5 DAYS CHIMPANZEE AND GORILLA TRACKING

Depending on your arrival time at Entebbe International Airport, you will be transferred to Fort Portal town. The journey takes you through the cool undulating tea and coffee plantations along Fort Portal town also known as Uganda’s Tourism City with lunch enroute.

On arrival check in at your hotel for dinner and overnight at:

Budget Accommodation

• Kalitusi BackPackers

• Prunus Hotel

• Night Rose

• Green Village Apartments

Mid-range Accommodation

• Mountains of the Moon Hotel

• Fort Motel

• Kalya Courts

Luxury Accommodation

• Nyaika Hotel

• Kyaninga Lodge

After an early morning breakfast, your driver will take you for chimpanzee tracking activity which takes about 3 hours in Kibale Forest National Park where you will view a variety of monkeys, birds, butterflies in the tropical rain forest. 

After Chimpanzee tracking, you will be transferred to Queen National Park. On arrival have lunch at your hotel and after lunch go for an afternoon boat cruise for 2 hours at Kazinga Channel where you will view buffaloes, Crocodiles, Elephants and a variety of bird species.

After the boat cruise you go for an evening game drive as you head back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Budget Accommodation

• Tembo Safri Lodge

• UWA Banda's

• Lions Track Over land

Mid-range Accommodation

• Kasenyi Safari Lodge

• Bush lodge safari tent

luxury hotel

Mweya safari lodge

Elephant plain

buffalo lodge

Have an early morning breakfast and depart to Ishasha sector to search the tree climbing lions in the fig trees as well spot elephants, topis, water backs, kobs and buffaloes. After a 2 hours game viewing, drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. On arrival, check in at your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Budget Accommodation

• Ruhondeza

•Gorilla mist

Buhoma community rest camp

Mid-range Accommodation

• Bakiga lodge

Buhoma camp

Luxury Accommodation

• Rushaga Gorilla Camp

Nkuringo gorilla lodge

Early morning after breakfast you will be transferred to the UWA offices for a briefing about Gorilla tracking experience in the thick tropical rain forest of Bwindi. After briefing, embark on a 3 hour trek in the jungle searching the Gorilla family, when you find the family your tracking, you will spend an hour with these might apes as you learn more about them and take memorable life tie photos.

Later after tracking the gorillas, head to Lake Bunyonyi, a place that some travelers have with tears described as the most beautiful on earth. The hilly landscape, the about 30 islands connected like dots in the Garden of Eden should leave you breathless!

You can choose to take an optional local boat ride to “Punishment Island” and see where myth has it that non virgins were left to die several decades ago as punishment. Listen to tale of this place as you savor the scenery, the beauty of the most beautiful place on late afternoon, depart Bunyonyi and spend the night in Kabale town.

Optional tour of Kabale museum for some beautiful Bakiga folklore.

Budget Accommodation

• Lake Bunyonyi ECO resort

• Itambira Island

Mid-range Accommodation

Bird nest

Acadia cottages

Bushara high land camp

Luxury Accommodation

• Bunyonyi Overland Resort

Buyonyi safari camp

After delicious breakfast, you will start your journey back to

Entebbe international airport or kampala capital city or Rwanda Kigali. Cross the equator and have a quick picnic lunch. You will then drive to Entebbe airport to catch your flight back home.