5 Days Gorillas and Chimpanzee Tracking

DAY 1: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

You will be picked up from your hotel in Kampala after breakfast and Depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park . Take a stop at the Equator for pictures and a stop in Mbarara for lunch then proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Check in your lodge for  dinner and over night.

DAY 2: Chimpanzee Trekking and Launch Cruise

Wake up very early have an early breakfast and go for chimpanzee tracking in the Kyambura gorge. An encounter of these more closely related apes to human is really wondrous!! have fun as you watch them in their family and later return to the lodge for Lunch then we leave for a boat trip along the Kazinga Channel which gives you the opportunity to view wildlife up close: hippo’s huff and spray mere feet away from the boat, buffalo linger in the shallows. The shores of the channel are also home to an array of birds including pink backed pelicans, pied and malachite kingfishers, saddle billed stork and many others. later return to the lodge for dinner and over night.

DAY 3:  Game Drive and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

This morning after breakfast, we will check out of the Lodge and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park,  We will drive through the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth called Ishasha. Here we will take lunch by the Ishasha River and try to find the famed Ishasha tree-climbing lions before continuing on to Bwindi, home to the few remaining mountain gorillas. Bird life and primate life in Bwindi is quite superb, and there is an incredible variety of flora. Bwindi is also one of the parks with the biggest numbers of bird. Some people refer to it as the birder’s paradise that is second to Queen Elizabeth national park. Dinner at the Lodge.

DAY 4: Mountain Gorilla Tracking Safari

You will wake up very early in the morning and assemble at the starting points of the groups as you receive briefing from your rangers about gorilla tracking the all awaited for main theme of the tour. Then you will proceed to the forest for the tracking. The time taken to encounter these primates is un predictable so you are advised to carry lunch because it may take you 1-10 hours. On watching these gentle animals with their silver back, one will be forced to exclaim that; it is exhilarating !! return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY 5: DRIVE BACK TO KAMPALA

Take breakfast and proceed to Kampala or Entebbe for dinner and overnight