12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
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12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
Tour overview
This 12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari is one of the best itineraries that take you to the most visited National parks of Uganda starting with a stopover at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino trekking, Murchison Falls National park, Kibale Forest National Park for the chimpanzee tracking, mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi forest, Canoeing on Lake Mutanda in Kisoro and Queen Elisabeth National Park for wildlife game viewing and a boat ride on the Kazinga channel connecting lake Gorge and lake Edward
Safari Highlights of Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
- Rhino Tracking in Ziwa Sanctuary
- Gorilla tracking in the Bwindi forest
- Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
- Bigodi Swamp Walk
- Boat Cruise on Victoria Nile in Murchison Falls
- Game drive in Murchison Falls Park
- Tree climbing lions in the Ishasha sector
- Game drive in Queen Elizabeth Park
- Boat cruise in Lake Mburo
- Game drive in Lake Mburo Park
- Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel
Tour Summary of Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
- Day 1: Arrival and transfer to Kampala
- Day 2: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
- Day 3: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise to the “bottom of the falls”
- Day 4: Transfer to Kibale Forest National park
- Day 5: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Forest National Park
- Day 6: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 7: Wildlife viewing in Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 8: Tree climbing lions in the Ishasha Sector
- Day 9: Transfer to Bwindi Forest National park
- Day 10: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
- Day 11: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 12: Departure to Kampala
Detailed Itinerary of 12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
Day 1: Arrival – Kampala transfer
One of our company representatives will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to a hotel of your choice in Kampala for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Kampala –Murchison Falls National Park
Uganda Primates-Wildlife Safari, depart Kampala early morning taking a panoramic drive north-west through the famous Luwero Triangle. Stopover at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Opened up in 1998, the Rhino fund aims at reintroducing black and white Rhinos into Uganda’s protected areas as well as educating the local communities on endangered Rhinos, poaching, and environmental conservation. The Rhino trek takes 1-2 hours and you will get an opportunity of viewing them at close quarters kob. Have a lunch stop in Masindi and continue on to the top of the falls. Checking in for dinner and overnight at the accommodation of your choice.
Day 3: Morning Game drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise-Murchison Falls National Park
Early morning game drive to search for giraffes, lions, hart beasts, elephants, cape buffalo, and many other mammals. Birds include the Black Chested Snake Eagle, Blue Napped Mousebirds, the Secretary bird, Swallow-Tailed Bee-eaters, and the Silver Headed Agama. After lunch, enjoy a boat ride on the placid Victoria Nile to the foot of the magnificent Murchison Falls where the Nile plunges through a narrow crevice and over a 40-meter drop. En route, you may see the Nile crocodile, pools of hippo, waterbucks, and a variety of bird species. Disembark from your boat and take a 45 minutes hike to the gorge where the river explodes into several cascades to form the falls. Dinner and Overnight.
Day 4: Murchison Falls National Park – Kibale Forest National park
Uganda Primates-Wildlife Safari, take a scenic drive on to Fort portal town, checking in for dinner and overnight at the accommodation of your choice depending on your budget.
Day 5: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Forest National Park
Early morning walk in Kibale Forest to track the habituated chimps. Watch the delightful apes as they squabble and play in trees. After lunch, we shall go for a 2-3 hour optional nature walk in Bigodi Swamp a home of 200 bird species including the Papyrus Gonolek and the Great Blue Turaco. The swamp has also got 8 Primate Species and an abundance of butterflies. Get a chance to visit Bigodi women’s project located at the wetland sanctuary office in the Bigodi trading center. The group sells Mats, bags, jewelry and 10% of all sales from crafts contribute to community development, and over the years, the income has funded Bigodi Pre–Primary school and supported orphans, widows, the disabled, and other disadvantaged people in the community. Dinner and overnight at your accommodation.
