Uganda Classic Safari

Hopefully, your flight is scheduled for an early morning landing in Uganda. Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport you’ll be picked up and have breakfast at the restaurant then depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park. The journey will take you 6-7 hours. You’ll have a stopover at the Equator where you’ll have an opportunity to stand in 2 hemispheres at the same time and take memorial photos. You will continue to Mbarara town where you will have lunch before proceeding to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Check into your accommodation and depending on the time available you may choose to proceed for an evening game drive or just relax at your lodge in anticipation of the next day’s activities. You’ll have dinner and overnight at your accommodation

After breakfast at the lodge leave for a morning game drive in the park during which you’ll see Lions, Elephants, Leopard (if you’re lucky), Bush bucks, Cape Buffaloes, Defassa Waterbucks, Giant Forest Hogs, Uganda Kobs.
Afternoon drive back to lodge for hot lunch – afterwards you’ll go for a 2 hour boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel which connects Lake George and Edward, you’ll surely be fascinated by the concentrations of giant hippos, elephants and crocodiles among others.
You’ll also see many varieties of birds at the water shores. Drive back at the lodge on evening for dinner and overnight stay.

In the morning, you’ll go on a chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge. This gorge in the north of Queen Elizabeth National Park is known to inhabit lots of chimpanzees plus some other animals and birds as well. After chimps tracking, you’ll go back to the lodge for lunch – awaiting an optional evening game drive.

Depart in the morning after breakfast, drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest through the Isasha sector famously known for its tree-climbing lions’ population. With a strenuous day ahead, you’ll do less on arrival but just check in your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the following day.

After an early morning breakfast, walk to the park headquarters for briefing and thereafter you’ll proceed to the gorilla trail. Gorilla tracking normally lasts between 2 to 8 hours or even a day to encounter the gorillas. However, you’ll be allowed to stay in the presence of these awesome apes for at least an hour. It is advisable that you carry packed lunch as one cannot determine how long
it may take to encounter the mountain gorillas. If time and energy allow you may take a community walk after the gorilla tracking or just relax at your accommodation, most likely enjoying the sounds and sights of the area. Return to your accommodation (if you took a walk in the community), enjoy your evening, dinner and overnight.

Early in the morning after your breakfast, you’ll travel back to Kampala. On the way back to the city, you’ll have lunch in Mbarara town and after passing Masaka town, there will be an opportunity to stop at the Equator for photos. Arrive in Kampala on evening for catching night flight or dropped off at your own booked accommodation in Kampala, this will be the end of your safari