Overview of the 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park offers you a chance to safari Uganda’s best destination for gorilla trekking-Bwindi impenetrable national park and the wildlife packed Queen Elizabeth National park. This safari features the equator experience, game drive, boat cruise, gorilla trekking, a Batwa cultural experience and numerous scenic sightings.
There about 1,004 mountain gorillas remaining in the wild and Bwindi impenetrable is home to more than half of them. It’s the best Uganda gorilla trekking safari destination and the single biggest home to mountain gorillas with 16 gorilla families. This amazing trek in one of the pristine jungles in East Africa offers you the chance to spend about 5 hours in the wild and just one hour in sight of the mountain gorillas.
In Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will see a profusion of wildlife ranging from 10 primate species, about 95 mammal species, about 5000 hippos, approximately 2500 elephants and over 10,000 buffaloes! The game drives in the park are the most rewarding with close sightings of wildlife on Uganda wildlife safari.
5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park safari highlights
Day 1: Your driver guide will drive you from Entebbe international airport to Bwindi impenetrable national park. You will stop at the equator in Kayabwe for photographs in the world’s 00 latitude.
Day 2: Your driver guide will drive you to the park headquarters for your gorilla trekking tour in Uganda experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Day 3: After your last breakfast in the gorilla land, your driver guide will drive you to queen Elizabeth national park and you will do an evening game drive.
Day 4: Wake up to an early morning game drive, have a lunch break and later on do an evening boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Day 5: You will be driven back to Entebbe international airport for departure back home or to your next safari destination.
Detailed itinerary of the 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 1 of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
The moment you set foot in to Uganda anticipate to be warmly welcomed by your professional Uganda safari driver guide. After meeting and greeting, your driver guide will brief you about the safari and start the road trip to Bwindi impenetrable national park. Passing through the busy towns around Kampala, you will stop in Kayabwe at the equator line crossing for a double hemisphere experience. Later on, after taking memorable pictures and doing experiments, you will continue your drive to western Uganda. The drive is about 7 hours arriving late evening for check in, dinner and an overnight stay at your booked accommodation in Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Day 2 of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Be a wake and have breakfast by 7:00am because your driver guide will drive you to the park headquarters for gorilla trekking that starts at 8:00am with briefing. During briefing by the park rangers, you will be told about the gorilla trekking rules and given a specific gorilla family to trek. You will trek a single gorilla family along with 7 other trekkers and the park ranger guide. The activity is strenuous and lasts about 2-5 hours spending only one hour after seeing the gorillas at play. After the trek, you will return to the park headquarters where you find your driver guide ready to drive you back to your hotel or lodge for relaxation and dinner.
Day 3 of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
You will have your last breakfast at the foothills of the gorilla land and then be driven to Queen Elizabeth National park by your driver guide. The drive will last about 4 hours before you arrive to your accommodation in Queen Elizabeth national park that was prior booked for lunch and check in. After a few hours of relaxation, you will go to the park for an evening game drive which is so rewarding since animals are trying to find the days’ last meal and go back to their sleeping areas. You will see several animals and take pictures at your wish.
Day 4 of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Your driver guide will drive you to the park headquarters for an early morning game drive that starts at 7:00am. This is the best time to see early morning risers as they go out to find the days prey. The drive lasts about 3-4 hours where after you rest for about 2 hours then be driven to the Kazinga channel for an evening boat cruise that starts at 2:00pm and lasts about 2 hours. After sightings of the crocodiles, hippos and water birds in this 45km channel, you will return to your hotel or lodge for an overnight stay.
Day 5 of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
On this last day you will have breakfast and check out of your hotel then drive back to Entebbe international airport for departure. You will have lunch en route and do craft shopping incase you want to before you leave the country.
End of your 5 days Uganda gorilla safari in Bwindi and wildlife safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Trekking mountain gorillas is an amazing activity and one that you alone can be the best story teller.
