Uganda Gorilla & Chimps Trekking

Meet our safari guide who will be waiting to host you upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you’ll be picked up and transferred to Kampala at your booked accommodation

Early in the morning, you’ll get picked up from your hotel in Kampala, drive for 6 hours to Kibale Forest. You’ll get there in the afternoon. On evening arrive to the lodge or camp for dinner and overnight stay.

After breakfast in the morning at your lodge departs with 4 hours chimp walk, during which you may also get to see 10 other primates. Kibale Park is well known for all the butterflies and birds that live there as well. In the afternoon, you’ll walk through Bigodi Swamp which is home to a community based project. On evening drive at the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Early in the morning you’ll leave for Kisoro, cross Kazinga Channel traveling through Queen Elizabeth Park and reach Kabale in time for lunch. From Kabale you’ll continue on through a beautiful landscape known the Switzerland of Africa, passing mountains, lakes, hills with cultivated terraces, tropical rainforest, and bamboo forest. On the last hill, the landscape unfolds beneath you, offering great views of the vast planes between Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and the Virunga Volcanoes dominating the landscape. You’ll descend into the valley and arrive at the lodge for dinner and overnight.

This day will be gorilla tracking day. You will rise up early in the morning after breakfast departs with 1 hr drive to the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Once there, you’ll receive a briefing and start tracking around 8:30 a.m. Once you have found the gorillas you’ll be able to spend up to one hour with them. You are expected to be back at the starting point by 1:00 p.m. at the latest. Being physically fit is recommended. Afterward drive to the lodge arrive in Kisoro on evening for dinner and overnight stay

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 then 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 being dropped off at your accommodation in Kampala, and this will mark the end of your Uganda Gorilla and Chimps trekking.