5 Days Uganda Gorillas and Game Drive Safari

5 Days Uganda Gorillas and Game Drive Safari

There's nowhere in the world you get to enjoy both a savannah game drive safari and mountain gorilla trekking on the same short budget tour but in Uganda. This 5 Days Uganda Gorillas & Game Drive Safari makes sure you do. You'll go to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the home of more than half of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas.

Did you know that it has been estimated that there are only about 880 left throughout the world?.

Almost half of the creatures can be found in Uganda, and the rest of the population can also be found in neighboring Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

You will spend one magical and exhilarating hour watching the intricate interaction of families of these amazing apes in the heart of the World Heritage Site known as the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

Highlights
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Boat Ride and Game Drive Safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Picturesque drive from Entebbe to Bwindi

Day 1: To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After Breakfast, your designated 5 Days Uganda Gorillas & Game Drive Safari guide/driver will drive you to Lake Bunyonyi located on the Eastern side of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Your guide will make stopovers at the Equator for photograph and lunch in Mbarara town. You will then drive past banana plantations, Farms and beautiful hills of Kigezi for your overnight at Broad Bill Forest Camp or Crater Bay Cottages in Kabale town.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest
Accommodation: Broad Bill Forest Camp or Crater Bay Cottages
Meals: Lunch & Dinner (Breakfast Not Included)
Drinks: Drinking Water

DAY 02: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi National Park
After your early morning breakfast, your guide will drive you to Ruhija Park headquarters for briefing and joining others for gorilla trekking. You will start your trek which can take from 30 minutes to 7 hours depending on the location of mountain gorillas on that particular day.

Once you have found them, you will be around one hour of observation and photography before returning back to the park headquarters for certificate and overnight at Broad Bill Forest Camp or Crater Bay Cottages at Lake Bunyonyi.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest
Accommodation: Broad Bill Forest Camp or Crater Bay Cottages
Meals: All Meals Included
Drinks: Drinking Water

DAY 03: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park located in western Uganda arriving in time for Lunch at Buffalo Safari resort. This will be followed by a short relaxation and an evening game drive in the savannah plains of Kasenyi where wild animals like buffaloes, elephants, antelopes and big cats such as lions and leopards can be spotted depending on your luck.

Return to your lodge for overnight.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Resort
Meals: All Meals Included
Drinks: Drinking Water

DAY 04: Morning Game drive and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga Channel
This morning you will head to back to the plains of Kasenyi for a morning game drive to try to find what could have missed the previous day. Lunch will be served at the lodge and after you will head to the jetty along kazinga channel for the afternoon boat cruise. This Uganda Gorillas & Game Drive Safari cruise offers you chances of viewing animals like hippos, water birds, elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles and much other wildlife which flock the channel for drinking water.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation: Buffalo Safari Resort
Meals: All Meals Included
Drinks: Drinking Water

DAY 05: To Kampala/Entebbe or Airport
After morning breakfast, you will drive back to Kampala\ Entebbe International Airport for your next flight out.

Main Destination: Entebbe
Accommodation: End of Tour, No accommodation
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Drinks: Mineral Water

End of the Uganda Gorillas & Game Drive Safari

**Additional accommodation can be arranged for the extra cost
**You'll be dropped off at the airport (or hotel)