8 Days Prime Uganda Wildlife Safaris, Primate and cultural Safaris Uganda
Active African Vacations is here to organize 8 Days Uganda Gorilla, Culture, wildlife & Chimps Safari that can let you tour Uganda’s best safari destinations in the shortest time possible. This Uganda safari is organized in a way that you are able to spot the interesting tourism attractions in Uganda’s national park.
Day 1: Transfer- Bwindi National Park
Upon your arrival at Katuna or Cyanika border you will meet our tour/driver guides with the safari jeeps and after exchanging the welcome hospitality, then embark the safari jeep and transfer to Bwindi Gorilla National Park and upon arrival relax at the Nkuringo Gorilla Camp/Mutanda Lake Resort as you wait for your dinner and overnight. Meal plan: H/B
Day 2: Bwindi-Gorilla Trek
Begin the day with breakfast ready for trekking, which begins at 8:00 am with a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority staff. Ensure to carry along with you rain jacket, drinking water, snacks, jungle boots. The guides will lead you inside the jungle to see the shy Primates for a group you have been booked for. Do not forget to take your lunch boxes and all the necessary gear to track the rare Mountain Gorilla, perhaps one of the most exciting wildlife experiences on earth. There are now only 880 left in the world! The tracking may take between 2 and 6 hours but its well worth the effort. Dinner and overnight at, Meal plan: F/B
Day 3: Batwa Trail Experience
Have breakfast, and thereafter transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla Park head offices for the briefing about the forest and then take the full day Batwa cultural trail and visiting their ritual points in the Mgahinga forest like the Garama Caves and also get to know their life style from their historical leaders. This experience tends to take full day inside the forest understanding their historical and current life style. Return to lodge for dinner and overnight, Meal plan: F/B
Day 4: Bwindi-Queen Elizabeth National Park
Have breakfast and after transfer with lunch en-route and thereafter drive to the Ishasha southern sector to look for the tree climbing lions and other wildlife species like Elephants, buffaloes, water and bush bucks, warthogs, oribi, topi among others. Dinner and overnight at Savannah Hotel Resort. Meal plan: Half Board-(Lunch and Dinner)
Day 5: Ishasha Sector-Mweya Peninsula
After breakfast, take another dawn game drive into the Ishasha sector looking for more wildlife species and then after transfer to the Mweya peninsula and take afternoon launch cruise where you will spot various water animals such as Hippos,Crocodiles,Elephants,Monitor Lizards and so many birds. Dinner and overnight at Bush Safari Camp, Lodge/Enganzi Lodge. Meal plan: Full Board
Day 6: Game drive-Kibale Forest National Park
After early morning breakfast go for another game drive at the Kasenyi mating ground to spot the lions, elephants, buffaloes, water and bush back, warthogs and other species of Antelopes. Return to lodge for lunch, after embark the safari jeep and transfer to Kibale Forest with the fabled view of the mountain of the moon and dinner and overnight at Mountain of the Moon Hotel/Kibale Forest Camp, Meal plan: Full Board
Day 7: Kibale Forest Chimpanzee Trek-Amabere Ga Nyinamwiru
At 8.00 am we will start with the 4 hour chimp walk – during which you may also get to see 10 other primates! Kibale Park is also known for all the butterflies and birds. In the afternoon we will visit the Amabere Ga Nyinamwiru caves (The cave Amabere Ga Nyinamwiru (Breasts of Nyinamwiru) is named after Nyinamwiru or Nyina Mwiru Chwezi Kingdom (Bachwezi). She was the daughter of Bukuku, a very rich man and King of the Batembuzi dynasty, the predecessor of the current Babito kings of Toro and Bunyoro kingdoms. She was a girl of famed beauty, and as always in this stories she was not willing to marry the man her father chose for her. As a result she was punished by cutting off her breasts which then grew into rock dripping with milk. Other versions of the legend tell, she cut off her breasts herself.
One chamber of the cave contains stalactites which resemble in form female breasts. The dripping water from the stalactites deposited white calcite, so the water looks whiteish. This is why the locals call it breast milk. However, the guides are well educated and tell the scientific background as well as the legend. Dinner and overnight as above- Meal plan: F/B
Day 8: Kibale National Park-Katuna/Cyanika Border
An early breakfast and after drive back to Katuna/Cyanika border with lunch en-route. Upon the drop at the border marks the end of the services.
The package includes:
Accommodation and meals in Mid-range lodges
Transportation by safari vehicles
Gorilla permits
Batwa trail experience
Chimpanzee permits
En-route luncheons
Park entrances
Game drives
Boat cruises
Professional English speaking guide
Exclusions:
The expenses of personal nature like: Air fares, Visa, Luxury drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, and porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills.