The 4 Days Affordable Budget Uganda Gorilla Trekking, Chimpanzee and Wildlife Safari is a blend of wildlife and gorilla experience. It features the most popular Uganda Safari destination of Queen Elizabeth National Park with its counts of wild game including the lions both land dwelling and tree climbing, African elephants, the Cape Buffaloes, the Uganda Kobs, waterbucks, spotted hyena, leopards, side stripped jackals. The Safari also features Mountain gorilla trekking in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park a habitat with a minimum of 400 mountain gorillas which is close to a half of the 880 numbers that are known to thrive in the world. The gorilla destination of Bwindi is also a rich habitat for Afro montane flora, counts of birds including the African broadbill which is found in Ruhija and Congo, the forest animals like duikers and forest elephants. The magical hills offer impressive scenery and sightseeing experience. The recreation encounter on Lake Bunyonyi known as the Lake of a thousand Islands because of its 29 Islands presents moments of rejuvenation following a day long gorilla trekking experience. The optional game drive / wild game viewing in Lake Mburo National Park is also rewarding with the views of Rothschild Giraffes, the Topis, the Impala, the Burchell’s Zebra, Warthogs, elands among other wild game.
The Uganda gorilla trek and Wildlife safari starts early in the morning at 6:30am from your place of stay in Kampala after breakfast with the safari guide picking you up to head to Queen Elizabeth National Park 417km about 7 hours’ drive in the south west of Uganda. Drive from Kampala towards the west and have a stop at the Equator for handicrafts and amazing photos plus demonstrations that justify the geographical separation between the north and the southern hemisphere. After this continue with your journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park fronted by the magnificent Rwenzori Mountain range for much of your journey. On the outskirts, you connect to the Kalinzu Forest Reserve for an afternoon Chimpanzee trekking experience. You explore the amazing apes which feature 98.8% of the human DNA making them our closest cousins. The verdant forest of Kalinzu features impressive flora, birds and other primate species including black and white colobus monkeys, olive baboon, and red-tailed, blue and L’Hoest monkey which can as well be explored on the chimpanzee trekking encounter. The chimp trek can take 2 – 5 hours’ inclusive of one hour of direct viewing after which you connect to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight. An optional evening game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park can be undertaken if time allows.
Accommodation: Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages, Basic: Kazinga Channel View Resort / UWA Bandas
The day starts with breakfast, then embark on an early morning game drive along Kasenyi track and Queen’s mile in the park. You have possibilities of exploring cape Buffaloes, Elephants Topi, Kobs, Warthogs, Waterbucks, Hyena, Leopards, as well as the lions and lots of Birds. After the game drive, embark on the trip to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via Ishasha. Along the road via Ishasha you have chances of spotting tree climbing lions are found in this section in the whole of Uganda and Ishasha’s short trees offer rewarding close looks other than that of Lake Manyara in Tanzania where the tree climbing lions are also found on a world scale. Ishasha also supports Buffaloes, Elephants, Waterbucks and Kobs which can be viewed en route to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park arriving in the evening for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Budget: Broadbill Forest Camp, Basic: Nshongi Camp
After an early morning breakfast, you connect to the park headquarters at Rushaga to catch up with briefing at 8am by the ranger guide and after which you start your gorilla trekking journey in Uganda, you will enter into the amazing rainforest (gorilla sanctuary) as it offers an exciting, heavily forested and dense landscape interacted by plenty of animal trails that provide access for tourists tracking these resident animals. Mammals here include majorly the endangered mountain gorillas, elephants, giant forest hogs, black-fronted Duikers, bushbucks, leopards to mention but a few. The charming mountain gorillas form the highlight of the park, the time and terrain/track taken while looking for these beautiful primates varies according to their movements. Once tracked, observing, spending time with and photographing these gentle, peaceful and shy gorillas in Uganda is a unique, breathtaking, inspiring, and thrilling life time memorable adventure that leaves you desiring to have it again but takes one hour. As one of our clients lamented, ‘‘I will forever want to track and keep with these lovely animals and if acceptable, I would stay with them every day!!”. After your one hour with the gorillas, return to the starting point and transfer to the starting point to embark on the transfer to Lake Bunyonyi 52km about 2 hours’ drive driving through fascinating Kigezi Highlands which locals apply terracing method to cultivate their slopes deriving impressive scenic landscape. You arrive at Lake Bunyonyi in the afternoon; undertake a thrilling boat cruise on the second deepest lake in Africa marked with a range of 29 Islands that have earned it a dub as the lake of a thousand Islands. You explore the amazing sceneries of the Islands surrounded by magical Kigezi Highlands. Retire for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Budget: Lake Bunyonyi Eco – resort, Basic: Byoona Amagara Island Retreat
After breakfast, embark on the transfer to Kampala 437km about 7 hours’ drive from Lake Bunyonyi. You make a stop at Igongo Cultural Center for traditional lunch and then you can have an optional drive through Lake Mburo National Park for views of wild game like Rothschild giraffes, Elands, Zebras, Topis, Warthogs, defassa waterbucks, Impala among others. You proceed to make another stop at Uganda Equator crossing Kayabwe for amazing photo shoots where one leg is on the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere. The site also has good souvenir shops where you can secure your memorabilia about Uganda before continuing on the drive to arrive in Kampala in the evening.
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