Primate Tour Africa Uganda, Days/7 Nights:Western Uganda Primate Tour
Day 1
After breakfast, you will drive to Kibale National Park with lunch en route. An afternoon visit to Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary and guided walk around the Magombe Swamp gives you the opportunity to see a great diversity of flora and fauna.
Overnight Ndali Lodge / Toro Resort.
Day 2
Rise and take break fast, you will assemble at Kanyankyu tourist centre for a simple briefing before beginning the sensational chimpanzee viewing in Kibale National Park. This park is well known for having the highest number of primates in East Africa. After lunch have an early afternoon nature walk in Bigodi Swamp to view the butterflies and other insects. In this tropical swamps and their vegetation you will have a chance of seeing some water birds. Have an evening tour of the crater region, visit “top of the world’’, the natural bridge and observe the snow cap on the Rwenzori on a clear day.
Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight
Day 3
After breakfast, drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park along the mystical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. The route has a nice Scenery. Drive to the crater region and Katwe salt mining area for an excursion to view how salt is traditionally mined here in Uganda. Then check in your Hotel for Lunch. Then after, indulge in an afternoon Launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel - one that joins Lakes Edward and George. The boat cruise allows you the opportunity to view the buffalo, hippo, and occasionally, the Nile crocodiles with a spectacular bird watching on the water bank. It is one of the highlight of this tour and it is so interesting. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at the Ecology Institute Hostel or Mweya / Jacana Safari Lodge(s).
Day 4
Wake up very early in the morning take a cup of coffee before you get set for an early morning game drive. You will most likely meet bush buck, grazing Hippos, comical warthogs water buck, Elephants, Lions, stripped jackal, spotted Hyenas, and the elusive leopard. Then after the game drive, you will have a nature walk in Maramagambo forest. In this forest, many encounters await you like the Rock python that stays in the Bat’s cave as it preys on Bats. Close to this cave is the scenic Blue lake Kimera Njojo the myths and stories about the lake being told by the guides are interesting. and Hunters cave. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown eared woodpecker and other primates.
Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at the Ecology Institute Hostel or Mweya / Jacana Safari Lodge(s).
Day 5
Take breakfast and take another mini game drive in search of those animals you may have not encountered in your previous game drive thereafter continue to Ishasha. You will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are occupied by savanna grasses and acacia. The drive takes you through the exclusive western escarpment and the Ishasha sector(southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park) which is well known for the tree climbing lions. You will for a simple game drive in this sector and to search for tree climbing lions and proceed to Bwindi national park. The home to the endangered mountain gorillas! The forest itself is verdant, so thick and green with some rivers passing through it. It is because of its thickness that it is known as an impenetrable forest. Dinner and overnight at Buhoma view bandas/ Buhoma community bandas/ Gorilla resort camp.
Day 6
Wake up very early and take break fast after which you will head to the starting points for a simple briefing from the guides. Then after set off early with guides to track gorillas. The excitement of your stumble upon these gorillas after along time of tracking will wipe out the complexity of the potentially tiring trek. Each encounter is different and has its own prize, but you will likely to have fun while watching the adults feeding, grooming and resting as the youngsters horse around and swing from vines in a charmingly cheerful display. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green shroud of dense rainforest, one of the ancients that lives to tell the tale the last ice age. A recently declared World Heritage site, its one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world population of mountain gorillas - believed to number just 600. There’s also a considerable chimpanzee population and according to the most recent research, Bwindi is the only forest in Africa in which these two apes live together. Gorilla tracking is one of the major highlight of this safari and it will give you a memorable experience on encounter of these apes. Return to camp elated to alleviate the encounter with friends.
Dinner and overnight your lodge or Camp.
Day 7
Drive to Kabale where you will have your lunch. Go for an afternoon boat ride to some of the islands on the lake. The boat ride is most likely to yield views of unique Avian species. Have the evening at leisure as you enjoy the scenic lake Bunyonyi.
Dinner and over night at Bushara Island Camp / Bunyonyi Overland Resort.
DAY 8
Transfer to Kampala.
