15-Days Soul of Uganda Adventure - Budget Safari

On this day, you will have your breakfast & transfer to Kitgum with a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track White Rhinos.

You will arrive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary at around 10:00 am and enter the territory of the southern white rhinos on foot where well-trained rangers will guide you through the bush to where the white rhinos are. You will get the opportunity to watch these endangered, magnificent creatures in their natural habitat before proceeding to Kitgum.

You will arrive to Kitgum in the evening & check in to Bomah Hotel Kitgum for relaxation, dinner & overnight stay.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will have your breakfast & transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park. The drive will take you through the Karamojong Villages and you will also be rewarded with splendid views of the countryside. Kidepo Valley National Park is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey north through the wild frontier region of Karamojong would agree that it is also the most magnificent with ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses.

You will arrive to Kidepo Valley National Park in the afternoon and go for evening game drive where you will be able to see various animals like; Zebras, Elephants, Buffaloes, Giraffes, Lions among others.

After your evening game drive, you will check in to Kidepo Savannah Lodge for relaxation, dinner & overnight stay in non-self-contaned safari tent with shared bathroom facilities.

The lodge is built with comfort in mindset and is inspired by the savannah surroundings, the grasslands, rocky outcrops and the Karamojong tribe with their typical manyattas and colorful blankets.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On your morning game drive a ranger with extensive knowledge of the park will join you in your vehicle. The Park is known for its massive elephant population, wide array of bird species and big herds of buffalo. Giraffes, lions, antelope and waterbucks can also be spotted here and if you search the trees carefully, you may even spot the elusive leopards.

In the afternoon after your lunch, you will spend time in a Karamjong village learning about their traditional way of life, traditional kraals, traditional dance, their typical manyattas and colourful blankets among others before returning to the Kidepo Savannah Lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tent with shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will have your breakfast and transfer to Murchison Falls National Park. The drive will take you through the Karamojong villages where you will also be rewarded with splendid views of the countryside with several stopovers en-route for lunch, landscape and beautiful sceneries viewing.

You will arrive to Murchison Falls National Park in the evening and check in to Fort Murchison Lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tents with shared bathroom facilities.

The lodge is set in a beautiful surrounding and looks out on the majestic Albert Nile that will add to your safari experience.

All meals and enough drinking water are included

On this day, your safari breakfast will be served before the day breaks so that you can start your morning game drive as the sun comes up. Sunrise is the best time for wildlife spotting as animals tend to be the most active during the “golden hours”, when the first rays of sunshine come to rest on the savannah. Elephants, buffalo and several species of antelope are some characters you may come across today, & if you’re lucky, you may even spot a lion or leopard.

You will return for lunch in the afternoon & go for a 3-hours boat safari upstream on the Victoria Nile to the falls where you will pass by breathtaking scenery, as well as many crocodiles, hundreds of hippos, buffaloes, water birds, monkeys & other animals that come down to the Nile. The boat will drop you near the waterfall for your hike (1-1.5 hours) up to the top of the falls (optional at additional cost of $15 pp).

After your boat safari, you will return to Fort Murchison Lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tent with shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will enjoy your last sunrise & breakfast in this beautiful National Park in Uganda with a walk to top of Murchison Falls for about 30 minutes to 1 hour & transfer to Kibale National Park with several stops along the way for lunch, beautiful scenery, landscape viewing among others before reaching the Park.

You will arrive in the afternoon and go for crater lakes and plantations walk before checking in to Kibale Forest Camp for relaxation, dinner & overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tents with shared bathroom facilities.

Your stay in Kibale Forest Camp will offer you a unique jungle experience. You will get absorbed by forest smells and sounds, spot primates swinging through the trees and observe rare birds and beautiful butterflies fluttering around. The elegant tented camp is located in a patch of evergreen forest which borders the Magombe swamp and is a mere 10-min drive to where your chimp tracking will start.


All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will wake up early and have breakfast before moving to Kibale National Park for Chimpanzees Tracking experience where you will have the opportunity to follow an experienced guide into the forest to observe these fascinating creatures at a close range. Watching them interact with each other and go about their daily routine of grooming, playing and foraging is an incredible experience. While your chances of encountering chimpanzees are high during your tracking excursion, it is never 100% guaranteed. These are, after all, wild animals with wills and minds of their own!

In the afternoon after your lunch, you can choose whether you would like to go for Community walk or go deeper into the forest on a Swamp Walk in the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary; home to 8 primate species, over 200 bird species, butterflies and various reptiles before returning to Kibale Forest Camp
for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tent with shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will wake up early and have breakfast before moving to Amabereganyinamwiru Cultural Site for a guided walk in nature, stalagmites experience that is believed to be breast milk, hill climbing, crater lakes experience, birding and other wildlife viewing.

After the guided walk in nature at Amabere ga nyina mwiru Cultural Site, you will return for lunch and go for another guided walk in nature at Semuliki National Park where you will be able to see abundant wildlife including; baboons, red-tailed Colubus monkeys, Vervet monkeys, various bird species, butterflies, Sempaya hot springs and many more.

After your guided walk in nature at Semuliki National Park, you will check in to Bumaga Camp Bandas for your relaxation, dinner & overnight stay in self-contained bandas with private bathroom facilities.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

After your early morning breakfast, you will embark on an exciting drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park situated in the shadows of Mt. Rwenzori with several stops along the way for lunch, equator and landscape viewing before reaching the Park in the evening or late afternoon.

