A 10 days wildlife adventure is ideal if you want to visit Uganda’s most popular gems. During this trip, you are bound to visit one of the most beautiful lakes in Uganda, Lake Bunyonyi. It is located southwestern Uganda within Kigezi highlands in the districts of Rubanda and Kabale. Neighboring the famous wild giants (mountain Gorillas) in Bwindi and the Virunga ranges in Kisoro. It is the second deepest lake in Africa after Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and third in the world, believed to have safe waters for swimming, bilharzia and crocodile free zone.
One must really be a good swimmer as the waters are so deep. 29 islands dot this lava dammed lake, each with a different story behind it. Hundreds of birds like the herons, egrets call it home and hence the name, Bunyonyi meaning very many little birds. A 10 days wildlife adventure also presents to you Uganda’s primates ranging from big apes, Mountain Gorillas, Chimpanzee to lesser primates among monkeys predominated by the Golden monkey to a black and white colobus monkey and baboons.
You will also visit the largest National Park in Uganda, Murchison falls and the medley of wonders, Queen Elizabeth National Park. Enjoy a diverse ecosystem of wildlife, nature, drainage systems, birds, communities among others. Amabere ga Nyinamwiru and the Tooro palace are ready to feed you with the rich Bunyoro-Kitara history. This trip is one not to miss! A 10 days wildlife adventure is sure to hold your hand into the most satisfying and breathtaking safari of your life!
Day 1: Start our 10 days wildlife adventure.
As we commence our 10 days wildlife adventure, meet with our team after your early morning breakfast at your accommodation reception abd immediately, set off before 7:00am through the Luwero-Nakansogola triangle to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. It still keeps the monopoly of white rhinos in Uganda, the haven for conservation and breeding for this endangered species. Take part in rhino tracking after being assigned a family and a guide. Continue Norhwards with a lunch stop over at Kabalega Diners, proceed to Uganda’s largest park crossing the Nile at Karuma falls. Go for an evening gamedrive if it’s early.
Check in on arrival at the hotel.
Day 2: Game drive, boat cruise and visit top of falls.
After breakfast, set off for an early morning game drive with our guide to the Southwest of the park. You spot different park wildlife like, elephants, lions, buffalos, leopards, giraffes, warthogs, infinite antelopes like water bucks, kobs, monkeys, baboons, scenery with a chance to spot a leopard along the track. After the drive visit the Top of the falls, where the beautiful rainbow resides. Enjoy your packed lunch and after, hop onto the 2:00pm boat cruise to the bottom of falls that is 3hours long coupled with busking crocodiles, schools of Hippos, elephants, waterbucks, extended birdlife and cliff-nested bee eaters, return to the lodge and have a relaxed evening.
Day 3 of our 10 days Wildlife Adventure: Transfer to Fort Portal.
You are joined by our driver guide after your early morning breakfast crossing the Nile at Paraa through Hoima district to the not only cleanest town in Uganda but city to Tooro kingdom based along the shadows of Rwenzori ranges, on arrival visit the King’s palace and proceed to our hotel for overnight.
Day 4: Amabeere and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
After your morning breakfast visit the Amabeere ga’ Nyinamwiru, the beautiful stalactites and stalagmites and the Nyakasura waterfalls. Then steer to Uganda’s most popular park Queen Elizabeth National Park via Kasese through the beautiful western arm of the great rift valley with extra features like crater lakes scenic views.
Retire at the hotel for overnight.
Day 5: Morning game drive and boat cruise.
Have early morning breakfast and set out for a game drive for great game sightings and scenic crater lakes and grassy hills. Expect to see lots of elephants, Uganda kobs, buffalos, waterbucks, and bushbucks. After the game drive transfer to your lodge for lunch and relax.
Later after lunch set out for a boat ride along the Kanziga Channel extending from Lake Edward to Lake George at 2:00pm offering you a close range to wildlife magnet hosting lots of animals including Hippos, busking crocodiles, buffalos, and monitor lizards are a common sight. Elephants, waterbucks, bushbucks, kobs, and other game come to the shores to drink, cool off, and eat fresh grass. The cool breeze on your skin soothes you from the hot afternoon. Bird lovers are in for a treat! Cormorants, African fish eagle, pied and malachite kingfishers, pink-backed pelicans, cattle egrets and lots of colorful birds throng the shores of the channel. The ride last for about 2-3hours.
Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Climbing lions and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Have early breakfast and sign out of the lodge with your packed lunch, go for an early game drive and expect to see climbing lions, mongoose, leopards, hyenas, elephants, buffalos along the extended Ishasha trail. Be on the on look out for the tree-climbing lions that are common to this section of the park plus other big game. After a stop at the scenic Kikorongo equator monument and a photographic session, proceed out of the park and head for Bwindi National Park, home of the Mountain Gorillas, have lunch enroute. Check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 7 of our 10 days wildlife adventure: Gorilla trekking and nature walk.
In an early misty morning, have your breakfast and set out to the Park head offices for a pregnant briefing about the do’s and don’ts of Mountain Gorilla’s that lasts up to 8:30am (EAT), where we are led by a team from UWA led by field ranger guide and armed park ranger to ensure our life’s safety into the Bwindi that will last for 2-8hours, and on encountering the giants for a one hour period with them in a 7meter distance is permitted as you enjoy their feeding playing and breath from the Gorillas, return to the Lodge for Lunch. After lunch we couple our adventure with a community safari to the Batwa trail for the exclusive Batwa experience. Enjoy a traditional entertainment session from them.
Return to the lodge for an overnight
Day 8: Transfer to lake Bunyonyi and strike a community safari.
Visit the Batwa community after a boat cruise and a hike. Your evening is about to be seasoned with their native entertainment coupled with life style and folklore.
Return to the lodge for an overnight.
Day 9: Visit different islands and canoeing.
Wake up with a cup of African tea/coffee and a delicious breakfast in an early morning dominated by fog and mist. Go for island hopping on the believed Bilharzia free lake led by the famous punishment island ehere girls who hot pregnant out of wedlock were punished. Each island has its unique features and activities ranging from cultural encounters, hiking and bicycle riding, return to the lodge for lunch. After lunch you can taste the Swiss waters declared clean and safe for swimming.
Overnight at the Lodge.
Day 10: end of our 10 days wildlife adventure
Check out of your lodge after your early morning breakfast out of the mist through green banana plantations coupled with cattle farm ranches with lunch enroute at Igongo cultural center. Proceed through the popular Ankole Masaka dry corridor for equator experience, take enough photos and steer arriving Kampala in the evening.
Inclusions;
Gorilla permits
All mentioned activities
Full board accommodation
Transport 4X4 car
Drinking Water
Excludes;
Air tickets, Hard drinks
Personal gadget, Tips