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Offered by - Ovacado Adventures
Tour Features
These 15 days Uganda adventure safari starts and ends in Entebbe International Airport. Meet eye to eye with the amazing gorillas and chimpanzees of Uganda in their natural habitat, one of Africa's major highlights. This close encounter with these amazing apes is simply breathtaking.
| Mid-Range tour | This mid-range tour includes comfortable lodges and tented camps. |
| Can be customized | You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour. |
| Private tour | This tour will be organized exclusively for you and won't be shared with others. |
| Solo travel available | Solo travelers can book this tour. |
| Can start any day | If availability permits, this tour can start on any day. |
| Minimum age required | The minimum age for this tour is 5 years. |
| Transportation | This tour uses: Pop-up roof 4x4, Roof minivan, Boat. |
Route & Activities
Uganda
Activities Included
Accommodation & Meals
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
| Day | Accommodation | Meals |
| 1 | Papyrus Guest House No images available | All Meals Included |
| 2 | Murchison river lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 3 | Murchison river Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 4 | chimpanzee Forest Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 5 | chimpanzee forest lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 6 | chimpanze Forest Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 7-8 | Elephant Hab Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 9 | Enjojo Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 10-11 | Gorilla Mist Camp No images available | All Meals Included |
| 12 | Bunyonyi Rock Resort No images available | All Meals Included |
| 13 | Rwakobo Rock No images available | All Meals Included |
| 14 | Kingfisher safari resort No images available | All Meals Included |
| 15 | Mid-Range Accommodation No images available | Breakfast & Lunch Included |
Arrival (See Getting There for more details)
- A transfer from the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Day 1 - Arrival At Entebbe International AirportMeet and greet at Entebbe International Airport where your Ugandan adventure safari starts with our representative who will warmly welcome you and facilitate seamless arrival formalities. Your will then be transferred to your hotel where you will be briefed about your adventure safari.Depending on the time of arrival, you are advised to have money changed on this day. If time allows, you may go for the city tour with the help of our driver/guide. Visit the shopping malls around town and craft villages to get items that you may need while upcountry.
Accommodation: Papyrus Guest House
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 2 - Murchison Falls National ParkAfter your early morning breakfast drive northwest to Murchison Falls National Park. You may stopover at the Rhino Sanctuary for to trek rhinos . There are 15 rhinos that were reintroduced after their extinction in the 1970s through poaching. A local ranger guide will lead you on foot to an up-close encounter with the rhinos and it may take about 1 and a half hours. Proceed to Masindi Town for lunch and later continue to Murchison Falls National Park arriving at your lodge late in the afternoon.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation: Murchison river lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 3 - Game drive and After noon Boat cruiseArise very early in the morning for your game drive on the northern bank of River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Your guide will help you spot elephant, lion, Cape buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bushbuck, bohor reedbuck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard.After lunch, go for a boat cruise upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just few of meters from the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’. Marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like Goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation: Murchison river Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 4 - Kibale Forest National ParkAfter your morning breakfast, carry a packed lunch from the lodge and begin your journey to Kibale Forest National Park. Drive south via Hoima to Fort Portal through the verdant countryside passing through traditional homesteads, farms and tea estates. You will arrive at your lodge late in the afternoon. Check in at your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Main Destination: Kibale National Park
Accommodation: chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 5 - Kibale -Semuliki national parkDepart early after breakfast for the hot springs tour. Enjoy a full day pursuing the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve. The park is dominated by the easternmost extension of the great Ituri Forest of the Congo Basin. This is one of Africa’s most ancient and bio-diverse forests; one of the few that survived the last ice age, 12-18,000 years ago. Your guide will point out and explain the park’s diversity of wildlife and flora and fauna. The Sempaya hot springs are Semliki’s most famous attraction. There’s a “male” spring, known as Bintente, measuring 12m in diameter and is set in a lush swampy clearing. The “female” spring Nyasimbi, meaning "the female ancestors”, is a boiling geyser (103°C) that spurts bubbling water and steam up to two meters high, the steam cloud can be seen from as far as 2km away. Local residents used to cook their food in these boiling pools.
Main Destination: Kibale National Park
Accommodation: chimpanzee forest lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 6 - Chimpanzee TrekkingAfter breakfast at your lodge, transfer to the starting point of your chimpanzee tracking experience in Kibale Forest National Park which is reputed to have the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. The most famous of its 13 species is the chimpanzee, man’s closest relative. Kibale’s 1450 chimpanzees represent Uganda’s largest population of this endangered primate.After lunch, head to Bigodi for an afternoon swamp walk at Bigodi which was established by a local development organization to protect the 4sq km Magombe Swamp that's home to around 200 species of birds (highlights include papyrus gonolek, white-winged warbler and great blue turaco).
