THRILING 5 DAY QUEEN ELIZABETH WILDLIFE AND GORILLA TREKKING SAFARI

Your assigned driver-guide will pick you up early in the morning before 9:00 am from Entebbe International Airport or your hotel if you’re already in the country.

Set off to the “medley of wonders” Queen Elizabeth National Park driving through the lush green countryside of Uganda, stopping en route for lunch.

You will enjoy a short game drive en route to your lodge with thrilling sights of elephants, warthogs, waterbucks, and bushbucks. 

Accommodation: Katara Lodge/Simba Safari Camp

Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Go for an early morning game drive after breakfast in the Kasenyi plains, which offer stunning views of the endless lush savannah plains, and Lake George.

On the trails, you will encounter the Uganda kobs, more elephants, hyenas, buffalo, lions, and leopards. Thereafter, return to the lodge to relax for a while before lunch. After lunch, sail along the Kazinga channel to delight in seeing plenty of hippos, buffalo, elephants, crocodiles, waterbucks, and several birds, like the saddle-billed stork, and pink-backed pelicans on the waterside.

This boat ride offers the best bird-watching opportunity in Queen Elizabeth N.P. since over 100 species flock to the channel.  

Accommodation: Katara Lodge/Simba Safari Camp 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will go chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura Gorge, which is also known as “the Valley of the Apes.” The gorge has approximately 80 habituated chimps that you will track on an exciting trip across rivers, forests, and valleys.

Upon finding the primates, you’ll spend an hour observing them as they feed on fruits and interact with each other. In the afternoon, you will depart for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – a natural habitat for almost half of the world’s gorillas.

You will drive through the Ishasha sector, looking out for the incredible Ishasha tree-climbing lions while journeying to the best gorilla trekking place in Uganda. 

Accommodation: Buhoma Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge/Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today is the day you will have an encounter with the mountain gorillas. You will have an early morning breakfast to energize your body in preparation for the strenuous gorilla-tracking trip.

Going with packed lunch, you will travel to the ranger’s post at 8:00 am for briefing before going with a ranger to track the gorillas. You may take 2-7 hours searching for these apes in the dense forest.

After locating the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend an hour observing them as they communicate with each other in a grumbling manner, play, or copulate.

It’s such a memorable experience spending time with these endangered species that are close cousins to man. Return to the lodge to freshen up and relax for the rest of the day. 

Alternatively, if you’re up to it, you can take a 3-hour hike to see the Munyaga Falls found on River Muyanga. On the way, you’ll enjoy sightings of several bird species, colorful butterflies, and monkeys. 

Accommodation: Buhoma Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge/Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Depart for Entebbe airport after early breakfast stopping, en route for lunch in Mbarara, and for memorable photos at the Equator. You may also buy souvenirs for your loved ones back home from the craft shops around the equator crossing. Safe Journey back home, and we hope to see you again!