Uganda Gorilla Tracking and Wildlife Safari with Katland Safaris
This 14-day Uganda gorilla tracking and wildlife safari will take you from central Uganda to south and western Uganda, and end your safari with a visit to Kidepo Valley National Game Park in the extreme northern Uganda. On this safari, you will have the opportunity to track mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will also have the opportunity to go chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest National Park. On the same safari, you will visit Queen Elizabeth, Murchison Falls, and Kidepo Valley National Game Park for wildlife safaris. On the same safari, you will visit Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for the rhino tracking experience and complete your big five wildlife safari.
This is an all-inclusive safari that starts and ends in either Kampala or Entebbe.
Day 01: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Our your very first day of your 10-Day Uganda Primates and Wildlife Game Safari. You will meet a representative from Katland Safaris for a briefing about your adventure safari. You will start your journey driving south; you will make a stopover at the equator for stretching, refreshment, or make a stopover in Mpambire to have a look at the traditional drums and handmade crafts in this place. You will jump into the car and continue your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with another sleepover in Mbarara for lunch.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is famous for being a safe home to more than 53% of the remaining population of mountain gorillas. The park is also home to an incredible variety of flora and Fauna and holds 348 bird species, making Bwindi Impenetrable Forest a bird watcher’s heaven.
Day 02: Gorilla trekking and Batwa community experience. 14-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari
Today is when we take on the highlight of your adventure, Safar, i which you will go gorilla trekking. You will wake up very early in the morning forbreakfastk fast, and with a packed lunch, you will be driven to the park head offices for a briefing about gorilla trekking adventures. After the briefing and with the leadership of the rangers, you will enter the forest and embark on the exciting journey in search of the mountain gorillas.
Once you meet the mountain gorillas, you will be allowed to spend a full hour in the company of the mountain gorillas, observing their way of life and taking pictures and videos. After the gorilla trekking adventure, you will transfer back to your lodge for relaxation and lunch.
After lunch, you will have the option of going for the Batwa community experience for the evening.
Day 03: Transfer to queen Elizabeth national park.
After an early morning breakfast. Will meet your guide and embark on a journey to Queen Elizabeth National Game Park through the Ishasha wilderness sector, famous for its rare tree-climbing lions. If luck is on our side, we might be lucky enough to see these beautiful lions resting in acacia tree branches. You will drive to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay:
Accommodation options: Elephant pairs lodge: luxuryMenafiki safari lodge: mid range, T abingi safari lodge: mid range, The bush lodge (budget)
Day 04: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel.
For this fourth day of your Safari, you will wake up early in the morning for breakfast, and after go for an early morning Game Adventure epic in Queen Elizabeth National Game Park. While on this Safari, expect to encounter several wildlife, including Hynes, buffalo, lions, elephants, among other wild animals.
After a thrilling drive, you will then head back to the lodge for relaxation and lunch as you gather energy for yet another thrilling adventure, the afternoon boat safari on Kazinga channel, a place with some of the highest concentrations of hippo, with a lot of aquatic wildlife, and elephants spotted on the Banks of Kazinga channel.
After the Boat safari, you will transfer back to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 05: Transfer to Kibale forest | 14-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari
On this day of your Safari, you will wake up very early in the morning for breakfast and bid farewell to the lodge and embark on a journey to Kibale Forest National Park, also known as the primate’s capital of the world because of its very high concentration of chimpanzees.
The Scenic transfer will take you through the rural villages of rural Uganda and finally to Kibale Forest National Park.
Accommodation will be at Primates Lodge Kibale Luxury, Kibale Forest Camp Mid Rouge, and at Chimpanzee Forest Guest House for Budget accommodation.
Day 06: Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
After breakfast, we visit Kibale National Park, which is said to have the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. You will take a guided nature walk in search of chimpanzees, black and white colubus monkeys, red colubus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, baboons, and a variety of bird species. Come back to the lodge, relax around, have lunch, Relaxation, dinner, nd overnight.
Day 07: Transfer to Murchison Falls.
Today, you wake up very early in the morning for an early breakfast and a hot cup of coffee. You will meet your guide and embark on a journey to northwestern Uganda, aiming for Murchison Falls National Park. You will have lunch on route and after continue with the journey and check into the services of Pakuba Safari Lodge for accommodation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Murchison Falls National Game Park.
This is the largest national park and conservation area in Uganda, with approximately 3840 square kilometers. The Nile River divides this magnificent park into two sectors: the southern and western sectors. The park is known for magnificent falls, where the entire River Nile squeezes itself through a 6m6-meterelow creating a rainbow on top of the falls. While in Murchison Falls, take a boat cruise upstream; the falls provide you with an unforgettable safari experience like no other. Visitors are able to watch a variety of wildlife, including buffalo, elephants, giraffes, lions, crocodiles, and hippos, alongside a variety of bird species.
Day 08: morning game drive and boat cruise
Morning game drive on your eighth day of your 10-day Uganda safari, you will wake up very early morning for breakfast and then transfer for an early morning game drive to watch early morning grazers as they rotate around in watching for the early sunrise. Some of the animals expected on this morning game drive include African elephants’s buffalo, giraffes (Roth’s giraffe), hyenas, lions, Hyenas, heart beasts, and a leopard or lion in case luck is on our side.
