Gorilla Trip Uganda
7 day Gorilla Safari
This tour starts from Kampala/ Entebbe, visiting the mountain gorillas in Uganda, Rwanda, or Zaire and game viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Top or local hotels and lodges are used throughout, and transport is by customized 4×4 vehicles.
DAY One TO BWINDI NATIONAL PARK
Our guide will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National park. Drive through the picturesque country sides of western Uganda, via the magnificently placed Kigezi hills with nice terraces through the “scenic little Switzerland” of Uganda with good views of this beautiful evergreen area. You will have your lunch en route and arrive late in the evening at Bwindi national park for sinner and overnight at Luxurious Gorilla resort camp / Buhoma Home stead/ or Buhoma Community bandas.
DAY TWO GORILLA TRACKING
Wake up very early in the morning and convene for briefing from the guides. Then later proceed to the forest for Gorilla tracking. The time taken to encounter the gorillas is unpredictable so you are advised to carry packed lunch. On encounter of a family of gorillas, one may be forced to say that it is exhilarating!! You will be privileged to spend some time with the endangered gorillas and after return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
DAY THREE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
Take breakfast and proceed to Queen Elizabeth National park. A game drive en route through the Ishasha sector is gratifying with tree climbing lions, bush bucks, antelopes and many other animals. You will arrive for lunch at the lodge. In the after noon, you will be driven to the crater lakes region to view the various crater lakes around the park plus the Katwe salts lake where salt is traditionally mined in the park.
Dinner and overnight at luxurious Mweya safari Lodge/ Jacana safari Lodge/ or Institute of Ecology.
DAY FOUR
The guide will pick you up from the lodge and take you through the Kasenyi track for a Morning game drive in search for animal like the Leopards, Lions, Elephants, Hyenas and many others and in the afternoon go for a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel where you will see schools of Hippos, Crocodiles and a variety of water birds overnight Hotel. FB.
DAY FIVE
Take break fast and drive to Fort portal. Visit the ‘Amebere ga Nyinamwiru’ caves to view the stalactites and the stalagmite. Then proceed to Kibale National park for dinner and over night at Ndali lodge, Kanyankyu tourist centre or in Fort portal you can stay at Rwenzori view guest house.
DAY SIX
Assemble at Kanyankyu tourist centre for a morning chimp tracking and afternoon swamp walk for a variety of primates like the Vervet Monkey, L’hoest Monkey, Black and white and the Red colobus Monkeys, Olive Baboons and many others. In the afternoon, you will be taken for a nature walk around Bigodi swamp to view the various bird species in the park as wait for dinner and overnight at your lodge.
DAY SEVEN
After breakfast, you will be driven to Kampala or the Entebbe for your flight back home.
QUOTATION:
No. of clients 2 clients 4 clients
Price-Luxury $2,590 per person $2,150per person
Price-Budget $2,210 per person $1,710perperson
The above price includes;
· The cost of all ground transportation and Fuel
· Gorilla tracking and permit
· Chimpanzee tracking
· Full time safari guide and his associated expenses
· Park entrance fees
· Accommodation and meals
· Boat trip
· Game drives and other related activities
· But it excludes; Items of personal nature like Laundry, Beers, tipping of staffs at the lodges.