Upon arrival at Entebbe airport on showers of Lake Victoria, you will be warmly greeted by your driver guide and proceed to the hotel, 10 minutes away from the airport.

This morning, take a tour of Entebbe with a local guide. After early lunch, drive to Entebbe airport, at 1 pm take an internal flight to Pakuba airstrip.   Upon arrival at Murchison Falls National Park, you will drive to your lodge and check in. This afternoon, visit top-of-Murchison falls for breathtaking views in Uganda’s largest national park.  Later return to the lodge for dinner.

After Breakfast, proceed for a game drive, coming back in time for lunch. After lunch, you will go for the boat trip up to the bottom of the falls, and it is possible to view hundreds of hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of bird life. Look out for a game like the graceful Roth child

Giraffe, Jackson’s Hartebeest, Uganda Kob, Bushbuck, Defassa Waterbuck, Buffaloes, Elephants, Warthog, Oribi, and, when lucky, a leopard and Lion among others.

After an early breakfast, your driver guide will take you to the banks of the River Nile, where your boat to the delta will be waiting. This boat cruise will take between 4-5hrs. The Victoria Nile delta, a 20km voyage downstream from the southern banks of the Nile, is home to rare wetland birds, including shoebill and papyrus endemic species coming back in time for lunch.

After breakfast, drive south to Kibale in the Toro Kingdom, getting to Fort Portal in time for lunch. Passing through the countryside, admire expansive views of farmlands where the best fruits and vegetables in the country are grow.  Kibale National Park is one of the rainforests in Uganda and is famous for its primates, including monkeys and chimpanzees. It is home to 13 primate species, making it the number one protected area with the biggest primate numbers on the African continent. These primates include Chimpanzees, Red Colobus, Black-and-white Colobus, Red-tailed Monkeys, and Grey-cheeked Mangabey.

Today, you head out on a guided forest trek in search of chimpanzees. We proceed for a Chimpanzee wal,k coming back in time for lunch. Late afternoon, proceed for a walk in the Bigodi Wetland where you may see Primates like Red Colobus, Black and white Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey, L’Hoest’s Monkey among others.

Evening community cultural walk and learn more about community life experiences of the indigenous local people, like iron smelting, traditional medicines, and basket weaving, banana beer/gin processing, and from farm to cup coffee tasting.

Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park via the Kasenda Crater region. Set against the backdrop of the Rwenzori Mountains, this area is dotted by over 20 crater lakes. You will pass near 3 craters and have photography stops. These crater lakes were formed through volcanic eruptions, but instead of forming cones as volcanoes do, they simply blew ash and rock far and wide, thus leaving beautiful lakes to form.

This afternoon, you’ll board a boat for a cruise on the Kazinga Channel (2 hours approx.). – phenomenal safari seeing hippos, buffalo, and lots of water birds by the channel side. This boat cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching, and game viewing.  The park is home to over 95 mammal species and over 600 bird species.

After breakfast with your packed lunch, start your journey to Bwindi. Bwindi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a sanctuary for colobus monkeys, chimpanzees, and many birds such as hornbills and turacos. Undoubtedly, it is best known for its 409 mountain gorillas, half of the world’s population of the critically endangered mountain gorillas. Observing the gorillas may only be done on foot, and only a limited number of viewing permits are issued daily, which helps to protect the endangered gorilla families.

Gorilla tracking at 8:00 a.m. in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

While this is a very challenging walk, it is surely one of the highlights of a trip to Uganda and possibly one of the all-time nature highlights of our travelers’ lives. Gorilla permits are strictly limited to protect these endangered species. Each group is limited to eight participants in a day.

We recommend you wear good walking boots/shoes and carry good rain gear and enough drinking water. Trekking can be tough and challenging, and so we trust you are in reasonably fit condition. You will carry a picnic lunch with you into the forest, and you will be thrilled to have seen these rare primates. The return journey could be easier!

After breakfast at leisure, drive back to the visitor’s center for paperwork and head out for the nature walk to the waterfalls, coming back in time for lunch. In the late afternoon, go for a village walk to see the life of the pigmies. Learn their way of life, some hunting skills, fire-making skills, and their traditional medicine.

We recommend you wear good walking boots/shoes and carry good rain gear and enough drinking water.

Today, we transfer to Kisoro Airfield to catch your scheduled domestic flight to Entebbe International Airport.  Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel.

We transfer you to Entebbe airport for the outbound departure flight.