This tour starts in Kampala and ends in Entebbe, Uganda
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This Uganda safari offers a luxurious experience in the wild. You’ll visit Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest national park, renowned for its powerful waterfalls. Then, you’ll explore the Bugoma Forest, Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Batwa Community, Lake Bunyonyi and Finally, you’ll journey to Lake Mburo National Park.
On this first day of your 15-day Uganda safari, be picked up from the airport by your experienced safari driver who will be waiting for you as soon as you arrive. He will brief you shortly about this 15-day Uganda safari summarizing to you the activities you will be doing and then head to your booked hotel in Entebbe city for your dinner and overnight stays.
Accommodation: Entebbe Forest Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner
Entebbe Forest Lodge is an eco-friendly 8-cabin lodge on Lake Victoria. The lodge is designed to enhance your experience of the exquisite sight, sound and smell of the wilderness. All the facilities are focused on getting you to explore nature as you go about your day.
Time: Set off at 7:00
Transfer: By car to Murchison Falls National Park
Distance: 5-6 hours Beautiful scenic drive
Today’s Highlights:
Wake up early in the morning and then drive to Murchison Falls National Park where you will have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a 2-3 rhino trekking with your ranger guide. Immediately after meeting them, take photos and videos for an hour and then proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. Check-in at your lodge for dinner
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge or Upgrade to Nile Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Optional upgrade to Nile Safari Lodge
Is the most luxurious, tranquil and eco-friendly setting in Uganda. Explore the breathtaking views of the River Nile from every corner of our lodge. Experience the awe-inspiring spectacles that we have to offer on the banks of the world’s longest river and Uganda’s largest national park – Murchison Falls National Park.
Time: 6:00 am
Boat ride: By Wild Frontiers at 2 pm
Today’s Highlights:
After early morning breakfast, head to the park for a game drive where you have an opportunity to view wildlife animals such as Elephants, buffalos, lions, leopards, Uganda kobs, oribi, Rothchild giraffes, hyenas, warthogs and many Savanah animals not forgetting a variety of bird species including the canine bee-eaters, martial eagles, shoebills, secretary birds and many more species.
In the evening, head for a boat ride to the bottom of Murchison Falls with the option of hiking on top of the falls. Have a close view of hippos, crocodiles, frogs, butterflies, snakes and other birds like kingfishers and other water birds. Later, upon reaching the bottom of the falls, get out of the boat and Embark on a short hike to the top of Murchison Falls where the force of the mighty Nile River narrows to flow through a seven-meter gap, cascading down a forty-meter cliff to the vast gorge below. The power of the falls and the scenic views from the top are breathtaking. Walk along the top of the falls and feel the spray of the water and bask in the cool mist around you.
Murchison Falls Top of the Falls Walk Some of the most powerful moving water in the world, the top of Murchison Falls sees the entirety of the Nile River squeeze itself through a mere 7-meter gap; an epic display of nature’s power. A trail runs down the side of the gorge, allowing the opportunity to view the main falls, and the second “Independence” falls. The views are spectacular and the spray of the falls, really refreshing. The walk takes approximately 45 minutes and requires average fitness.
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge or Upgrade to Nile Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Murchison Falls National Park lies at the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, where the sweeping Bunyoro escarpment tumbles into vast, palm-dotted savannah. First gazetted as a game reserve in 1926, it is Uganda’s largest and oldest conservation area, hosting 76 species of mammals and 451 species of birds. The Park is bisected by the Victoria Nile, which plunges 45 metres over the remnant rift valley wall, creating the dramatic Murchison Falls, the centerpiece of the park and the final event in an 80 metre stretch of rapids. The mighty cascade drains the last of the river’s energy, transforming it into a broad, placid stream that flows quietly across the rift valley floor into Lake Albert. This stretch of river provides one of Uganda’s most remarkable wildlife spectacles. Regular visitors to the riverbanks include elephants, giraffes and buffaloes while hippos, Nile crocodiles and aquatic birds are permanent residents.
Transfer Time: 8:00am
Distance: 2 hr 50 min (148.8 km)
Today’s Highlights:
After your breakfast at the lodge, drive to Bugoma Forest through Budongo forest. During this drive, meet a number of butterflies, Baboons among other animals enroute. Arrive the lodge, check in and relax. Later have lunch.
Later, choose from optional activities, Cycling around Kabwoya Villages or Uganda Mangabey trekking
The meeting point is Bugoma Jungle Lodge where the Tour guides of ACBF do the briefing and explain the rules for the trekking.
During the experience, you will see types of vegetation, plants species and learn about vegetation’s behaviors in a tropical forest. You might see various types of butterflies, insects, birds like Black and White Casqued Hornbill, Blackbilled Turaco and the Olive Sunbird.
