GREAT APES AND Q.ELIZABETH N.PARK

 

Day 1: Air port pick to Kampala.

Meet by our driver guide from Entebbe international air port and be transferred to Kampala for dinner and over night at

Serena hotel for (luxury)

Hotel le Bougainviller for (middle range) and

Achrdia guest house for (Budget) accommodation.

 

Day 2 Kampala- Bwindi national park

Meet the driver guide at 6:00 am at the hotel of residence and transferred via Masaka, stop over at the equator for refreshment, continue with the journey through Ankole land, the main sight is the Ankole long horned cattle. Stop for a short lunch in Mbarara, after which we reach the picturesque landscape of Kigezi with its terraced agriculture and rolling hills and soon you arrive in Bwindi National Park .the drive takes 10-11hours.

Dinner and accommodation at Gorilla forest camp (Luxury)

Mantana tented camp (middle range) and

Buhoma Community rest Camp (Budget)

 

Day3: Bwindi national park

After breakfast, then Gorilla tracking, which can take a few hours or a whole day depending on the locality of the group to be tracked, a packed lunch is taken with you to the jungle some times.

 

Hikers will love it Gorilla trekking is unpredictable, it is difficult to foresee how many hours you will hike , expect to walk long distances in steep muddy conditions sometimes with rain overhead before you encounter any gorillas. Your efforts will be rewarded when you have an encounter with the humble giants. For conservation purposes, the time spent with gorillas is one hour.

 

When being briefed , the park authorities always advise clients to have a porter for the bags usually carried with you, this is optional, but we strongly recommend that you take a porter with you in case you hike for long distance, its becomes difficult for clients especially the old.

The porters are readily available at the tourist center during time for briefing.

Dinner and accommodation at Gorilla forest camp (Luxury)

Mantana tented camp (middle range) and

Buhoma Community rest Camp (Budget)

 

Day 4: Bwindi- Queen Elizabeth national park

Early break fast then transfer to northern part of Queen Elizabeth Natioal Park. The drive goes through the southern part of the park Ishasha.

We shall have our lunch at King fisher lodge after which we go for after noon chimpanzee tracking at Kyambura gorge

 

Night and Dinner at Mweya safari lodge(Luxury),

King fisher lodge for (middle range) and

Libertine rift lodge (budget)

 

Day 5 Queen Elizabeth national park - to Kampala

On this day you will have a relaxed break fast after you return from your morning game drive.

It starts at 6:30am the drive takes 2-4 hours viewing the morning hurters, (Lions, Spotted Hyenas) Elephants and many species of Antelope.

Return to the lodge for break fast and lunch.

 

After lunch you will return to Kampala, equator stop over for souvenir buying before you retire the day at :

Serena hotel for (luxury)

Hotel le Bougainviller for (middle range) and

Achrdia guest house (Budget )accommodation.

 

Day 6: Kampala –Entebbe international air port.

Be transferred to Entebbe International Airport reaching in time for your flight depending on your flight schedule.

 

 

OPTIONAL SHORT TOURS

 

2day 1 night Ssese Island tour

After breakfast, leave Munyonyo resort at 7:00am, Drive to Entebbe visit the Zoo/UWEC and have lunch before your transfer to Ssese Islands at 2.00pm.

The island will give you the Caribbean experience with their white sand beaches and sky blue waters. You will also encounter the vervet and colobus monkey, a variety of bird species and scores of butterflies.

Dinner and overnight at any budget hotel on the island

 

Day 2: Ssese Islands-Kampala:

After an early breakfast, you will take part in an optional activity of your choice a forest walk, half day fishing or an island tour before you leave this Island at 12.00 o’clock. You will find the driver guide at the main land waiting for your transfer back to your accommodation place.

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1 Day Kampala City Tour

You will get a chance to visit some interesting places in Kampala .

At 7Am we dive off for , Namugongo Maytrs Shrine from there to Bahai temple the only on the African continent. The head for lunch at Ranches grill located at garden city the modern shopping center. Short, personal shopping. After which we head for Kasubi tombs- A burial ground for Buganda Kings and finally visit the Hindu temple or the cathedral church before we return to the resort.

