10-Day Rafting and Gorilla Tracking Tour in Uganda with Rwenzori Hike

• Meet your guide upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, where you will be welcomed by our company safari guide, depending on your flight arrival time. After greetings, he will drive you to your pre-booked accommodation in Kampala.
• Spot Lake Victoria from the road and get your first sights of Uganda. Check in and relax as you prepare for tomorrow's adventure safari in Jinja.

Dinner and overnight at Imperial Royale or Acacia Lodge. (Bed and Breakfast)

• After a heavy breakfast at the lodge, our safari guide will pick you up very early in the morning and drive you to the eastern part of Uganda, to Jinja. The drive takes about 2-3 hours, passing through Mabira Forest, Uganda's biggest forest.
• If lucky, spot various primates and birds along the roadside in Mabira Forest. At the source of the Nile, you will enjoy white water rafting, one of the most memorable adventurous safari activities.
• Enjoy half-day rafting.
• After lunch, depart back to Kampala. You may go for some shopping in Kampala and later continue to your pre-booked accommodation for dinner and overnight at Imperial Royale or Acacia Lodge. Half board drinks do not include white water rafting in Uganda.

• After breakfast, drive to Fort Portal before traffic gets heavy in Kampala. You will arrive in Fort Portal town in time for lunch as you enjoy the landscape, with villages and tea plantations passing by the windows.
• After lunch in Fort Portal, proceed to your booked accommodation in the Rwenzori Mountains.

Dinner and overnight at Trekkers Hostel on an entire board basis.

• Start the hike that goes through the Afro-montane forest zone. The climb today covers about 6 kilometres and takes you along the steep rim next to Sine Hut, close to the beautiful Enock waterfalls.

You will have an overnight stay at Sine Hut on the Rwenzori Mountain.

• Embark on a hike through the Bamboo zone and head to Kalalama Camp. Here, you will stop for a short rest and refreshment, and then continue climbing higher before crossing a thick forest covered with hanging mosses to a small lobelia garden.
• You then descend through a mossy ridge to Samalira Camp, where you will have your overnight stay.

• This is the last day on the Rwenzori Mountain and the final day of the hike. You will descend through the bamboo zone on the heavy forest edge. Using this route, you stand a chance of coming across many species of primates, including black-and-white colobus monkeys, baboons, and bird species, among many other forest dwellers, if lucky, as you continue down to the base camp where you will find your safari guide.
• Drive to your booked lodge at the edge of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Dinner and overnight at Pumba Safari Cottages, Mweya Safari Lodge, Kyambura Gorge, or Bush Lodge on the entire board.

• Wake up early for a hearty breakfast, and then embark on a morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Catch up with many species of animals that live and feed around the lake. Game expected to be seen includes lions, elephants, leopards, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, warthogs, buffaloes, and giant forest hogs, among many others. Afterward, return to the lodge for lunch.
• Embark on a 2-hour launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel for an opportunity to view various species of animals, including schools of hippos and crocodiles. Buffaloes and elephants, as well as birds, can also be spotted along the shoreline.
• After this beautiful experience, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Pumba Safari Cottages, Mweya Safari Lodge, Kyambura Gorge, or Bush Lodge on a full board basis.

• This morning after breakfast, our safari guide will transfer you to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the Ishasha sector of the park, famously known for its tree-climbing lions. You will stand a chance to spot them seated on fig trees or tree branches. During the game drive through the park, you will spot other animals, including topis, elephants, warthogs, and buffaloes, among many others.
• Continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, prominently known for housing the endangered mountain gorillas. The drive will take you through villages, cultivated hills, and the forest-covered mountains of Bwindi.

Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Mist Lodge, Buhoma Lodge, Sanctuary Gorilla, or Bukima Lodge.

• After morning breakfast, report to the park headquarters to receive a short briefing from the park wardens or senior ranger guide about the dos and don'ts while with the gorillas, and get allocated to the gorilla family to track. After that, the ranger guide will lead you deep into the forest to catch up with the endangered apes. The time taken to meet the gorillas is unpredictable, and it can range from half a day to a full day depending on the gorilla family trekked, so some level of physical fitness is needed. Once the gorillas are met, you will forget all the trouble you have gone through and make use of the one hour allowed to stay with them.
• Return to the starting point, where you will meet your safari guide/driver, who will drive you back to your lodge for a late lunch.
• If you still have energy, you will go for a community walk and meet the Batwa pygmy before dinner and overnight at Gorilla Mist Lodge, Buhoma Lodge, Sanctuary Gorilla, Bukima Lodge, or Buhoma Community Bandas.

• After breakfast, embark on the long drive back to Entebbe International Airport, with lunch en route in Mbarara and a stop at the Equator crossing for photography. It is here where the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet.
• Continue with your drive to Entebbe International Airport. If your departure flight is on this day, you will fly back home, or if it is on the following day, plan an extra night and fly the next day.

The meal plan for this day is Breakfast and lunch (Dinner not included).