The main attraction is the encounter with the primates, especially the Uganda mangabeys (Lophocebus Ugandae), which are an endemic primate unique to this forest. Their appearance and typical calls are one of the most unique experiences of Uganda. You might also see the red-tailed monkeys and black and white colobus which are a quite common spot. Being Bugoma Forest a Chimpanzee sanctuary, you might also spot and hear the calls of chimpanzees.
Later, to mark your footage in this area, leave an impact by planting a tree. The seedlings are available to plant at no extra cost.
Accommodation: Bugoma Jungle Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Bugoma Jungle Lodge is the first tourist accommodation open with the objective to provide hospitality services in Bugoma Forest Reserve. The lodge was opened in 2018 as part of the conservation project with ACBF. It is set into a 30-acre private natural forest, where loop trails are available to guests and where the presence of primates, chimpanzees and Ugandan Mangabeys is regular.
Transfer Time: 8:00am
Distance: 3 hr 50 min (191.3 km)
Today’s Highlights:
After your breakfast, head to Kibale national park the home primate capital of the world. This is a long journey that covers a time frame of 4 hours’ drive. The Park is famously known for homing the highest number of primates with 13 in total including the chimpanzees.
Enroute visit a local market. There is no better way to know about the day to day life of the people of Uganda if you do not dig deep and experience. You will experience a lot of tasty and delicious fruits and veggies. Buy and taste especially pineapples, mangoes and oranges. Tasty food like a Rolex and much more! Support and enjoy how the local markets operate in Uganda.
While on your way to Kibale National park, expect to have some stopovers at key points for photographs of people in their gardens, and cash crop plantations like tea, coffee, and tobacco and have a view of the mountains of the moon, Rwenzori and then check in at your lodge near the park for your dinner.
Accommodation: Primate Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
After breakfast at 6:00, head for payments and briefing at the park’s main headquarters after driving to the starting point in the Kanyanchu visitor’s center where you will meet an armed ranger guide who will also brief you shortly and then head to the forest and start looking for these chimps.
The activity usually takes 2-7 hours but this is done following the movements and locations of these giant animals. It should be noted that chimpanzee trekking is an interesting activity and as soon as you reach them, an hour will be given to you in their presence as you are taking photos and videos of their young ones playing. Retreat back to the office and obtain your trekking certificate and then drive to your lodge for meals.
After lunch, visit the Isunga community with a local guide and learn more about the real lifestyle of the locals living at the edge of the Kibale forest where local artisans and nature combine to create unforgettable experiences. This will be through touring around the community as a local guide interprets and explains all the attractions that will be met while on this community walking trail like the Vanilla /tea Farm visit and participation, Local market, Wander through small farms and banana plantations and later finish your day with a visit at a local home with indigenous tree seedlings to plant and return to your beautiful Lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Primate Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Transfer Time: 8:00 am
Today’s Highlights:
After your breakfast, embark on a drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park at 8:00 am en route enjoy the crater lakes drive passing through the foothills of mountain Rwenzori and have a look at glaciations on clear days, banana plantations since Uganda is a banana republic, Tea plantations, coffee farms and a community of the Bakonzo, Bamba and other tribes that are resident on the foothill of Rwenzori Mountains.
En route to visit the Mubuku Irrigation Scheme: The scheme is excellent for agro-tourism and research with a variety of trees, crops, and animals and is also known for biodiversity conservation. It is located in Kasese Municipality along Kasese-Fort Portal Road. Later proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Check-in at your booked lodge for the meals, relax and enjoy the place.
Accommodation: Nights at Buffalo Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
Enjoy a peaceful breakfast at your lodge and then drive to the park for a morning game drive. Have your well-packed lunch and then to your exciting activity for an active game viewing where if you are lucky enough you have chances of spotting the lions lazily relaxing within the shrubs.
Game drive in the wildness is a wonderful sunrise experience that opens to you a gate of viewing the vegetation and numerous predators hunting such as hyenas and other wild cats.
After lunch in the wild, embark on an afternoon boat cruise which is a 2-3 hour cruise normally done on the Kazinga channel that connects Lake George and Lake Albert. This cruise is rewarding and you have higher chances of spotting hippos, crocodiles, snails, birds, snakes and many more that will aid on your tour. Return to your lodge for dinner.
Accommodation: Nights at Buffalo Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
After early morning breakfast, drive heading to Ishasha sector the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park. This route takes a 2-hour drive and will provide you with an opportunity to have a look at animals grazing freely in the savannah plains, and pass through the Maramagambo forest which is one of the largest rainforests in Uganda. The drive will present to you animals such as the rare tree-climbing lions, hyenas, elephants and many more. Check-in at your lodge for your meals and night stays.
