14 Days Uganda Wildlife Safari

14 Days Uganda Wildlife Safari

Kidepo Valley National Park Safari

Our 14-day Uganda wildlife safari vacation makes sure you notice how Uganda differs from traditional African safari destinations with distinctive sights. The trip starts at Entebbe, where you’ll probably land, then follows the Nile via Murchison Falls to Kidepo Valley before turning south into the lush highlands.
This unique experience has been skillfully designed to include intense natural interactions that will leave you with lifelong memories and stories, including seeing mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and running into playful relatives in Kibale. Almost all visitors to the Pearl of Africa recommend seeing mountain gorillas as one of the top highlights. To access a habituated mountain gorilla family, visitors must be able to hike across difficult forest terrain.

Detailed Itinerary

 
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Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport.

Upon your arrival, a tour guide from Adventure in the wild safaris will pick you up at Entebbe International Airport and take you directly to your hotel, where you will spend the night and have a delicious meal.
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Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park.

After your morning breakfast, our guide will pick you up from the hotel and immediately transfer you to lake Mburo national park a journey that will take you over 4 hours. You will have a stopover at the equator where you will take photos, have fun and have your breakfast. Continue with your journey arriving in the afternoon. Check in, relax have lunch and go for an evening game drive where you will get a chance to see a number of animals such as the zebras, elephants, and buffaloes to mention but a few.
Get back to your lodging to have dinner and overnight sleep.

Accommodation.

Rwakobo lodge.

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Day 3: Lake Mburo National Park.

After your early morning breakfast, your guide will pick you up and transfer you to the park for your morning game drive where you will get a chance to see a number of animals such as zebras, giraffes, antelopes and so many others. Drive to your lodge for lunch as you prepare for your afternoon boat cruise. During this boat cruise, you will get to see a number of animals such as zebras, different antelopes such as the impalas, and some different bird species. Drive to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Rwakobo lodge.

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Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Let’s extend your Best Uganda Safari journey to the southwest, traveling through some of the most stunning rural terrain in all of Africa. After an early breakfast, meet your guide and proceed along the game paths to Bwindi impenetrable national park, a park with half of the world’s mountain gorillas. Along the way, you will have a stopover in Mbarara town where you will have your lunch from. From there, continue with your journey as you see early-morning savanna occupants as you pass through Mbarara, Kabale, and Kisoro towns. With pauses made along the road in charming African villages, the journey lasts 7 to 8 hours.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest may be the most productive montane forest birding site in Africa as it is home to 23 of Uganda’s 24 Albertine Rift unique bird species. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is now an ecological island amidst a sea of human agriculture and has great conservation value. As soon as you arrive in the late evening, check in have dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Rushaga gorilla harven.

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Day 5: Gorilla Trekking Experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

The Greatest Uganda Safari takes an exciting turn as you venture into the African jungle in pursuit of the intriguing mountain gorilla with a lunchbox and drinkable water in your luggage. You will be driven to the trailhead where you will receive instructions on how to track and interact with gorillas. You will be divided into groups of 8 who will then be allowed to enter into the jungle and start the trekking.
Once you get the gorillas, you will be given ample time of over one hour to stay with these gorillas as you are having photos and fun. Drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation.

Rushaga gorilla lodge.

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Day 6: Hike Across Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and transfer to queen Elizabeth national park.

After a very early breakfast, drive over the Nteko Ridge to the junction of the Ivy River Trail with the forest, and start the wonderful adventure across the forest. In the vast, exceptional natural reserve known as Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, you might encounter monkeys, duikers, bush pigs, some of the actual bird species of Bwindi, as well as a large number of butterflies. If you’re lucky, you may even get to see gorillas! Your walking safari guide wants to share his knowledge of the jungle with you during this excursion. A stroll from point A to point B is not all that it takes. The route connects Nkuringo and Nteko to Buhoma, on the park’s northern boundary, serving as a crucial walkway for people, particularly on market days. Cars commuting between the two locations must undergo a 170-kilometer (6 to 8 hours) drive because there is no road through Bwindi.
At the park headquarters in Buhoma, pick up a car and drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The native “tree-climbing” lions of Ishasha’s southern region are a unique attraction and well-known. While the Uganda Kob, the lions’ main prey, grazes on the plains below, the lions can be seen hanging from the branches of enormous fig trees. It takes about 4 hours to travel.
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Day 7: Queen Elizabeth national park– Launch cruise & Game drive.

