8 DAYS VISIT TO SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA

Upon arrival you will be received by our tour guide driver who will transfer you to Kampala for city tour, refreshments and an overnight.

After early morning breakfast, your guide will pick you from the hotel and drive you to the south western side of the country through a verdant country side. You will be fascinated by traditional drum makers, a photo shoot at the equator and the ankole long horned cattle near Mbarara town. With a stopover in Mbarara for lunch after lunch proceeds further to south west through the fascinating scenery of Kabale with rolling hills adorned with terraces. You will reach Bwindi impenetrable forest in the evening and check in a hotel for dinner and overnight.

After early morning breakfast report to the park headquarters with a picnic lunch for briefing by the senior park ranger guide. Enter the forest and enjoy its beauty and freshness being home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas. Proceed through the dense vegetation to trek for these endangered primates depending on where they built their nest the previous night. Observe the gentle giants as they feed, groom the young. If time allows after tracking you may take a community visit as you experience the life style of the local communities enjoy the traditional dances offered by the community.

Drive back to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

After early morning breakfast drive through the country side passing through the traditions homesteads that depend on forestry, tea growing and coffee farming, Irish potatoes being their main staple food.  Continue on to Queen Elizabeth national park through the southern part of the park (ishasha sector) as you look out for the tree climbing lions resting in the fig trees. You may as well be rewarded by the sight of cobs, water bucks and topes grazing in the ishasha plains. Have lunch and continue to the upper part of the park. Check in the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

After early morning breakfast, take a 6:30 am morning game drive to catch up with the early raisers like the leopard, lion, spotted hyena among others. The park’s diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forest rivers, swamps, lakes and volcanic craters is a home for an incredible abundance of wildlife and over 600 bird species. As you move around the park spot different wild mammals like buffalos, lions, warthogs, kobs and waterbucks. Also expect a variety of bird species such long crested eagle, the great blue turaco etc. After lunch go for the afternoon boat cruise on the kazinga channel, this is the most memorable and unforgettable experience here you will have a chance to spot crocodiles, hippos etc it is also a home of a variety of water birds such as African fish eagle, pelican etc.

After early morning breakfast you will transfer to kibale forest national park famed for its highest population of primates in Africa and home to the chimpanzee. You will pass through Kasese as you enjoy the captivating sight of the Rwenzori glacial peaks. You will arrive in kibale at noon you will have lunch, after lunch you will embark on a nature walk through bigodi wetland for primate and bird watching. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

After an early morning breakfast, report to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for briefing by the senior park guide proceed to track man’s closest relative of all the apes in this vast forest. You are likely to encounter other primates like baboons, red colobus, white and black colobus among others as well as a wide variety of birds. If time allows you may take an optional evening visit to the crater lakes of ndali. Return to the lodge for dinner and over night.

After early morning breakfast you will check out at the lodge, you will check out at the lodge after breakfast as you drive back to Kampala depending on where time for lunch will find you. After lunch proceed with the journey to Kampala.