Safari overview
Your 7 days cheap Uganda Primates safari is a wildlife adventure that will take you to four out Uganda’s ten National Parks namely Murchison Falls National Park, Kibale National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will have the best wildlife experience of any Uganda safari where you are guaranteed of encountering four out Africa’s Big five, spotting aquatic animals during the course of your boat cruise along the Nile River, getting close to a variety of primate species in Kibale National Park including the chimpanzees and trekking through challenging terrains and dense forests to get up-close with the endangered mountain gorillas in their natural habitat which is indeed a once in a lifetime experience.
Day by Day Program
Day 1: Arrival and transfer to Murchison falls National Park
Today your driver guide from Omangwa Safaris will be waiting to receive you, take you through a briefing of your safari and transfer you to Murchison falls National Park with an optional visit to Ziwa rhino sanctuary if time allows for rhino trekking where you will get on your feet to locate a group of rhinos. Lunch will be served along the way arriving at your lodge in Murchison in the evening to have dinner and an over waiting to explore Uganda’s largest and oldest National Park in the next morning.
Day 2: Morning game drive and a boat cruise
Wakeup to a scrumptious breakfast and head off for a game drive in the northern section of the Park dominated by savannah grasslands best for game viewing. Animals to lookout for include elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards, giraffes, hyenas, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, oribis, Jackson’s hartebeests and many more. A variety of bird species will as well be spotted ranging from ground dwellers such as the Abyssinian ground hornbills, helmeted guineafowl to those that spend most of their time in flight like black-billed barbets, yellow-fronted tinker bird, red-winged grey warbler, rock pratincole to mention but a few. Get back to your lodge for lunch after which you will proceed for a 2 hours’ boat cruise to the bottom of the falls along the Nile River. Here you will catch-up with animals like schools of hippopotamuses, crocodiles and several water birds. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 3: Transfer to Kibale National Park and nature walk
Have a relaxed breakfast and then be whisked away from Murchison to Kibale National Park known as the world’s primate capital housing up to 13 primate species which is the highest of any protected area. Arrival will be in the perfect time for your lunch after which you will head off for a guided nature walk within the Park’s dense forests to encounter primates and several other mammals not forgetting to spot several forest birds. You will be on the lookout for primates such as black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, olive baboons, blue monkeys and many more. This lasts for about 3 hours after which you will return back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 4: Chimpanzee trekking and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Arise early in the morning for your breakfast and be driven to the Park headquarters for a briefing about the dos and don’ts of chimpanzee trekking. Ranger guides will lead you into the Park’s dense forests to encounter a troop of habituated chimpanzees. Locating them may take between 2 to 4 hours after which an hour is allowed close to them as you observe their social behaviors and take enough pictures of them go by their routine activities. Get back to your lodge for lunch before checking out to be driven to Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will arrive to have a relaxed evening at your lodge as you wait to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 5: Morning game drive and transfer to Bwindi
Breakfast will be served early in the morning, meet your ranger and the driver guide to hit the Kasenyi plains for game viewing experience where you will catch-up with the wild’s early risers and nocturnal animals rush back to their hide outs. Animals to be spotted include elephants, lions, buffaloes, hyenas, topis, warthogs, leopards, waterbucks and many more with a variety of savannah bird species. Return to your lodge for lunch and later proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with an en-route game drive in the Ishasha sector for an experience of the tree climbing lions that will be seen lazily relaxing high up between fig tree branches. Proceed to the Park arriving in the evening to check-in at your lodge, have dinner and an overnight.
Day 6: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi national park and a relaxed evening
Enjoy your hefty breakfast very early in the morning, have your lunch packed and proceed to the Park headquarters for a briefing about what is required of you and what to expect during gorilla trekking. You will be assigned gorilla families and rangers will lead you into Bwindi’s misty forests to locate the gorillas in their natural habitat. Trekking may take between 2 to 6 hours and watching them closely take on their daily activities is such a wondrous and once in a life time experience. Having spent an hour with them, you will return to your lodge to have a relaxed evening while you heal from the days’ fatigue waiting to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 7: Transfer back to Kampala and connect to Entebbe
Arise today morning and have a relaxed breakfast, checkout and hit the road for your drive back to Kampala while admiring the beautiful scenery that will surely compel you to get your camera out for some photos. Your day’s first stopover will be in Mbarara for your lunch after which you will proceed to the equator line in Kayabwe for a photo session on the equator monument. Make visits to craft shops around to have a few souvenirs to take with you home before you proceed to Kampala. Arrival will be in the evening to either be dropped off at your preferred hotel or straight to the airport in Entebbe for your flight back home.
