8 Days Murchison, kibale and Gorilla trekking
Adventure Uganda in an 8 days Murchison, kibale forest and gorilla trekking, explore the great Murchison falls national park doing rhino tracking on your way to the park, game drives, boat cruise the Nile. Trek the chimpanzee of kibale national park transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Day 1: pick up and transfer to Murchison falls national park.
Depending on your location in Kampala, you will be picked up and transferred to Murchison falls national park. The park is a habitat for big 4 game including elephants, buffaloes, lions and leopards. However, you will have a stopover for about 2 to 3 hours at Ziwa rhino sanctuary for rhino trekking. Have lunch then proceed to the home of the magnificent falls adding you 2hours to arrive at the park.
Upon arrival at the late afternoon, connect to your lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Paraa safari lodge or Pakuba safari lodge.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout.
Day 2: Game drive and launch cruise at the bottoms of the falls
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will go for a morning game drive on the northern bank of the park. The activity takes 3-5 hours and be able to view variety of wildlife. After the drive, you will return to you lodge.
After lunch, go for a launch cruise on the Nile with exciting view at the bottom of the falls of the mighty Murchison falls.
After viewing the bottom of the falls, you can have optional hike to the top of the falls through bakers trail and also be able to stand at baker’s stone bringing you closer to the bottom of the falls, this hike is a bit tuff but it’s fascinating as you will enjoy to see the falls at different points and finally when you reach at the top of the falls, you will be amazed and eventually forget about the tuff hike. After spending a good time at the top of the falls, you will meet your driver who will transfer you back to the lodge.
Accommodation: Paraa safari lodge or Pakuba safari lodge.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout.
Day 3: Transfer to kibale National park.
Depart Murchison early after breakfast and transfer to kibale national park, it’s a full day hours’ drive to fort portal with en route lunch. Kibale forest is the best safari destination in Africa with 13 species of primate where chimpanzees are the most visited. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Chimpanzee trekking and nature walk.
Have an early breakfast and transfer to the park head office for a briefing about the endangered chimpanzees and later enter the forest with the guidance of a park ranger along with your tracking gears, packed water and snacks. This tracking takes 2-5 hours in search of the chimpanzees. On finding the primates, you will spend 1 hour with the creatures while studying their behavior and taking pictures. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Later in the afternoon, connect for a nature walk in bigodi wetland, where you will enjoy to walk through the wetland with variety of bird species. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Accommodation: Mahogany springs lodge or Ichumbi gorilla lodge.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Drinking Water and fruits throughout.
Day 5: Transfer to Bwindi via Queen Elizabeth national park.
After breakfast, meet your driver to depart for Bwindi, you will first connect for a morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park in search of the tree climbing lions. Proceed to Bwindi arriving late afternoon at the lodge where you will check in, have dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mahogany springs lodge or Ichumbi gorilla lodge.
Day 6: Gorilla Trekking Experience.
You will enjoy early morning breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch and bottled drinking water for briefing by the park ranger guides at 7:30am. After briefing, you will start your gorilla trekking journey accompanied by the park ranger.
Return to the starting point where you will find your driver to take you back to the lodge. Dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mahogany springs lodge or Ichumbi gorilla lodge.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout
Day 7: All day at lake Bunyonyi.
Wake up early, have breakfast and connect to lake bunyonyi in kabale district. Arrive at bunyonyi early with great scenic views of surrounding hills. This lake is located between Kisoro and kabale in southwestern Uganda close to the border with Rwanda. It is believed to be the second deepest lake in Africa.
On arrival at the lake have lunch then take a boat cruise to some of the fascinating islands on the lake like the kyahugye island where to find some wildlife including zebras, water bucks, impalas and kobs. Visit akapempeine island also referred to the punishment island where the pregnant unmarried girls were dumped to die and finally the bwama and Njuyeeraisland where missionary Dr. leonard Sharp founded a leper colony. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Accommodation: Arcadia cottages/lake Bunyonyi Eco Resort.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout
Day 8: Transfer back to Kampala.
After an early morning breakfast, you depart the lodge and head back to Kampala. 7-8 hours’ drive with en route lunch in Mbarara. Arrive Kampala late afternoon and if you have an ongoing flight you will proceed to the airport.
Accommodation Option: No (End of tour)
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout
Tour Includes:
- Airport transfers
- 4×4 transport with English speaking local guide/driver for all road transport
- Accommodation & all meals above
- All park entrances fees
- Drinking water in the vehicle
- Mentioned activities
- Gorilla and chimpanzee permits.
Tour Excludes:
- International visas
- Accommodation facilities while in Kampala
- All expenses of personal nature such as tips and drinks