This 8 Days and 7 Nights Uganda Safari Vacation is a truly rewarding trip that covers almost all of Uganda’s highlights in just a few days. You’ll also end in Kigali, Rwanda, and taste two countries in one tour package. Enjoy over 6 main safari destinations with comfortable accommodation, traveling in a 4x4 Land Cruiser with a pop-up roof, guided by an excellent, smart, and knowledgeable safari guide.
Pickup from airport/hotel early in the morning to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and walk with the Southern White Rhino Walk. Have lunch at Ziwa Rhinos, then continue to Murchison Falls Park via Masindi town. Check into the Park at the Budongo forest side, spot a lot of monkeys like red-tailed monkeys, baboons, and enjoy a long over 60-meter forest drive, very scenic and breathtaking. Continue until you cross the Victoria Nile, then proceed to Pakuba Safari Lodge. Before getting to Pakuba, you will be seeing elephants, antelopes, and a lot of wildlife along the way and in the Pakuba track, then get to your accommodation just at the shoe of Albert Nile.
Wake up early to catch the predator and all big five lives: lions, leopard, buffaloes, elephants, etc. with a packed bush breakfast with you in the vehicle. Then go for morning game starting with Pakuba track. You will move to different tracks like Buligi track, Victoria track, New Commonwealth track, and Queen track, popular for lions and leopard. You will relax at Delta point or at Hippo pool for bush breakfast before completing your game drive in the afternoon, preparing for the boat cruise to the bottom of the falls with Wilde Frontier boat. This boat takes about 2 hours to the bottom of the falls and approximately 1 hour back. You have chance to spot crocodiles, elephants swimming in the Nile, hippos, and a lot of wildlife taking water on river banks, along with bird like kingfisher, fish eagle, snake bird. The target here is the bottom of the falls, where you will pose and take picture as the water moves at a fast speed coming from an area of just 6–8 meters wide. Water plunges over 45 meters high.
Visit the top of Murchison Falls, which are located about 45 meters drive south of the Para visitor center or Para bridge. Take picture with the rainbow background. Here the experience is more like visiting Victoria falls at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, or Niagara Falls at the border of Canada and USA. Then drive → Kibale Forest National Park with enroute at Fort Portal town, a tourism city, and also tea plantations, where you can witness how tea is picked with optional involvement in tea picking. Take picture and continue. Where you find over 13 primate species, including chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys. In the evening you are free to opt for a community visit of Bigodi village, visit nan man and see how local banana brew is made, how coffee is made, and also witness local dances from the community people. You can join them and dance together. (The experience here is worth $20 per person if interested.), optional Community visit or Bigodi Wetlands Walk.
Chimpanzee tracking, the trek takes about 3–4 hours inside the tropical rainforest. You will not only see chimpanzees but plenty of other primates and birds. Then drive → Queen Elizabeth National Park with enroute at Kikprongo equator in the Kanyant sector, and continue to Mweya Peninsula along the lake Edward shore and Kazinga Channel. You have an evening game drive in the Kasenyi sector spotting wildlife like leopard, lions, buffaloes, huge elephants, and plenty of antelopes. Then you can relax at your luxury ensuite accommodation while enjoying the waters of Kazinga Channel and the famous Lake Edward.
Wake up early for morning breakfast, rush to catch the sun and wildlife watching on your morning game drive (Kasenyi sector). In the afternoon, go for a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, spot crocodiles, plenty of hippos and water birds, then retire at your accommodation at Mweya Peninsula.
Wake up early for breakfast and do a game drive transfer via Ishasha sector for tree-climbing lions in Ishasha. Then transfer → Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with optional Batwa pygmies’ community visit. These were the initial forest dwelling tribe who were food gathers and used to stay in this impenetrable forest, get into their livelihood, there dances, visit their school. The experience is only ($20 per person if interested).
Wake up early and transfer to the park headquarters. You will be well briefed by park rangers, and you will be offered a gorilla trekking family to trek. The trek takes about 4–8 hours. Once you spot the mountain gorilla, you are only allowed to stay with them for only 1 hour. You will be having packed lunch from the lodge and water with you throughout the trek. Then you will relax a bit and your driver guide will drive you to Lake Bunyonyi, one of the most beautiful lakes, called the “Switzerland of Africa,” with terraced gardens and overlooking green rush views, with over 29 islands, and it is the second deepest lake in Africa. Have a relaxed evening and get relief of the strenuous gorilla treks.
Wake up early for morning breakfast as you prepare to transfer to Kigali International Airport. You can opt to do an optional canoe in the morning at Lake Bunyonyi. In Rwanda, you will be free to do a city tour at no cost with our safari guide. Visit places like the Genocide Museum, Kigali convention center, Inema arts centers, Amahoro stadium, and many other places before getting to Kigali International stadium.
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