10 Days Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Adventure
This 10 Uganda Gorilla and wildlife adventure trip focuses on the benefits and doing great adventures around the gorillas and also explore best of wildlife adventures. This trip will include trekking gorillas, volcanic hiking, game drives and boat cruise, visiting the Batwa community and other encounters. Places to visit on this trip will include; Lake Mburo, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park. This trip will point in the western Uganda, and thereafter splint to the southwestern and western point.
Trip summary
- Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
- Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 3: Explore Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 5: Trek Gorillas
- Day 6: Visit Batwa and Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
- Day 7: Volcanic hiking at Mgahinga
- Day 8: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 9: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 10: Transfer back to Kampala
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
Upon your arrival at Entebbe airport, Early Trail Expeditions Uganda representative will be ready to pick you up. The representative will be ready to meet you and will be your driver guide for the rest of the days. The will drive you to your hotel, take through the all trip and leave you to rest for the next long day of starting on your adventure. Dinner and overnight at your lodge/hotel in Kampala.
Midrange: Fairway Hotel
Luxury: Arcadia Hotel
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
This day following your served breakfast, the driver guide is ready to transfer you for the first destination on the trip. Then will embark on the drive to Lake Mburo National Park western Uganda, it’s about 3 to 4 hours reaching the park. Reaching the Park will take an afternoon game drive to the golden savannahs that inhabits great of wildlife. The game drive expose you to watching zebras, buffalos, lions, large herds of antelopes and many other animals.
With lunch refreshment you have to rest for a day; and at night hours will take a night game drive. One of the rare cases in national parks very rewarding unique encounters likes finding predators actively hunting at night. The night game drive is done on torch with the guide of the armed park ranger, then return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Midrange: Mburo Safari Lodge
Day 3: Explore Lake Mburo National Park
Today after a delicious breakfast, take an incredible horse ride from Mihingo lodge. The horse ride takes you into the adventure hub to fetch wild encounters in a close range. The absence of elephant in the parks it very easy to do a horse ride with a guaranteed safety. A horse ride takes several trials and the hours to spend in the wilderness depends on the guest’s selection.
Then following the horse ride, will take an afternoon boat ride on Lake Mburo the Larges Lake in the park. The boat ride thrills comes with sceneries of cliffs, hills, various vegetation harboring various wildlife species including crocodiles, hippos among others. Then will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Midrange: Mburo Safari Lodge
Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Today take your relaxed served breakfast, and will embark on a long day drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. With Lunch in-route will reach the park in the evening hours, enter the park using Ruhiga gate and check-in to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
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Luxury:
Day 5: Trek Gorillas
This day following your served breakfast, you have to rush to Ruhija trekking starting point reaching here before 7:30am for the briefing. Then trekkers will be grouped in 8 individuals per group assigned to an armed and then roll into impenetrable rolling landscape hiking through the inflatable thick terrain of the forest. Remember to wear long pants, jungle boots, carry at least 1 litter of drinking water and rain proof gears.
Trekking may take 30 minutes to 6 hours, walking and searching for the endangered giants. Gorilla are followed considering where they had their previous night, and meeting them, trekkers have an hour before them. Watching gorillas is one of the few mesmerizing moments in the wild, looking face to face with the silverback you realized these are really human closest relatives. After seeing the gorillas you will return to the starting point, enjoy your relaxed lunch and take a rest at your lodge.
Midrange
Luxury
Day 6: Visit Batwa and Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Today will visit the Batwa community, these are the people who live in areas around gorilla forests. They inhibited in the same forests before they were evicted for the sake of gorilla conservation. The exhibit their daily life and stories to tourist to earn a daily bread and deciding to visit them adds a brick on their lives. Afterwards will transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Check-in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Midrange: Mount Gahinga Safari Lodge
Day 7: Volcanic hiking at Mgahinga
Today is another new challenge, ensure breakfast is taken, and pack with your backed lunch, enough drinking water and hiking boats and take a hike to Sabinyo Volcanos. The hike to the summit of the volcano takes about 8hours and have to be prepared. With a lead of the guide will embark to trek through various formed hiking trials. This will lead through valleys, slopes, and hills of bamboos and tropics alongside various wildlife views including monkeys, and several birds. After will return to your lodge, you’re exhausted and just need to have your dinner and rest for another long day at your lodge
Midrange: Mount Gahinga Safari Lodge
Day 8: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Take your morning served breakfast, and board for long journey drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will reach the park in late afternoon hours, but consider a lunch en-route along the drive. Then will check-in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Midrange: Kasenyi Safari Lodge
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 9: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park
Today early morning with your packed breakfast will drive to Kasenyi section of Queen Elizabeth National Park for an incredible game drive. One of the rewarding game drive with variety of wildlife species including; elephants, Uganda kobs, bushbucks, buffalos, lions, warthogs among so many species to watch accompanied by several bird species.
In the afternoon hours with lunch en-route will drive to the Mweya peninsular, for a boat cruise on Kazinga channel. The wild boat cruise is an opening of watching more animals. Then, after will drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Midrange: Kasenyi Safari Lodge
Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge
Day 10: Transfer back to Kampala
Today, it’s the final day of the trip, enjoy a relaxed breakfast, and in the morning hours will start on your drive back to Kampala. With lunch en-route will drive to your lodge in Kampala or back to Entebbe International Airport for your flight back home.
On behalf of Early Trial Expedition Uganda, our driver guide will say goodbye to you. Then, take your flight back to your home. We believed after this 10 Days Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Adventure you become our next ambassador for Early Trail Expeditions Uganda in your country and area. Thank you!
Trip inclusive;
- 4×4 safari vehicle
- All trip fuel
- All meals and soft drinks
- All Park entrances
- Gorilla permits
- Boat ride
- Accommodation
- Driver guide
Exclusive;
- Visa and air ticket
- Laundry
- All hard drinks
- Souvenirs
- Tips
- All international flights
