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Offered by - Trek Rwenzori Tours
Tour Features
Looking for something to do in Africa? Our 7-day trip will take you to watch chimpanzees and 12 other primate species in Kibale national park, visit Bigodi community to see real life of African where by you will learn to make local coffee straight from the Garden to the cup, Local banana beer and banana gin, Basket waving and traditional dances and all the history of Kibale national park together with people sounding it. A trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park and enjoys watching hippos, lions, hyenas African savannah elephants’ leopards, waterbuck, brushback, Warthogs, abundantly of bird species and a boat cruise for 2 hours with a local a professional guide at Kazinga channel will leave speechless with thousands of smiles on your face in fact you will have a day to remember. Get closer 7-10M to see mountain gorilla, silverback and his family during gorilla tracking in the Afromontane Forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. To finish this amazing trip, enjoy an evening game drive in Lake Mburo National Park the only place where you can sport’’ impalas’’ in Uganda plains zebra and topi, Elands and have an early morning game drive or walk.
| 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. |
| No minimum age | There is no minimum age for this tour. |
| Transportation | This tour uses: Open 4x4. |
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 | nkrubah nature resort No images available | All Meals Included |
| 2-3 | engiri game lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 4 | rushanga gorilla camp No images available | Meals included as per itinerary |
| 5 | ruhinja gorilla mist No images available | All Meals Included |
| 7 | rwoboko rock resort No images available | All Meals Included |
| 7 | 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 - DEPARTURE TO KIBALE NATIONAL PARK VIA FORT PORTAL WITH A STOOur professional guide driver will meet you at your hotel in Kampala Entebbe in the morning after your breakfast and departure to Fort portal with a stop for lunch in Fort portal city for lunch thereafter lunch you will proceed to Kibale forest.
Main Destination: Kibale National Park
Accommodation: nkrubah nature resort
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 2 - DAY 2: CHIMPANZEE TRACKING OR HABITUATION IN KIBALE NATIONALAlong waiting day is here to meet your cousins, after breakfast at 7:30am, your guide driver will pick you at the hotel and travel down to Kibale park headquarter to meet as travelers who are ready to see chimpanzees in their natural habitats, you will have a briefing by 8:00am with Uganda wildlife authority rangers who will tell you about dos and don’ts of the park whilst with chimps, then join groups to see chimps. You will leave at 9:00am and return at 12:00pm. Go back to the hotel for hot lunch and after lunch you will go for community and cultural walk to learn how to plant coffee, harvest to the cup, how to make banana beers and gin and how to wive baskets, accompanied a traditional dance from the women makes handcrafts.
Accommodation: engiri game lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 3 - TRAVEL TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARKEnjoy breakfast at 8:00am then travel for Queen Elizabeth NP with a stopover at the equator for photo shoots, you will arrive at around midday The Bush Lodge in Queen Elizabeth Park has a stunningly beautiful view over Kazinga Channel. Check in and order for lunch later at 2:00pm departure for the boat tour that will take 2 hours covering 4Km while seeing abundant of wildlife on the water side and aquatic bird spices. Return to at 4:00pm and go for evening game drive to see most of the big 4 resuming for hunting and grazing in the park later at 7:00pm return to the lodge for shower dinner and overnight
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: engiri game lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 4 - TRANSFER TO BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARKEnjoy breakfast at 8;00am, we leave for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via Ishasha to see tree climbing lions its options to take that route or via Ntungamo. The road takes you through a beautiful landscape called the “Switzerland of Africa”. You will pass mountains, hills and lakes with cultivated terraces and tropical rainforest and bamboo forest to Reach Ruhija Gorilla tracking sport, Nkulingo, Buhoma or Rushaga.
Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable NP
Accommodation: rushanga gorilla camp
Meals & Drinks: Meals included as per itinerary
- Day 5 - GORILLA TRACKING EXPERIENCE IN BWINDI FORESTHere comes the long-awaited day on this trip to Africa. Enjoy breakfast and move to the rangers’ post. You will receive some briefing (from a ranger guide) on the dos and don’ts during trekking. Thereafter, you will enter the Bwindi Forest for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular! The area offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates. Once you have located a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle but endangered giants is for a lifetime experience that will make you shade uncontrollable tears of love. Return to the hotel and have some good rest after a strenuous trek. Or If time allows you go for evening community and cultural walk experience of African lifestyle/ Bush men
Accommodation: ruhinja gorilla mist
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 7 - TRANSFER TO LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARKEarly morning breakfast followed by a drive to lake Mburo NP. You will have lunch in Mbarara before you proceed to Lake Mburo Park, this is a small park but unique park, and the only one in the Western part of Uganda with impalas and zebras, Elands, Giraffes Buffalos and African Long horned cows in the park you will go for evening safari drive or village/cultural walk or cycling in the park with an armed Uganda wildlife authority ranger guide.
Main Destination: Lake Mburo National Park
Accommodation: rwoboko rock resort
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 7 - TRANSFER TO ENTEBBEAfter delicious breakfast, you will start your journey back to Entebbe international airport or kampala capital city or Rwanda Kigali. Cross the equator and have time to take photos and experiment on how the world rotate at the equator line. Buy a few souvenirs and have a quick picnic lunch. You will then drive to Kampala or Entebbe airport to catch your flights back home. End of 7-Day of Gorillas, Chimpanzee and Africans lifestyle. Thank you for choosing Trek Rwenzori Tours.
Main Destination: Entebbe
Accommodation: rwoboko rock resort
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)
Excludes
- All Taxes/VAT
- 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
Nov 22, 2024 - Feb 23, 2027
*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)
Excludes
- All Taxes/VAT
- 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 Entebbe and ends in Kibale 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 Entebbe and ends in Kibale 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
Trek Rwenzori Tours
Rwanda
Uganda
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