Every day of your custom route is mapped below. Timing and premium property choices can be completely adjusted by our destination architects.
Our guide representative will receive you on arrival and brief you. You will drive northwest through lush hills and bustling market towns for approximately 2.5 hours, to the stunning Volcanoes National Park. It is well known as the venue for Dian Fossey’s pioneering studies of mountain gorillas. Overnight at your lodge.
Start early on your first morning for a trip to track the golden monkeys. These primates are beautiful, endangered, and more agile than mountain gorillas. They live in bamboo thickets on the lower slopes of the mountains and tracking them acclimatizes you perfectly to the slight altitude. You’ll then head higher to the gorillas marking your last views of the park’s environs and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Spend a day tracking endangered mountain gorillas, which share 97.7% of our DNA. You’ll be spending up to an hour among them. See mothers keeping infants close as they knucklewalk on three limbs. Toddlers scamper around and get reined in by an attentive father, whose job is to protect his family. When you look into the eyes of a mountain gorilla, there is no mistaking the bond that exists between primates and man—and no escaping the poignant reminder that these creatures lie on the brink of extinction. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
After breakfast, drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, home to elephants, lions, hippos, buffalo and baboons. Participate in game drives in the afternoon. While exploring, watch above for tree-climbing lions, a sight rarely seen anywhere else in Africa. You may also see some of Uganda’s largest elephant herds. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
After an early morning game drive, we will begin the day with the game drive in Ishasha Sector and a late transfer to Mweya Peninsular. On arrival, we will go for a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel. The boat trip within Queen Elizabeth National Park is done on the impressive Kazinga Channel a 40-kilometre water-long natural channel that links Lake Edward plus Lake George. This launch cruise takes 2 hours to explore the water and the wildlife along the shores of the Kazinga Channel. Professional guides right on the boat will give you all the necessary information and point out any hidden wildlife. Return to lodge for dinner.
After breakfast, transfer to Kyambura Gorge to track chimpanzees on the eastern side of the park. It is surrounded by savanna but noted for its high concentration of primate life located in the gorge, including red-tailed monkeys, black-and-white Colobus, baboons, and vervet monkeys. The gorge is also known for varied bird species including various falcons, the blue-headed bee-eater, and the African finfoot. This will be followed by a transfer to Lake Mburo National Park. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
We will begin with horse safaris which are an awesome way to see the wildlife while in Lake Mburo. Without the noise of motor engines, you can hear so much more and feel part of nature, offering the chance to see timider animals like eland, buffalo, warthog, Topi, impala, duiker, and zebras. Afterwards, return to the lodge for breakfast, followed by a transfer to Entebbe Airport for your flight departure.
Famed for it's rarity, come trek these majestic primates in Uganda and Rwanda.
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