5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari

This 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari takes you to the west of Uganda in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

Home to half the world’s remaining 1004 mountain gorillas and former dwelling place for Batwa, native tribe expelled from the forest when it was gazetted as a national park

Activities Schedule

• Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
• Day 2: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
• Day 3: Gorilla Trekking and cultural exposure
• Day 4: Travel to Queen Elizabeth, Game Drive, Boat launch
• Day 5: Game drive and return to Kampala

Destinations

• Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
• Queen Elizabeth National Park

Highlights of this 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari

1. Equator experience
2. Scenic landscape
3. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi
4. Cultural experience
5. Game drives
6. Boat cruise on Kazinga channel

Detailed 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari

Day 1: Arrival in Uganda

Upon arrival at Entebbe international airport, you will be met by our guide-driver who will transfer you to Kampala to a hotel booked for you.

In case you have had an early flight to Uganda, you will be taken on a brief tour of the city Kampala. Later return to your hotel for accommodation and dinner

Recommended Accommodation:

• Luxury: Serena hotel/ pearl of Africa Hotel
• Midrange: Emin Pasha Hotel/ Speke Resort Hotel
• Budget: Acacia Lodge/ Namirembe Guest House
• Meal plan: Lunch and dinner

Day 2 of the 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

After an early breakfast, your guide will be there to pick you. He will give you a brief of the entire trip before setting off. You will hit the road towards westwards to Bwindi.

This trip takes approximately 9-10 hours’ drive. You will have a stopover at the equator for a chance to feel the hemispheric experience, have some photo movement.

Continue with the journey through the beautiful verdant rolling hills of this part of the country.

You will have an en-route lunch in Mbarara at Igongo Cultural center and then continue to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and immediately check-in at your lodge. You will later have dinner and overnight

Recommended Accommodation:

• Luxury: mahogany lodge/ Buhoma lodge/ Rushanga Gorilla Safari Lodge
• Midrange: Gorilla Resort Bwindi/ Gorilla Safari Lodge/ Lake Mutanda Resort / Gorilla Mist Camp
• Budget: Buhoma community rest camp/ Ruhija Gorilla Friends Camp/ Gorilla Valley Lodge
• Meal Plan: full board

Day 3 of the 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari: Gorilla Trekking and Cultural Experience

The breakfast will be a bit early since this is the epicenter of this trip. After your breakfast, your guide will be there to take you to the park headquarters where you will be briefed by the guides before you begin to trek into the park.

Bwindi is renowned for its impressive Mountain Gorillas. The time it takes to trek is unpredictable, the thrill of spending time observing these gentle apes, once sited as they feed, communicate, play and bond with the young ones is an awesome experience that leaves a lasting memory of a lifetime.

That one hour that you are accorded to spend with them is worth the trek. You can have as many pictures with them as you can.

After the trek, you will return to the starting point where you will meet up with your guide to drive you back to the lodge for lunch

Return to your lodge for lunch rest, later go for a cultural walk to interact with and learn about the lifestyle of the local people.

You will participate in captivating traditional performances presented by the women’s group or orphaned children groups

Later you will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight

 Recommended Accommodation:

• Luxury: mahogany lodge/ Buhoma lodge/ Rushanga Gorilla Safari Lodge
• Midrange: Gorilla Resort Bwindi/ Gorilla Safari Lodge/ Lake Mutanda Resort / Gorilla Mist Camp
• Budget: Buhoma community rest camp/ Ruhija Gorilla Friends Camp/ Gorilla Valley Lodge
• Meal Plan: full board

Day 4 of the 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari: Travel to Queen Elizabeth Np, Game Drive, Boat Launch

After an early breakfast, you will transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park entering through Ishasha Sector renowned for the tree-climbing lions.

You will have a drive-through game drive, you are likely to spot elephants, hyenas, leopards, and Buffalos, and several bird species.

You will later in the afternoon for a four-hour boat cruise down the Kazinga channel that connects Lake George and Lake Edward.

The boat safari cruise takes through the highest population of hippos and you will see a profusion of water animals and birds basking on the water shores.

The boat safari cruise rewards you with a great opportunity to take photos at close range. After this tiresome yet exciting experience, you will head to your lodge for dinner and accommodation

Recommended Accommodation:

• Luxury: Mweya safari lodge: Katara lodge/ jacana lodge
• Midrange: bush lodge/ simba safari camp/ Buffalo safari Resort/ Enganzi Lodge/ Ihamba Safari lodge

• Budget: Kazinga channel view lodge/ Simba safari camp in tents/ Bush lodge in tents
• Meal Plan: full board

Day 5: Game Drive and Transfer to Kampala

After breakfast, you will set out for a game drive along the “Queen’s Mile” and the Kasenyi track to see wild animals.

Be ready to spot animals including the lion, leopard, Mongoose, Uganda kobs, elephants’ hyenas, waterbucks, cape buffaloes, Topi, warthogs, and several small animals and birds.

You will return to your lodge for lunch after which you will start the return the journey to Kampala, arriving in the evening

If your flight is this very day, then your guide driver will transfer you to the airport at the Entebbe international airport for your flight back home

• Meal plan: Breakfast and lunch

End of the 5 Days Wildlife & Gorilla Trekking Uganda Safari

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