1 Day Entebbe City Tour Uganda Safari Trip – DETAILED SAFARI ITINERARY

Have an early morning breakfast (at around 7.00 am), after which your guide picks you up from your place of stay in Kampala or Entebbe for your Entebbe city tour. Below is a detailed description of the sites included in this amazing 1 day Entebbe city tour.

Entebbe Botanica Gardens

From your place of stay, start your Entebbe tour with a visit to the beautiful Entebbe Botanical Gardens. Undertake a leisurely walking tour of the gardens with sights of tropical trees, plants, butterflies, monkeys, and birds in abundance along with Lake Victoria. With the beautiful lakeshore scenery you a guaranteed to have a peaceful morning in a relaxing place blown by the cool lake breeze.

Your lunch shall be served along the sandy beach under the shade provided by the large palm trees under which you can order local Ugandan or intercontinental dishes– grilled tilapia whole, pizza, some Indian dishes, etc, all served with a refreshing cool drink. The grilled Uganda tilapia is a visitor`s favorite, try it!!

Laidback in 1898, Entebbe Botanical Gardens has become more beautiful with age. These beautifully landscaped gardens offer a perfect introduction to the birds of Uganda including Grey kestrel, Yellow-throated leaflove, Slender-billed Weaver, Orange weaver, and Jackson’s golden weaver, Black-headed gonolek, Red-chested Sunbird, Grey-capped Warbler, Brown-throated wattle-eye, the impressive Palmnut vultures, Verreaux’s Eagle, African fish eagles, the splendid Ross’s and Great blue turacos, African grey parrot and Black-and-white casqued hornbill.

The gardens also host primates like vervet and Black-and-white colobus monkeys and the most fantastic tropical plants one can find.

Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC)

After lunch, you shall drive to the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC), formerly known as the Entebbe Zoo. UWEC is situated on the shore of Lake Victoria. The education center was opened in 1952 by the Colonial Government as a reception center for wild that were found sick, injured, orphaned, and those confiscated from illegal trade. In the early 1960s, its role was changed to a zoo. In May 1994 a proposal was made by the New York Zoological Society now the World Conservation Society, to turn it into a conservation education Center for conservation awareness purposes; thus the name, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre.

UWEC is today a champion in teaching conservation to the many school children and adults who visit it. It  hosts several animals of local origin and some from other continents like Asia, these include;

• Chimpanzees
• Leopards
• Lions
• Tigers
• Africa bush elephants
• Cape Buffalos
• Rothschild’s giraffes
• Common eland, the world’s second-largest antelope
• Rwenzori black-and-white colobus monkeys
• Red-tailed monkeys
• Patas monkeys
• Olive baboon
• Serval cats
• Reedbucks
• Impalas
• Hartebeests
• Giant Forest hogs
• African rock pythons
• Nile crocodiles

There are also several bird species in Uganda Wildlife Education including the Common ostrich, Grey-crowned crane (Uganda National bird), African grey parrot, African fish eagle, Peafowl, and Pinck-backed pelicans. Taking photographs of your interest will be after paying for your camera entry and you shall walk along the various paths ending at beachside restaurants for refreshments before proceeding to our last destination.

Imperial Resort Beach Entebbe

From UWEC, drive to Imperial Resort Beach Entebbe- the best white sand beach in Uganda located on the shores of Lake Victoria adjacent to a beautiful five-star hotel.

A tour of the caves along this beach some of which have been made into creative bars is rewarding due to their unique features, as this is done you will have lots of waterbirds some of which are scavengers to see as you enjoy the cool lake Victoria breeze.

Your Entebbe 1 day tour will end with a lake swim if desired or relaxation along the beach of Lake Victoria with native Ugandans or dive into the hotel`s Olympic size swimming pool to step up your physical fitness after a busy day finalized with a dance to Ugandan local tunes plus international tunes to warm your body as say buy the beach if it’s a weekend.

Please note that a motorboat cruise can be arranged for you if interested in having a cruise on Lake Victoria. This tour ends between 6:00-8:00 pm (local time) according to you will so when ready you will tell your guide to drive back to your hotel but he will remind you if it clocks 8 pm.

Other optional activities to do in Entebbe include:-

• Explore Mabamba Swamp by canoe in search of the fascinating and rare Shoebill
• Visit Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary for Chimpanzee close up encounter
• Sunset boat cruise on Lake Victoria
• Boat trip to fish for the legendary Nile Perch
• Birding in Lutembe Bay Swamp

End of the 1 Day Entebbe City Tour Uganda Safari Trip