6-Day Gorilla and Chimp Tracking Safari in Uganda via Bwindi and Kibale

• Upon arrival, you will meet your tour representative and drive to Entebbe town for a safari briefing.
• After this, you will head to Kampala for a short city tour, depending on the arrival time of your flight. You will visit the Uganda Museum, Namugongo Martyrs Shrine, and Kasubi Tombs.

Dinner and overnight at City Hotel.

• After breakfast, depart for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda.
• On the way to the park, stop at the Equator for water experiments and photographs. You will also stop at Mpigi (Mpambire Drum Village), where you can watch ceremonial drums being made from local materials.
• Proceed for lunch in Mbarara town, then continue to Bwindi, arriving in the evening in time for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge or camp.

• After breakfast, you will be briefed about the gorilla tracking protocol. Once this is done, penetrate the jungle forest in search of the rare mountain gorillas. The time taken to track gorillas is unpredictable and can take 3-10 hours. Lunch will be packed.

Dinner and overnight stay at camp or lodge.

• After breakfast, drive to Kibale Forest National Park via Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is an opportunity to see the rare tree-climbing lions and many more antelopes.
• Upon arrival in Fort Portal, you will have lunch and later go for an afternoon nature walk in the Crater Lake region.

Dinner and overnight stay at camp or lodge.

• After breakfast, attend a chimpanzee briefing. Once you are done, you will enter the forest to search for man's closest friend, the chimps. Trackers must be 18 years of age and above.
• From this experience, you will get to know the similarities between chimpanzees and humans. Besides the chimps, you will also be able to see other primate species such as grey-cheeked mangabeys, baboons, and vervet monkeys.
• Return to the lodge for lunch and, in the afternoon, go for a swamp walk in Bigodi. Here, the guide will provide details about the flora and fauna that you encounter. Afterward, you will be transferred back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay at camp or lodge.

• After breakfast, visit the Toro Kingdom Palace, which was built on top of a hill and offers views of the Rwenzori ranges and Fort Portal town.
• Later, proceed to Kampala via Mubende with a lunch stop along the route.
• Drop-off will be at your hotel in Kampala or at the airport for your flight back home.

End of safari.