This tour is an opportunity for game viewing and Gorilla trekking in Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable national parks respectively. On game drives and a boat trip on the Kazinga channel, you will be able to see most of the wildlife in Queen Elizabeth. The highlight of the tour is Gorilla trekking in Bwindi.
Entebbe International Airport (Google Map)
After breakfast, you will set off to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The park is blessed with an abundance of wildlife, beautiful scenery and landscape. Upon arrival into the park, you will proceed for an evening game drive in the park for an encounter with different animal species residing in the park. Later in the evening, you will check-in at your lodge, have dinner and overnight at Bush Lodge (Full board basis).
Accommodation: Bush Lodge – Bandas
Meal plan: Lunch, Dinner
You will start this day with an early morning game drive in the park, looking for different animal and bird species. This park hosts a variety of wildlife that includes buffaloes, kobs, and elephants, Waterbucks, as well as different bird species. Later in the afternoon, you will go for a boat cruise after your lunch. The boat cruise at the Kazinga channel takes you through possibly the highest concentration of hippos, crocodile and different bird species. You will also see many elephants and buffaloes drinking at the water’s edges.
Accommodation: Bush Lodge – Bandas
Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast, you will start your journey to Bwindi impenetrable national park. You will have a detour to the remote woodland Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth national park famous for sighting tree-climbing lions. You will have a game drive in this area to search for the lions in trees, leopards and large herds of elephants, buffaloes and kobs.
You will afterwards proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable national park, home to over half of the world’s remaining population of the rare mountain Gorillas. Upon arrival here, you will be transferred to your accommodation to rest and prepare for Gorilla tracking.
Accommodation: Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast, you will set off to the park headquarters with your packed lunch. You will meet rangers who will separate you into different groups based on the Gorilla family you have been allocated to track; you will then follow the Gorilla trails with your ranger and start the Gorilla tracking activity. During the Gorilla tracking experience, you may also encounter other different primate species. Once the Gorillas have been tracked, you will be given an hour with the Gorillas taking pictures and videos. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge in Bwindi.
Accommodation: Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
You will start this day with an early breakfast in preparations for a transfer back to Kampala/ Entebbe. You will pass via the beautiful Kigezi highlands with beautiful terraces and have a stopover at the Equator for lunch and photographs. Your safari guide will transfer you back to your residence in Kampala or Entebbe for your international flight.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, –