After this exciting early morning game drive, you will then transfer back to the lodge for a quick lunch, and after lunch, you will head out for a fascinating afternoon boat safari on the Nile to the bottom of Murchison Falls. While on this safari, I expect to see wildlife from elephants, giraffes, birds, and Nile crocodiles. After this exciting boat safari, you will then transfer back to your lodge for evening relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 09: Top of the falls and evening game drive | 14-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari
Wake up very early in the morning for breakfast and, with your guide, transfer to explore the top of the falls. You will also have the opportunity not only to gaze at these magnificent falls but also to hike to the top of the falls. Have breakfast at these magnificent falls.
After transferring back to either the lodge or making a stop at Red chill rest camp for lunch and relaxation. After lunch, you will then head out for an evening game drive in search of the late grazers.
Return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay.
Accommodation at Pakuba Safari lodge or Murchison River lodge
Day 10: Transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park
Today you will wake up early in the morning for breakfast, meet up with your guide, and embark on an exciting journey to Kidepo Valley National Game Park. You will wake up in often cross-seasonal springs and rivers, crossed by bridges. As you approach Kidepo Valley National Game Park, you will start encountering people of Karamoja. You will proceed and check into the services of a lodge for a relaxation dinner and overnight stay.
Kidepo Valley National Park.
This magnificent conservation area lies in the rugged semi-arid valley between Uganda’s borders with Southern Sudan and Kenya, about 100 km from Uganda’s capital Kampala. The park was gazetted as a national park in 1962. With its diverse biodiversity of big game, (77 mammal species and 475 bird species) Kidepo valley national game park is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the very few that have taken the journey north through the wild frontiers region of Karamoja would agree that Kidepo Valley National Park is Uganda’s and probably Africa’s most beautiful national park as it consistently ranks among Africa’s most wilderness.
From Apoka, in the heart of the park, Kidepo extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards horizons separated by distant mountain ranges.
Overnight stay at Kidepo Savannah lodge.
Day 11: Full Day Game Drive in Kidepo Valley National Game Park
Today you will wake up early in the morning for breakfast and then go out for a game in Narusi valley of Kidepo Valley National Game Park. Narusi Valley is a beautiful plain grassland enclosed by distant and beautiful rolling mountains seen from every corner while on the game drive. The valley has permanent water, and for much of the year, the park’s wildlife congregates here. The valley is designed with numerous tracks with well-designed loops that make exploring the natural part a memorable adventure.
Most notable wildlife expected on the safari in KidepValley National Parkrk include buffalo, giraffes, Jackson heat beasts, oribis, and lions. The park also has leopards and cheetahs, but commonly seen. Accommodation at Kidepo Savannah Lodge.
Day 12: Full day game drives in Kidepo Valley National Game Park
On this day, we have the option of either going for a morning game drive and relaxing at the lodge later in the evening or spending the morning at the lodge and going for an evening game drive.
Accommodation at Kidepo Savannah lodge.
Day 13: Visit Karamoja Village for a cultural experience and transfer to Gulu for an overnight stay.
Wake up early in the morning for breakfast and, with packed bags, slowly drive through the national park in search of any wildlife that you would have missed on the previous drives. Proceed to the Kidepo River and pave the way to the Karamoja community. The Karamoja people are very famous cattle keepers who love and attach a very high value to cows. Visit their homesteads known as manyatta, dance to the tunes of their music instruments and rhymes, and if you can jump high enough, you might walk away with a Karamojong girl.
After the Karamojong cultural experience, transfer to Gulu for evening relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Accommodation at Church Hill hotel
Day 14: Transfer back to Kampala with Rhino tracking and Lunch eroute marking the end of your 1414-dayganda Gorilla tracking and wildlife safari.
Today is your last day on a safari across Uganda. You will wake up very early in the morning for the last breakfast, and after embark on your journey back to Kampala. You will make a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for the Rhino trekking experience and lunch.
Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary: 14-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari
This is a popular destination for a stopover for tourists on safaris to Murchison Falls National Park. Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is home to the rhinos conserved to be reintroduced in Murchison Falls National Game Park. While at Ziwa, you will go for a rhino search on foot and come up close to the rhinos.
You will return to the starting point for lunch and after transfer back to Kampala, marking the end of your 10-day Uganda primates and wildlife safari.
Booking gorilla trekking safaris in Uganda and Rwanda with Katland Safaris. 14-Day Uganda Gorilla Safari
Katland Safaris organizes the best gorilla and wildlife safaris in East Africa. When it comes to gorilla trekking, we will book your gorilla trekking permits for Uganda`s Bwindi and Mgahinga gorilla national park and gorilla permits for Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Besides booking your gorilla permit, we will also put all other gorilla safari accessories, like transportation and accommodation, in one package to make your gorilla trekking safari a memorable adventure:
Your gorilla trekking safaris can be customized to meet your safari expectations, needs, and budget. The safari package can range from budget, mid-range, and luxury safaris.
Feel free to contact our team of excellent safari consultants to help you organize the best Africa gorilla safari ever.
