15 Days Uganda Safari Habituation Experience
Uganda Safari Habituation Experience and Uganda wildlife holiday tours is the ideal safari to Africa for travelers who would love a deeper than ordinary experience with Africa’s unique Uganda Safari Habituation Experience or Affordable Gorilla trekking Safaris in Uganda tours and Rwanda Gorilla Safari holiday.
Uganda Safari Habituation Experience in Detailed
Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe Airport
Upon arrival at Entebbe airport, you will be picked by our representative and brief you on your 15 days Uganda luxury Gorilla Safari.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Protea Hotel | Marriott Hotel
Mid-range: Lake Heights Hotel | 2 Friends Beach Hotel
Best Budget: African Roots Guesthouse
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day 2: Drive to Ziwa Rhinos Sanctuary
After morning breakfast ready to start your tour to the most isolated national park in Uganda and we shall drive you through the plain and arrive at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will be track the white rhinos. Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is the only place in Uganda where you will get the opportunity to see rhinos in the wild.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Amuka Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Amuka Safari Lodge
Best Budget: Amuka bandas
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Continue to Kidepo Valley National Park
Have your morning breakfast, then later drive to Kidepo Valley National Park you will find zebras, giraffes, elephants, lions and leopards. This is also the only place in Uganda where you can find the cheetah and ostrich.
Kidepo is famous for its lions relaxing on the rocks a scene which may remind you of a certain Disney film. You might even be very lucky to spot a leopard or cheetah! Besides the 4×4 safaris you can also take a bush walk in the park with an armed ranger.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Apoka Lodge
Mid-range: Kidepo Savannah Safari Lodge
Best Budget: Kidepo Savannah Safari Lodge | Apoka Bandas
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Game drives in Kidepo Valley National Park
The Karamajong are related to the Maasai in Kenya and live and dress similar. The main difference is that not any other tourist is going there. Only few years ago, tourism in Karamoja would not have been possible due to poor road network and being far from the capital city of Uganda.
After this thrilling experience it is time to enter into the most remote and pristine national park and enjoy the magical game drive, Kidepo Valley National Park, has some of the most amazing scenery in the country! For many people this is the most beautiful park of Uganda. Here you will find almost no tourists leaving you free to enjoy the park and its unique combination of wildlife without distraction.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Apoka Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Kidepo Savannah Safari Lodge
Best Budget: Kidepo Savannah Safari Lodge | Apoka Bandas
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Depart for Murchison Falls National Park
Morning breakfast and drive to Murchison Falls National Park. This route gives you an opportunity to enjoy the scenery of Labwor hills and in particular the massive and bare Alerek (Kidi Rwot) rock. Have lunch in Gulu town, later we proceed to the park arriving with evening game drive.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Paraa Safari Lodge | Bakers Lodge | Nile Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Twigga Safari Lodge | Pakuba Lodge | Murchison River Lodge
Best Budget: Fort Murchison | Red Chilli Rest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast we proceed to the northern bank of the Victoria falls in search of wildlife around the delta for bird life and enjoy the game drive to look for lions, giraffes, herds of elephants, buffaloes and many more. We will drive back to the lodge for lunch before taking an afternoon boat cruise to the foot of Murchison Falls.
The boat trip along the Nile is often cited as being the highlight of a trip to Murchison since it allows you to get up-close and personal with the animals. Along the river, there are reported to be around 4,000 hippos in addition to some enormous Nile crocodiles. The bird life is stunning with giant kingfishers and bee-eaters darting along the riverbanks.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Paraa Safari Lodge | Bakers Lodge | Nile Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Twigga Safari Lodge | Pakuba Lodge | Murchison River Lodge
Best Budget: Fort Murchison | Red Chilli Rest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Kibale National Park,
After breakfast, we drive to Kibale Forest National Park via the Lake Albert escarpment, having a good view of the lake. Stopover for lunch and after drive across the interesting foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, you enter Uganda’s famous tea plantation region.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge | Crater Safari Lodge | Primate Lodge | Ndali Lodge
Mid-range: Isunga Lodge | Chimpanzee Forest Guest House
Best Budget: Kibale Forest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Chimpanzee habituation experience
Today we shall accompany researchers in a amazing opportunity to habituate chimpanzee. You’ll learn to safely observe the chimpanzee during their daily activities, so they get comfortable with human presence without changing their natural behaviors. You will be able to experience the chimpanzee families as they wake up from their nest, play, feeds, copulate, and breastfeed.
