BOAT TOUR TO MABAMBA - SHOEBILL STORK EXPERIENCE- AFTERNOON VISIT LOCAL MARKET AND SUNDOWNER BOAT CRUISE ON LAKE VICTORIA
- Early breakfast
- Transfer with your guide to the boat starting point. The boat has life-vests.
- Boat-ride across the lake with beautiful views of Entebbe, the airport, fishermen and lots of birds, especially on approaching the swamps.
- Arrive at Mabamba and disembark the bigger boat and enter the smaller canoes for the Mabamba Swamps.
- After some minutes in the canoe the papyrus reads opens into the big grassy swamps. This is usually where the Shoebill stork can be spotted
- Transfer back with big boat to Entebbe with a chance to see other birds
- Transfer with your guide to your lodge for lunch
- Afternoon visit local markets and craft shops in Entebbe
- Transfer to the boat starting point for a sundowner boat cruise on Lake Victoria
- Back to your lodge and dinner
TRANSFER TO KIBALE N.P – AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES TO CHOOSE FROM
- Enjoy your breakfast
- Transfer Kibale N.P (optional: scheduled flight)
- Lunch enroute - included
- Kibale Forest is a primatologist dream; it hosts a population of more than 1000 chimpanzees and monkey species including black and white Colobus and the handsome L`Hoest monkey.
- Check in at your lodge
- Afternoon activities to choose from.
- Bigodi swamp walk, this site is amazing as you shall encounter the rare beautiful flora and fauna, different rare bird species
- Top of the world, you will explore the area with your WOLF-guide and local guide to “the top of the world” which gives you the best view to other national parks (Kibale, Queen Elizabeth national park and the impressive Rwenzori Mountains N.P. ) Included this afternoon is visit some tea- and coffee plantations and the local community.
CHIMPANZEE TREKKING
- Early an early breakfast
- Carry your packed lunch
- Transfer to the starting point office to meet your ranger and have the briefing to prepare for chimpanzee trekking
- Chimpanzee trekking
- Optional:
- Chimpanzee habituation, during this tour, expect coming across the chimps de-nesting (in their nocturnal nests) between 05.30 to 06.30. The rest of the day will be full, your camera will fill up with quality pictures of the chimpanzees and you will get to learn to identify them as individuals by their markings, sometimes scars and other unique features that make them stand apart from rest. The day ends as the chimpanzees climb into their newly built nests for the evening and you head back to your lodging for the evening.
- Afternoon at leisure or enjoy activities at the lodge
TRANSFER TO QUEEN ELIZABETH – AFTERNOON BOAT CRUISE ON KAZINGA CHANNEL
- Enjoy breakfast and check out
- Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
- Check in at your lodge and lunch
- Transfer or walk to the boat starting point
- Afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga channel; this channel is an excellent opportunity to view the varied and abundant wildlife populations. These include: Elephants, Hippos, Buffaloes and Nile crocodile. Not to mention large numbers of resident and migratory bird species (600 species).
- Back to your lodge
Kyambura Gorge Lodge inclusions:
Accommodation and meals, house alcoholic drinks non-premium, soft drinks, laundry services, any activities at the lodge, and one 30 minutes complimentary massage at the lodge per guest per stay
DAY 6: MORNING SAFARI THROUGH THE PARK TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NP / ISHASHA REGION – AFTERNOON SUNDOWNER SAFARI
- Morning safari through the park to the Ishasha region of Queen Elizabeth national park.
- Check in and lunch at your lodge
- Enjoy in the late afternoon a fantastic sundowner safari with a good chance to see the tree-climbing lions and great other wildlife and birdlife
Please note: this Camp is in the park with a bucket shower with hot water between 5-9 PM and electricity based on solar power.
Ishasha Wilderness Camp inclusions:
Full Board accommodation, 3 multiple course meals per day, all hot beverages and bar snacks, house drinks, and other camp services provided at the lodge
Ishasha Wilderness Camp inclusions:
Full Board accommodation, 3 multiple course meals per day, all hot beverages and bar snacks, house drinks, and other camp services provided at the lodge.
FULL DAY SAFARI IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK / ISHASHA REGION
Today you will enjoy morning and afternoon safaris in the park with your guide.
Ishasha Wilderness Camp inclusions:
Full Board accommodation, 3 multiple course meals per day, all hot beverages and bar snacks, house drinks, and other camp services provided at the lodge
EARLY MORNING SAFARI- TRANSFER TO BWINDI IMPENETRABLE N.P- AFTERNOON BATWA EXPERIENCE
- Early morning safari in search of tree climbing lions and other wildlife
- Back to your lodge for breakfast and check out
- Transfer to Bwindi national park, best known for its impressive gorilla tracking but it also provides refuge to Elephants, Monkeys, butterflies and various small antelopes as well as 23 bird species restricted to the Albertine rift.
- Arrive at your lodge and check in
- Lunch at your lodge
- Afternoon (time dependent):
- Batwa experience. The experience shows you how they lived grass thatched houses, caves, hunted small animals which were used for food. Learn as they guide you through the forest, dance, sing and storytelling of their traditional ways of farming, handling the bow, gather honey, and picking herbal medicine from roots and leaves a local way of treating the local people.
- Visit the Bwindi development network and learn how they work together with the local community to protect the Bwindi forest and its wildlife. One of the main activities is the anti - poaching project; meet formal poachers and hear their stories.
Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp inclusions:
All meals, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages (with exception of premium brand and Champaign), Concession Fees, Community fees, Laundry services
MOUNTAIN GORILLA TREKKING AND MEET THE IMPRESSIVE SILVERBACK
- Early morning breakfast
- Transfer for the briefing about your trekking
- The trek can take between half an hour to six hours looking for Gorillas
- Gorilla trekking: hike with local park ranger to find and see the Mountain Gorillas.
- Once the gorilla family is found, one can spend a max. of 1 hour with them.
- The local operator will offer a free porter per person who will assist you with your daypack, and give you hand when the path is slippery, steep or irregular. The porters are from the local community and registered by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, in this way we also support the local community.
- Afternoon leisure at the lodge or choose from a spa menu a well-deserved massage in the lodge – to be locally paid or enjoy activities offered by the lodge
Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp inclusions:
All meals, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages (with exception of premium brand and Champaign), Concession Fees, Community fees, Laundry services
TRANSFER TO LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK – NIGHT SAFARI
- Morning breakfast
- Transfer to Lake Mburo N. P
- Check in and Lunch at the lodge
- Night safari in search of bush babies and other nocturnal animals
EXPLORE AND ENJOY LAKE MBURO
- Enjoy after breakfast a great safari in the park
- Optional: nature walk (supplement charge for the ranger, price on request)
- Lunch at your lodge
- Enjoy in the afternoon a boat safari n Lake Mburo (birds, water wildlife as hippo’s, crocodiles etc)
TRANSFER TO ENTEBBE – DEPARTURE
- Morning breakfast and check out
- Transfer to Entebbe
- En route: stop at Equator with lunch
- Dinner in a restaurant Entebbe - own account
- Transfer to Entebbe Airport for an evening departure flight.