 

2day 1 night Lake Mburo National Park.

After having an early breakfast we depart for Lake Mburo at 6: 30. The dive takes 3-4 hours, After check in relax by the lake as you listen to the Hopo noises and variety of birds habited on this swamp section.

After lunch, an afternoon boat ride on Lake mburo to cool off and also to enable us spot more water species like hippos, birds and occasional Nile Crocodiles.

Dinner and Overnight at Mihingo lodge luxury

Mantana tented camp Middle range

Rwonyo Bandas budget

 

Day 2 Lake Mburo – kampala.

After your break fast you will head for game viewing which can be done in 3 ways

By horse riding, nature walking and Game drive, here you choice what interest you to do. The main high lights while on these activities are , the Zebras, eland, buffalos, rare lion, warthogs ,banded mongoose ant lops and may other animals.

Have lunch after your game viewing and pack back to Kampala Stop at the equator for photographs or buy some souvenirs Arrive Munyonyo resort by evening in time for dinner.

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1 day Source of the Nile and Rafting Tour

After your breakfast, at exactely6:30 we depart for Jinja the drive takes you through the sugar /tea plantations and driving underneath the Mabira forest tall trees gives an ideal experience .when in Jinja we will do mainly half day white water rafting and scenery viewing which includes the source of the Nile and the Bujagali falls.

Other optional activities include: quad bike, Horse rides and a boat to the source

Have lunch and after noon activities we return to Kampala reaching the resort in time for your dinner.

 

2 Day Tour Queen Elizabeth National Park

Activities:

Game drive and Launch cruise.

 

2 Day tour to Murchision Falls National Park

Activities:

Game drive, Launch cruise and view of top of the falls

 

3 Day Tour to Bwindi Impenetrable Park

Activities:

GORILLA TRACKING

SCENERY VIEWING AS YOU DRIVE

 

3Day Tour to Kibale and Semliki N.Parks

Activities:

Chimpanzee trucking, hot springs, nature walk and pygmy visit.

 

5 Day Tour to Bwindi and Q.Elizabeth National Park

Activities:

Game drive, Launch cruise and Gorilla tracking

 

3 Day to Murchision Falls N.Park

Activities:

• Falls viewing

• Boat cruise to the bottom of the falls and close view of aquatics

• 1game drive for big 5

 

CULTURAL TOURS 9 DAYS

 

Uganda Cultural tours are generally tailor made; we as outlined below give you a number of activities in different destinations. Once you have picked out places or activities of interest then we put together your choices to make a workable trail or circuit.

 

1. A visit to the Northern part of Uganda

This visit is likely to pull at your emotional strings. You will visit the internally displaced people’s camps; interact with the camp dwellers, visit rehabilitation centers interact with the returned abductees, in Gulu visit Baker’s Fort Patiko, visit schools, hospitals and interact with the local people.

Accommodation and meals in a hotel/guesthouse within or nearby the local community visited.

 

2. Activities in Pian Upe

Interraction with the Karamojong, learn about their cultures and traditions, take part and enjoy late evening traditional dances.

Accommodation and meals in a local accommodation facility.

 

3. Activities in Mbale and Kapchorwa

Interaction with the local communities (Bagisu and Sabiny) this targets mainly the circumcision season (Contact us for details).

Accommodation and meals provided by a local family or a local accommodation facility.

 

4. Activities in Jinja

Full day interaction with town dwellers; visit to the market and later in the afternoon walk with in the local communities surrounding Bujjagali.

Accommodation and meals provided by local family or a local accommodation facility.

 

5. Activities in Lake Mburo

Activities here include time with local cattle keepers, interaction with the locals to explore their life style, cultures and traditional practices.

Accommodation and meals with in a local accommodation facility.

 

6. Activities in Kabale

the cultural museum at Edirisa.

Accommodation and meals with an Island camp.

 

7. Activities in Kisoro

Visit the communities of the Batwa pygmies and interact with them to understand their lifestyle, culture and traditional practices, Interact with the local people of

Kisoro, visit a hospital or a school.

 

Accommodation and meals with in a local accommodation facility.

