This 5-days adventure safari thrills you with both chimpanzee trekking and Gorilla tracking Kibale and Bwindi National Park. Enjoy the beautiful scenic views of the terraced mountains and rugged country side and also some wildlife, cultural encounters with plenty of amazing birdlife not to be missed.
After breakfast, our company guide/ driver will pick you from your hotel and brief you about the safari. We will then embark on a journey to western Uganda. Enroute, we will briefly stop over at the equator crossing in Kayabwe for refreshment and crafts shopping. Then continue to Fortportal town for lunch. Along the way, we will visit the delightful tea plantations. Just 40 minutes away after lunch, we will arrive in Kibale National park.
After an early breakfast, report for briefing at the park headquarters at 8:00hrs. Thereafter, we set off for chimp trekking in Kanyanchu for approximately 2 to 5 hours depending on where the chimpanzees have decided to habit. Look out for more primates like the olden monkey, L’Hoest monkey, baboons, white and black colobus monkeys, grey checked mangabey, red colobus, blue monkeys and also a variety of birds, forest elephants and giant hogs.
In the afternoon, have lunch and go for a guided nature walk to the Bigodi swamps. Enjoy birdwatching, butterfly viewing, wild plants and colourful flowers. Birds sighted here include: Joyful and Cabanis Greenbuls, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Toro Olive and Cameroon Sombre Greenbuls, Green Twinspot, Brown and more. Note that this visit enables tourists to give back to the community yet enjoy the nature offered by the swamp.
After breakfast, we will check out of the lodge and transfer to Bwindi forest National Park habitant to the largest population of mountain gorillas in the world. Through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabethh National Park famous for tree climbing lions, we will arrive in the afternoon with lunch enroute. Check in at the lodge and relax the entire day or you can engage in a range of (optional – extra charges) activities like birding along the Buhoma waterfalls or bamboo zone trail. Additionally, Hiking/Nature walks are quite exciting activities through the impenetrable forest. Enjoy the mountain views, waterfalls, the tranquil nature and wonderful birdlife along any of these nature trails like the Muyanga Waterfalls walk, Rushura Hill walk and the Buhoma-Nkuringo trail.
After an early breakfast, we head to the Uganda Wildlife Authority headquarters at Buhoma. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to the largest number of habituated mountain gorilla families. After a short briefing by the guides, we proceed through the dense forest to track these endangered animals depending on where they built their nest the previous night. Tracking can take between 1 and 3 hours. For conservation purposes, time allowed with these gentle, great apes Gorillas is 1 hour. For many visitors, this is the wildlife highlight of their trip. Enjoy the beauty and freshness of the forest, home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas.
After lunch, we shall go for a community/cultural walk in the Batwa people, enjoy activities like cultural dances, farming, crafts making, black smiths and meet traditional healers. Birding and Nature walks are (optional) activities.
In the morning, have breakfast and check out of the lodge. We will then depart for Kampala arriving in the evening with lunch enroute. The tour will end when our driver returns you to your drop-off point.
