Explore Uganda Safari

You will wake early for breakfast and be taken to the park headquarters where you will have a briefing from your gorilla-tracking team at 8am about the rules of the park, and what to do and what not to do when you meet up with the gorillas. Then head off with your group through the foothills and higher-altitude forest—ensure you have strong shoes, wet-weather gear and a stout walking stick. As the gorilla family sleeps in a different place every night and travels through the day, pausing occasionally to eat and rest, you’ll have several guides and trackers to find their location and tracking takes between 2 and 8 hours. But once your group catches up with the mountain gorilla family, all fatigue is immediately forgotten when you discover that you are sitting only a few metres from the gorillas in the undergrowth. You are allotted one hour to observe them, and will perhaps see the babies scrambling up trees, juveniles playing, females grooming each other or feeding their young, or even a giant silverback (dominant male) pounding his chest. The gorillas are just as interested in their human visitors and will stare curiously back and it is a spine-tingling hour. Afterwards the guide will lead you gently away for the long but exhilarated walk back, and later head back to your lodge and rest. In the evening you can choose to relax at the lodge or take an evening interactive walk with the local Batwa people—the original hunter-gatherer community of the forest and you will have the opportunity to learn how they live and also watch them perform traditional singing and dancing.

• Overnight in Bwindi National Park
• Accommodation at your camp or lodge
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
• Drinking water is provided. All other drinks are extra

After a tasty breakfast, check-out from the lodge and start your journey from Bwindi eastwards to Lake Mburo National Park. Leaving the spectacular southwestern highlands behind and passing through Mbarara town, we encounter the farmland of central Uganda, which is home to the long-horned Ankolecattle and banana and coffee plantations. You will have lunch along the way and on arrival at the park check-in at your lodge followed by a late afternoon game drive. The 260-sq-km Lake Mburo National Park has a pleasant landscape of open plains, acacia grasslands, riverine woodland, and within the park boundary are five lakes linked by papyrus marshes. It sustains large numbers of antelope like topi, impala, oribi, eland, klipspringer, Defassa waterbuck, reedbuck and Uganda kob, as well as zebra, giraffe, warthog and buffalo.  Enjoy dinner and a relaxing evening at your lodge.

• Overnight in Lake Mburo National Park
• Accommodation at your camp or lodge
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
• Drinking water is provided. All other drinks are extra

After a leisurely breakfast, go on a tranquil boat safari on Lake Mburo to see hippos and crocodiles, while herds of buffalo can often be spotted in the marshes and baboons and vervet monkeys in the lakeside forests.The cruise is ideal for bird watching and more than 350 interesting species have been recorded in the park. Highlights are the rare shoebill stork, crested crane (Uganda’s national bird and emblem), saddle-billed stork and Abyssinian ground hornbill. Other water birds easily spotted are pied and malachite kingfishers, African fish eagles, pelicans, herons and cormorants. After the boat cruise, head back to the lodge and relax at the bar area or swimming pool and then enjoy a last lunch on your Uganda safari. On the drive back to Kampala, stop at the equator sign over the main road for photos and buy crafts and souvenirs at the nearby shops. This exciting 4-day Uganda safari ends at you Kampala hotel in the early evening.

• Accommodation: No accommodation
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast & Lunch
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)