 

8. Activities in Ssese Island/Entebbe

Spend a full day with fishermen; go fishing with them and learn about how they preapare fish for local use. Also visit a landing site in Entebbe (Katabi and Gogonya) and interact with the local community

 

Accommodation and meals with a local family in Entebbe or a nearby accommodation facility.

 

9. Activities in Kampala

Take a cultural tour of Kampala choosing from activities including: the Buganda Kingdom’s heritage trail, visit a baby’s home and volunteer with the children’s care takers, Visit a hospital interact with the doctors, nurses and patients to understand how the health service in Uganda works, visit a local market to interact with traders, visit an orphanage/school interact with the children, visit a cultural performing center and interaction with the local people.

 

Accommodation and meals with a local family in Kampala, a hotel or guesthouse.

Tips for Responsible Travel

 

• Read about the communities to be visited if there is any literature about them, if there are no literatures written about them then make inquiries about them from your travel agent.

• With the help of your travel agent try to understand the local community’s needs and it is always nice to bring a gift for your hosts.

• Avoid instances of cultural shock and cultural arrogance, it is important to understand that the local people you visit have different time concepts and thought patterns from yours; this makes them different not inferior.

• Respect local cultures; it will help you get a deeper experience and better understanding of the people you visit.

Asking questions about what is peculiar to you will help you to understand the local people better as well as help

• you in seeing a different way of life through the locals’ eyes.

• We do encourage you to socialise with people, it is however important to ask for permission before taking photographs and a walk around.

• Never buy products made from endangered species of either plants or animals so as to stop this kind of trade

Use public transport at least once during your visit.

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH N.PARK 3 DAYS

 

Day 1: Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park

 

After Breakfast, our guide representative will pick you from your hotel of residence and depart western part of the country to Queen Elizabeth National Park via Mubende and have lunch at gardens restaurants in fort/Portal then continue with the journey arriving the park in the late Afternoon. Check in at either

: Mweya safari lodge Luxury FB,

King fisher lodge (Midrange) HB, and

Libertine rift lodge ( Budget), BB.

 

Day 2: Queen Elizabeth National Park

After morning coffee we will transfer to kyambura gorge for morning chimpanzee tracking.

Then have lunch at any of the hotels.

After lunch, head for 9:00pm launch cruise on the 34 Kasinga Channel which connects lake Albert and George. Lots of a aquatic avifauna that are not missed on this cruise include hippos, crocodiles , birds both indigenous and migrants depending on the time of visit and other wild life especially those seeking drinking water on the banks of the river.

Mweya safari lodge (Luxury) FB,

King fisher lodge (Midrange) HB, and

Libertine rift lodge ( Budget), BB.

 

Day 3: Qeen Elizabeth National Park to Kampala

 

After an early morning coffee breakfast at 6:30am, go for a game drive heading for the mating grounds of the Uganda Kobs. Also view other animals like lions, Elephants, Topi, Bushbucks and Buffaloes. After which Break fast relax may be swim before you have Lunch. After lunch pack the bags and head back to Kampala via Masaka and Mbarara the long honed cattle land.

Stop over at the equator for picture poses and buying of crafts, drive to Kampala with beautiful memories reaching by the evening hours.

 

KIDEPO NATIONAL PARK 3 DAYS

 

WHAT TO SEE / DO WHILE HERE

- Game drive for big 5, caving,

- Karamojonjo cultural experience.

 

12-13 hours drive from the capital city

 

For Details, visit the Uganda Wildlife Authority

 

Day 1: Kampala- Kidepo:

After your very early break fast we depart for Kidepo, on this day the visitors should expect to drive 740kms from kampala to Kidepo.

 

Night and dinner at Apoka lodge (luxury)

UWA cottages (budget)

 

Day 2: Kidepo National park

The park has a variety of activities, you can decide to choice any of the activities in the park to engage in for the two rest days you will be having in the park.

 

The activities include: arranged visits to Karamojonjo homesteads to see traditional customs, stools spears, head dresses, knives, bows and arrows and jewelry.

 

Game drives within the park, such as to Narus valley which provides three loop circuits explore the valley around a Poka. At the southern end of Katurum the site provides a superbviews across the valley to Murumguru mountain. This mountain can also be explored in a day.

