8 Days Uganda Flying Safari

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Day 1 Arrival in Entebbe

Upon arrival in Entebbe, you will be collected by your guide and transferred to your hotel. Depending on your arrival time you may be able to explore Entebbe and the surrounding areas in Kampala this afternoon. You can choose to have dinner at the hotel or we can recommend good spots for food and drink around town.

Accommodation: Hotel No.5

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 2 Fly to Murchison Falls National Park

Today you will be transferred to Entebbe Airport for your flight to the legendary Murchison Falls National Park arriving at Pakuba Airstrip. Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda’s biggest National Park and offers a large amount of wildlife. There are also thundering falls as the Nile passes through.

Accommodation: Nile Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 3 Murchison Falls National Park

Today morning, you will have an early morning game drive. This is a beautiful drive in the open African savanna in search of lions, leopards, hyenas, buffalos, elephants, and Jackson hartebeest, oribi, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, and enjoy spotting various bird species such as the secretary bird, black-chested snake eagle, tawny and marshal eagles carmine and swallow-tailed bee-eaters, and many more.

You will then visit the top of the falls where the Nile squeezes through a 7-meter gap and have breakfast. In the afternoon, you'll go for a boat ride up the Nile, to Murchison Falls, where the park derives its name.

Accommodation: Nile Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included 

Day 4 Fly to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Today you will drive to Pakuba Airstrip for your flight to Kasese Airstrip. Upon arrival in Kasese, you will drive today to the world-famous Queen Elizabeth National Park. Named after Her Majesty the Queen of England, it is Uganda's most popular and most scenic game reserve.

It stretches from the crater-dotted foothills of the Rwenzori range in the north, along the shores of Lake Edward to the remote Ishasha River in the south, incorporating a wide variety of habitats that range from savanna and wetlands and lowland forest. You will have an evening game drive in the park.

Accommodation: Kyambura Gorge Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 5 Chimp Trekking and Kazinga Channel

After an early breakfast, you will proceed to Kyambura Gorge for chimp trekking. Located approximately 1 km across – at its broadest point and about 100 meters deep, this gorge is drained by River Kyambura.

The landscape is among the most impressive you will find in Uganda and it is swarmed with a rich wildlife bio-diversity that comprises of primates, wild animals as well as birds. The trekking is generally a 2-4 hr walk in the forest and will include an hour with the wild community of chimpanzees that have habituated.

In the afternoon, you will have a boat ride on the Kazinga Channel. Queen Elizabeth boasts one of the highest biodiversity ratings of any game park, from the open savannah to rainforest, dense papyrus swamps and crater lakes to the vastness of Lake Edward.

Accommodation: Kyambura Gorge Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 6 Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

You'll depart for Bwindi National Park in the morning. On your way, you will have a chance to have a game drive in the Ishasha sector where the tree-climbing lions are found. Then, you'll continue to the home of the mountain gorillas, Bwindi National Park.

Of Uganda’s Forested Parks, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is best known for gorilla tracking, but it also provides refuge to elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and various small antelopes, as well as 23 bird species restricted to the Albertine.

Accommodation: Bwindi Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 7 Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

This morning you will get up very early for gorilla trekking. Trekking the mountain gorilla is one of the most exciting wildlife experiences on earth. The trek will take between 2 and 6 hours and is well worth the effort. You will be led by an experienced ranger who will tell you interesting facts about flora and fauna and the lifestyle of the gorillas.

Accommodation: Bwindi Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

Day 8 Return to Entebbe

This morning you fly back to Entebbe to enjoy beautiful aerial views of southern Uganda, the hills are thick with vegetation.

You'll arrive at the airport to connect with your international flights home.

Accommodation: No accommodation

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast

Included

• Park fees
• Gorilla permits
• Chimp permits
• All activities
• All accommodation
• A professional driver/guide
• All transportation
• All flights during the tour
• All Taxes/VAT
• Roundtrip airport transfer
• Meals

Excluded

• International flights
• Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
• Tips
• Personal items
• Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
• Some meals
• Drinks