12-Day Uganda Safari with Gorillas, Chimps and Tree-Climbing Lions

• We will leave Entebbe after breakfast and drive to Murchison Falls National Park, with a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a rhino-tracking experience in the only place you can find rhinos in Uganda.
• Other animals seen here include kobs, sitatunga, bushbucks, and a variety of bird species. Thereafter, have lunch at a nearby restaurant, Kabalega Diners.

• A morning game drive exposes you to animals such as lions, buffaloes, elephants, Rothschild's giraffes, and leopards, to mention but a few.
• Return to the lodge for lunch, followed by an afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of the falls, with the possibility of seeing animals like Nile crocodiles, hippos, elephants, and buffaloes, as well as a variety of aquatic bird species.

Overnight: Bwana Tembo Lodge

• After breakfast, check out of the lodge and drive to the top of the falls to experience the view from the top of the world's most powerful waterfalls at the

• After breakfast, we drive to Kibale Forest for chimpanzee tracking. Other than chimps, other animals here include the Black & White Colobus Monkey, Vervet Monkeys, Olive Baboons, and elephants, to mention but a few.
• Have lunch and rest at the lodge. Later, we can visit the crater lakes and a vanilla farmer as a way of community interaction.

Stay there after dinner and overnight.
Overnight: Nkuruba Lakeside Resort
Meal plan: Full board

• After breakfast, check out and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
• After lunch, we will take the afternoon boat trip along the Kazinga Channel. Kazinga Channel has the highest concentration of hippos than anywhere else in the world. On this trip, you can also see Nile crocodiles, buffaloes, and elephants, among other animals.
• Afterward, we will visit Salt Lake, where the locals have been using local methods to mine salt for many years, which was also used or exchanged in long-distance trade in the 1840-50s.
• Later, return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Lodge options: Tembo Lodge, Enshama Lodge

• After breakfast, head out for the morning game drive.
• During this drive, expect to see animals like elephants, buffaloes, lions, and kobs, among others.
• Later, return to the lodge for lunch, and in the afternoon, relax at the lodge.

• After breakfast, check out of the accommodation and head to the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, famous for its tree-climbing lions.

We shall have lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

• Later in the evening, proceed for an evening game drive with the possibility of seeing the tree-climbing lions and other animals like buffaloes, warthogs, leopards, and antelopes.
• Return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, check out of the accommodation and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Half of the world's population of mountain gorillas live here. An optional activity here is a visit to the Batwa/Pygmies community.

Overnight: Buhoma Community Lodge

• After breakfast, you will get a briefing from your ranger guide, after which gorilla trekking starts. Although the charming mountain gorillas form the highlight of the park, you should also expect a lot more, including forest elephants, duikers, buffaloes, leopards, and giant forest hogs, among others. Considering the fact that these are wild animals, gorilla trekking takes between 2-8 hours, including a 1-hour direct encounter with the silverback.
• After this amazing activity, you retire to your lodge for lunch in preparation for yet another amazing Batwa cultural experience.
• Thereafter, transfer to Lake Bunyonyi.

• Lake Bunyonyi is made up of 29 different islands, among which include Njuyeera, Bwama Bushara, and the infamous Punishment Island. To the Bakiga inhabitants of the area, any girl who got pregnant before marriage was taken and abandoned on Punishment Island to die of hunger or drowning, since girls were never taught to swim. Getting pregnant was taboo then because no one would pay a dowry for a girl who had gotten pregnant before marriage. So on this day, you can choose to take a canoe or boat to these different islands.

Stay and relax at your lodge.

• Visit the blacksmith village or go for the sunset view.

Lodge options: Bugombe Gateway, Byoona Amagara

• After breakfast, we embark on a drive to Lake Mburo National Park. Check in at your accommodation and have lunch as we prepare to proceed for the afternoon.
• Optionally, you can take on a bike-riding or horse-riding experience. Visit the cattle-rearing communities in and around the park. Experience the milking processes, milk tasting, local dishes, and other cultural experiences.

Lodge options: Hyena Hill Lodge, Leopard Rest Camp

• After breakfast, you will go for a wildlife safari, where you can expect to see different wildlife species like zebras, elands, buffaloes, giraffes, and hogs, to mention but a few.
• After the game drive, you proceed to Kampala with a stopover at Kayabwe, where the earth is cut into two halves by the equator. At the equator, there is a wonderful local water experiment to prove to you that the earth splits into two halves.
• Drive back to Entebbe in preparation for your flight back home.