SAFARI OVERVIEW
This 6 Days Wildlife takes you to Uganda’s largest savannah national parks for wildlife viewing in Murchison falls N.P which is the largest Ugandan national park enriched with the Big four Game and the most powerful falls in the world. Murchison falls national park is one of the famous safari parks in Uganda and is known for spectacular Murchison waterfalls- the world’s strongest waterfall. It is Uganda’s largest conservation area covering about 3,840 square Kilometres it includes Karuma and Bugunju wildlife reserves and Budongo eco-forest. A safari to Murchison falls is an opportunity to explore a diversity of habitats including palm-dotted and wooded savannah, River Nile, Albert-Nile delta wetland and tropical forests. 
Parks in This Trip
  1. Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary
  2. Murchison Falls National Park
  3. Bwindi Forest National Park

Travel Highlights

  • Day 1: Rhino trekking and transfer to Murchison falls national park
  • Day 2: Morning game drive and boat cruise
  • Day 3: Top of the falls visit and transfer to Kampala
  • Day 4: Fly to Bwindi Impenetrable national park
  • Day 5: Gorilla trekking experience
  • Day 6: Fly back to Entebbe – Departure
Murchison falls is bisected by River Nile home to hippos and Nile crocodiles. 
Ziwa Rhino and Wildlife Ranch is the proud home of the only white rhinos in Uganda. Located in Nakasongola district, not only can you find rhinos

Price includes/excludes

  • Park fees (For non-residents).
  • Gorilla Permits
  • A professional driver/guide
  • All activities(Unless labeled as optional)
  • All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade).
  • Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section).
  • All transportation (Unless labeled as optional).
  • Cultural Trips
  • Drinking Water
  • International flights (From/to home)
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour.
  • Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day).
  • Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
  • Extra meals, snacks, gratuities, souvenirs, service tips
  • The government imposed increases in taxes and/or park fees.

Detailed Itinerary

 
Depending on your location in Kampala, meet with our company representative who will also be your driver-guide for transfer to Murchison falls national park. It’s a 5-6 hours’ drive with en-route stop at Ziwa rhino sanctuary for your rhino trekking experience.
Meet your ranger guides for briefing then drive to the starting point where you will start your trekking in search of the rhinos. You will be able to spot different rhinos, coming up close to them.
Spend time in their presence then return for lunch, then continue to Murchison falls national park. It’s a 2-3 hours’ drive, entering through Kichwabanyobo gate and proceed to connect to your booked accommodation with an en-route evening game drive.
Check-in for dinner and overnight stay.
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will go for a morning game drive. The activity takes about 3-5 hours depending on animals available, and you will find animals including elephants, Rothschild giraffes, buffaloes, lions, Hartebeest, Uganda Kobs, Oribis and waterbucks.
After the drive, you will return to the lodge for lunch. Later afternoon at 2 pm, go for a launch cruise on the along the Nile which will give you an exciting panoramic view at the bottom of the mighty Murchison falls. Along the cruise, you will encounter crocodiles, hippos, and birds on the river banks like kingfisher, cormorants and bee-eater.
You will spend take viewing the falls at the bottom while taking pictures then later return to meet your drive and connect back to your lodge and a relaxed evening.
After viewing the bottom of the falls, sail back to meet your driver who will transfer you back to your lodge with en route game drive. Dinner and overnight stay at lodge as above
After breakfast, drive to the top of the falls for a closer view of the Murchison falls and the Uhuru falls, this will take about 2 hours. Thereafter, drive out of the park to connect to Entebbe with en-route lunch.
Connect to your hotel in Entebbe.
Dinner and overnight stay
Accommodation: Protea Entebbe Hotel for Luxury/Best Western Garden Hotel for mid-range/Via Via Guesthouse for budget
After breakfast, you will be dropped off at Entebbe airport for your onward domestic connecting flight to Bwindi Impenetrable national park. Aero-link Uganda limited operates daily flights from Entebbe to Bwindi Impenetrable national park, it’s a 2 hours flight landing in Kihihi airstrip.
There, you will meet your other safari guide waiting to transfer you to your booked accommodation where you will have late lunch after check-in. Spend the rest of your evening relaxing at your lodge.
Dinner will be served before you sleep.
Accommodation: Luxury option: Mahogany springs lodge/Buhoma lodge, Mid-range option: Buhoma Haven lodge, Budget option: Buhoma Community Rest Camp 
 

Gorilla trekking in Africa

Get up so early in the morning for breakfast and thereafter drive to the Park head offices with your tour guide; also not forgetting to carry some packed lunch. On reaching there by 7:30am you will be briefed about what to do and not to do while trekking after which you will be led by the ranger guides through the mist jungle.
Trekking usually takes between to 8 hours or even a full day due to the location of gorillas. When you see them, it will be a great and fun time as you watch them and only 1 hour is permitted to watch them. Also ensure you carry enough water with you, hats, sun glasses, rain coats, and non flash cameras.
Later after the trek, head back to the lodge; have lunch as you prepare to for a community visit among the Batwa people in the evening.
Accommodation options; Buhoma Lodge/Silverback Lodge/Mahogany springs(Up Market), Gorilla Mist Camp/Bakiga Lodge/Ichumbi Gorilla Safari Lodge(Moderate), Buhoma Community Camp (Budget)
After breakfast and checking-out of the lodge, meet your safari guide and drive back to the Kihihi airstrip for your return flight back to Entebbe. End of the tour
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The big 4 mammals; lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo can be spotted as well as other mammals like Rothschild’s giraffe, hippos, warthogs, hyena including several antelopes such as Jackson’s hartebeest, waterbuck, bushbuck. In addition to big wildlife viewing, visiting Budongo forest in the south of the park provide opportunities for tracking African wild chimpanzees and spotting other primates including colobus monkeys, red tailed monkey and patas monkeys. A honeymoon loop trail has also been opened for honeymooners in the south of the park.