10 Days Uganda Gorilla & Chimpanzee Habituation with Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safaris

10 Days Uganda Gorilla & Chimpanzee Habituation with Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safaris

Day 1: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

This tour starts with the drive to Bwindi Forest, the drive takes you through different town, trading center and villages where you even stop for fruit and vegetable on roadside markets, on the way you will have another stopover at Uganda Equator monument for photography opportunity, your next stop will be in Mbarara city for lunch and after this, you proceed with the driver to Bwindi Forest via Kabale town then to Bwindi.

Accommodation options: 

Mid-range Rushaga Gorilla Camp

Luxury: NKuringo Bwindi Lodge or Four Gorilla Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Day 2: The Gorilla Habituation Experience in Bwindi

After an early breakfast, your driver/guide will drive you to Rushaga sector headquarters in Bwindi Forest for a briefing from park rangers and for guidance on what to expect during mountain gorilla habituation. During this habituation activity, you will be guided by professional park ranger guides and researchers who have been working with these great giants for many years

Habituation experience gives you up to 4 hours with mountain gorillas compared to standard gorilla trekking, where you are only allowed to spend one hour with them. The habituation experience also allows getting a closer look at their lifestyle, you will get a lot of information from the rangers and researchers who have been following the gorilla family under the habituation process for a long time.

Accommodation options: 

Mid-range: Rushaga Gorilla Camp

Luxury: NKuringo Bwindi Lodge or Four Gorilla Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

3: Drive from Bwindi Forest to Kibale Forest

After breakfast, your driver guide will transfer you from Bwindi Forest to Kibale forest national park for another exciting chimpanzee habituation experience, The drive from Rushaga sector to Kibale forest takes you through the different villages, terraced hills, and also in Queen Elisabeth national park, Kasese town, have a lunch stopover in Fort portal town and after continue for one hour drive before reaching Kibale forest national park. for dinner and overnight

Accommodation options: 

Mid-range: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge or Kibale Forest Lodge

Luxury: Kibale Primate Lodge or Papaya Lake Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Day 4: Chimpanzee Habituation Experience in Kibale Forest National Park

Have an early breakfast, and after your driver guide will drive to Kanyachu tourism center for briefing, and after the briefing, you will enter the forest and start a chimpanzee habituation experience guided by professional park ranger guides and researchers. once you have found a chimpanzee, you will be allowed to spend up to 4 hours with the chimps.

Remember to go with a packed lunch and also enough drinking water because this activity takes a minimum of 5 to 6 hours, which is almost the whole day, as you interact with humans’ closest relatives.

Accommodation options: 

Mid-range: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge or Kibale Forest Camp

Luxury: Kibale Primate Lodge or Papaya Lake Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Day 5: Drive back to Entebbe Airport for evening flight to Nairobi/Kenya

Have a relaxed morning, and your driver-guide will transfer you back to Entebbe International Airport for the evening flight to Kenya.

 Day 6: Drive to Masai Mara National Park

Your driver guide will pick you up from the hotel in Nairobi and transfer you to Masai Mara; this drive takes you through scenic views to the beautiful highlands of Kenya and also takes you through the rift valley before arriving in Masai Mara National Park. Dinner and overnight at Masai-Mara Sopa lodge

Day 7: Full day exploration of Masai Mara National Park

Your driver guide will drive you to Masai Mara National Park for an early morning game drive, at lunch time you will have lunch in the park at one of the camps, and after, go for an afternoon game drive as you head back to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Masai-Mara Sopa lodge.

Day 8: Drive to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, transfer to Serengeti national park via Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti is home to over 3 million wild animals, also Serengeti national has the larger savannah protected area than any other savannah national park in Africa and in the world, during your tour in Serengeti you will also get opportunity to visit the UNESCO heritage site of Oduvai gorge, you will have a chance to learn much about the human evolution with the researchers at Oduvai gorge. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti lodge.

Accommodation Options for Dinner and Overnight

Budget: Serengeti Sound of Silence Lodge

Mid-range: Serengeti lodge

Day 9: Go for a full day game viewing in Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park offers the best wildlife viewing in East Africa. The Serengeti accommodates over 3 million wild animals, including Africa’s famous big five: wildebeest, gazelles, zebras, ostriches, and many bird species. Game viewing in Serengeti starts early in the morning, which increases your chance of spotting almost all the large mammals mentioned above. You will have a lunch stopover, and after, continue with an afternoon game drive, where you will be able to see more animals active in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti lodge.

Accommodation Options for Dinner and Overnight

Budget: Serengeti Sound of Silence Lodge

Mid-range: Serengeti lodge

Day 10: Departure and fly back to Nairobi/Kenya

After breakfast, your guide/driver will transfer you back to Nairobi/Kenya, for your return flight back home. This will depend on your flight schedule.

COST PER PERSON SHARING TWIN/DOUBLE ROOMS

• All our tours/safaris can start and end in Kigali Rwanda or Entebbe Uganda with no extra costs
• Our tour consultant is at your disposal for any information you may need 24/7
• We do all your airport transfers in Kigali or Entebbe
• We arrange accommodation for you the day before the tour starts and on the day tour ends with no extra costs.

Transportation & Guides

We use both standard 4×4 customized safari vans and 4×4 luxury customized safari Land cruisers as our road mode of transport for game viewing, taking photos wildlife filming, and photography, all our safari vehicles have a pop-up roof for proper game viewing and easy to take as many photos as you can, with also charging system for your cameras, phones and also every client is guaranteed of a window seat for easy view.

Our drive/guides are very professionally and well trained, we know every successful safari needs a great guide, majority of the comments from our clients regarding our services are centered on the professionalism of our guides, returning clients request the same guide on their second and third trip.