After a morning breakfast, our guide from Adventure in the wild safaris will pick you and drive you to the park for a morning game drive. During this game drive, you will get a chance to see a number of animals such as lions, leopards, zebras, and cheetahs to mention but a few. Get back to the lodge for lunch and organize for an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel where you will have a chance to see animals like hippos, crocodiles, and lions, to mention but a few. Drive back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Simba safari lodge.

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Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National Park – Kibale Forest National Park.

Continue your savanna wildlife drive after an early breakfast. View more wildlife during an African safari as it returns from its hunting expeditions.

Once on the highway, your driver will proceed to Kibale Forest National Park. As you travel the Kasese-Fort Portal route on Uganda’s western border, take in the scenery. A great number of primates are honored in Kibale Forest National Park.
It will take 3 to 4 hours to travel from Kasese to Kibale.

Accommodation.

Chimpanzee forest lodge.

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Day 9: Chimpanzee trekking Experience in Kibale forest.

After your early morning breakfast, at 6:30 am, your guide will pick you up and transfer you to the park headquarters for a briefing on the rules and regulations of trekking chimpanzees. Rom there, you will be allowed to enter into the jungle and start the trekking. Once you come across these primates, you will be given ample time to stay with these chimps as you are having fun and taking photos. Get to the lodge for lunch and then prepare for an evening bigodi nature walk. Get to interact with these people and know their ways of leaving. Drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Chimpanzee forest lodge.

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Day 10: Kibale to Murchison Falls National Park.

It will take 7-8 hours to drive to Murchison Falls National Park. start your day with an early breakfast, check out of Kibale Forest and transfer to Murchison falls to take in the sights. Stop frequently to stretch your legs and finally, you will be arriving at your final destination. Check-in into the lodge have dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Park side.

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Day 11: Murchison Falls Savanna Experience.

A morning wildlife drive along the Murchison trails starts our Finest Uganda Safari’s second savanna excursion after breakfast. You might witness giraffes, elephants, lions, hartebeest, and several bird species. The stunning Rothchild Giraffe, Jackson’s Hartebeest, Uganda Kob, Defassa Waterbuck, Buffaloes, Elephants, Warthogs, Hippos, Oribi, and, if you’re lucky, a leopard and lion, are among the animals to look out for. You’ll take a morning delta boat excursion to the base of Murchison Falls after that exhilarating wildlife drive. Keep a watch out for various bird species, hippos, waterbucks, and the Nile crocodile. After setting off from the base of the waterfalls, you will make your way up to the top of the Falls, where you will be rewarded with stunning views of the Nile. Likewise, keep an eye out for different kinds of birds. Get the lodge for lunch as you prepare for an evening game drive to see several wildlife. Drive to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Park view lodge.

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Day 12: Transfer from Murchison to Kidepo Valley National Park

You will start your approximately 4-hour drive to Kidepo Valley National Park after your morning breakfast. Continue with your journey and finally you will be arriving in the late evening. Check in have lunch and proceed to the wild for an evening game drive, where you can expect to see some of the abundant wildlife that calls the area home, including lions, elephants, buffalos, and antelopes of all kinds, as well as a variety of bird species.
You will travel back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation.

Apoka lodge.

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Day 13: Kidepo Valley National Park.

After breakfast, your guide will pick you and transfer you to the park for your 2 to 3-hour morning game drive. During this game drive, you will get to see a number of animals such as lions, and leopards to mention but a few. Get back to the lodge for your lunch and in the evening you can get back to the lodge for an evening game drive to see the animal species that you may not have seen the previous game drive. Drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation.

Apoka lodge.

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Day 14: Flight To Entebbe and Departure.

After your morning tea, your guide will pick you up and drive you to the park to see animals that you not have seen. Get back to the lodge, check out, and embark on your journey back to Kampala.

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The package includes.

Accommodation.
Permits.
All activities in the itinerary.
English-speaking guide.

The package excludes.

Tips.
Entry visas.
International flights.
Alcoholic drinks.