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is a true rainforest thought to be the most biologically diverse forest in all of Africa, owing to its antiquity. Located at the edge of the Albertine Rift in western Uganda, Bwindi is best known for its Mountain Gorilla Tracking: an estimated population of over 408 individuals, more than half the total population of Mountain Gorillas in the world, live in Bwindi. But there’s more to Bwindi than just Gorillas; it hosts a total of 11 primate types and 120 mammal species, rivaling the wildlife count in other national parks.
Accommodation: Mahogany Springs Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
To catch up with the time of the experience, wake up early in the morning for your early breakfast and then head for the most rewarding activity, gorilla trekking. Drive to the park headquarters and finalize your papers and be briefed about the rules and regulations to follow while trekking. After meeting your ranger guide well-armed who will be with you when looking for the giant animals.
The activity usually lasts for a period of 1-8 hours depending on the location of these animals and or the movements of these primates. It is important for our visitors to note that as soon as you reach these animals, an extra one hour will be given to you in their presence to take photos and videos. Return to the lodge for meals.
Later, enjoy cycling to the nearest villages with the Ride for a woman project. Part pf the funds collected from this activity will go back to the community.
Accommodation: Mahogany Springs Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Enjoy the breakfast and then wait for a Twa guide who will pick you up from the lodge and take you through the cultural entertainment of the Batwa people.
These people were once forest inhabitants before it was gazetted. Visit this minority group and learn much more from them and proceed to Lake Bunyonyi.
Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages, Bunyonyi
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
This day is our day of relaxing and having our breakfast at the lodge will open to us the activities to do while at Lake Bunyonyi. The name Bunyonyi is a local word meaning birds which gives it a direct translation as a lake of birds. Optionally one can choose to do hiking on the Islands as well as swimming. Have sights and sounds of numerous birds before leaving for your meals.
Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages, Bunyonyi
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
Have your breakfast and then set off for Lake Mburo national park where we will be passing through the cultivated terrace lands of the Bakiga people whose life depends mostly on agriculture having a stop break in Mbarara for lunch and then proceed with our journey and check in at our booked lodge for dinner and relaxing.
Accommodation: Mihingo Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
On your 14th day of this 15 days Uganda safari, wake up early in the morning for the breakfast and then after embark on cycling safari in the park with a game ranger which will open to you a chance of viewing much wildlife in the wild at a close range. View animals such as zebras, giraffes, impalas, buffalos and to mention a few. Return back to your lodge for lunch.
After the ride, head for a boat that will be on lake Mburo and have sights of animals such as hippos, crocodiles, frogs and many more not forgetting birds which come on the lake to drink water. Drive back to the lodge for dinner.
Accommodation: Mihingo Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today’s Highlights:
Being the last day of your 15 days Uganda safari, wake up early in the morning for an early breakfast and head for a city tour in Kampala the capital city of Uganda. Visit the kabaka’s (King’s) palace and greet the king together with his royal guards. From there visit the Namugongo martyrs’ shrine where over 20 Ugandan Christians were burnt to ash by the Kabaka of Buganda by then, Kabaka Mwanga. After the city tour, proceed to the airport in Entebbe for your flight to your next destination. Depending on your flight time, you can visit the craft village in Entebbe City for some souvenirs. Then, you’ll head to the airport or spend a night in Entebbe.
Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
Meal Plan: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
Uganda is recognized as one of the most stable countries in East Africa, making it a prime destination for your clients seeking peace of mind during their travels. With its welcoming atmosphere and secure environment, Uganda offers a safe safari experience. From arrival to departure, your clients will be cared for by a dedicated team, ensuring that every need is met. After thrilling days of wildlife viewing, your clients can unwind at carefully selected lodges and camps that blend authentic African charm with modern luxury, providing both comfort and safety.
Many of our safaris offer unique, immersive experiences where your clients can visit local villages and interact with the people of Uganda. If these cultural visits are not part of the itinerary, your clients will still have the chance to gain valuable insights into Ugandan life through their expert local guides. Our guides are natives of Uganda, offering your clients an authentic understanding of local culture and traditions, enriching their safari experience.
The weather in East Africa can vary widely, so we recommend lightweight, breathable fabrics for daytime and warmer layers for early mornings and evenings. Neutral-colored clothing (such as khaki or olive green) is ideal, as it blends well with the environment and avoids drawing attention from wildlife.
A waterproof jacket is also recommended for unexpected rain showers. Don’t forget mosquito-repellent clothing for the evening game drives. A pair of comfortable shoes for walking safaris is essential.
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