10-Day Uganda Wildlife Safari with Gorillas, Chimps and Lake Bunyonyi

• Arrival: Get picked up from the airport by a guide from Muzbag Safaris and transfer to your hotel.
• Depending on your arrival time, visit Old Kampala Mosque, Kasubi Tombs, and the Kabaka's Palace.

Main Destination: Kampala City

Accommodation: Sir Jose Hotel (budget) or an alternative luxury hotel at extra charge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included. Drinking water and soda included (other drinks at an extra cost).

• Your driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel and head to Murchison Falls National Park, where you will see the rolling rapids of Murchison Falls and the plains of Uganda's largest national park. Here, you will have a chance to see lions, buffalo, hartebeest, giraffes, crocodiles, elephants, baboons, and hippos. There are also about 450 bird species.
• On your way to Murchison Falls, you will make a stopover 7 km off the main road at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, where you will spend at least 1 hour tracking the white rhinos.
• You will take a lunch break in Masindi, then continue to the park and check in at your hotel.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Accommodation: Pakuba Lodge (inside the park)

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included. Soda or drinking water are included.

• You will have breakfast early in the morning and then head out across the rolling plains of Uganda's largest game park.
• Here, you will see giraffes, elephants, lions, leopards (if you are lucky), many Uganda kobs, hartebeests, buffalo, and birds. Afterward, you will return to the hotel for lunch.
• After lunch, you will go on a boat ride on the Nile River, where you will see crocodiles, hippos, many different birds, and the falls.
• You will be able to do a hike to the top of the falls if you want, but there will also be an opportunity to drive up for a great view of the falls.
• After this, you will return to your hotel for a relaxing evening, and you can swim as you wait for dinner.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Accommodation: Pakuba Lodge (inside the park)

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included. Drinking water and soda are included.

• Have breakfast in the morning and leave for Kibale National Park.
• You will have a lunch break in Fort Portal and then proceed with views of the Rwenzori Mountains.
• In the evening, you will have a guided nature walk in the Bigodi Nature Sanctuary, where you will see different bird species, butterflies, and primates, and afterward you will have dinner.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park (chimps)

Accommodation: Kibale Forest Camp (safari tents), located outside Kibale National Park

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included.

Water and soda are included.

• After breakfast, you will track the most famous inhabitants of Kibale National Park, the chimpanzees. They share 98% of human genes, making them our close relatives. There are approximately 5,000 chimpanzees in the wild in Uganda.
• Trekking is done on different trails that are well maintained and guided.
• There are many other primates in this forest, including red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, grey-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L'Hoest's monkey, and black-and-white colobus monkeys.
• You will also see baboons.
• After the trek, you will take a guided nature walk through the Bigodi Swamp.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park

Accommodation: Kibale Forest Camp (safari tent)

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included.

Drinking water and soda are included.

• After breakfast, you will head to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is the second biggest park in Uganda, located at the base of Lake Edward and Lake George.
• The park has a variety of animals such as gazelles, Uganda kob, warthogs, elephants, hippos, leopards, and lions. You will do an evening game drive and then return to the hotel.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Lodge (located inside the park)

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included.

Drinking water and soda are included.

• Morning game drive and boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
• Here, you will wake up early to catch the sunrise, then go for a game drive where you will see elephants, lions, leopards, Uganda kobs, and many warthogs.
• After lunch, you will go for a boat ride along the Kazinga Channel, where you will see lots of birds, bathing elephants, and hippos. This will be a great experience.
• Afterward, you will go back to the hotel through the game park and have dinner.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks:

All meals are included.

Drinking water and soda are included.

• You will have breakfast and set off for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is commonly known for its climbing lions.
• Bwindi National Park is well known as the main habitat for mountain gorillas. Over 400 gorillas stay in this park.
• On this day, you will do fewer activities. You will just check in and enjoy your lodge as you get ready for gorilla trekking the next day.

Main Destination: Ishasha Sector (gorillas)

Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Camp (mid-range lodge located inside Bwindi NP)

Meals & Drinks: All meals are included.

Drinking water is included.

• After breakfast, you will receive a briefing from the ranger about the whole activity, and then enter the gorilla sanctuary for a great adventure. The beauty of the rainforest is spectacular. The forest offers a dramatic, steeply forested landscape.
• It is crisscrossed by different animal trails, allowing access for visitors.
• The duration of the trekking depends on the movements of the gorillas.
• Once you locate a group of gorillas, you will be allowed one hour in their presence.
• After the tracking, you will return to your lodge for lunch, check out, and travel to Lake Bunyonyi.
• Lake Bunyonyi is surrounded by lush, green terraced hills that reach heights of 2200 m-2478 m. It has 29 islands of different shapes and sizes scattered around the lake, making a boat ride so fun and the view so beautiful.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Lake Bunyonyi

Accommodation: Heritage Lodge Habuharo

Meals & Drinks:

All meals are included.

Water and soda are included.

• After breakfast, you will check out of your hotel, and you and your guide will start your journey to Entebbe International Airport, where you will board your flight back home.
• We shall make a stopover at the Uganda Equator line mark for some photos, then proceed to the airport.

Main Destination: Entebbe International Airport

Accommodation: None

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included.

Drinking water and soda.