This 8-day Uganda Primates Safari allows you to hike chimps in Kibale Forest/Kaniyo Pabidi Forest Reserve as well as gorillas in Bwindi Forest National Park. African Jungle Adventures’ 8-day Uganda safari includes visits to Uganda primates.
Highlights
Day 1: Drive Murchison Falls National Park
Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking at Kaniyo Pabidi Forest.
Day 3: Kibale Forest National Park.
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking Adventure
Day 5: Kyambura/Chambura Gorge.
Day 6: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable national park
Day 8: Departure
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Drive Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast at your Kampala or Entebbe hotel, board our 4WD Land Cruiser to Murchison Falls National Park, with an en-route stop to Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola (lunch here), and a visit to the top of the falls, where the great River Nile perfects its magnificence. Your lodge will provide dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 1: Drive Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast at your Kampala or Entebbe hotel, board our 4WD Land Cruiser to Murchison Falls National Park, with an en-route stop to Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola (lunch here), and a visit to the top of the falls, where the great River Nile perfects its magnificence. Your lodge will provide dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking at Kaniyo Pabidi Forest.
Breakfast at your lodge, then transfer to Kanio Pabidi Park headquarters for a briefing on chimp and other primates monitoring in the park. In the afternoon, enjoy a three-hour launch trip upstream of the falls. Your lodge will provide dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking at Kaniyo Pabidi Forest.
Breakfast at your lodge, then transfer to Kanio Pabidi Park headquarters for a briefing on chimp and other primates monitoring in the park. In the afternoon, enjoy a three-hour launch trip upstream of the falls. Your lodge will provide dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3: Kibale Forest National Park.
Today you wake up early, eat breakfast, check out and travel to Kibale Forest National Park, stopping for lunch along the way and arriving in the late afternoon. Relax at your lodge as you wait for supper, and at the Lodge
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking Adventure
After breakfast, go to Kanyanchu tourist centre for registration and chimp trekking guide briefing. and get instructed by the authorised guide before going chimp tracking in the wild. Begin your journey to observe chimps at 8:00 a.m. You will spend an hour with chimps, embracing their human-like personalities and taking photographs.
Colobus Monkeys, Grey Cheeked Mangabeys, Grey Galagoes, Vervet Monkeys, Red-tailed Monkeys, Blue Monkeys, and over 350 bird species live in the forest. Return to the lodge for a rest before continuing on to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The Lodge provides dinner and overnight accommodations.
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking Adventure
After breakfast, go to Kanyanchu tourist centre for registration and chimp trekking guide briefing. and get instructed by the authorised guide before going chimp tracking in the wild. Begin your journey to observe chimps at 8:00 a.m. You will spend an hour with chimps, embracing their human-like personalities and taking photographs.
Colobus Monkeys, Grey Cheeked Mangabeys, Grey Galagoes, Vervet Monkeys, Red-tailed Monkeys, Blue Monkeys, and over 350 bird species live in the forest. Return to the lodge for a rest before continuing on to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The Lodge provides dinner and overnight accommodations.
Day 5: Kyambura/Chambura Gorge.
After an early breakfast, go to Kyambura gorge for monkey trekking. Spend an hour with chimps and enjoy their company while taking a cool, quiet nature stroll in this subterranean forest. After lunch, go on a launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel to witness hippos, elephants, buffaloes, and a variety of water birds. The Lodge provides dinner and overnight accommodations.
Day 5: Kyambura/Chambura Gorge.
After an early breakfast, go to Kyambura gorge for monkey trekking. Spend an hour with chimps and enjoy their company while taking a cool, quiet nature stroll in this subterranean forest. After lunch, go on a launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel to witness hippos, elephants, buffaloes, and a variety of water birds. The Lodge provides dinner and overnight accommodations.
Day 6: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
After breakfast, travel to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, going through Ishasha, the home of the tree-climbing lion, or over-cultivated plains. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable national park
Get up, get a cup of coffee, and drive to the park headquarters for registration and a pre-gorilla trekking briefing. Begin the gorilla trekking trip at 8:00 a.m., which can last anywhere from 30 minutes to a whole day depending on where the gorillas are that day. If time allows, you will visit the Batwa pygmies for a cultural performance and learn about their traditional forest living in the evening. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable national park
Get up, get a cup of coffee, and drive to the park headquarters for registration and a pre-gorilla trekking briefing. Begin the gorilla trekking trip at 8:00 a.m., which can last anywhere from 30 minutes to a whole day depending on where the gorillas are that day. If time allows, you will visit the Batwa pygmies for a cultural performance and learn about their traditional forest living in the evening. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 8: Departure
After an early breakfast, begin a picnic drive back to Kampala, stopping for lunch along way, stopping near the equator for photography, arriving in Kampala late afternoon, and dropping you off at Entebbe Airport for your planned departure flight or at your accommodation in Kampala / Entebbe.
The safari has come to an end.
Day 8: Departure
After an early breakfast, begin a picnic drive back to Kampala, stopping for lunch along way, stopping near the equator for photography, arriving in Kampala late afternoon, and dropping you off at Entebbe Airport for your planned departure flight or at your accommodation in Kampala / Entebbe.
The safari has come to an end.