 

You can as well visit the Kidepo valley which stretches for over 50m which is a seasonal river and it attracts animals like ,bat eared Fox. Striped hyena. Caracal and cheetah, leopard, spotted hyena, klipspringer Burchells Zebra and so may other.

Birders are not left out, birds like Ostrich, Kori bustard, Jackson’s hornbill and eagles among others are the high lights.

 

Night and dinner at Apoka lodge (luxury)

UWA cottages (budget)

 

Day 3: Kidepo national park.

Do any optional activity according to your interest,

 

Night and dinner at Apoka lodge (luxury)

UWA cottages (budget)

 

Day4: Kidepo national park- Kampala.

On this day we return to Kampala reaching late in the evening if we use road or a bit earlier if you fly back.

 

9 DAY SAFARI TO LAKE MBURO AND BWINDI

 

Day 1: Air port pick to Kampala.

Meet by our driver guide at the Entebbe international Air port and be transferred to Kampala for dinner and over night at Achrdia Guest house for (Budget) accommodation.

 

Day 2: Kampala to Lake Mburo

After your breakfast, the driver will be waiting to transfer you to Lake Mburo National park. You will do on route game drive as you enter the park to check in for your accommodation. After lunch you will go for Boat ride on the lake and retire the day at: Rwonyo bandas for (Budget) accommodation.

 

Day3: Kampala- Bwindi National Park

Morning Game drive or Game walk before you have breakfast and continue with the journey through Ankole land, the main sight is the Ankole long horned cattle. Stop for a short early lunch in Mbarara, after which we reach the picturesque landscape of Kigezi with its terraced agriculture and rolling hills and soon you arrive in Bwindi National Park .the drive takes 10-11hours. Buhoma Community rest Camp (Budget)

 

Day4: Bwindi National Park

After breakfast, then Gorilla tracking, which can take a few hours or a whole day depending on the locality of the group to be tracked, a packed lunch is taken with you to the jungle some times.

Hikers will love it Gorilla trekking is unpredictable, it is difficult to foresee how many hours you will hike , expect to walk long distances in steep muddy conditions sometimes with rain overhead before you encounter any gorillas. Your efforts will be rewarded when you have an encounter with the humble giants. For conservation purposes, the time spent with gorillas is one hour.

When being briefed , the park authorities always advise clients to have a porter for the bags usually carried with you, this is optional, but we strongly recommend that you take a porter with you in case you hike for long distance, its becomes difficult for clients especially the old.

The porters are readily available at the tourist center during briefing time. Buhoma Community rest Camp (Budget)

 

Day 5: Bwindi- Queen Elizabeth National Park

Early breakfast then transfer to Southern part of Queen Elizabeth Natioal Park. The drive goes through the Northern part of the park Ishasha.

We will do climbing loin game drive in ishasha after our on route lunch.

Then drive up to Katwe salt lake for salt mining experience with in Queen Elizabeth national park.Libertine Rift lodge (budget)

 

Day 6: Queen Elizabeth national park

Morning chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura gorge, have lunch then visit the Maramagambo forest before you retire the day to:Libertine Rift lodge (budget)

 

Day 7: Queen Elizabeth national park

After an early morning breakfast, go for a game drive heading for the mating grounds of the Uganda Kobs. Also view other animals like lions, Elephants, Topi, Bushbucks and Buffaloes.

After Lunch, we will go for a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel at 15.00hrs.This is a natural channel that joins Lake Edward to Lake George. Actually this is one of your highlights for the Safari. On this cruise you will view abundant birdlife, buffaloes, Elephants and perhaps the highest concentration of Hippos in Africa Libertine Rift lodge (budget)

Day 8: Queen Elizabeth to - Kampala.

Transfer to Kampla via fort –Portal town. You will shortly visit the Amabere caves and their surrounding ding crater lakes 3kms from the town then have lunch and continue with the journey to Kampala. Achrdia Guest house for (Budget) accommodation

 

Day 9: Kampala –Entebbe international air port.

Optional activity like shopping depending on the available time.

Be transferred to Entebbe International Airport reaching in time for your flight, depending on your flight schedule.