Main Destination: Kibale National Park
Accommodation: chimpanze Forest Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 7 - Kibale- Queen Elizabeth National Park And Afternoon Boat safAfter breakfast at your lodge, you'll proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park following the mystical Rwenzori Mountain Range. Your expert driver guide will take you through the game park where you might spot some animals.Upon arriving at your lodge, you will enjoy a hot lunch and later in the afternoon take a unique 2-hour boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel into Lake Edward. This trip passes through possibly the highest concentration of hippos and this launch/cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching and game viewing. The prolific bird life is colourful and stupendous, with well over 550 resident species.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 8 - Queen Elizabeth National ParkQueen Elizabeth National Park’s diverse eco-system of grassy plains, tropical forest, rivers, swamps, lakes and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife. Have an early morning game drive where you have an opportunity to view the massive Rwenzori as a backdrop. This provides excellent opportunities to spot lions, leopards, giant forest hogs, Cape buffalos, elephants, defassa waterbucks, Uganda kobs, topis and bushbucks. The game drives and the boat trip (taken prior) are memorable methods of discovering a vast array of Ugandan wildlife. Be sure to have your camera ready for these amazing sightings!Have an afternoon nature walk up to crater lakes of twin lakes hunters cave where we take a close look at the bats, rock python and forest cobras. The same walk will provide a chance of seeing birds, primates, tree species etc. Return to the lodge for dinner and your last overnight stay.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 9 - Ishasha Tree - Climbing LionAfter your early morning breakfast, pack your bags up and transfer to Ishasha Plains, a sector in Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy the wilderness and its inhabitants that are highlighted by Uganda’s tree-climbing lions as well as numerous birds and more mammals. Dinner and your overnight.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 10 - Queen Elizabeth National Park - Bwindi impenetrable NationalAfter your early morning breakfast, pack your bags up and drive through Ishasha plains for your final visit with the tree-climbing lions and other wildlife. Head out of Queen Elizabeth National Park and into Bwindi. The drive takes you through the Switzerland of Africa area known as the Kigezi Highlands with its terraced hillside and winding roads to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will be arriving in the evening.
Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable NP
Accommodation: Gorilla Mist Camp
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 11 - Gorilla TrekkingAfter an early breakfast, depart to the starting point for briefing about your gorilla trekking adventure after which you will be led by experienced gorilla trackers on the slopes of the volcanoes. You will start from the site where the gorillas were encountered the day before and from here the gorilla tracking begins. Although the hike can be physically demanding, the anticipation of the exciting experience ahead is amazing, and the beauty of the gorilla forest and its inhabitants are fascinating. One of Africa’s major highlights is when you encounter these gentle apes. It is a humbling experience to stand just meters from man’s distant cousins as they eat rest, play and bond with their young ones.
Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable NP
Accommodation: Gorilla Mist Camp
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 12 - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park - Lake BunyonyiAfter breakfast drive to Lake Bunyonyi which has breathtaking scenery. Spend the night overlooking Uganda deepest lake, where you may try your hand at paddling a dugout canoe or eating freshwater crayfish.
Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable NP
Accommodation: Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 13 - Lake Bunyonyi - Lake Mburo National ParkAfter breakfast at 8.00 am, you will travel to Lake Mburo National Park, the smallest national park of Uganda. Though being small, it has a lot to offer! Centred on a series of swamp-fringed lakes its birdlife is very rich.You will arrive at the lodge in time for lunch. Later in the afternoon at 4:00 pm, enjoy the, evening game drive later return to your lodge.
Main Destination: Lake Mburo National Park
Accommodation: Rwakobo Rock
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 14 - Walk in Lake Mburo National Park - JinjaAfter breakfast, have a safari walk under the escort of an armed ranger. The Kopjes are particularly interesting with the camouflage klipspringers and topis. Due to cattle herding in the area, it is amusing to see zebra grazing alongside the long-horned Ankole cattle peaceably. It is exciting to approach wildlife at such close range.Later drive to Jinja with a stopover at the Equator for water experience, here you will too have an opportunity to stand in 2 hemispheres at the same time. Take some photos, then another stopover at the Mpigi Royal Drum Makers where you will be able to watch the ceremonial drums being crafted using methods passed down through the generations arriving in the afternoon.
Accommodation: Kingfisher safari resort
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 15 - Source Of The Nile - DepartureArise early in the morning to enjoy rays of sunlight spreading on the green canopy and grasses that fringe the source of the Nile. Have your breakfast and lead to the source of the Nile for a morning of memorable boat cruise that will lead you to the Napoleon Gulf, where the Nile River starts to travel Miles through Sudan – Egypt leading finally to the Mediterranean Sea. While at the source of the Nile, view the Mahatima Ghadi Monument as well John Hamming Speke Monument where he stood to point where the Nile starts to spread to Mile. You may try to sample some fish at your expense while at the source of the Nile.Have early lunch in a selected restaurant in town or at the hotel and proceed to Entebbe Airport with a stopover at Mabira Roadside market for a barbaque of roasted chicken and gonja all at your expense. Proceed straight to the airport to catch your onward flight to your next destination.
Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & Lunch Included
End of tour (See Getting There for more details)
- Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
- A transfer back to the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
Excludes
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Rates Per Person
Jan 1, 2023 - Jan 1, 2025
*n/a = not available. This tour is unavailable for solo travelers.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
Excludes
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Murchison Falls National Park and ends in Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Murchison Falls National Park and ends in Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Offered By
Ovacado Adventures
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Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Ovacado Adventures welcomes you to Africa for your fun-filled adventure! We take you to various parks where you can enjoy birding, sightseeing, primate watching, gorilla trekking, cultural tours, Nature Walks, Honeymoon tours, Crater lake tours, and Camping.
We are dedicated to service excellence, providing undivided attention to our clients, meticulous attention to detail as well as uncompromising safety standards. We have a team of competent and experienced staff well-versed in the tourism industry. Our safari drivers and guides are well knowledgeable about birds, animals, people, Uganda and the rest of East African.
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