07 Days Visit to Lake Mburo ,Bwindi Impenetrable & Queen Elizabeth National Park

On arrival at the Entebbe International Airport, our company representative will be waiting to meet you and transfer you to your hotel in Kampala. Depending on the time of arrival, you can decide to do some activities in Entebbe like visiting the Botanical gardens, visit the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (Zoo) or visit the reptile village. You will also have a pre-trip briefing. 

Dinner and Overnight at Lake Heights Hotel | Lake Victoria View Guesthouse | Sunset Guesthouse 

Meet and greet with our local guide over breakfast, and then after we drive heading to southwestern Uganda. En route, there is a local community popular for making local drums and crafts and a fruit market. Stopover, admire and buy souvenirs. Proceed to the Equator line taken as one beautiful scenery in Africa – the pathway of the sun and take photographs. Arrive in Lake Mburo for a lunch in the park grounds as you marvel at the game and birds within the park. Thereafter we take the unforgettable sun set boat cruise along the Lake Mburo and while on cruise expect the clear view and panoramic photographs of wildlife and birds along the shores of the channel.  

A network of   game tracks explores the eastern hinterland of this park, providing the chance to see a variety of savannah animals and birds. The boat trip also explores the eastern shores of the Lake for about 2 hours-watch out for crocodiles and hippopotamus, you can also sight a variety of birds including pelicans, herons and fish eagle and perhaps the rare finfoot and shoebill. There will also be a night game drive, which provides an opportunity to see nocturnal animals such as the bushbabys, pottos and perhaps even a leopard.

Dinner and overnight at Muhingo , Rwakobo Rock and Eagles Nest

After an early morning breakfast, we go for the nature walk, and then we depart for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest en route Mbarara-Kabale. 

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site and one of the richest biological and botanical regions in the world. The forest covers an area of 331 km² at the southwestern edge of the western Rift Valley. Bwindi’s most-revered species are the approximately 1,004 wild Mountain Gorillas that make up more than a half of the world population of these gentle apes.  

After a few hours in the vehicle, you may enjoy an evening walk around the community (your home for two nights) and a chance to visit one of the handicraft shops or to meet the Batwa, the ancient forest-dwelling tribe. Dinner and Overnight at Chameleon Hill Lodge | Rushaga Gorilla Camp-Safari Tents | Rushaga Gorilla Camp-Cabins 

You will be up early in the morning of your Gorilla Tracking day, for a good breakfast in preparation for the day’s physical activity. You will report for registration at the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger station by 7.40 AM. After a briefing by the rangers, your gorilla trek will start. The trek usually takes between three and six hours so a reasonable degree of fitness is required, as well as a strong pair of walking boots or shoes. 

The rangers will guide you through the village gardens and into the jungle-like forest. They will escort you through the sometimes-thick bush, occasionally hacking the dense undergrowth with a machete as you search to locate the gorillas. The mountain gorillas are under 24 hour monitoring for their own safety, so you are almost guaranteed to see them. The rangers monitor each gorilla family by keeping in close radio contact. 

In part due to gorilla tourism, the population of gorillas is slowly increasing but the species remains critically endangered. Gorillas and humans share almost identical genetic material and their health must not be compromised by coming into contact with human diseases (via our food, for example). To reduce transmission of disease from humans to gorillas, you will also be advised to keep a distance of 7 metres from the gorillas. Once you have located the gorilla family, you will be asked to leave all your belongings to one side, and approach the gentle giants, just with your camera. The guides will interpret the animals’ behavior and advise on what you are watching. Females, their young, young males, and even a dominant Silverback may be seen: feeding, playing, interacting with each other, or just sleeping! You will never forget your encounter with the gorillas. They will be quite curious to see you! You are allowed exactly one hour with the gorillas before returning to base. 

Dinner and Overnight at Chameleon Hill Lodge | Rushaga Gorilla Camp-Safari Tents | Rushaga Gorilla Camp-Cabins

Start your day early with a 6 o’clock coffee or tea wake-up call, ready for your transfer to Queen Elizabeth NP via the remote, southern sector of the Park. It is on these expansive plains that you will be on the lookout for its famous resident: the tree-climbing lion. A sighting is not guaranteed, but you have a better chance of seeing them here in the large low-limbed fig trees than anywhere else in Africa. This southernmost sector offers classic game viewing experience under vast rift valley skies. Expect to see buffaloes, hippos, elephants, topis and more besides.  Dinner and Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge | Marafiki Lodge | The Bush Lodge 

The open grasslands of Kasenyi provide QENP’s primary game viewing area, thanks to the resident herds of Uganda Kob -their mating grounds and the lions that prey on them. We search for lions, elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals in their natural habitat.  

The parks’ experienced ranger guides cab usually locate lions but predator sightings can be guaranteed by signing up for a tour with the Mweya-based Uganda Predator Project which monitors the movement of lions, leopards and hyenas fitted with radio collars. 

In the afternoon, you will take a boat for a water safari on the Kazinga Channel at Mweya that connects the two lakes of Edward and George. The channel is 33 km long and 2-3 km at its widest points. The scheduled 2-hour boat ride (beverages and snacks included!) will cover a 12-14 km stretch of the channel, with almost guaranteed excellent wildlife sightings including multitudes of hippopotamus – possibly the world’s highest concentration – Nile crocodiles, wallowing buffaloes on its reedy banks, elephants, and many birds. This is likely to be a big highlight of your trip! 

The expert Uganda Wildlife Authority guides will identify many of the Channel’s 100 bird species and you are likely to see African Skimmers, Great White Pelicans, Spoonbill and a number of Bee-eater species. Hippos wallow at the edge of the water, huge Nile crocodiles bask in the sun and elephants come down to drink. The Kazinga Channel boat ride is a brilliant opportunity to take some close-up wildlife shots.  Dinner and Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge | Marafiki Lodge | The Bush Lodge

The open grasslands of Kasenyi provide QENP’s primary game viewing area, thanks to the resident herds of Uganda Kob and the lions that prey on them. The parks experienced ranger guides cab usually locate lions but predator sightings can be guaranteed by signing up for a tour with the Mweyabased Uganda Predator Project which monitors the movement of lions, leopards and hyenas fitted with radio collars. 

Drives back to Kampala through Mbarara – the land where milk and honey flow on the village paths, have lunch en route. The on past the equator lines at Kayabwe, there are quite a number of craft shops here where you can purchase memoirs of our trip.