8-Day Uganda Wildlife Safari with Gorilla Trekking and Lake Bunyonyi

• Your tour guide will receive you on arrival at Entebbe International Airport and brief you about the safari.
• Afterwards, transfer to your hotel in Entebbe for an overnight stay.

• After your early breakfast at 06:30 am, you will be driven to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This will take approximately 8 hours to cover a distance of 389 km following the Kampala-Fort Portal Highway.
• Once you reach the park, do a 27 km crater drive. Your focus will be on exploring the Katwe crater lakes. Located north of the Mweya Peninsula, these lakes sit at a high elevation, allowing you to enjoy their stunning panoramic views. You will be amazed by the beauty of Queen Elizabeth at a glance, from the undulating hills to the green vegetation surrounding the lakes.
• Enjoy great views of animals like cape buffaloes, elephants, warthogs, the Rwenzori mountain range, the Kazinga Channel, and the Great East Africa Rift Valley.
• Visit the ancient Katwe salt mining lake.
• Reach your lodge, check in, relax, dine, and have an overnight stay.

Overnight: Bush Lodge

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

• At precisely 06:00 am after your breakfast, go for an early morning drive in the Kasenyi plains. These open savannah plains, located on the western shores of the Kazinga Channel, are renowned for hosting large herds of Uganda kobs, lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes, warthogs, and hyenas.
• Have lunch served at your lodge, and after that, go for an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. This is a 32 km long natural channel connecting Lake Edward to Lake George and a dominant feature of the park. The channel attracts a variety of animal and bird species within the region, and it is one of the places with the highest concentration of hippos and Nile crocodiles in the world.
• Return to the lodge, relax, dine, and have an overnight stay.

Overnight: Bush Lodge

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

• After a light breakfast, you will go for chimp trekking. This is done in the Kyambura Gorge with a tour ranger. Kyambura Gorge is home to a variety of wild species, especially primates such as the 80 habituated chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black-and-white colobus monkeys, baboons, and vervet monkeys. While tracking these primates, you will be treated to views of the underground tropical rainforest, as well as birds like falcons, blue-headed bee-eaters, African finfoot, hippos, and elephants.
• Return for lunch at your lodge and then transfer to Mgahinga National Park.
• Enjoy the winding roads of Kabale and the magnificent views of the Mgahinga Mountain.
• Check into the lodge, dine, and have an overnight stay.

Overnight: Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• Wake up early at 06:30 am to prepare for this once-in-a-lifetime experience, the special meeting with the Gentle Giants - the Mountain Gorillas.
• After breakfast, your guide will drive you to the park offices at Ntebeko Visitor Center, where you will be briefed about the dos and don'ts, and then you will be off for the venture of your life.
• Trek through the steep, densely forested mountain slopes and stand a chance to spot the Golden Monkeys, thus doing gorilla and golden monkey trekking as well as mountain hiking all combined.
• On your gorilla trek, you will be rewarded with a stunning view of Mgahinga National Park and be offered another opportunity to spot different forest birds and mammals.
• Return to Ntebeko, have your packed lunch, and then head for a guided Sabinyo Gorge hike. This is a 5-hour adventure through stunning vegetation and along a moss-lined stream on your way to its summit. You are exposed to the spectacular Mount Sabinyo summit, with views of waterfalls and the surrounding areas. The gorge is also another excellent feature on this trail, as it is a friendly birding site and home to the Golden Monkey.
• Drive back to the lodge, dine, and have an overnight stay.

Overnight: Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• After your breakfast at 06:00 am, you will be taken to Lake Bunyonyi for a full day of fun. You will enjoy the beautiful sounds of birds such as the African harrier, egrets, herons, levillant cuckoo, weaver birds, and the white-tailed blue monad. Take a stroll along the lake shores in preparation for a ride to visit the islands.
• Visit local communities and interact with them.
• Return to the resort for relaxation and short walks along the shores.

Overnight: Bunyonyi Rock Resort

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• Wake up, eat your breakfast at 06:30 am, and go out for a community walk to enjoy the beautiful undulating terraced hills, feel the cool breeze on the descending slopes of the surrounding highlands, and capture memorable pictures.
• Return and do zip lining or a high rope course in the Bunyonyi forest.
• Have lunch, relax, and prepare for the evening picnic.

Overnight: Bunyonyi Safari Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• Have your breakfast at 06:30 am and embark on your journey to Entebbe International Airport.
• You will have a stopover at the Equator for the water experiment, photographs, and lunch.
• Afterwards, proceed to Entebbe to catch up with your departure flight.

Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch en-route