13 DAY JUNGLE TOUR
 Murchison Falls, Kibale N/P, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, Lake Bunyonyi, and Lake Mburo N/P
Tour Code: INS011

Day One: Airport pickup
You will be met and transferred from the airport to the hotel for rest/overnight at budget-Banda Inns BB, midrange-Hotel Africana BB, upgrade-Mamba Point BB.

Day Two: Transfer to Murchison falls National Park
Drive through the famous Luweero Triangle onto Murchison falls national park. Stop over for lunch in Masindi town. You will take an optional drive to the top of the falls to view it from there. Proceed to the lodge have the evening at leisure dinner and overnight at budget-Red Chili Camp bed only, midrange-Sambiya River Lodge BB, Paraa Safari Lodge FB.

Day Three: Murchison falls National Park
Rise early in the morning after an early breakfast go for a thrilling game drive, expect to see elephants, giraffe, countless antelope, hippopotamus, hartebeest, leopard, giraffe, buffalo, crocodile, the Uganda kob, and wide range of bird species including the rare shoebill stork. Lunch at the lodge there after take an afternoon launch cruise upstream at 2.00pm. You will get to see the awe-inspiring Murchison Falls, where the River Nile hurls itself in appalling convulsions through a narrow crevice and then plunges 40 meters in one breathtaking leap. Dinner and overnight at budget-Red Chili Camp bed only, midrange-Sambiya River Lodge BB, Paraa Safari Lodge FB.

 Day Four: Transfer to Fort Portal-Kibale National Park
After breakfast, with your packed lunch drive via the Albertine Escarpment of the western Rift valley on the way to Kibale forest National Park arriving late in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at budget-Rwenzori View guest House BB, midrange-Mountains of the moon hotel BB, upgrade-Kibale Primate Lodge FB.

Day Five: Chimp Tracking-Kibale National Park
After breakfast; with your packed lunch you will go for chimp tracking; look out for primates like the colobus monkeys, families of chimps, a diversity of birds and an abundance of butterflies. In the afternoon you will take an optional visit to the crater lakes for sight seeing; alternatively (optional) visit to 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 Six:   Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Transfer to Queen Elizabeth, lunch in Albertine Rift Safari Lodge. In the afternoon you will go for an optional nature walk in Maramagambo forest. Have the evening at leisure, dinner and overnight at budget-Albertine Rift Safari Lodge FB, midrange-Kingfisher Kichwamba FB, upgrade-Mweya Safari Lodge FB.

Day Seven: Queen Elizabeth National Park
After an early breakfast go for a game drive either at 6.00 or 7.00am during which expect to see lions, buffaloes, elephants, leopards, spotted hyena the giant forest hog. Return to the lodge for lunch. After lunch you will go for a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel expect to see hippos that huff and spray only feet away from the boat, buffaloes and elephants lingering in the shallows, a diversity of bird species including the black chested eagle, the swallow tailed bee eaters, great and long tailed cormorants, African jacana malachite. Return to Lodge for dinner and overnight. Budget-Albertine Rift Safari Lodge FB, midrange-Kingfisher Kichwamba FB, upgrade-Mweya Safari Lodge FB.

Day Eight: Transfer to Bwindi National Park
After breakfast, with your parked lunch proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Once in Bwindi you will check in at your hotel; take part in an optional activity: Visit to the Batwa communities as they perform traditional Dances or Buhoma community hospital for a cultural feel of the area. Dinner and overnight at budget-Bwindi View bandas BB, midrange-Buhoma homesteads FB, upgrade-Gorilla Forest Camp FB.

 Day Nine: Gorilla tracking-Bwindi National Park
After an early tea or coffee with your packed lunch and the necessary tracking gear you will report to the park offices for a briefing that prepares you for gorilla tracking. Your guide will take you along river trails with delightful waterfalls, up steep slopes and into forest clearings (depending on which family you are tracking) in search of an enormous array of reserved, exquisite and exciting jungle creatures that live in this deep forest; your first impression of the dense jungle will be its almost audible silence. The tracking may take between 1-7 hours that pay off when you finally meet the gorillas, you will spend one hour with them then finally return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at budget-Bwindi View bandas BB, midrange-Buhoma homesteads FB, upgrade-Gorilla Forest Camp FB.
 
Day Ten: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi-Kabale
Set off in the morning after breakfast and proceed to lake Bunyonyi the second deepest lava dammed lake in East and Central Africa. Your drive will get you to see some beautiful scenery of the Kabale highlands, on to the Lake Bunyonyi environs for a day of relaxation enjoying the beautiful scenery and serene environment. Lake Bunyonyi is the second deepest lake in East and central Africa housing over 25 scenic Islands each with a different mythical tale for instance the punishment Island that tells of the pain and tears of many Bakiga women abandoned on the Island and left for dead for getting pregnant out of wedlock. Lunch at Nature’s Prime Island on Lake Bunyonyi. You will take part in an optional activity of your choice. Dinner and overnight at Nature’s Prime Island FB.

Day Eleven: Lake Bunyonyi Environs
 Have a fun day in the Lake Bunyonyi environs and take part in an optional activity of your choice including a boat ride along Lake Bunyonyi to various islands within the lake for bird viewing and sight seeing and a boat ride to the Batwa pigmies village. Overnight at Nature’s Prime Island FB.

 Day Twelve: Transfer to Lake Mburo
After breakfast, drive to Lake Mburo via Mbarara, arriving in time for lunch at Mihingo lodge. You will go for an evening game drive. Dinner and over night at  upgrade-Mihingo lodge, budget-Rwonyo Camp Bed only. Meal plan and accommodation full board

 Day thirteen: Transfer to Kampala
After breakfast you will go for an optional nature walk in the park and later go for the afternoon boat ride on Lake Mburo to view different bird species, hippos and crocodiles, there after depart for Kampala. Make a stop over for lunch at the Equator arriving in Kampala in the afternoon. Visit craft markets in Kampala and later transfer to the airport. Kampala. Dinner and over night   at budget-Banda Inns BB, midrange-Hotel Africana BB, upgrade-Mamba Point BB.

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
• 4Game drives and 3launch cruises
• Airport transfers
• Park entrance charges
• Accommodation for the first night prior to the morning of the trip
• Gorilla and 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
• Fees for activities on Nature’s Prime Island
• Fees for extra activities not included in the itinerary as well as optional activities on Lake Bunyonyi.

 Note: All Gorilla trips must be booked three months in advance and can only be confirmed depending on availability of gorilla permits

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