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What's included
- A guided tour of important places
- Accommodation in single twin share room
- Beautifully illustrated souvenir map
- Current Hotel Taxes and Service Charges
- Entrance tickets to monuments and museums
- Observation and participation in allowed activities
- Professionally guided tour
- Unlimited bottled water
- Departure Taxes or Visa handling fees
- Other International flights
- Personal expenses
- Services not specifically stated in the itinerary
- Tips to guide and driver
- Visa arrangements
Architecture of the Wild
10-Day Uganda Wildlife Sighting and Primates Safari takes you through diverse landscapes to enjoy game drives in Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth, and Lake Mburo National Parks in search of the Big Five.
Mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi forest, chimpanzee tracking in Kibale forest, and golden monkey trekking in Mgahinga National Park.
Relish the relaxed boat cruises on scenic rivers and lakes inside the parks in between the demanding forest hikes to see primates.
This safari avails you the best of what Uganda has to offer with gorilla trekking – the most popular activity being the major highlight.
A Moveable Experience
Visit Queen Elizabeth National Park, the second largest park in Uganda is the most popular tourist destination in the country.
As it has the widest variety of wildlife inhabiting a diverse ecosystem with open savannah grasslands, tropical forests, lakes, and wetlands.
It’s famous for having tree-climbing lions and is the best site for tracking lions in the country, as they are easier to spot here.
Lots of elephants and buffalo can be found in the savannah, and many hippos and birds along the Kazinga channel whereas different primates, such as chimpanzees inhabit its forests.
Incredible Tree Climbing Lions
Game drives in Queen take place in the Ishasha sector where you can see the incredible tree-climbing lions, and in the Kasenyi plains where you can view a range of wildlife, such as elephants, the Uganda kobs, warthogs, and buffalos.
You get to sail on this scenic water body between L. Edward and L. George while viewing hippos, buffalos, elephants, waterbucks, and a variety of birds like the saddle-billed stork and pink-backed pelicans that inhabit the channel.
Gorilla Tracking In Bwindi
Famous for its ultimate gorilla experience, this park is home to half of the world’s mountain gorillas – roughly 459 in total.
Bwindi Impenetrable national park sits in the Southwestern part of Uganda along the Albertine rift valley and on the border with DRC.
It has a hilly terrain covered with tropical rainforest, which along with this park’s closeness to the equator, causes it to have a wet climate throughout the year as it receives lots of rain, although it tends to rain less in June and July.
Tracking gorillas in Bwindi’s rainforest is an exciting lifetime adventure that can have you trudging up and down hilly terrains and across streams to find the endangered primates.
This expedition may take an hour if you’re lucky or even last up to 8 hours, depending on where the gorillas are camping. 
Gorilla Habituation
With gorilla habituation, you can spend 4 hours with the families getting trained by researchers to become accustomed to human visits.
To experience this, you need to obtain a separate permit from the gorilla trekking one to be part of the four people per group allowed to observe the habituation process
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Arrival and Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
A Weitz Safaris guide-driver will welcome you at the Entebbe airport and shortly brief you on what to expect on the tour. After, travel northwest to Murchison Falls National Park – the largest park in Uganda with 76 animal species and over 451 bird species.
You will stop en route to visit the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, which is the only place in this Pearl of Africa where you can go rhino trekking. Thereafter, proceed to Masindi for lunch before continuing to the park where you will check in and relax.
In the evening around 7:00 pm, you will go on a night game drive to see the nocturnal animals that are hard to spot during the day, like the leopards, lions, hyenas, genets, bush babies, and civets.
Accommodation: Nile Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge/Red Chilli Rest Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Game drive and Boat Cruise to Murchison Falls
Get up for an early breakfast and afterward, depart for a game drive in search of elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, and other mammals.
In the afternoon after lunch, take a boat cruise on the Nile to view one of the world’s most powerful waterfalls from the bottom. Along the way, you will see crocodiles, aquatic bird life, and hippos.
After, take a hike to view the falls from the top. The climb is a bit strenuous, but well worth it as it offers spectacular aerial views of the park and great photo moments near the falls.
Accommodation: Nile Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge/Red Chilli Rest Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Transfer to Kibale National Park
Set off to Kibale National Park after breakfast. You will pass through scenic tea plantations carpeting rolling hills on the way to Fort Portal where you will have lunch.
