7 DAYS ECO-TOUR
Kibale National Park and Semuliki National Park
Tour Code: INS009

Day 1: Airport pickup
You will be met at the airport and transferred to the hotel by one of our personnel. Rest/overnight at budget-Banda Inns BB, midrange-Hotel Africana BB, upgrade-Mamba Point BB.

Day 2: Transfer to Fort Portal-Kibale National Park
After breakfast, head to the west of Uganda through Mubende having a stop over for lunch in Masindi or Mubende. This route takes you through breathtaking scenery and delightful tea Plantations, arriving at Fort Portal in the evening. Dinner and overnight at budget-Rwenzori View guest House BB, midrange-Mountains of the moon hotel BB, upgrade-Kibale Primate Lodge FB.

Day 3: Chimp tracking-Kibale National Park
After an early tea or coffee, with your packed breakfast and lunch drive to Kibale Forest National Park. You will have a briefing by a park official that prepares you for you chimp tracking there after set off into the forest. During your tracking look out for other kinds of Primates, you can as well get in to a bird, butterfly and botany watch. You will have a picnic lunch at one of the picnic sites. After lunch you will take an optional visit the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary a superb ecotourism site developed to protect the Magombe swamp which is a have for 137 species of birds as well as a number of primate species. Dinner and overnight at budget-Rwenzori View guest House BB, midrange-Mountains of the moon hotel BB, upgrade-Kibale Primate Lodge FB.

Day 4: Fort Portal
After an early breakfast, you will visit the Toroo palace; Karambi tombs, the Nyakasura area to view the Amabere ga Nyinamwiru and a nature walk to the crater lakes (optional). You will have lunch at the hotel there after go for a town tour of Fort Portal Township and meet the people as well. Dinner and overnight at budget-Rwenzori View guest House BB, midrange-Mountains of the moon hotel BB, upgrade-Kibale Primate Lodge FB.

Day 5: Transfer to Semliki National Park
After breakfast drive to Semuliki Valley. Here you will enjoy magnificent scenery of the River Semuliki meandering to Lake Albert as well as hot springs that boil up to 130˚C. You will have a picnic lunch at the hot water springs. An evening nature walk in the forest will conclude your evening. Dinner and overnight at the Semuliki Safari Lodge FB.

Day 6: Semliki National Park
After breakfast, you will take a village tour of the local communities in the foothills of the Rwenzoris. Lunch at the Kamugha Rest House. After lunch you will enjoy cultural performances by the Bakonjo and Batoro (if available), there after visit the local women group whose pre-occupation is creating Artifacts; dinner and overnight at Semuliki Safari Lodge FB.

Day 7: Transfer to Kampala
After breakfast transfer to Kampala arriving in the early afternoon and later catch your flight back home.

Cost of the tour

Included in the package:

• All accommodation meal plan as stated
• Transport (4WD) and Fuel for the whole trip plus a full time safari guide
• 1Game drives, nature walk  
• Airport transfers
• Park entrance charges
• Accommodation for the first night prior to the morning of the trip
• Chimp permits
• Water through out the trip

Excluded from the package:

• Phone calls, bar bills, laundry bills and any other personal expense not included on the itinerary.
• The last night after the trip
• Tips
• Entrance fees to Bigodi wetland sanctuary, fees for village tour, cultural performances
• Fees for extra activities not included in the itinerary as well as optional activities on Lake Bunyonyi.

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