10 days top ultimate Uganda primates expeditions safari
Uganda primates expeditions Overview
Uganda primates expeditions are so far the best Africa primates safaris to experience from any other part of the world. Uganda primates expeditions safari will get you to mountain gorilla trekking, golden monkeys, chimpanzee tracking, colobus monkeys, baboons, Murchison water falls and river Nile, hot springs, game drives, birds in Uganda’s most popular game parks for example Bwindi impenetrable national park, Mgahinga national park, Kibale forest national park, Kalinzu forest game reserve, Kyambura gorge forest in Queen Elizabeth park, Kaniyo Pabidi forest in Murchison falls national park among others
Arrival and departure: Kigali – Entebbe
- Day 1- Arrival, city tour and travel to Mgahinga
- Day 2- Mgahinga golden monkeys and nature walks
- Day 3- Bwindi Impenetrable gorilla trekking and Ishasha game drive & tree climbing lions
- Day 4- game drives and boat cruise
- Day 5- chimpanzee tracking and birding
- Day 6- Semuliki hot springs, primates & nature walk
- Day 7- Murchison falls game drive and boat cruise
- Day 8- top of the falls, game drive & transfer to Ziwa rhinos sanctuary
- Day 9- rhino tracking and transfer to Kampala
- Day 10- botanical/ city tour and departure
Detailed Uganda primates expeditions itinerary
Arriving at Kigali international airport, you will set off for the Uganda primates expeditions with our guide and drive for 4 hours to either Bwindi or Mgahinga national parks which are homes to 53% of the world’s population of mountain gorillas on the planet. An earlier arrival will allow us take you around Kigali city; one of the cleanest cities in Africa with its malls, eco parks, resorts, coffee shops & restaurants and lounges, art and craft shops, museums among others (the duration of this tour will depend on time of arrival). On arrival at these mountain gorilla parks you will rest and if time permits have a nature walk on some tracking routes of the park while having the best views and photography of over 350 bird species, 310 butterfly species, 88 moth species, monkeys, elephants, kobs, 51 reptile species among others.
Accommodation: Mgahinga lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Early in the morning after breakfast and a briefing at the park headquarters, you will hike the volcanic mountains of the Mgahinga to a height of 2,500 meters above sea level in the bamboo forests of the montane region where these unique primates reside. Golden monkeys have orange-yellow like hair color that give them that distinguished golden look. When you reach their residence, you will be allowed to stay around them for one hour. These live in families of hundreds and have a very playful character, they will keep you so entertained. Looking at them critically, you will notice their facial appearance that the golden monkeys have a nose so different from that of many other primate species. along the hike, you will also observe other primates like the red tailed monkeys, white and black colobus monkeys, reptiles, Albertine rift endemics and many more bird species on your Uganda primates expeditions safari.
Accommodation: Buhoma lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Another Uganda primates expeditions safari morning will get you have a briefing at the gorilla about their park headquarters behaviors, livelihoods and how to conduct yourself in their presence. The trek into the tropical montane forests will last between 30 minutes 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. Getting to find the mountain gorillas on a trek in Uganda is a 100% chances to meet the gentle giants backed up by the gorilla population in this region. 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.
Later in the evening, 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 Africa 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.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Early in the morning after breakfast, you will head out from your safari lodge to the Kazinga channel (a river connecting lakes Edward and George) for a morning boat cruise through queen Elizabeth national park. 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, game drives, scenery views of the ice capped mountain Rwenzori and its slopes. On this Uganda primates expeditions safari, you will also once again come across the 0° equator landmark as it crosses through queen Elizabeth national game park.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
For one of the most iconic moments on the Uganda primates expeditions, you will head to Kibale national park (the world’s primates capital) known for chimpanzee tracking and for having the highest population & concentration of chimpanzees in world numbering above 1,500 individuals in the park. The afternoon tracking session starts at 14:00 and takes 2-5 hours with a more than 100% chance of meeting the chimpanzees; a forest walk that will come along with numerous sceneries of more than 370 bird species of grassland, forest, swamp and Albertine rift region endemics, 350 tree species and 71 mammal species. other primates in the park include the L’hoest monkeys, colobus monkeys, blue monkey, olive baboon, red tailed monkey, vervet monkeys.
Accommodation: Primates capital lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
On this day you will head to one of the most gorgeous places in this East African region for its remarkable features and as a landmark position between East and Central Africa thus having vegetation and forests of characteristics of both regions. Semuliki park has 435 bird species, 11 primate species and 53 mammal species. some of these include Albertine Rift Endemics for example the dwarf honey guide and purple-breasted sunbirds; 35 Congo-Guinea biome species found nowhere else in East Africa.
Accommodation: Pakuba safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Also still on the Uganda primates expeditions, Murchison falls national park game drives will get you many satisfying sceneries in the wilderness for example the Rothschild’s giraffes, numerous elephant & buffalo herds, lion prides, waterbucks, impalas, kobs, warthogs, hippos, buffaloes, crocodiles, leopards, hyenas, jackals among other mammals. Murchison has more than 450 bird species recorded in the park. After lunch you will then head to the banks of the river Nile for a boat cruise towards the face of the Murchison falls, you will have scene of various water birds like the shoebills, raptors, geese among others, hippos and a great number of huge nile crocodiles and many more mammals that approach the river banks to quench their thirst like buffaloes, elephants and the scenes are endless.
Accommodation: Entikko safari lodge (or a similar lodge)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Today you will drive towards the Murchison falls and embark on a walking trek up to view the magnificent Murchison falls from above and watch the strongest falls on the planet, gashing 3,000 cubic litres of water per second through an eight-meter corridor cascading down a 43-meter height into the “the devil’s caldron” forming a white mist and a signature rainbow producing a loud sound from the powerful force of the water of the river Nile. Later on the Uganda primates expeditions, you will head out to other sections of the park to continue exploring this vast grassland and its remarkable wild game.
Accommodation: Pakuba safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
On this Uganda primates expeditions morning, you will start off with a walking safaris watching out for rhinos and towards the swamp areas. Ziwa rhino sanctuary has more than 50 white southern rhinos, giraffes, kobs, leopards, swamps with papyrus endemics like the shoebill, African wild cats, warthogs, reptiles among other species. The sanctuary not having big predators, allows you to easily make nature walks to come to nearby engagement with the park’s wild game. Later on in the day, you will embark on a 3-hour journey back to Kampala. A night life experience awaits you in the vibrant lounges and bars all around Kampala city or chilling breeze at the shores of Lake Victoria.
Accommodation: Imperial resort hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Lastly this day will find you in Kampala or at the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe and early in the morning after your breakfast you have a tour around Kampala and later on around Entebbe town and there after a walking tour at the cool 40.7 hectare botanical gardens along the shore of Lake Victoria. Botanical gardens are also common for biking/ cycling safari, monkey feeding, birding safari and 500 plant species including both exotic and indigenous. After this tour, you will head to the airport for departure.
Accommodation: N/A
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Your safari route map:
Inclusions
- Airport transfers
- Gorilla trekking permits
- Golden monkey tracking permits
- Chimpanzee tracking permits
- Driver & guide
- Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
- Government taxes
- Laundry
- All excursions on itinerary
Exclusions
- International flights
- Extra activities, meals and liquor/alcohol
- Tipping & gratitude
- Any changes to the itinerary
- Accommodation after the end of the trip
- Travel insurance
- Visa fees & processing
- Anything not mentioned
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