Tour overview

Included

  • All Park Entry Fees
  • All meals and activities as stated in the itinerary
  • Professional English Speaking safari Guide/Driver
  • Airport pick ups on arrival and transfer back on departure
  • Bottled drinking water
  • Extensive Game drives

Not Included

  • Visas
  • Driver/Guide gratuities
  • Drinks, dining rooms tips, porterage, personal travel and baggage insurance
  • Telephone bill, laundry and items of a personal nature

Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe

Depending on the time of your flight, Mzima Africa's representative will pick you up at the Airport with a placard and transfer you to the Hotel.

Day 2: Entebbe transfer to Kibale Forest

With an early breakfast, transfer to Kibale Forest.This park is famous for its population of habituated chimpanzees and 12 other species of primates. Kibale forest is one of the loveliest forests in Uganda with so much to offer from different bird species, 13 species of primates, other species of mammals, numerous indigenous and exotic tree species. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Rwenzori ranges.

Day 3: Half Day Chimpanzee trekking (Kanyanchu) & Bigodi Wetland

With the tracking permit transfer to the park headquarters at Kanyanchu for Morning Chimpanzee tracking. This activity starts at 8am and lasts an average of three hours accordingly. A hot meal at the Lodge and after relaxation with your guide transfer to Bigodi wetland Sanctuary. This swamp is an extensive collection of biodiversity, including primate species; mangabeys, vervet monkeys, white & black colobus monkeys, red colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, blue monkeys, grey cheeked and the L’Hoest monkeys. This wetland is a great example of a community-based project in an effort to protect the forest and areas around it. And it’s also famously known as a birders paradise.

Day 4: Kibale transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable

With a leisurely breakfast transfer to Nkuringo / Rushaga sector in Impenetrable forest National Park. This vast reserve offers arguably the most productive montane forest birding in Africa and supports 23 of Uganda’s 24 Albertine Rift endemic bird species. Once part of a much larger forest that included the Virunga Volcanoes in neighboring Rwanda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is now an ecological island within a sea of human cultivation and is of immense conservation importance.

Day 5: Gorilla Tracking

With an early breakfast transfer from the lodge with packed lunches. After gorilla briefing, continue to the forest for gorilla tracking. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular offering a dramatic, steeply forested landscape, incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous walk trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary as per the movements of the gorillas. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long savored, many find it to be a rare and moving. Tracking can take place at Nkuringo or at Rushaga (1hour drive from Nkuringo), as per the gorilla permits obtained. Upon return, relax at the lodge or opt for a stroll through the community center or drive up to the “Top of the World” - the name given to the football field, high up in Nkuringo which offers amazing views over the peaks and forest. A great way to stretch your legs after the gorilla tracking and to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 6: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest – Entebbe

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast in the misty jungle before driving to Entebbe for your flight back home with a stopover at the equator.