7 Day Uganda Gorilla and Chimpanzee Safari Experience

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This Ultimate Uganda Gorilla Safari Experience is designed with utmost confidence to give our valued guests the exclusive experience with the primates of Uganda. Be assured of quality services and an unforgettable vacation with Primates. During the safari, you get to experience the highlights of Uganda by trekking the Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi and Chimpanzee with the animals of the savannah from Murchison Falls national park.

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Day by day itinerary

On Foot Rhino Tracking
Visit the Majestic Murchison Falls National Park, with boat trip to the bottom of the Falls.
Trek Chimpanzee in Kibale Forest National Park
Mountain Gorilla Trek - Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, this forest has a lot to offer and its home to the largest population of Mountain Gorillas
Experience the Local communities and the indigenous Forest people

Our tour representative at the airport who will transfer you to Papyrus guesthouse where you will have an overnight based on bed and breakfast will meet you.

Accomodation: Papyrus Guesthouse Entebbe

After your breakfast, you start your safari with a 3-hour drive northwards to Murchison Falls National Park through the famous Luwero triangle. En route, we visit and have on foot tracking with the white rhinos at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. We will continue through the park visiting the top of the falls, which is a fantastic sight. Here the Nile, the longest river in the world, is forced through a narrow gap in the rock (only 7 meters wide), before ferociously plunging down 43 meters. From here, we will continue onto our accommodation place along the Nile River.

Accomodation: Hornbill Bush Lodge

Start the day with a fascinating game drive-searching animal of the savannah, which include and not limited to lions, giraffes, herds of elephants, buffaloes and many more. We will drive back to the lodge for lunch before taking an afternoon boat cruise to the foot of Murchison Falls. This boat trip along the Nile is often cited as being the highlight of a trip to Murchison since it allows you to get up-close and personal with the animals. Along this stretch of the river, there are reported to be around 4,000 hippos in addition to some enormous Nile crocodiles. The bird life is stunning with brightly colored kingfishers and bee-eaters darting along the riverbanks. If lucky, you may see the rare and prehistoric looking shoebill, which is a cross between the dodo and a dinosaur. The boat takes you to the base of the falls, which only adds to their impressiveness.

Accomodation: Hornbill Bush Lodge

Leave Murchison Falls National Park for Kibale Forest National Park via the Lake Albert escarpment, having a good view of the lake. Stop over at Kolping Hotel in Hoima for lunch and after drive across the interesting river Nkusi (flowing from the southern end of Lake Albert, through the villages of Kagadi, joining Victoria Nile). Both rivers join Lake Kyoga and flow through the Murchison Falls continue to Lake Albert and north to the Mediterranean Sea. As you approach Fort Portal in the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, you enter Uganda’s famous tea plantation region. A carpet of green spreads before you, as far as the eye can see, and seems an unusual contrast to the countryside through which you have just passed. Visit the Top of the World with scenic crater lakes, checking out the superbly terraced tea estates.

Accomodation: Isunga Lodge

Head into the forest of the Primate City of Kibale in the morning for chimpanzee trekking. This is a three-hour experience. As an option, you can upgrade to participating in Chimpanzee habituation, where you get to follow the chimps for the whole day, a truly exclusive experience (this is an optional activity and is not included in the stated price. Inform us when booking if you wish to do the habituation). Kibale Forest national park is a rainy forest and a home to over 1500 Chimpanzees. Here you have the chance to see the chimps close up and capture shots of our closet cousins in the jungle in their frenzy exciting moods as they are grooming, building relationships, bringing up young ones, think and sharing food, plus rare bird species following them. Typically, we locate the chimps by listening for their pant-hooting calls, then hustle to the area from which they are calling. We get to observe them as they feed in fruiting trees, lounge, and socialize with each other, or even, occasionally hunt. n the afternoon, we drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Accomodation: Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Spend the day tracking endangered Mountain Gorillas, spending close for an hour among them. See mothers keeping infants close as they knuckle walk on three limbs. Watch scampering toddlers reined in by an attentive father, who takes his job as protector of the family, quite personally. The distinct behavior of a mountain gorilla in the wild will demonstrate the bond that exists between primate and man — and not escaping the poignant fact, these creatures lie on the brink of extinction. This day we spend the night in the middle of Africa’s second deepest Lake on Kyahugye Island on Lake Bunyonyi. Have a relaxed evening as you stare at the fascinating lake of many birds from the veranda of your cozy cottage.

Accomodation: Lake Bunyonyi Eco Resort

Early breakfast, we explore the lake of many birds (Lake Bunyonyi) with a boat ride to various historical islands before embarking on our return to Kampala or Entebbe. We drive drive down the grassed and terraced escarpments of southwestern Uganda while taking in the breath-taking sights of the hills of the region dubbed ‘the little Switzerland of Africa’. A remarkable highlight of this journey is the Equator line and surely, you will cross it as we have a brief stop here. We will be in Kampala in the evening before for your flight back home.

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