14 Day Uganda Big Five & Gorilla Safari

Meet your representative at Entebbe International Airport and transfer to your hotel. Spend the remainder of the day resting. Your safari guide will explain the route and the different wildlife environments you will explore.

After breakfast, depart Entebbe and travel toward the rhino conservation area included in the safari. Join trained guides for a regulated rhino tracking experience. Tracking on foot allows you to observe these extraordinary animals while learning about conservation efforts.

Continue to your overnight destination after the activity.

Travel onward toward one of Uganda’s principal wildlife parks. Enter the protected area and begin game viewing. Look for elephants, buffaloes, antelopes and other mammals.

Lions and leopards may occur, but predator sightings remain dependent on natural animal movements.

Wake early for a morning game drive. Search open plains and woodland for large mammals and predators. Your guide can interpret tracks, behavior and habitat.

After lunch, enjoy another wildlife activity or boat safari where included. Water-based safaris can produce sightings of hippos, crocodiles and mammals approaching the riverbanks.

Spend another day in the park. A second full day improves opportunities to see species missed previously and allows more time for photography. Your guide may explore alternative wildlife-viewing tracks according to recent movements and local conditions.

After breakfast, leave the first wildlife park and continue south or west. Travel through Uganda’s varied landscapes toward the next stage of the safari. Arrive at your lodge and enjoy the evening at leisure.

Continue toward Queen Elizabeth National Park. Enjoy an afternoon game drive after arrival. Possible wildlife includes elephants, buffaloes, Uganda kobs, waterbucks and warthogs.

Lions are an important predator within the park.

Wake early for another game drive. Search for predators and herbivores across the savannah. After lunch, join a boat safari on the Kazinga Channel.

The channel contains large concentrations of hippos and extensive birdlife. Crocodiles may be seen along the banks, while elephants and buffaloes sometimes approach the water.

After breakfast, continue south through the Ishasha area where routing allows. The region is famous for tree-climbing lions. Although a sighting is never guaranteed, the search adds excitement to the journey.

Continue into the southwestern highlands and arrive at Bwindi.

Today is the highlight of your 14 Day Uganda Big Five & Gorilla Safari. After breakfast, report to the designated briefing point. Park rangers explain trekking regulations and assign visitors to habituated gorilla families.

Enter Bwindi’s rainforest with guides and trackers. The terrain can be demanding, and gorillas may be located several hours from the starting point.

Enjoy a slower day after the gorilla trek. Take an optional community tour, forest walk or birding excursion. Community tourism can help visitors understand how people living around Bwindi interact with tourism and conservation.

Leave Bwindi and continue to another southwestern destination. Depending on the finalized itinerary, this can include Lake Mburo or a scenic lake region. Enjoy an afternoon wildlife or nature activity.

Begin the morning with another game drive or guided activity. If visiting Lake Mburo, look for zebras, impalas, buffaloes and elands. Spend the final afternoon relaxing at your lodge.

After breakfast, drive toward Entebbe. Stop around the Equator where time permits. Continue to Entebbe International Airport for departure.

Your 14 Day Uganda Big Five & Gorilla Safari concludes after two weeks of exceptional wildlife diversity.

Uganda’s Big Five

The traditional Big Five are lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. Uganda provides opportunities to encounter all five, although they occur in different conservation areas. Because wildlife is free-ranging, seeing every species cannot be promised.

A safari should be approached as an opportunity to observe natural wildlife behavior rather than a guaranteed checklist.

Why Add Mountain Gorillas?

The gorilla trek provides a completely different wildlife experience from game drives. Big mammals are generally viewed from a vehicle or boat. In Bwindi, you walk through rainforest and approach a specific gorilla family with trackers.

The contrast makes Uganda particularly appealing for travelers seeking variety.