DAY 1: DRIVE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
You will be picked up from your hotel in Kampala and Depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park . Take a stop over at the Equator or the Mpigi Royal drum makers and proceed into Queen Elizabeth national park. A game drive en route is rewarding with animals like water bucks, Elephants, Buffaloes and many other animals. Check in your lodge for Lunch dinner and over night.
DAY 2: WILDLIFE TOUR AND CHIMPANZEE TREKKING
Wake up very early in the morning and go for an early morning game drive along the Kasenyi track in search for lions, hyenas, leopards, water bucks and many antelopes. . You will return to the lodge for breakfast and lunch and later go for an afternoon chimp tracking in the Kyambura gorge. An encounter of these more closely related apes to human is really wondrous!! have fun as you watch them in their family and later return to the lodge for dinner and over night.
DAY 3: BOAT RIDE AND BIRDING TOUR
This morning, we leave for a boat trip along the Kazinga Channel which gives you the opportunity to view wildlife up close: hippo’s huff and spray mere feet away from the boat, buffalo linger in the shallows. The shores of the channel are also home to an array of birds including pink backed pelicans, pied and malachite kingfishers, saddle billed stork and many others. The after we will leave for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest . We will drive through the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth called Ishasha. Here we will take lunch by the Ishasha River and try to find the famed Ishasha tree-climbing lions before continuing on to Bwindi, home to the few remaining mountain gorillas. Bird life and primate life in Bwindi is quite superb, and there is an incredible variety of flora. Bwindi is also one of the parks with the biggest numbers of bird. Some people refer to it as the birder’s paradise that is second to Queen Elizabeth national park. Once continuous with the forests of the Virunga Volcanoes (Dian Fossey’s stomping ground), Bwindi is now an ecological island, surrounded by cultivation on the rich volcanic soils. Overnight at Gorilla Resort/Buhoma Community Bandas (Full Board).
DAY 4: MOUNTAIN GORILLA TRACKING SAFARI
You will wake up very early in the morning and assemble at the starting points of the groups as you receive briefing from your rangers about gorilla tracking the all awaited for main theme of the tour. Then you will proceed to the forest for the tracking. The time taken to encounter these primates is un predictable so you are advised to carry lunch because it may take you 1-10 hours. On watching these gentle animals with their silver back, one will be forced to exclaim that; it is exhilarating !! return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
DAY 5: DRIVE BACK TO KAMPALA
Take breakfast and proceed to Kampala or Entebbe for dinner and overnight