12 Day | Highlights of Uganda

On arrival in Entebbe you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Value Option: overnight at The Boma. Classic Option: overnight at Lake Victoria Serena Resort.

After breakfast you will depart by road with your private guide and vehicle. Stop enroute and bird in Budongo Forest or Kaniyo Pabidi. Arrive late afternoon at your lodge. The highlight of this park is the boat trips available up and down the Nile. You two days exploring the park. Each morning enjoy a game drive and a visit to the top of the Falls. The afternoons include a private boat trip at the base of the Falls. Value Option: 3 nights – Twiga Safari Lodge. Classic Option: 3 nights Paraa Safari Lodge or Nile Safari Lodge.

This morning you will drive to your lodge in Kibale Forest. You will go via Butiaba Escarpment, birding en-route. You will pass through Fort Portal, forest and tea plantations. Arrive later this afternoon. This park is also excellent for birding. Next morning you will met your guide and enter the forest in search of chimpanzees and ten other primate species including red colobus monkey, blues, red tails and grey-cheeked mangabey. Value Option: 2 nights Crater Safari Lodge. Classic Option: 2 nights Primate Lodge.

Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park (3-4 hours) following the Ruwenzori Mountain Range. Take an afternoon game drive on the way through the park to your lodge. Enjoy a private cruise on Kazinga Channel. Afternoon game drive. Value Option: 2 nights Katara Lodge. Classic Option: 2 nights Elephant Plains Lodge.

Depart the lodge this morning, and continue game viewing through the Ishasha Area which is famous for tree climbing lions. Arrive at your camp in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (approx 5-6 hour drive, not including game viewing, which is an unremitting belt of montane forest that is the home to mountain gorillas and other rare primates). Next morning you will depart on your first gorilla trek taking a picnic lunch with you. The hike usually begins at 8:00am where you depart with 8 trekkers total plus your guides, armed rangers and any porters that you hire to carry your backpacks. Enjoy the remainder of the afternoon with birding in the forest. Value Option: 2 nights Buhoma Lodge. Classic Option: 2 nights Silverback Lodge.

Today you can participate in an additional gorilla trek or enjoy one of the activities at the park. Next morning you will have breakfast in camp. Transfer to the airstrip for your scheduled charter flight to Entebbe. Transfer to your hotel where a dayroom has been reserved for you. Enjoy lunch at the hotel and a change to freshen up before transferring to the airport for your onward travel (to be determined). Dayroom: The Boma or Protea Hotel.