From Fort Portal, you will drive through dense forests to Kibale Park. On arrival, you will check into your lodge and spend the evening at leisure. Alternatively, you can go explore the crater region to see the beautiful numerous small lakes if time allows and you are also up for it.
Accommodation: Primates Lodge/Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Chimpanzee trekking and travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After early breakfast, go chimps tracking with a ranger guide in the Kibale forest. You will also see other primates on the trek, like the red colobus monkey, the rare L'Hoests monkey, the red-tailed monkey, and blue monkey and bush babies.
Upon finding the chimpanzees, you’ll marvel at the high-pitched sound they make while they communicate with each other, and go on to observe them in their habitat for an hour.
This is quite a fascinating experience! Return to your lodge for lunch and proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park, traveling along the Rwenzori ranges on a scenic route via Kasese.
Accommodation: Katara Lodge/Simba Safari Camp
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Game Drive and Boat Ride on Kazinga Channel
In the morning after breakfast, head to the Kasenyi sector, which has a high number of the Uganda Kob since the area is their mating ground.
The large herds of antelopes that are easy prey draw predators to these plains, making sightings of lions and leopards easier while on a game drive.
You will also spot buffalo, elephants, and hyenas before returning to the lodge for dinner. After lunch, you’ll enjoy a 2-hour boat cruise on the Kazinga channel that passes between Lake George and Lake Edward.
This trip is the highlight of visiting the park since you get to see hundreds of hippos and many other animals, plus several bird species up close as they drink from the water banks.
Accommodation: Katara Lodge/Simba Safari Camp
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Tree-climbing lions Game Drive and Transfer to Lake Mutanda
After morning breakfast, you will set off to Lake Mutanda – an area found on the outskirts of the Rushaga sector in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Journey through the Ishasha sector with packed lunch to get the chance to see the tree-climbing lions that reside in the area before proceeding to your lodge. You will check-in, enjoy dinner, and sleep early to be fresh for the main highlight of this tour – tracking mountain gorillas in the Bwindi forest.
Accommodation: Mutanda Lake Resort
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest and Canoe Ride on L. Mutanda
Have an early morning breakfast and travel to the Rushaga headquarters for a briefing on the dos and don’ts during the exciting gorilla tracking expedition.
After, a ranger will guide you on a 2-7 hour search for the mountain gorillas on steep and thick forested terrains. On finding these primates, you will spend an unforgettable hour watching them while they feed, play and rest.
Thereafter, you will return to your safari car and drive back to your lodge to relax. Later in the afternoon, take a canoe ride along Lake Mutanda to enjoy scenic views of the Virunga Mountains and spot the African clawless otters.
Accommodation: Mutanda Lake Resort
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Mgahinga Golden Monkey Tracking and Travel to Lake Mburo National Park
Depart for Mgahinga National Park after early morning breakfast. Upon reaching, go track the golden monkeys, which are endangered like the mountain gorillas.
It’s only in this park that you can trek these primates through the bamboo trees, which they tend to feed on besides fruits and insects. You will spend an hour observing these playful monkeys as they jump from tree to tree, plus feed and interact with each other.
Thereafter, enjoy your lunch before proceeding to Uganda’s smallest national park yet with rich biodiversity– Lake Mburo. It’s about 5 hours away from Mgahinga so you will arrive in the evening to check in, freshen up and relax.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge (Luxury)/Rwaboko Rock (Midrange)/Eagle’s Nest Lodge (Budget)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Game Drive and Lake Mburo Boat Ride
Enjoy your breakfast, and afterward, go on a 3-hour game drive on the different trails in the park to see tons of zebras, impalas, eland, and warthogs.
Return to the lodge and relax before lunch. After lunch, go on a boat cruise along Lake Mburo to enjoy close views of crocodiles, hippos, and a variety of endemic water birds before returning to your lodge.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge (Luxury)/Rwaboko Rock (Midrange)/Eagle’s Nest Lodge (Budget)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Travel back to Kampala/Entebbe
Set off after breakfast for Entebbe airport to catch your flight back home. You will stop en route at the equator for memorable photo moments, and the Mpambire drums village for a small taste of Ugandan culture. Travel safely back home, and we hope to see you again for another Ugandan safari!
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