Budget Road Trip Uganda
Our Budget Road Trip Uganda will take you to the interesting Wildlife national park in Queen Elizabeth national park, later you will visit the primate capital in Kibale forest National park and Bwindi park for mountain gorillas habituation experience. Budget Road Trip Uganda can customize this trip on both budget and luxury clients who wish to spend a longer time with wildlife.
Budget Road Trip Uganda
Habituation Experience is known as the act of training a wild animal to become used to the sight of people. It involves different groups of people like the trackers, conservationists, trackers, researchers, and rangers among others who take a period of about 2 to 3 years completing this habituation experience. This experience is allowed to a person who wishes to spend a longer time with a gorilla and entitled to pay USD $1500 per person per day only restricts the persons to a maximum of 4 hours each day.
Day 1. Arrival at Entebbe Airport
Upon your arrival at Entebbe, you will meet Pamoja Safaris Representative who will pick you and transfer you to the Hotel for Overnight.
Accommodation;
Luxury: Protea Hotel | Boma Hotel
Midrange: 2 friend Hotel
Best Budget: African Root Guest House
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day 2. Entebbe – Kibale National Park
Early morning after breakfast we continue driving through the undulating highlands of southwestern Uganda on our way to the greener and beautiful Fort Portal area. The lush rolling hills of this region provide good photo opportunities. As you approach Fort Portal in the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains, you enter Uganda’s famous tea plantation region. A carpet of green spreads before you, as far as the eye can see, and seems an unusual contrast to the countryside through which you have just passed.
Accommodation;
Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge | Crater Primate Lodge
Midrange: Isunga Lodge | Chimpanzee Guest cottages
Best Budget: Kibale Forest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 3. Kibale National Park – Chimpanzee Habituation
Today we set off very early after breakfast and proceed to Kanyanchu park headquarter before 7 AM, ahead of preparation full day Chimpanzee activity. Today we accompany Kibale researchers in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to the Habituation project with chimpanzees. You learn to safely observe the chimps during their daily activities, so they get comfortable with human presence without changing their natural behaviors. You will be able to experience the chimp families as they wake up, hunt, patrol, play, fight, copulate and breastfeed. Guided by biologists and researchers, we will enjoy unprecedented intimate access to these wild chimps for the entire day until they build their nests at bedtime.
Accommodation;
Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge | Crater Primate Lodge
Midrange: Isunga Lodge | Chimpanzee Guest cottages
Best Budget: Kibale Forest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4. Queen Elizabeth National Park, Boat Safari
We drive to Queen Elizabeth Park, the game seen will depend on the season; the Kasenyi plains are good for lion and the Mweya peninsula for a variety of animals. Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park this morning (about 3 hours driving). you turn south and arrived at the lodge for hot lunch and later proceed for 2 hours’ afternoon boat then later return with evening game drive which is dominated on its northern border by the snow-capped 16,000 foot Ruwenzori Mountains.
Accommodation;
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge | Kyambura Gorge Lodge
Midrange: Ihamba Lakeside Safari Lodge | Parkview Lodge | Enganzi Game Lodge
Best Budget: Bush Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5. Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha sector
Tree-climbing Lions, transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Via Ishasha sector, have breakfast we drive further south through stunning savannah grasslands as we head to the southern sector of the park Ishasha. This is the best area to see the famous tree-climbing lions draped from low hanging limbs of fig trees. We head towards the breathtaking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Accommodation;
Luxury: Gorilla height | Clouds
Midrange: Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge | Ichumbi Gorillas Lodge
Best Budget: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6. Gorilla Habituation Experience
Today have an early morning entry into the mountain gorilla’s sanctuary. Our intimate gorilla habituation experience allows you to accompany the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s Bwindi gorilla habituation team for the entire day, allowing you to have a minimum 4 hours in the presence of a mountain gorilla family since regular permits only allow 1 hour, this is 4 times the amount of time spent up close with gorillas more than any other safari operator!
Accommodation;
Luxury: Gorilla height | Clouds
Midrange: Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge | Ichumbi Gorillas Lodge
Best Budget: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7. Budget Road Trip Uganda – Return to Entebbe
Early morning breakfast before embarking on our return to Entebbe, driving down the grassed and terraced of southwestern Uganda while taking in the breathtaking sights of the hills of the region dubbed the little Switzerland of Africa. We will be in Kampala in the evening before for your international flight back home.