Lake Mburo and Queen Elizabeth Safari Uganda

4 DAYS L. MBURO QUEEN

Day 1          TO L. Mburo NP
On arrival at the airport, you will be met our safari guide who will warmly welcome you and depart by road to Lake Mburo National Park (the drive will take approximately 3-4 hours). You will have a stopover to look at the Royal Drum makers, stand at the Equator for a photographic opportunity and also listen to some few interesting facts. We will continue to Lake Mburo National Park.  This Park is an extension of the Tanzanian plains with big herds of zebra, impala, eland and other ungulates. Bird viewing opportunities are excellent - for birders, this is one of the best places to find African fin foot, papyrus bush shrike.  After checking in, you will take a late afternoon   canoe ride. Dinner and overnight at UWA Bandas (FB).

Day 2          TO BWINDI NP
Take an early morning game drive and  Continue on your journey, which offers excellent views including the triangular peaks of the Virunga volcanoes of Rwanda and the Congo. The road then drops down into a valley, to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home to the mountain gorillas! Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Community Bandas.

Day 3        GORILLA TRACKING
Up relatively early for a hearty breakfast to give you the energy needed for gorilla tracking. Before 8:00 am report to the ranger station for registration and a talk by one of the rangers; the guides will then take you through the bush pushing your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas. (This trek can take from half an hour to 5 hours – a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes) Sit in the forest among the gorillas, listening to them grumble to each other, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the silverback. It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense rainforest knowing you are with a few of the last remaining mountain gorillas. It’s amazing to think there are only about 650 of these beautiful creatures left!  Return for dinner and over night at your lodge.

Day 4          After a morning breakfast, we will drive back to Kampala stopping en-route for lunch arriving in the early evening. Lunch en route.