You will arrive in the afternoon and have your lunch before embarking on your afternoon game drive where you will expect to view animals like elephants, buffaloes, Lions, bush pigs, antelope’s families among others.

After your long journey and afternoon game drive, you will check in to the Bush Lodge (www.naturelodgesuganda.com) for your dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tent with clean shared bathroom facilities.

The Bush Lodge forms an excellent base for your safari activities in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The lodge is built along ecological principals, the non-self-contained safari tent with shared bathroom facilities are designed and spaced in such a way that they maximize privacy and enhance the safari aspect of its guests. Surrounded by the National Park and bordering the Kazinga channel, the lodge has a truly unique setting. Animals’ literary roam in and out of the camp and the sounds of hippo’s and hyenas will compliment your trip. When at Bush Lodge expect a great outdoor safari atmosphere, close to nature with excellent food and friendly service.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, your safari breakfasts will be served before the day breaks so that you can start your morning game drive as the sun comes up. Sunrise is the best time for wildlife spotting as animals tend to be the most active during the “golden hours”, when the first rays of sunshine come to rest on the savannah. Elephants, buffalo and several species of antelope are some characters you may come across today, and if you’re lucky, you may even spot a lion or leopard.

You will return for lunch and later in the day when the sun is high in the sky and the animals make their way to the river for a drink, you will head to Kazinga Channel for an exciting boat safari. You will spot more hippos today than you can possibly imagine. Herds of elephants and buffalo will also be wandering down to the shoreline to bathe in the cooling waters. It will be a wonderful experience.

After the boat safari, you will return to Bush Lodge for dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tents with shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

On this day, you will wake up early and have your breakfast then transfer to Mgahinga National Park while enjoying a scenic drive that allows you to view the beautiful and varied countryside. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is one of the luckiest and smallest parks in Uganda where the world’s critically endangered mountain gorillas are found, and it happens to be part of the Virunga massif where more than 480 mountain gorillas are known to be living.

You will stop for a game drive at Ishasha Sector where you will be likely to view tree climbing lions among other species.

You will arrive to Mgahinga National Park in the evening and check in to Golden Monkey Guest House for relaxation, dinner and overnight. Golden Monkey Guest House is accommodation that provides an excellent base for trekking the mountain gorillas, golden monkey and volcano hiking in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.

All meals and enough drinking water are included.

After your breakfast, you will hike to the Park headquarters just meters from the Lodge for briefing by Uganda Wildlife Authority guides before transferring to the starting point for Mountain Gorillas tracking. Your tracking experience will be an exciting, yet challenging, journey along forested slopes, tangled vines, thick vegetation & bamboo forests before you reach the territory of these gentle giants. The visit will give you a glimpse into the life of a Mountain Gorilla family & if you are lucky enough to gaze into the eyes of a Mountain Gorilla. Visiting Mountain Gorillas will take you 3 hours to a full day trek through the forest since Mountain Gorillas move from one place to another every day looking for food & water.

After Mountain Gorillas tracking, you will visit the Batwa community for them to take you through their traditions like traditional dance, beer making, setting fire among others (optional) before returning to Golden Monkey Guest House for relaxation, dinner & overnight stay.

All meals and drinking water are included.

Just like gorilla tracking, you will go for golden monkey tracking starting with pre-tracking briefing at the Park headquarters. Hiking through the forests to sight the golden monkeys is not so strenuous like gorilla trekking because golden monkeys live in lower areas, so you will not track for more than 3 hours. When you encounter the golden monkey family, you will be given one hour to spend with them (to take photographs and observe their behaviour). With this activity, there is no minimum number of visitors and the age limit is 12 years.

In the afternoon after your lunch, you will go for canoe ride on a scenic lake Bunyonyi. This lake is the only one were you can ride a canoe to visit all the 29 islands on this lake including the floating Island and the punishment Island where the young girls who got pregnant before marriage would be dumped and left to die.

After the canoe ride, you will check in to Bunyonyi Overland Resort for dinner and overnight stay in non-self-contained safari tents/rooms with shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and drinking water are included.

On this day, you will have your morning breakfast and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park. It is the smallest and is home to 350 bird species as well as zebra, impala, eland, buffalo, oribi, Defassa waterbuck, leopard, hippo, hyena, topi and reedbuck.

You will arrive in the afternoon and have lunch and go for afternoon boat safari that will get you come face to face with the flora and fauna of the lake. And along the bank, you will also see many animals that come to the water especially in the dry season. You will also see many hippos, crocodiles, antelopes, buffaloes, and over 3 types of otters that are found in the lake. Also, when it comes to the birds, you will view the malachite kingfishers, African Fish eagles, blue headed weavers, Rufuos long-tailed starlings, the pied kingfishers, hammerkobs, Herons, pelicans, the rare shoebill as well as the cormorants.

After your boat safari, you will check in to Eagle's Nest Lodge located on a high hill with best views in Uganda in non-self-contained safari tents with clean shared bathroom facilities.

All meals and drinking water are included.

On this day, you will enjoy your last sunrise in this beautiful side of Uganda with your safari breakfast served before the day breaks so that you can start your morning game drive where you will be assured of spotting Zebras, Buffalos, Impalas, Warthogs, Waterbucks among others.

After your game drive, you will have your lunch before your guide drive you across the beautiful sceneries back to Entebbe and drop you off at Entebbe International Airport 3 hours before your departure time. Please make sure your flight departure is after 5 pm at the very earliest.

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