Our guide will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala or from Entebbe international airport on arrival for your gorilla trekking and chimpanzee safari. Transfer to heading west past mubende and continue to Fort Portal where you will stop for lunch. Proceed to Kibale forest arriving in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight at your preferred lodge.
Tour overview
This six-day safari offers the ultimate primate safari experience in Uganda. The safari starts with a visit to Kibale Forest national park home to the chimpanzees and 13 other primates’ species. At Kibale you will do a chimp trek and Bigodi nature walk. The second half of the journey takes you to the Bwindi impenetrable forest national park home to endangered mountain gorillas. At Bwindi you will do a gorilla trek, and later visit Lake Bunyonyi.
Safari Highlights
- Day 1: Arrival and Transfer To Kibale National Park
- Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking In Kibale Forest
- Day 3: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 4: Mountain Gorilla Tracking Bwindi, Afternoon Transfer to Mgahinga
- Day 5: Golden Monkey Trekking and Transfer To Lake Bunyonyi National Park
Day 6: Canoeing On Lake Bunyonyi, Departure
Your 6-day Uganda safari, day by day
Each day below shows where you go, what you experience, and where you can stay—luxury, mid-range, and budget lodge options included.
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- Drive time
- Approximately 6 hours
- Main destination
- Kibale National Park
- Also visited
- Fort Portal, Entebbe, Kampala
Accommodation options
- Budget Mountains of the moon hotel
- Mid-Range Chimpanzee forest lodge or Isunga Lodge
- Luxury Primate lodge or Kyaninga Lodge or Papaya Lake Lodge
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After morning breakfast, wake up early to track chimps near Kanyanchu. This can take you half a day. There are 13 other primate species that live in Kibale forests and you will therefore encounter some of them during your chimp trek, these include the golden monkey, L’Hoest monkey, baboons, white and black colobus monkeys, grey checked mangabey, red colobus, blue monkeys and pottos. Other animals include forest elephants unique from the common type, giant forest hogs and a striking tree species. Enjoy Lunch and later take a guided nature walk to Bigodi swamp sanctuary, a good site for birders. The Great Blue Turaco and Papyrus Gonolek can easily be marked among the other bird 137 species. There is also an array of butterfly species. Later return for dinner and overnight as above.
- Meal plan
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
- Main destination
- Kibale
Accommodation options
- Budget Mountains of the moon hotel
- Mid-Range Chimpanzee forest lodge or Isunga Lodge
- Luxury Primate lodge or Kyaninga Lodge or Papaya Lake Lodge
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You will enjoy morning breakfast and set off for Bwindi Forest the home of half of the remaining mountain gorilla population in the world. Enjoy your lunch enroute and continue to Bwindi arriving in the evening. Check-in to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Meal plan
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
- Drive time
- Approximately 7 – 8 hours (depending on tracking location)
- Main destination
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Accommodation options
- Budget Trekkers Tarvern Cottages or Rushaga Gorilla Haven
- Mid-Range Ichumbi gorilla lodge or Rushaga gorilla camp
- Luxury Four Gorillas Lodge or Chameleon Hill lodge or Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
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After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for a gorilla trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Tour. Once this is done, you will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you from half an hour to three quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. On your trek, you are likely to spot other primates, birds and rare tree species. After finding the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend one hour with them before trekking back to the Park headquarter. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures. You will be awarded a certificate for participating in gorilla trekking and thus contributing to the conservation of mountain gorillas. Later in the afternoon, you will transfer home of Gorillas and Golden Monkeys. Accommodation: Travelers rest Kisoro (budget) Ichumbi lodge Kisoro(mid-range) Four Gorillas Lodge or Chameleon Hill lodge or Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge (luxury)
- Main destination
- Mgahinga
- Also visited
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Kisoro
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After an early morning breakfast, you will head out for Golden monkey trekking in . This activity will last for 3 hours in which you will spot the several monkey species in the area. Later in the afternoon, transfer from Mgahinga gorilla national park to lake Bunyonyi, uganda’s deepest and most beautiful lodge, dotted with several islands.
- Meal plan
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
- Drive time
- Approximately 3 hours
- Main destination
- Lake Bunyonyi
- Also visited
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Accommodation options
- Budget Crater Bay cottage
- Mid-Range Bunyonyi Rock resort
- Luxury Birdnest resort
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Enjoy morning breakfast and then go for a canoeing activity on lake bunyonyi where you will take photos of this beautiful lake, and interact with the locals. Later you transfer back to Kampala, Lunch en-route. The guide will drop you off at your hotel in Kampala. Note: if you intend to fly out this very day, you will not do the canoeing activity, you will simply utlize day 4 of the trip to take photos as day 5 will only be for transfer. Also note that you are required to book a late flight since the driving time is over 8 hours.
End of tour
- Meal plan
- Breakfast, Lunch
- Drive time
- Approximately 8-9 hours
- Main destination
- Lake Bunyonyi
- Also visited
- Kampala
Inclusions & exclusions
| What's included |
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| Accommodation and meals |
| Transportation in 4x4 safari vehicle and meals |
| Gorilla trekking permit |
| Chimpanzee trekking permit |
| Services of professional English-speaking guide |
| Boat cruise |
| Park entrance fees |
| All other activities included in the itinerary |
| Bottled drinking water |
| What's not included |
|---|
| Visas |
| Travel insurance |
| Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Laundry services |
| Tips |
| All other items of personal nature |
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- Tour type: Uganda: Private tour • 6 days
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