12-Day Uganda Gorilla, Chimps, Golden Monkeys & Wildlife

You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and at 8:00 am go for a game drive in search of African savannah wildlife including giraffes, antelopes, lions, elephants and Uganda kob. Birds are also numerous with the eagle being one of the high-quality sightings as well as the rare shoebill. While enjoying your game drive, tell your guide to show you the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm and afterwards will head out on an evening boat cruise on the River Nile. This cruise will lead you to the bottom of the thundering falls where you will spot huge crocodiles, pods of hippos, buffaloes, elephants, and a variety of water birds like herons, cormorants, ducks, bee-eaters, kingfishers, skimmers, fish eagles and sometimes the rare shoebill.

Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and go for a morning game drive, looking for the local wildlife and birds. Have lunch at 1:00 pm. then enjoy an evening game drive or choose to relax at the swimming pool.

After an early breakfast, you will drive to Fort Portal with lunch en route. Drive past traditional homesteads and farms and enjoy the beautiful scenery across that part of the country through the oil city of Hoima. You will arrive in the evening at your accommodation.

After an early breakfast at 8:00 am, you will report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin, and set out to track chimpanzees in the forest. The chance of viewing the chimps is over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the most beautiful forests in Uganda, home to one our closest living relatives – the endangered chimpanzee – as well as the threatened red colobus monkey, and the rare L’Hoests monkey. The forest boasts having one of the highest density of primates in Africa with 13 species including the black and white colobus, blue monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, red-tailed monkeys, bush babies and pottos. After lunch, you will visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, and enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will give you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. Your overnight stay will be at a lodge.

You will have breakfast and at 8:30 am drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, with a view of the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. You will sign in at your lodge facility as you wait for your lunch at 1:00 pm. Then afterwards take on an afternoon launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George. The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippos, buffalos, kob, and the occasional Nile crocodile plus a spectacular bird watching on the water bank. Many who experience the launch cruise consider it the best part of their entire African safari. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at bush lodge.

You will have breakfast early in the morning. At 8:00 am with your packed lunch, you’ll go for a game drive to catch up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts and you will most likely meet grazing hippos, elephants and lions, spotted hyenas, bush bucks, water bucks, stripped jackals, comical warthogs and the fierce leopard. You will continue to the craters a habitat for elephants and a great view of the park with salt lakes. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown-eared woodpeckers, and other primates.

After breakfast, at 8:30 am, you will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are full of savanna acacia and grasses. Drive through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the Ishasha sector in the south area of Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will enjoy another game drive in search of tree-climbing lions before going on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The journey takes about 4 hours taking you through interesting features, arriving in Bwindi in the evening. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to rare mountain gorillas and a variety of primates including the blue and red-tailed monkeys. The forest itself is lush and green with streams running through it.

Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest is a major highlight of the trip. You’ll set off early with the guides after breakfast to track the gorillas with a packed lunch and enough drinking water. Each gorilla encounter is different and has its rewards. You’ll watch adult gorillas feeding, climbing, grooming, and resting as the youngsters play and swing from vines in a pleasant, good-humored show. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swaddle of dense rainforest, so ancient that it survived the last Ice Age! A recently proclaimed World Heritage Site, it is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth. Its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world’s population of mountain gorillas (estimated at six hundred). After the trek, you’ll start your journey to Kisoro town.

You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and start your journey to Mgahinga National Park for golden monkey trekking. This will involve hiking in search of golden monkeys in their natural habitat. The activity starts at 8:00 am with an orientation of what is to be expected. You will then head out in search of the golden monkeys using the Gahinga Trail. The trek may be long and you are required to carry a packed lunch and enough drinking water. After the trek, you’ll transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation.

After an early breakfast at 8:30 am, you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park, arriving in the afternoon. You will have lunch and relaxation. Later, you’ll go for a nature walk in the park with a ranger on which you might see giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, impalas, waterbucks, warthogs, zebras and eland, making for a memorable experience. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Rwakobo Rock.

You will have an early breakfast and at 8:30 am go for a morning game drive. Lake Mburo National Park is a very special place, every part of it is alive with a variety of interesting, colorful animals and features and it has a widespread wetland where you will see elands, impalas, water bucks, warthogs, topis, and zebras. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm and afterwards start your journey to Kampala, making a stopover at the Equator Line crossing and Mpambire drum makers. You will arrive at 5:00 pm and proceed to Entebbe.