Day 6: Kibale Forest National Park – Queen Elizabeth National Park
Uganda Primates-Wildlife Safari, have an early morning tour to the crater lakes region. Visit the top of the world (A natural bridge) and view the snow Cap of Mount Rwenzori on a clear day. Have an early lunch at the lodge and drive through the foothills of Rwenzori ranges onto Queen Elizabeth National park. Dinner and overnight at the accommodation of your choice.
Day 7: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Get up ready for a 6.30 am morning game drive. The park’s diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forests, rivers, swamps, lakes, and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife. Look out for buffaloes, lions, elephants, and other wildlife in their natural habitat. Return to your accommodation for a late breakfast. After lunch, go for the afternoon launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel. This is a home to a variety of water birds and on a hot day, hippos, elephants, buffaloes, and waterbucks can be sighted as they bathe and drink water at the water edge. Crocodiles are occasionally sighted along the channel banks. Dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National Park – Ishasha Sector
We have an option of trekking the Chimps in Kyambura gorge today, alternatively, you can visit the Maramagambo forest for a nature walk in the forest. Return to the lodge for an early lunch and transfer to Ishasha for an afternoon game drive. Ishasha is known as the most alluring region for game drives in Uganda, if we are lucky we shall spot the tree-climbing lions. Dinner and Overnight at the accommodation of your choice.
Day 9: Ishasha – Bwindi Forest National park
Uganda Primates-Wildlife Safari, brief game drive, and transfer to Bwindi Forest National park. Check-in at the accommodation of your choice for dinner and overnight.
Day 10: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Enter the forest at dawn and enjoy the beauty and freshness of the forest, home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas. After a short briefing by the guides, proceed through the dense bush to trek for these endangered animals depending on where they built their nest the previous night. For conservation purposes, the time allowed with the Gorillas is 1 hour. Observe the gentle giants as they feed and play. If we have a free afternoon, we shall go for a 3-hour village walk. Take note of the livelihoods of the local communities, and visit a traditional herbalist, blacksmith, and a local brewery to see how beer is brewed using local methods. Enjoy the traditional dances offered by the community. If we have time, we can visit Bwindi hospital and see how we can help the local community. Retire to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Day 11: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Lake Mburo National Park
Check out of the lodge with packed lunches and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park with a brief stop at Igongo cultural museum. This is rich with the cultural heritage of western Uganda. Continue on to the park, overnight stay at accommodation of your choice.
Day 12: Lake Mburo National Park –Kampala
Early morning game drive and enjoy the rich biodiversity including large herds of zebra, impala, gigantic eland, topis, and a variety of bird species. Return to your accommodation for a late breakfast. Have an early lunch and transfer to Kampala or Entebbe airport arriving in time for your departure flight.
End of the 12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
Please note that this is a guideline program that may be customized according to travelers’ needs and preferences. The variations are normally made to improve the tour and your experience.
- 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 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 has pop up roofs for proper game viewing and easy for to take as much 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.
Includes:
– Meet & greet services airport transfers to/from Entebbe airport,
– Accommodation and meals on safari as above,
– Chimp and gorilla permit
– Bottled water in the safari vehicle,
– Full-time services of English-speaking driver/guide,
– All park entry fees and set activities on the itinerary.
Excludes:
– Visas,
– Personal travel insurance and items of a personal nature.
– Charter/Scheduled flights also an optional extra.
– Plus all expenses of personal nature like tips, drinks, etc.
COST PER PERSON SHARING TWIN/DOUBLE ROOMS.
Cost per person sharing Price(USD)
1 person 4875
2 people 3525
3 people 3340
4 people 3250
5 people 3130
6 people 3055
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Take a look at some of the private-tailor-made Uganda safaris that take you through various safari routes. These tours are just examples and can be edited or planned (if you prefer) based on your preferences of destinations and facilities to stay in. We will process the fees and permits for you, take care of all transfers, and recommend the best accommodation. Enquire with our team of experts to help you start planning. Otherwise, take a look …
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3 Days Kibale & Queen Elizabeth Park
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3 Days Kibale Forest Chimpanzee Trekking
Track the Kibale forest jungle habituated Chimpanzee, walk the bigodi wetlands and see crater lakes.
