We like to take it easy on the arrival day. When you arrive at Entebbe, our guide meets you, and you transfer to the accommodation facility. Our choice accommodations are notoriously birder friendly, and this, we have put into consideration when scouting. We like serene places that are also bird-friendly…
The hotel has a well-maintained garden filled with native plant species that attract regionally restricted bird species like the shiny Red-chested, Scarlet-chested and the Olive-bellied Sunbirds.
After an early breakfast, check-out and embark on a long picturesque transfer via Fort Portal and Kasese Towns respectively to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Access the park via Kabatooro gate and visit the Queen’s Pavilion for a panoramic view of the park. Take an en-route game-drive as you transfer to your lodging facility. Break for lunch and relax in the afternoon. In the late afternoon/early evening join your driver/guide on a sundown game-drive to end your day in an adventurous style. Return and relax at your preferred lodge for the rest of the evening.
Transfer Time: About 5hrs.
Wake-up to the sounds of the nature, get on board and embark on a sunrise game-drive. The vast savannah plains, swamps and forests of Queen Elizabeth are home to about 95 mammals and over 600 bird-species. Look-out for lions, leopards, elephants, warthogs, bushbucks, cape buffaloes and waterbucks among others. We shall utilize a network of trails to access animal habitats and create more avenues for you to see and experience as much as nature shall make available.
After lunch, transfer to the pier/dock to arrive on time for your afternoon boat-ride on boat Kazinga Channel. A thread of water that joins lakes George and Edward, Kazinga Channel is lifeline/habitat to Nile Crocodiles, arguably the highest concentration of Hippos on planet Earth, different species of Egrets, Goliath Herons, and Saddle – billed Storks, African Fish Eagles, Egyptian Gees and Cormorants among other bird species. The channel is a source of for Elephants, buffaloes and many other bird-species. Return to the dock and exploit the remaining part of the day in the wild.
Meals and bed at your preferred lodging facility.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Watch the sunrise over the panoramic lakes George and Edward, breakfast, check-out and take an en-route game-drive as you exit Mweya Peninsular section heading to the Ishasha section that is renowned for the tree-climbing lions. We shall employ a network of trails in the southern circuit to create viewing avenues of the great predators hanging in Fig and Acacia Trees. After picnic lunch, proceed and follow meandering routes to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Settle-in at your preferred accommodation facility.
Transfer Time: About 7hrs
A chilly and misty morning, wake-up and prepare for the summit of your Uganda Safari; the encounter with the critically endangered Gentle Great Apes!! Pack lunch, water and a rain gear and attend the briefing session to be conducted by the head-ranger.
After, get hold of your walking stick, carry your lunch, camera and binoculars and follow our allocated ranger-guide into the gorilla sanctuary. Follow instructions as shall be given by the ranger, maintain silence and appreciated nature.
On sight of the gorillas, keep calm and watch them feed, play, swing from one branch to another and fully exploit the strictly one hour allowed in their presence. Return to the launch site, receive your tracking certificates and take a ride back to your lodge for the rest of the evening. Possible Batwa Community visit if time permits.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Last moments in the domain of the Gentle Great Apes, breakfast, check-out and follow snaking routes via villages and trading centers to finally access and break for lunch at Igongo Cultural Centre and visit the Museum, proceed to Kampala with a brief stop at the Equator for a photo opportunity and shopping for curio items. Farewell dinner in Entebbe, proceed to the airport to arrive on time for your onward flight back home.
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