13 Days Uganda tours -Around Uganda National parks
Day 1: Uganda tours to Jinja
Drive to Jinja after breakfast at your hotel. When you reach in Jinja you will go for a half day White water rafting and a trip to the source of the Nile. You then drive back to Kampala for dinner and over night at Holiday express
Day 2: Uganda Tours to Ngamba Islands
Head to Entebbe for a boat ride to Ngamba Island Chimp sanctuary. You will have a chance to encounter chimpanzees feeding at 2pm. After that relax and wait for dinner and over night at G and C camp on the Island.
Day 3: Ngamba Islands Chimpanzee viewing tours
Take a walk together with the guide in search for the young orphaned chimps. Have lunch and enjoy a boat back to Entebbe from where you will drive you to Kampala for Dinner and over night at Holiday express.
Day 4: Uganda tours to Murchison falls national park
Take a panoramic drive to the northwest through the famous Luwero Triangle and Masindi Town to Murchison Falls National Park. You will be arriving in time for lunch at the spectacular site situated at the top of the fall where you can see the Nile's perfected beauty! Marvel at the Nile, compressing from up to one km squeezed through a 7 meter canyon dropping 150 meters with a thunderous roar, creating a beautiful rainbow, a plume of spray and the best thing that happened to the Nile 'The Murchison Falls' enjoy the sunset as you return to the lodge. Dinner and over night at Paraa Safari Lodge or Nile Safari Camp. FB
Day 5: Game Drive,Launch Cruise in Murchison NP
Take an early morning game drives on the northern bank. You may be able to see elephants, lion, cape buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bush back, bohor reed buck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard. After a lunch picnic, go for a boat safari upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just tens of meters from the 'Devil's Cauldron', marvel at the toothsome hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork. After taking shorts of the photogenic Murchison Falls, return to Paraa Lodge or Nile Safari Camp for dinner and overnight.FB
day 6: Mountains of the Moon
Transfer to Fort Portal via Hoima, this journey will take you through the green countryside and traditional homesteads and farms. Fort Portal sits in the shadow of the magnificent 'Mountains of the Moon'. Dinner and overnight at the tree house at Kanyanchu Tourist centre.FB
DAY 7: Uganda Tours to Kibale NP for Chimpanzee tour
Embark on a half day search of chimpanzee and ten other primates including, l’hoestes, Red-colobus, Red-tailed and Grey-cheeked Mangabey. The walk will be both informative and enjoyable as the guide will provide information not only on the primates but also on other forest flora & fauna. This walk is excellent for bird watching and seeing primates at close quarters. After the tracking relax and after lunch drive to Bigodi ecological site for butterflies and bird watching. Over night stay at the tree house. FB
DAY 8: Uganda tours to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park after breakfast following the mystical Rwenzori Mountain Range. A game drive en route may yield viewing a lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo, hyena and a variety of antelope species. After lunch drive to the creator region for sight seeing. Visit Lake Katwe salt factory to see local methods of making salt. Dinner and over night at Mweya safari Lodge or Jacana Safari Lodge. FB
DAY 9: Launch Cruise and Game Drive in Queen Elizabeth.
Game drive today, this tour of this vast park will present to you an excellent opportunity to see lion, leopard, giant forest hog, buffalo, elephant, defassa waterbuck, Uganda Kob, topi and bushbuck. These two game drives and the boat trip (taken prior) are memorable methods of discovering a vast array of Uganda’s wildlife. After lunch, enjoy the unique 2-hour boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel into Lake Edward.
This trip passes through possibly the highest concentration of hippos. This launch/cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching and game viewing. The prolific bird life is colorful and stupendous, with well over 550 resident species.
Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/ Jacana Safari Lodge. FB
DAY 10: Uganda tours to Kyambura gorge and Bwindi
Breakfast & nature walk in the Kyambura gorge to track for primates. Expect primates like chimpanzees, monkeys, baboons and many more. Drive through Ishasha while checking out the famous climbing Lions of Ishasha to Bwindi. Dinner and overnight stay at Buhoma Home stead.
DAY 11: Bwindi gorilla uganda tours
Wake up and prepare for the unforgettable experience. You will have breakfast to transfer to the park headquarters for briefing before setting off to the forest in search for gorillas
. The guide will brief you and at 9:00 am you will set off to the forest for these apes. The time you will take searching these humble apes is unpredictable however it ranges between 2-9 hours depending on their movement. The activity requires you to go through steep rocks climbing up and down making it tiresome, however the thrill of encountering these giant primates erases the poor memories you went through in trying to find them. Dinner and over night at Gorilla Resort / Buhoma homestead.
DAY 12: Uganda tours to Lake Mburo NP
Take breakfast before making a scenic journey to Kabale through the beautiful terrain of the rolling hills with terraced landscape. An area referred as the "Switzerland of Africa”. Stopover at the Bakiga Museum in Kabale to discover the culture of the people living in the area. Lunch at Arcadia Cottages, with unique and amazing panoramic view of the Lake Bunyonyi, the deepest in Uganda. Afternoon boats ride inside the lake to various islands for bird viewing and sight seeing. Return to Arcadia Cottages for dinner and overnight. FB
DAY 13: return journey to kampala
Enjoy a long but relaxed journey back to Kampala for your continuing transfers back to you origins.