Guided by biologists and researchers, we will enjoy unprecedented intimate access to these wild chimpanzee for the entire day until they build their nests and retire back home.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge | Crater Safari Lodge | Primate Lodge | Ndali Lodge
Mid-range: Isunga Lodge | Chimpanzee Forest Guest House
Best Budget: Kibale Forest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Today we shift to Queen Elizabeth National Park. driving through craters, bananas market, beautiful scenery of landscape of Rwenzori Mountain, you turn south and enter Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is dominated on its northern border by the snow-capped 16,000 foot Rwenzori Mountains – the famed “Mountains of the Moon”.
You will expect to see teeming herds of Caped Buffaloes, Uganda kob, elephant and lion, giant forest hog. There are also several soda lakes filling ancient volcanic calderas where flamingos reside seasonally.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge | Kyambura Gorge Lodge | Katara Lodge
Mid-range: Ihamba Lakeside Safari Lodge | Parkview | Enganzi Game Lodge
Best Budget: Bush Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 10: Lion Experiential, Afternoon boat Trip
In Queen Elizabeth National park, you will go with researchers for a lion tracking and more game drives. The Kazinga channel boat trip gets you very close to wildlife hard to get on regular game drives. See a different face of the park as we venture off road with a research team to track lions and contribute to a valuable lion research project in the Ishasha Sector.
After, return for lunch on the Mweya Peninsula, later go for two hour boat safari along the Kazinga Channel. This offers the opportunity to view wildlife up close: hippo’s huff and spray and buffaloes linger in the shallows.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge | Kyambura Gorge Lodge | Katara Lodge
Mid-range: Ihamba Lakeside Safari Lodge | Parkview | Enganzi Game Lodge
Best Budget: Bush Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 11: Drive to Ishasha for Tree-climbing lions – Bwindi
After breakfast we drive to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park for the famous tree climbing lion in Ishasha. This is the best area to see tree-climbing lions draped from low hanging limbs of fig trees. Next we visit the Kob Mating Ground—a defined area specifically used by these stunning antelopes for challenging other males, enticing females and mating. Finally we’ll pass through beautiful Savannah grasslands as we head towards the breathtaking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Buhoma Lodge | Mountain Gorilla Lodge (Clouds) | Gorilla Forest Camp
Mid-range: Haven Lodge | Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge | Gorilla Mist Camp | Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge
Best Budget: Rushaga Gorilla Camp | Ruhija Gorilla Friend Camp | Buhoma Community Rest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 12: Experiential Gorilla Habituation Experience
In Bwindi, instead of the 1 hour gorilla trek, we have included the Gorilla Habituation Experience which allows you 4 hours in the presence of the mountain gorillas.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Buhoma Lodge | Mountain Gorilla Lodge (Clouds) | Gorilla Forest Camp
Mid-range: Haven Lodge | Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge | Gorilla Mist Camp | Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge
Best Budget: Rushaga Gorilla Camp | Ruhija Gorilla Friend Camp | Buhoma Community Rest Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 13: Golden monkey habituation exercise
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park At the nearby Mgahinga Gorilla National Park shall take you to trek the golden monkey habituation experience, again allowing you more time with the primates than the ordinary wildlife tour experience. later you can visit the local batwa (pygmy). later transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for dinner and overnight
Accommodation:
Luxury: Arcadia Cottages | Bird Nest
Mid-range: Bunyonyi Overland Resort
Best Budget: Bunyonyi Overland Resort
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 14: Boat Ride, Drive to Lake Mburo – Game drive
After breakfast, we go for canoe trek or boat ride as well as bird watching on the beautiful Lake Bunyonyi, traversing to the gorgeous punishment island, lake bunyonyi filled with 29 island and local uses the dug canoe to cross through the islands. We will then take a 4 hours drive to Lake Mburo National Park, one of the smallest national park renowned for its herds of antelope and one of the only two Ugandan parks home to Buchell’s zebra, giraffes. The park is also especially good for acacia-associated bird.
Accommodation:
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Mid-range: Rwakobo Rock
Best Budget: Eagle Nest
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 15: Horseback in Lake Mburo National Park
After your early morning activities, you may opt for Horseback ride, Nature walk, Community Tours in the morning, return to the lodge for a late breakfast and later, you will be driven to Entebbe. En route we will stop at the Equator for photographs and local community crafts shops and fruit markets and we say bye bye to our Uganda Safari Habituation Experience.
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