11 days:Cultural tour in Uganda
Access Africa Safaris designs itineraries that are budget responsive with a focus on birding and game viewing. Strong cultural settings have been among our concerns. We bring to you vast tribal settings whose cultural values are being cherished up to this modern generation. These tribes include the Bagisu, the Baganda, the Banyankole and the Banyarwanda among others.
We bring to you major activities such as:-
- Traditional healing practices
- Cultural performances-dance and drama
- Village walks
- Handicrafts
- Female Genital mutilation practices
- And many others as we shall keep on updating you.
The Itinerary for this tour is as follows:
Day One:
On your arrival at Entebbe International Airport, our tour guide who will be waiting for you with a placard bearing your name will receive you and transfer you to Speke Hotel for a dinner and an overnight (on Full Board basis)
Day Two:
After an early breakfast, our tour guide will transfer you to eastern Uganda. You will be taken to the Source of the Nile on Lake Victoria. Enjoy activities such as kayaking, bungee jumping, and white water rafting. Then drive back to Kampala.
Have a dinner and an overnight at Grand Imperial Hotel (Full Board)
Day Three:
After breakfast, our tour guide will transfer you to Western Uganda having lunch en route at Rwizi Arch Hotel - Mbarara. You will reach Queen Elizabeth National Park in the evening and stay for a dinner and an overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge (Full Board)
Day Four:
After your breakfast our tour guide will take you for a morning game drive at Kazinga Channel. Among the animals you will see include the hippos, buffaloes, crocodiles, and a vast birdlife.
Day Six:
After breakfast, go for chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge. This area is rich in a variety of bird and animal species. From there you can move to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest through Ishasha where you will see tree-climbing lions. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is famous for gorilla tracking notwithstanding the vast bird and animal species in this region
Day Seven:
After breakfast take a community walk and interact with the pygmies (Batwa). The cultural performances of these people are worth attending.
Have a dinner and an overnight at Mgahinga Safari Lodge (Full Board)
Day Eight:
After breakfast your tour guide will take you through the Kanaba Gap to Virunga Volcanoes. The fauna and flora in this place are breath-taking. You will not miss the magnificent Crater Lake Mutanda.
Have a dinner and an overnight at Mgahinga Safari Lodge
Day Nine:
After breakfast our guide will transfer you to Fort Portal. In Fort Portal you will visit the highly cherished Hot Springs, the King’s Palace, the Amabere Caves, and waterfalls among others.
Have a dinner and an overnight at Amakoomi Camp site near the caves.
Day Ten:
After breakfast, return to Kampala en route getting lunch at Hotel Brovad in Masaka and arrive in the afternoon.
Have an overnight at Hotel Africana.
Day Eleven:
Our tour guide will take you around the city, visiting some of the important tourist sites such as the Kasubi Tombs, the Bahai Temple, The Synagogue Church of all Nations- a place of Miracle healing and prophesies (in case it is a Sunday or Thursday).
You can now transfer to the airport for your flight back home.
