Detailed itinerary:

Day 1

Destination: Kampala

On arrival at Entebbe international airport, you will be picked up by our guide who will hold a pluck card with your written on it and he/she will get you to your booked accommodation either on the shores of Lake Victoria or in the heart of the city Kampala for a short rest before starting off with the day’s activities. After refreshing up, you will begin off the day’s activities with a city tour visiting historical monuments and political administrative centres of Uganda since the past days, sites of status of the Buganda kingdom, economic activities and business avenues and market places that have been anchors of business growth to Uganda as a nation, religious administrative centers and their iconic sites, the welcoming Ugandan people and their ways of life, cock tails & street foods like the Rolex (a common Ugandan delicacy made of egg omelette and vegetables rolled in chapatti) and many more. Later on in the evening you will have a night life experience in the heart of the heart of the city; Kampala is daily partying city and the activities to engage in will depend on your choice that depend on your choice ranging from karaoke nights, cocktail nights, discos, movie nights, lounges and bars, barbeques and buffet restaurants along with opportunities of meeting with other expats in those various venues. You will thereafter get to rest for to be ready for the next day’s journey.

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Day 2

Destination: Mgahinga/ Bwindi impenetrable NP

On the second day, you will embark on the 10-hour journey to Mgahinga or Bwindi impenetrable national park depending on the gorilla family you will be assigned to visit. Along the way you will get across many features that make the pearl of Africa one of the greatest and iconic destinations by default. You will have numerous stop overs even to have photographic moments at points like the Equator, gorges, rift valley floor and escarpments, crater lakes, interlocking volcanic and conical hills, forests and the vast savannah grasslands and the green vegetation. All these features will so much contribute to the numerous sightings of hundreds of bird species that enjoy the best climate anchored and influenced by most of these Ugandan features. Along the way you will also come across different economic activities, traditional and cultural settings as you move through areas of different tribal groupings and set ups. On arriving at the park you get your booked accommodation and relax and wait on the next day’s activity.

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Day 3

Destination: gorilla trekking & tree climbing lions

Very early in the morning you will embark on a four-hour journey to Bwindi impenetrable forest in Uganda for a morning gorilla trekking. On arrival you will have a briefing on the gorilla behaviors, livelihoods and how to handle their reactions to the human presence. The trek into the tropical montane forests will last between 30 to 1 hour before meeting the gorilla family you are assigned to and you will be allowed to follow and spend an hour with that gorilla family. After the trek, you will have an experience with the Batwa people who have for all their life time co-existed with the forest and its species. During this nature walk you will experience numerous bird species with particularly 23 albertine endemics that are habitats to only the albertine region. Later on in the afternoon, you will set out to the Ishasha sector of the Queen Elizabeth national park best known for its tree climbing lions and one of the only 2 destinations in the world with lions have having this behavior. These along with many other wild game like; elephants, buffaloes, leopards, kobs, antelopes, wild dogs, hyenas, ostriches, waterbucks and glamour at some of the world’s most unique bird species as the park is the second best birding haven having more than 660 recorded bird species as their home. This game drive will conclude the day’s activities and rest to prepare for the next day’s activities.

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Day 4

Destination: Kazinga channel and game drive

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will head out to the Kazinga channel (a river connecting lakes Edward and George) for a morning boat cruise. At this experience you will have a glance at the world’s largest concentration of hippos which are numbered above 5,000 at the Kazinga channel, Nile crocodiles, buffaloes, water birds and other land birds coming in to quench their thirst, elephants, lions and other land wild game like water bucks, giraffes, kobs, kudus among others also coming in onto the banks of the Kazinga channel to quench their thirst. After the boat cruise, you will embark on a game drive around this channel and beyond into the vast savannah grassland to enjoy more game viewing at more lion and elephant families, ostriches, cheetahs, leopards, raptors and vultures, reptiles, monkeys, wild dogs among other creatures, scenery views of the ice capped mountain Rwenzori and its slopes. On this day, you will also once again come across the equator landmark as it crosses through queen Elizabeth national game park.

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Day 5

Destination: Entebbe for Departure

Very early in the morning you will wake up have breakfast and set off on your journey back to Kampala. On the way to Kampala, you will enjoy scenes of vast tea and banana plantations as you move through this area of farmers and numerous farms and herds of cattle that are kept by the cattle keeping communities. You will once again have a rest at the equator or if in time have your lunch from this great monument landmark. When you arrive at the Entebbe before time of departure, you will have a tour around Entebbe town and the botanical gardens; a place with over 200 tree species, more than 100 recorded bird species. after this tour you get ready for your departure flight.

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