6-Day Uganda Primate and Wildlife Safari with Gorilla Trekking

• Get picked up from your accommodation or starting point by your guide after breakfast and transfer from Kampala to Kibale Forest via Fort Portal. Have lunch in Fort Portal and refreshments before continuing the trip.
• After arriving at the park, visit the beautiful crater lakes and see the terraced tea estates. Have dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation Options: Primates Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast, set out with the driver-guide and transfer to the park head offices for a briefing. Start the chimpanzee trek through Kibale Forest with park rangers. It is always a thrilling and unforgettable experience to meet chimpanzees face to face and watch them engage in their daily activities, such as jumping and feeding. Other animals can also be spotted on the trek, including grey-cheeked mangabeys and different birds.
• Later, go back to the lodge, have lunch, and check out as you embark on your 3-hour journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Accommodation options: Mweya Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Set out early in the morning for a game drive along the Kasenyi Track to see some early-rising animals, such as elephants, antelopes, solitary buffaloes, lions, warthogs, and hundreds of birds. After the 2 to 3-hour game drive, head to the lodge, have breakfast, and relax with some entertainment like board games.
• Next, go for a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. Enjoy watching elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles, waterbucks, and various birds along the banks. Return to the lodge, freshen up, have dinner, and stay overnight.

Accommodation options: Mweya Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast, begin your journey to Bwindi, passing through the Ishasha sector to look for tree-climbing lions and many other wildlife species.

• Have lunch en route and arrive at the park or lodge in the afternoon.

Accommodation options: Buhoma Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Get up early in the morning for breakfast and drive to the park head offices with your tour guide. Arrive by 7:30 am and receive a briefing on what to do and what not to do while trekking. Then follow the ranger guides through the misty jungle. Trekking usually takes up to 6 hours, depending on the location of the gorillas. You are permitted to watch them for only 1 hour.
• Later, return to the lodge for lunch as you prepare for a community visit among the Batwa people in the evening.

Accommodation options: Buhoma Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast, set off for Kampala, have lunch in Mbarara city, and stop for photos at the equator. Here, you can also buy some souvenirs.
• Continue to Kampala, arriving in the evening.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch