Ideal 6 days Gorilla trekking & wildlife Uganda safaris
Gorilla trekking & wildlife Uganda safaris overview
Travitude safari tours plans your Gorilla trekking tour to Uganda given it being one of the must do bucket list activities for tourists who come to Africa. Trekking along with game drives in the wildlife wilderness make a Uganda safaris a perfect destination for both beginners & any other travitude from all over the world.
Gorilla trekking & wildlife Uganda safaris highlights
Arrival and departure: Entebbe
- Day 1- arrival and rest and city tour
- Day 2-travel to Bwindi
- Day 3- gorilla and trekking and nature walks
- Day 4- game drives and boat cruise
- Day 5- game drives & crater lakes
- Day 6- return to Kampala and departure
Detailed Gorilla trekking & wildlife Uganda safaris itinerary
Picked up by our tour guide from the airport, you’ll be taken to your booked accommodation either on the shores of Lake Victoria or in the heart of the city Kampala. With a city tour visiting historical monuments and political administrative centers 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.
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.
Accommodation: Serena golf course hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
This 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. You will have numerous stop overs even to have photographic moments at points like the 0° Equator latitude mark, gorges, rift valley floor and escarpments, crater lakes, interlocking volcanic and conical hills, forests and the vast savannah grasslands and the green vegetation.
Accommodation: Buhoma lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Day 3 Bwindi Impenetrable forest (gorilla trekking & wildlife excursions)
Arriving at the gorilla park headquarters, you will have a briefing on the gorilla behaviors, livelihoods and how to handle their reactions to the human presence. Gorilla trekking into the tropical montane forests can last for up to 6 hours and you will spend an hour with the assigned gorilla family taking photos, videos & observing gorilla family behaviors. 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.
Ishasha sector
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.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
You will head out to the Kazinga channel (a river channel connecting lakes Edward and George) for a morning boat cruise, an experience that will get you have a glance at the world’s largest concentration of hippopotami which are numbered above 5,000 members, Nile crocodiles, buffalo herds, 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 game drives around this channel and beyond into the vast savannah grassland with 52 crater lakes, scenery views of the ice capped mountain Rwenzori & its slopes.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
With 52 crater lakes on the rift valley floor in the queen Elizabeth national park, most iconic being lake Katwe known for salt mining by the local communities, these features formed of volcanic and tectonic geographical activities are some of the most beautiful features in the rift valley region. They further attract a lot of wild animals that visit their banks to quench their thirst during hot days’ heat from the sun one of the effects being the park lying across the equator. This visit will come along with an entertaining game drive of the park’s marvelous game, birds, reptiles and tree species.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Day 6 Kampala & departure
This being the last day of your trip, your drive will be heading to Kampala a journey that will give you the best last memories of the pearl of Africa, replaying the activities selectively on your back to Kampala such as the ever smiling and welcoming people, numerous bird species, wild game, market places and the economic activities of the locals.
Accommodation: N/A
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Inclusions
- Park entrance fees
- Gorilla trekking permits
- All activities included in itinerary
- Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
- Driver & guide
- Government taxes
- Airport transfers
- Bottled drinking water
Exclusions
- Travel insurance
- Visa fees & processing
- International flights
- Extra activities, meals, alcohol/ liquor
- Tipping & gratitude
- Accommodation after the end of the trip
- Souvenirs & snacks
- Any changes to the itinerary
- Anything not mentioned
Your safari route map
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