12 days: Primate Safari Itinerary
Day 1 Arrive to Entebbe International Airport, transfer to the hotel in Kampala.
Dinner and Overnight at Speke Hotel, Mamba Point, Hotel Africana.
Day 2 You safari guide will collect you from your hotel and depart by road to Murchison falls National Park. This scenic drive takes about 5-6 hours drive. You will stop in Masindi for lunch before driving to the top of the falls. Here you will explore the different viewpoints and the refreshing spray as the Nile thunders through different rapids from a 7-metre gap to fall over 40 metres below. Continue to Paraa Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili for dinner and overnight listening to the sounds of Hippos, crickets and the roar of the Nile.
Dinner and overnight at Paraa safari Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili camp
Day 3 After a morning cup of coffee, you will go for a game drive. Here game viewing will be done aboard your open topped safari vehicle in search of Giraffes, Elephant, Bushbucks Lion, Jackal, Hartebeest and birdlife. Return to the lodge for lunch.
In the afternoon, you will go for a launch cruise which will allow you to have close up photo opportunities of schools of Hippo, crocodile, water birds, sometimes elephants and other wildlife that comes down for a drink in the afternoon heat. On docking at the mid River Island, you will take pictures of the Murchison Falls before returning to you accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Paraa safari Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili camp.
Day 4 Following breakfast, drive from Murchison Falls NP and head Southwest through the Albertine Escarpment of the Rift Valley. Continue through Hoima town and reach the beautiful town of Fort Portal which is located on the shadow of the mythical Rwenzori Mountain. Continue to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and Overnight at Ndali Safari Lodge/Primate Lodge/Rwenzori View Guest house/Kanyankyu Ecological site.
Day 5 Begin the day with a hearty breakfast after which go to Kibale Forest National Park for Chimpanzee trekking. Here you will be able to encounter so many different primate species among them including Red-Colobuses, grey cheeked Mangabeys, black-and-white colobus monkeys, butterflies, birds and many other small insects. You will then depart to Queen Elizabeth National park. You will enter the part game viewing en-route.
Dinner and Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana Lodge/Albertine safari camp.
Day 6 An early morning game drive in this park, provide a good opportunity to see the Elephants, Uganda Kobs, Lions, Giant Forest Hogs, Leopards, Cape Buffaloes, Defassa Waterbucks, Topi and Bush bucks and much more.
In the afternoon, you will go for a boat ride along the Kazinga Channel. This will cruise offers a marvelous platform for taking photos, bird watching and game viewing, ideal for the Uganda safari .The abundant bird life is colorful and amazing with over 550 inhabitant species.
Dinner and Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana Lodge/Albertine safari camp.
Day 7 After breakfast, you will depart to Bwindi National Park. You will drive through the Ishasha Sector of Queen Elizabeth. Ishasha is well-known for the tree climbing lions. It is exciting to see the animals while they are relaxing on top of the fig's trees. Continue to Bwindi arriving in time for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and Overnight at Buhoma Homestead/Gorilla Resort/Volcanoes Camp/Buhoma Community Bandas.
Day 8 After a heavy breakfast, report to the station area where you will be briefed by your ranger guide. Tracking the Gorillas through the thick forest is a thrilling experience. If you are lucky you can get to see the gorillas, spend 1 hour with them, and be back at the lodge in time for dinner.
Remember to carry with you packed lunch, enough water as this activity is so exhausting, it’s also important to bring good hiking boots and long trousers for protection against stinging nettles.
Dinner and Overnight at Buhoma Homestead/Gorilla Resort/Volcanoes Camp/Buhoma Community Bandas.
Day 9 This morning after your breakfast depart to Lake Bunyonyi. This large and occasionally shaped lake lies at an altitude of approx 2000m, where it follows a shape of the hilly landscape that separates the towns of Kabale and Kisoro. It is a very stunning spot, sprinkled with small islands and ringed by vertical terraced hills. Bunyonyi is known as “place of little birds” and it is particularly good for water birds.
Overnight at Lake Bunyonyi Overland Camp/Bushara Camp (FB)
Day 10 Discover the area, visit the local market at Kabale or take a canoe ride on Lake Bunyonyi. After words depart to Lake Mburo National Park. Lake Mburo harbors several species not easily observed elsewhere in Uganda. It is the only reserve in the country to support a population of Impala, the handsome antelope for which Kampala is named, and one of only three protected areas countrywide where Burchells Zebra occurs, the other two are being the far less accessible Kidepo and Pian-Upe. Other Antelope species likely to be seen by casual visitors are topi, bushbuck, common duiker, oribi, Defassa waterbuck and Bohor reedbuck, while the lake and lush fringing vegetation support healthy populations of buffalo, warthog, bush pig and hippopotamus. Roan antelope, one common are now locally extinct, but large herds of the majestic eland still move seasonally in the park.
In the late afternoon, you will go for a boat ride on Lake Mburo its self. Here you will be able to see wildlife clearly while on boat, these include, hippopotami and birds like black crake, pelicans, heron, cormorant and fish eagle but you may also see the rare shoebill stork, all of which will furnish your visits with pride.
Dinner and overnight at Mantana tented camp/Muhingo Lodge/Rwonyo camp.
Day 11 After breakfast go for a morning game drive in the park. The park has a numb
er of tourist tracks that are used for game drives. Expect to see waterbucks, warthogs, topis, zebras, oribi and reedbucks. You will then depart to Kampala arriving in the early afternoon.
Optional City tour.
Dinner and Overnight at Speke Hotel, Mamba Point, Hotel Africana.
Day 12 Transfer to the airport for outbound flight.
