This 7-days Uganda Primates Safari explores the best Ugandan national parks including chimpanzee tracking in Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth national park for game drive and boat cruise and gorilla trekking in Bwindi national park.
Some highlight activities include; game drives, gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking, boat safari and Bigodi swamp walk.
Day 1: Transfer to Kibale National park.
Today, have early breakfast and be ready for pick up your tour guide to transfer to Kibale national park reaching in the time for lunch. In the afternoon, you may head out for an optional community walk to visit the crater lakes region where you will have spectacular views of the lakes.
Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking & Bigodi swamp tour
Set off early morning after early breakfast and set off to assemble at the Kibale park headquarters 8:00 am for briefing on chimps tracking. Enter the forest in search for chimps. The search can go up to 4 hours. Return for lunch and after which head out for a community visit to the Bigodi swamp for bird watching and later return to your lodge.
Day 3: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park.
Set off early after your breakfast at your hotel for Queen Elizabeth National Park on a 1 – 2 hours’ drive. You will get to your lodge in time for lunch and in the afternoon, relax or swimming.
Day 4: Morning Game Drive & afternoon boat trip
Today you will set off quite early with packed breakfast and head out for your early morning game drive to catch sight of the early risers. This is the best time to see wildlife along the Kasenyi trail. Expect to see elephants, buffaloes, lions, waterbucks, Uganda Kobs and quite a number of others. Return to your lodge for lunch. After lunch, go out for a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel. Return to your hotel for Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Drive to Bwindi NP through Ishasha Sector.
Have breakfast to transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National Park, a home to half of the world’s mountain gorillas for trekking experience. The journey goes through the Ishasha sector famous for Tree-Climbing lions. Dinner and overnight at the booked lodge.
Day 6: Gorilla Trekking Bwindi NP
Your day begins with an early cup of coffee and your guide will drive you to the Bwindi park headquarters where all visitors going for gorilla trekking gather for briefing about conduct / behavior when you meet your gorilla family. Trekking for gorilla in Uganda usually last 2 – 7 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas.
A head guide will escort you into the forest plus an armed guard in search for your gorilla group. Once you meet the gorillas, you are allowed 1 hour with the gentle giants. After trekking descend back to the park head offices where you will meet you guide to drive you to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 7: Transfer back to Kampala and Departure
After breakfast, you will transfer back to Kampala with en route stopover in Mbarara town for lunch. After lunch, you will proceed to Kampala with en route stopover at the Equator for a photo session and buying souvenirs.
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Uganda Tourism Board
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Uganda Wildlife Authority
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The Buhoma Gorilla Camp
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The Bwindi Kids Charity
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ExcellentBased on 21 reviewsHeadspun2023-07-16Unforgettable Rwanda Emerald tailored our 5 day trip to Rwanda to all our many and frequently changing requests without any fuss. Chris, our driver/guide for the duration, could not have been more helpful and professionalNic2022-10-25Amazing holidays! Great holidays! Even my special wishes were included into the planning although time was short. Our guide and driver City Tyson Magezi was caring and responsible. We traveled for four weeks and stayed in different accommodations from hut to tent to amazing hotels.Susanne2022-08-19Just amazing It felt so safe and comfortable and exciting to travel with emerald. Our guide was so caring, so experienced and always friendly and an a great mood. He showed us so many animals included lions and leopards. That was just amazing . We saw wonderful landscapes like waterfalls and had contact to people . No Uganda or Eastern Africa without emerald . I m deep in love with Uganda and will come back as soon as possible.Jose Murta2022-05-13Memorable Family Trip in Uganda Fantastic Trip that exceeded our expectations! Travelled to Uganda with wife and 2 children (9 and 10y old) for 7 days. Since the start (at planning stage) got a great support from Bob (company owner) and Edmund (our guide) via WhatsApp. They tailored a program to our needs including the unforgettable mountain gorillas hike, general hikes to waterfalls, safari including boat trip to see hipos!! Edmund, our guide, always super polite and the kids enjoyed him a lot! All our hotels, meals included in the package so no hassle on this….we just paid for drinks! The only regret I have is not staying one extra day in the Mburo National Park to explore a bit more ;) Memorable trip with so much nature and a super-humble people that made the experience even more enjoyable!! Super recommend!! The whole family just feeling we need to get back to explore more ;)Dwayne B2022-05-13Great Experience With Emerald!! It was an amazing experience! My guides Lucky and Hillary made me feel as if I was family and took care of everything I needed. They were very knowledgeable as we trekked to gorillas in Bwindi and a ride a wildlife safari through Queen Elizabeth. I learned so much from them about the animals, the terrain and the surrounding people. They we also incredibly helpful in helping me find activities around Buhoma, where I stayed, all of which were great. By the time I left I knew I had made friends who I will continue to stay in touch with. Can’t wait to come back with my family!Dávid B2022-05-12Feeding python - 9 lions on a tree - leopard vs. lion We saw all animals and extremely special situations in a short period of time, good organization and friendly guide Paul with lots of knowledge.Rachmurta2022-05-10Unforgettable trip! We spent one week in Uganda travelling by the guidance of Gorilla Experience safari. The whole experience were definitely above our expectations. Edmand was a friendly, polite and kind guide the whole time!Vit Siv2022-04-22Ultimately Unique Experience of Uganda! It was unbelievable unique experience, one in a life time. Everything right from arrival to minor ditals was taken care of, too service! Itinerary was compiled/tailor to our wishes and needs as well as to include as much activities as possible. Tyson was our guide. He is an amazing guide, but even better person. He did an incredible job to put this all together, and make it all happen. We managed to do everything we wanted and even more. Definitely a trip to remember!!Emmanuel OKalany2022-01-08A rewarding experience for a family visit to queen Elizabeth National Park My family and I had an excellent guided tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The itinerary planning provided was good and the costing of items was realistic. The care and hospitality of the team was excellent. They were also flexible to make time adjustments brought about because of traveling with childrenGordon Y2021-06-23Trip to Kaiso Tonya Game Reserve The guide/driver was too keen to find out my interests. That way, we always had something to talk abouts. Thank you