6-Day Uganda Wildlife Safari with Gorilla and Chimpanzee Tracking

• After breakfast, set off on an 8-9 hour drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in the southwestern part of the country. You will have a stopover at the Equator, where you will have an opportunity to stand in two hemispheres at the same time and take photos. You will make another stop for lunch and later proceed to Bwindi, arriving in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Today is the big day, preparing you for an encounter with one of Bwindi's gentle giants, the rare mountain gorilla. Bwindi is home to gorillas and other species of primates, 113 mammals, over 200 butterfly species, and 360 birds. En route to the gorillas, your guide will point out signs of previous gorilla activity, including dung, nests, and chewed bamboo shoots. Tracking the gorillas can take as little as 2 hours or as many as 7 hours. Your trek will be exciting, taking you along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes, and bamboo before you eventually reach the gorilla family. Once the gorillas have been located, your group will be allowed a maximum of 1 hour with them.
• After the trekking, you will rest and later enjoy a Batwa community walk, where you get to know how the locals of Bwindi live their lives and learn about their culture. Then, dinner and an overnight stay.

• After an early morning breakfast at your lodge, check out and embark on your journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park via the Ishasha sector, where, if you are lucky, you will see the tree-climbing lions, with lunch en route.
• Proceed into the park for a game drive, where you will see different wildlife such as warthogs, elephants, and antelopes before continuing to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, you will have a game drive and get to see what you may have missed on the previous game drive. Afterwards, enjoy a boat ride on the Kazinga Channel, where you will see water animals such as hippopotamuses and crocodiles, as well as bird species like shoebills, pelicans, and jacanas.
• Later, have lunch and then embark on the journey to Kibale Forest National Park for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, head to Kibale Forest with a packed lunch to view the primates. This activity begins at 8:00 a.m. with a briefing on the rules of tracking the chimpanzees, after which you set off to search for them in the forest. The exercise takes half a day, and along the way, you will see other primates, such as grey-cheeked mangabeys, red colobus, blue-tailed monkeys, and red-tailed monkeys swinging in the branches of this thick forest.
• Your guide will give you informative briefings on the lifestyles of the primates you will come across, as well as on the plants and insects.
• In the late afternoon, you shall have a nature walk in Bigodi Swamp. You will see butterflies, birds, and monkeys.

Then head back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After a relaxed breakfast, you shall check out of your lodge and embark on your journey back to Entebbe, with lunch en route.