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8 days 7 nights
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English
This trip takes you through Uganda at relaxed pace, combining activity with cultural exchange, relaxation throughout. Your female tour guide will accompany you throughout the tour, providing insight and interpretation as you experience the sights and sounds of this wonderful country. You will travel from Entebbe to Kampala, across to Lake Mburo and finally to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest near the Congo border.
Upon arrival at Entebbe airport, you will be met by our representative and transfer 10mins to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: The Boma GuestHouse
Meal Plan: Dinner
We spend a relaxing morning ambling around Kampala’s boutiques, art galleries and craft markets, with a spa treatment this afternoon. In the evening, we can enjoy a sumptuous dinner at the Khana Khazana, Kampala’s famous North Indian restaurant.
Accommodation and meals included.
On day 3 we will travel westwards to Lake Mburo National Park. After lunch at the lodge, we will head out for an afternoon nature walk in the park.
The national park is home to 68 mammal species, including zebra, impala, buffalo, as well as 315 species of bird, one of which is the rare shoebill stork. Its sculptured landscape with rolling grassy hills and idyllic lake shore has a varied mosaic of habitats – forest galleries, seasonal and permanent swamps and rich acacia wood valleys which all support a wealth of wildlife.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We will enjoy a horseback safari across the rolling plains of the park in search of the wildlife that abounds here. For novice riders, shorter rides are available, or perhaps a game walk is more your style.
This afternoon, we enjoy a boat trip on Lake Mburo to view the area’s hippo and birdlife population, or laze by the pool overlooking the plains far below.
Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
On day 5 we drive into the scenic Kigezi Highlands of south western Uganda and make our way to the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. This UNESCO World Heritage site is ancient and breathtakingly beautiful. The lodge is owned by the local community, but is run to a very high standard, making it one of the best lodges in East Africa, and a fitting base for our gorilla adventure. Later this afternoon, we can relax at the lodge.
Accommodation: Bunyonyi Overland Camp
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
The day’s tracking of mountain gorillas is sure to be a highlight of your trip. The gorillas we are allowed to track belong to either one of six habituated family groups. For up to five years each, these groups have undergone a delicate process that has gradually brought them to tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period every day.
The time taken to track the gorillas can be up to several hours and once they are located, our group will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them.
Accommodation: Bunyonyi Overland Camp
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We will have the opportunity of gorilla tracking in the forest once more.
The park comprises 331 square kilometres of jungle forests and contains both montane and lowland forest and is accessible only on foot. In addition to the incredible gorillas, the park is also a sanctuary for colobus monkeys, chimpanzees and many birds such as hornbills and turacos.
Accommodation: Bunyonyi Overland Camp
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We will transfer to Entebbe at Boma Guesthouse for relaxation. (This is dependent on the time of your onward flight.) Later in the day, we will be transferred back to Entebbe airport to check in for our international departure flight.
Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch
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