10 Days Uganda Luxury Safari
This 10 Days Uganda classic safari takes you to Murchison Falls, where you will enjoy game viewing drives, a hike to the top of the falls and a boat cruise on the Victoria Nile. After proceeding to Kibale Forest for chimpanzee trekking and a Bigodi nature walk, connect to Queen Elizabeth National Park for more game sightings and a boat ride on the amazing Kazinga Channel. The last leg of this Uganda safari takes you to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park through the Ishasha sector, where you will see the tree-climbing lions. The last activity on the trip will be gorilla tracking, where you will see the endangered mountain gorillas.
Safari Highlights of the 10 Days Uganda Classic Safari
Day 1: Arrival – Hotel
Day 2: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary – Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park – Top of the falls visit
Day 3: Game drive and launch cruise – Murchison Falls
Day 4: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park – Bigodi swamp nature walk
Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking – transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 6: Morning game drive/Lion tracking – boat cruise and evening game drive
Day 7: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 8: Gorilla trekking experience
Day 9: Batwa community tour, Explore Lake Bunyonyi
Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe
Detailed itinerary of the 10 Days Uganda Classic Safari
Day 1: Arrival – Hotel
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, meet your driver, who will drive you to your reserved hotel. Early check-in at 4 am. Spend your day resting at the hotel. All meals and overnight stay at Papyrus Guesthouse/Best Western Garden Hotel/Entebbe Protea Hotel
Day 2: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary – Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park – Top of the falls visit
Depending on your location in Kampala/Entebbe, you will be picked up as early as 7 am by your safari driver to start your safari. Transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, which is about a 3-hour drive from Entebbe/Kampala. Upon arrival at the sanctuary, you will connect for a briefing about the rhinos in Uganda. Rhino tracking takes about 2-3 hours, and after meeting and spending time with the rhinos, you will have lunch en route and proceed on a 4-hour drive to Murchison Falls National Park.
Connect to the top of the Murchison Falls before you connect to your booked lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay at Parkside Safari Lodge/Pakuba Safari Lodge/Nile Safari Lodge
Day 3: Game drive and launch cruise – Murchison Falls
Early morning breakfast, and then go for a game drive where you will spot various animal species like elephants, giraffes, lions, Uganda kobs, and others. In the afternoon, you will go for a launch cruise on the park’s main tourist attraction, the unique Murchison Falls, as well as the River Nile with its streaming hippo and serried ranges of crocodile along the sandbanks, as well as large numbers of different species getting down to drink and bathe. Dinner and overnight as above
Day 4: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park – Bigodi swamp nature walk
You will have breakfast and then transfer to Kibale National Park, which is about a 6-7-hour drive with lunch en route in Fort Portal town. Proceed to the park and visit the Bigodi wetland for birds and primates. Proceed to check in at your booked lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge/Isunga Lodge/Primates Lodge
Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking – transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Have an early morning breakfast, go for a briefing and start chimpanzee trekking. Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best safari destinations in Africa for chimpanzee tracking. Kibale’s 795 km² National Park contains one of the most beautiful and varied tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. This is the place for a number of forest wildlife, most especially 13 species of primates, coupled with chimpanzees.
After trekking, transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is about a 3-hour drive. Upon arrival, explore the crater lakes before you drive to your booked lodge for check-in, dinner and overnight stay at Bush Lodge/Elephant Hub Lodge/Elephant Plains Lodge
Day 6: Morning game drive/Lion tracking – boat cruise and evening game drive
You will have breakfast, connect for a morning game drive and the lion tracking experience, where you are guaranteed to view the lions, and enjoy an en-route game drive in the Kasenyi area, where you will spot a good number of wildlife, including elephants, buffalo and all species of antelopes.
Later in the afternoon, go for a launch cruise where you will spot various water animals like hippos and crocodiles; the cruise will enrich you with various water birds. Connect for an evening game drive in the Kasenyi area for animals like the elephants and buffalo, and on a lucky day, you may encounter the lions and leopards. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge as above.
Day 7: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
In the morning after breakfast, thereafter, with an en-route lunch, embark on your journey to Bwindi National Park. It’s 5-7 hours, depending on your trekking sector. You will have lunch en route, arriving at Bwindi Park Safari in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Community Rest Camp for budget/Buhoma Haven Lodge for mid-range/Mahogany Springs Lodge for luxury option
Day 8: Gorilla trekking experience
Enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for a briefing by the ranger guides before entering the forest in your trekking gear, including trekking sticks, good hiking shoes and stockings for tucking in, long-sleeved shirts and long trousers, and a raincoat or jacket, to mention but a few. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi is no different from other trekking parks; that is, trekking takes 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas as they roam the park freely, and there is no way of telling where they will be for a particular day.
However, the rangers will be able to find them as they are tracked daily. On finding them, you will be allowed to spend 1 hour as you view and take photos of these gentle primates before you descend back. After trekking, meet your safari guide and return to the lodge. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge as above
Day 9: Batwa community tour, Explore Lake Bunyonyi
After breakfast, check out of the lodge and go for a Batwa community tour. These are the indigenous people of Bwindi who lived in the park before it was gazetted as a national park. You will learn a lot about the Batwa people and their culture and also be entertained by these lovely people.
Thereafter, drive to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi means “place of little birds”, and the lake is surrounded by steep hills covered with lush green vegetation, showing from the water’s edges. It is a 2-3 hour drive from Bwindi National Park. Lake Bunyonyi is the best place for relaxation after gorilla trekking. Connect to your lodge with views of the rolling hills for lunch.
Later in the afternoon, connect for a canoe ride to visit some of the islands on the lake and sight different bird species. You will also enjoy doing other excursions of your choice. Dinner and overnight at Bunyonyi Eco-lodge/Bunyonyi BirdNest Lodge/Bunyonyi Arcadia Cottages
Day 10: Transfer to Entebbe
After breakfast, check out of the lodge, embarking on a journey back to Kampala/Entebbe. It’s about a 4-5 hour drive with an en-route lunch and a stop at the Equator for water experiments and photographs and the Royal Drum Village at Mpambire for souvenirs. Proceed to Entebbe to be dropped at the airport for the onwards flight back home. End of 10 Days Uganda Classic Safari
