14 Day Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari

Arrive at Entebbe International Airport and meet your safari representative. Transfer privately to your selected hotel in Entebbe. This first day is deliberately relaxed to allow you to recover after your international journey. If you arrive early, an optional Entebbe activity can be arranged.

Your driver-guide will brief you about the safari route, major activities and preparations for gorilla trekking.

After breakfast, depart Entebbe and begin traveling north toward the Murchison Falls conservation area. The drive passes through changing rural landscapes and towns. Depending on the confirmed program, conservation experiences can be incorporated along the route.

Continue to your lodge near Murchison Falls National Park. Enjoy dinner and prepare for your first major wildlife day.

Wake early for a game drive across the park’s savannah. Search for elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, Uganda kobs, hartebeests, warthogs and other animals. Lions occur in the park and may sometimes be encountered around areas with abundant prey.

After lunch, take a boat safari along the Nile. Look for hippos, Nile crocodiles and wildlife visiting the riverbanks. The journey toward Murchison Falls provides dramatic views as the Nile becomes increasingly turbulent.

Return to your lodge in the evening.

Enjoy another morning experience before beginning the journey south. Depending on routing, visit a viewpoint overlooking Murchison Falls, where the Nile forces its enormous volume of water through a narrow rocky channel. Continue toward western Uganda.

An intermediate overnight stop ensures that the journey remains comfortable.

After breakfast, travel toward the greener landscapes surrounding Kibale. Tea plantations, forest fragments and rolling hills characterize the region. Arrive at your lodge and spend the afternoon relaxing.

Travelers interested in primates can incorporate an appropriate chimpanzee experience into the confirmed itinerary.

Spend the morning exploring the forest environment. Where chimpanzee trekking is included, attend a briefing before entering the forest with professional guides. Chimpanzees are active and vocal primates, and their calls can often be heard before the animals are visible.

Additional monkeys, forest birds and butterflies may also be encountered. Spend the afternoon relaxing or enjoying an optional community or wetland activity.

After breakfast, continue south toward Queen Elizabeth National Park. The journey may provide distant views toward the Rwenzori region before descending into the Albertine Rift. Enter the national park and begin an introductory wildlife drive.

Look for elephants, buffaloes, Uganda kobs, warthogs and waterbucks. Continue to your lodge for dinner.

Wake early for a morning game drive. Your guide will search productive wildlife areas for elephants, antelopes and predators. Lions may occasionally be found resting near concentrations of Uganda kobs, while leopards are naturally more elusive.

After lunch, enjoy a Kazinga Channel boat safari. The channel is famous for hippos, crocodiles and extensive birdlife. Elephants and buffaloes may approach the shoreline to drink.

Return to your lodge after the cruise.

After breakfast, travel toward Bwindi. Depending on your trekking sector, the journey may pass through the Ishasha region. Ishasha is famous for tree-climbing lions, although sightings cannot be guaranteed.

Other wildlife may include topis, buffaloes and elephants. Continue into the southwestern highlands and arrive at your lodge near Bwindi.

Today is the defining experience of your 14 Day Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari. After an early breakfast, transfer to the appropriate Uganda Wildlife Authority briefing point. Rangers explain trekking procedures and assign visitors to habituated gorilla families.

Enter the rainforest with trackers and guides. Bwindi can be steep and muddy, and the gorillas move naturally through their territory. Trekking duration therefore varies. Hiring a porter is highly recommended.

Once the gorillas are located, follow your ranger quietly toward the family. Under standard trekking arrangements, visitors normally spend up to one hour observing the habituated group. Watch a silverback resting near his family, females feeding and juveniles climbing or playing around the vegetation.

After the encounter, trek back to the starting point and return to your lodge.

Enjoy a slower day after gorilla trekking. Depending on your interests, take a community visit, birding excursion or guided nature walk. Community experiences can provide insight into farming, craft production and tourism-linked livelihoods around Bwindi.

Alternatively, relax at your lodge and enjoy the highland scenery.

After breakfast, leave Bwindi and travel toward another southwestern wildlife destination. Lake Mburo is particularly convenient because it lies along the route toward Entebbe. Arrive in the afternoon and enjoy an introductory game drive.

Look for zebras, impalas, buffaloes, elands and warthogs.

Begin the morning with a game drive or optional guided walking safari. Lake Mburo offers a different wildlife environment from Uganda’s larger parks. Walking with an authorized ranger can provide opportunities to learn about animal tracks, plants and smaller details of the ecosystem.

Spend the afternoon relaxing or participating in another available activity.

After breakfast, begin the final journey toward Entebbe. Stop around the Equator for photographs and souvenir shopping if time allows. Continue to Entebbe International Airport for your international departure.

Your 14 Day Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari concludes after exploring an exceptional variety of Uganda’s ecosystems.