DURATION: 8 Days | 7 nights
LOCATION: Uganda
Day to Day Breakdown of this Safari
Day 1
Arrival
On the first day of the trip, our team will be responsible for picking up the clients from the airport. The clients will stay at a hotel in Entebbe or Kampala depending on the travel plans.
Day 2
Trekking
We set off after breakfast, go to Mpanga forest which is habitant to variety of tree species, red tailed monkeys, birds, butterflies. The forest is found in Mpigi district approximately 37km from Kampala and 1 km from the main road. Take a nature walk around the forest. After we shall proceed to the Equator for the water bucket experiment. It is located, in Mpigi District, 72 km along the Kampala Masaka highway. We transfer to Kyambura forest reserve near Kasese and check into our lodge for the night.
Day 3
Kibale NP
After breakfast, we set off for Chimp Tracking in the Kibale national park where one can track chimpanzees in their natural environment. We shall also get the opportunity to learn about the ecosystems of kibale and the different vegetation types, bird identification and behaviour and chimp and monkey ecology. Although chimp sightings are not guaranteed, visitors stand a pretty good chance of hearing and seeing them habituated. Tours last between one and three hours and start at 8am. After lunch, we shall rest and enjoy the lodge spa as we prepare for the next activities.
Day 4
Bwindi NP
After breakfast, we shall transfer to Bwindi with a stopover at Maramagambo Forest, found in the district of Bushenyi in Uganda. It is part of Queen Elizabeth National Park and one of the largest forests in East Africa. Maramagambo forest is home to chimpanzees, elephants, bush pigs, pythons, bats and the rare Bates’s pygmy and antelopes. On reaching Buhoma in Bwindi Impenetrable forest, which was designated as a UNESCO heritage site and it provides habitant to 120 species of mammals, 348 bird species, 1000 flowering plants, 163 species of trees and 104 species of ferns. This is home the largest number of Mountain gorillas. We shall check into our Lodge for the night.
Day 5
Gorrila tracking
After an early morning breakfast, with your packed lunch and some water, we head to the sector of Gorilla tracking according to your permit. You are advised to be at the briefing center at 7:30am to verify your permit and receive enough briefing about the activity by Uganda Wildlife Authority guide rangers. At any of the sites selected there are always porters who can carry your bags during tracking experience at a fee.
You will be close to the Mountain Gorillas one of our cousins; you will be advised to the guidelines offered at the site because they are endangered. Kindly remember to carry charged cameras, rain proof clothes, hiking shoes or boots to match with the terrain, on this day you will carry a packed lunch and enough drinking water. Your guide will brief you more about it.
This is a life time experience and you will graduate with certificates from this world heritage
Day 6
Mgahinga NP
After a late breakfast, the clients will travel at well from Bwindi to Mgahinga National pack ad if time allows, they will have a community visit of the Batwa people of Uganda where you can encounter the first life experience while they were living in the forest and the present day life. They take you through their unique songs and performance on how they lived near Gorillas and other mammals. More importantly is their way of making fire using friction. This activity is done at a fee. There are curio shops for Batwa and other people of the community near these areas this would be good for anyone interested in shopping and supporting the community.
Day 7
Mgahinga NP
After your morning breakfast we shall set off to the starting point, where we shall go to track the rare golden monkeys and gorillas in Mgahinga Natinal park which has got the most striking features and its conical, extinct volcanoes that are part of the spectacular Virunga Range which lies along the border region of Uganda, Congo and Rwanda. The national park also forms part of the much larger Virunga Conservation area.
Day 8
Travel
After having breakfast, at leisure you can set off to Kampala using Mbarara rood and stop over at Igongo cultural center for lunch and also have a photo moment at the equator then reach Kampala and check into their hotel with the best memories.