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7 Days Uganda Wildlife & Chimpanzee Trekking Safari
Visit Uganda’s top savanna parks, Murchison and Queen then track the chimps in Kibale Forest.
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Gorilla Trekking Safaris
4 Days Gorillas & Wildlife Safari
Takes you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see gorillas and QENP for a game drive and boat safari.
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5 Days Uganda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari
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5 Days Uganda Gorilla Safari
This Uganda safari will take you gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable and a boat canoe ride on Lake Mutanda.
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8 Days Gorillas & Chimpanzee Trekking Safaris
The trip goes into Bwindi Imepenetrable and Kibale Forest to see the gorillas and chimps and also visit QENP savanna.
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12 Days Uganda Primates & Wildlife Safari
Visit Uganda’s top wildlife reserves, the savanna wild, track chimps and the mountain gorillas of Bwindi.
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14 Days Classic Uganda Safari
Take a trip around Uganda’s top savanna parks and track the primates in Kibale and Bwindi Impenetrbale NPs.
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3 Days Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari
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13 Days Uganda Birding & Gorilla Tracking Safari
This birding tour takes you into Uganda’s classic parks including the gorilla park in search of avian life.
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Uganda Safaris
Uganda safaris include over 500 mountain gorillas found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, both gorilla national parks are located in southwestern Uganda near the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda is also known as the best bird whacking safari destination in Africa with over 1060 bird species in Uganda.
Uganda is also well known as the Primates Capital in Africa and in the whole world, Uganda is the best place to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi and Mgahinga, chimpanzees in Kibale Forest National Park, golden monkeys in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and many more different primate species which includes the following which you may see on the best place to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi
- Red colobus monkey-this be easily seen in Kibale Forest National Park and in Bigodi swamp
- Black-and-white colobus monkey- this can be seen in many different forests in Uganda.
- Red-tailed monkey and blue monkey-one of the Uganda’s smallest monkey and can be found in Bwindi forest, Kibale forests, and in Queen Elisabeth National Park
- Olive baboon-found in all national parks of Uganda and in most of the forests in Uganda
- Grey-cheeked mangabey-found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Semeriki National Park, Bigodi Wetland, and Mabira Forest
- L’hoest monkey found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Part
- Patas monkey-commonly found in Murchison Falls National Park
On any of our Uganda safaris, you can always combine chimpanzee trek with Mountain Gorillas and other Uganda primates, our Uganda safari itineraries are tailor-made based on your budget, time, and your interests, just send us an email and tell us your interest we will tailor it for you.
Why Uganda Safaris?
The country called Uganda is the best safaris and tours destinations in Africa, home to the biggest population of chimpanzees in the world and home to more than half of the mountain gorillas population in the world, Uganda is also home to the source of the River Nile the longest river in the world.
Uganda safaris and tours take you to over 10 Uganda national parks whereby each park is different from the other with different adventures, on Uganda safari you will get a chance to see the most endangered mountain gorillas and golden monkeys in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, for those who like hiking safari get the opportunity to hike the ice-capped Rwenzori mountains which are the second-highest mountain in Africa, enjoy a relaxing boat ride on Kazinga Channel connecting Lake Gorge and Lake Edward with game viewing in Queen Elisabeth National Park and also a chance to trek over 5000 chimpanzees in Kibale National Park.
Other Uganda National parks include Murchison Falls National Park for game drives, boat cruise to the Victoria Nile delta and to the upstream to the bottom of the falls, Lake Mburo National Par best for its game drivers and boat cruise, Simeriki National Park known as the top bird-watching destination in Uganda, lastly Kidepo Valley National Park One of the best Savannah parks in Africa. we are also highly recommended on Trip Advisor