Primate Lodge/ Simba Safari Camp.

Day 6: Hot Springs in Semliki
After breakfast Visit Semliki National Park. This park has fantastic scenery, hot springs, forest walk, amazing birdlife, primates viewing and Semliki River meanders. At “Mungu Ni Mukubwa’’ while in the mountains, the road offers scenic views of the meandering river, fuming hot springs and tropical rain forest.
Visit the Bambuti (pygmy) community. Have a picnic lunch at the Sempaya hot springs and then drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park following the mystical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge / Simba safari Camp.

Day 7: Kyambura Gorge and Boat cruise on the Kazinga channel
Rise before the sun and drive to Kyambura Gorge for a thrilling Chimpanzee trek. Your guided walk may last three to five hours and in addition to seeing the chimps, the trip may yield sightings of the colobus monkeys, baboons, red tailed and vervet monkeys plus other primates. It is important to note that the chimpanzee safari is subject to availability of permits and good weather because occasional flooding can make the trails impassable. Return to the lodge for lunch and take an afternoon Launch cruise on Kazinga Channel. The cruise is a wonderful way to see the hippos, buffalo, kob and the occasional Nile crocodile (which up until recently did not inhabit this area) and a spectacular bird watching on the river-bank. Many who experience the launch cruise consider it the highlight of their entire African safari. Return for dinner and overnight stay at the Mweya Safari Lodge / Simba Safari Camp.

Day 8: Game drive in the Ishasha sector
Have breakfast and where after go for the morning game drive to catch-up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts. You will most likely meet grazing Hippos, Elephants, and Lions, spotted Hyenas, bush bucks, water bucks, striped jackals, comical warthogs and the elusive leopard.
Drive further along the deep and wide dry craters that are occupied by savanna grass and acacia trees. The drive takes you through the unique western rift valley escarpment and continue to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park – the Ishasha sector. Lunch break where after you go for a late evening game drive in search of tree climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight stay at Ishasha Wilderness Camp

Day 9: Bwindi impenetrable National Park
Early breakfast then take on another game drive in search of tree climbing lions on your way to Bwindi where you will arrive in time for a late lunch. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home of the rare mountain gorillas. Apart from gorillas, there are a wide variety of primates to see including the blue and red tailed monkeys. The forest itself is lush and green and there are streams running through it. Dinner and overnight stay at Buhoma Lodge / Silverback Lodge.

Day 10: Gorilla tracking
After breakfast, Go for your briefing at the park headquarters to prepare you for an encounter with the rare Mountain Gorillas. The thrill of your encounter will erase the difficulties of the potentially strenuous trek. Bring jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet. Spend time in awe watching the gorillas go about their activities. Each encounter is different and has its own rewards, but you are likely to enjoy the close view of adults feeding, grooming and resting as the youngsters frolic and swing from vines in a delightfully playful display. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swathe of dense rainforest, so ancient that survived the last ice age. A recently proclaimed World Heritage site, it’s one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas – believed to number just 600. There’s also a substantial chimpanzee population and research shows that Bwindi is the only forest in Africa in which these two apes live together. Return for dinner and overnight at Buhoma Lodge /Silverback Lodge.

Day 11
Have Breakfast and embark on your journey back to Kampala. The journey takes about 9 – 10 hours of driving and may require you to stay for an overnight in Kampala else a late flight is recommended. A brief stop at Igongo Cultural centre is so rewarding where also an African Buffet introduces you to the best of Uganda’s delicacies.

End of Tour.

Day 1: Nakayima Tree –Transfer to Kibale Forest

We will set off early, by 7am. Our first stopover will be at Nakayima tree a place that stands as a symbol, historical and cultural icon that stems from thousands of years ago.It’s a story of the formation of one of the ancient kingdoms of Uganda that were trouble during the colonial times. Lunch will be in Fort portal town and later transferred to Kibale Forest where you will be staying for the 2 nights.

Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking in the morning –Bigodi Community walk

Kibale is the primate capital of the world, with over 13 species of primates and the largest concentration of chimpanzees in the whole world which we will be tracking today. In the afternoon, we will visit a community called Bigodi. The swamp walk is between one to three hours. In the evening return to your lodge.

Day 3: Tooro Palace –Transfer to Kampala/ Airport

Today, you will visit the palace of the youngest king on earth. Later you will be transferred to Kampala/ Airport