6-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari with Bwindi and Queen Elizabeth Park

• Arrive at Entebbe and transfer to your appointed hotel in Entebbe or Kampala.
• Depending on your arrival time, visit the award-winning 'Last King of Scotland Tour' based on Idi Amin, the 'Disney's Queen of Katwe' movie tour based on chess prodigy Fiona Mutesi, or explore cultural sites in the city.

Dinner and overnight in Entebbe or Kampala.

• After an early breakfast, check out. Pick-up is at 7:00 AM, and do not forget your camera and extra battery. Drive via Mpambire Drum Market and then the Equator line.
• Stop at Agip Motel or Igongo Cultural Museum in Mbarara for lunch before continuing through the rolling hills of western Uganda via Rukungiri.
• Arrive in Bwindi in the late afternoon. Check in at Sanctuary Lodge (GFC), Mahogany Lodge, Buhoma, Silverback Lodge, or a similar camp for dinner and overnight.

• Have an early morning wake-up call at 6:30 AM and breakfast before a briefing by the ranger-guide at 8:00 AM prior to your trek. Do not forget your packed lunch.
• Enjoy Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The park boasts no fewer than 23 of the 24 Albertine Rift endemics, including the spectacular and globally threatened African Broadbill and Shelly's Crimsonwing. Bwindi is richest in terms of birds, butterflies, and trees.
• Depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park through the southern sector, with a chance to see tree-climbing lions, angulates, buffalo, elephant, and birdlife. Check in at Katara Lodge, Mweya Safari Lodge, or a similar lodge for dinner and overnight. (3.5-4 hours drive)

• Arrange a wake-up call at 5:45 AM. Have an early morning breakfast before starting your game drive at 6:30 AM.
• Catch the African sunrise on the peninsula, with animals including lions returning from their overnight hunt, elephants, buffaloes, hyenas, the rare giant forest hog, warthogs, the kob mating grounds, teeming birdlife, and crater lakes.
• Have lunch at 3:00 PM. After lunch, head for an afternoon launch trip. Get close to a variety of hippos, fish eagle, goliath heron, African Jacana, Egyptian geese, and the rare shoebill, with mountain ranges on the horizon, before making a 'U' turn back to base at Mweya Peninsular, Katara, or Bush Lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Get an early morning wake-up call at 6:30 AM and have your breakfast.
• Head for Kyambura Gorge in search of chimps. The gorge is also home to red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus, giant forest hog, and birdlife.
• Return to Kampala or Entebbe for dinner and overnight at Serena or a similar hotel. (6-7 hours drive)

Other options:

1. Visit Hamukungu fishing village, basket weavers, or Katwe salt mines that have sustained livelihoods dating back to the 16th century.
2. Visit the Ramsar Migratory Bird Site on Lake George, which hosts flamingoes and other migrants from October to May.

• Depending on your flight time, you may visit Crafts Village or sites including Wamala or the UNESCO World Heritage Kasubi Tombs, the largest thatched mausoleum in East Africa. Your sojourn comes to an end today.