10 Days Best of Uganda Ultimate Primate Safari

Today is the Chimpanzee trekking day in the primate capital of the world – Kibale National Park National Park. After your early morning breakfast, your safari guide will lead you to the briefing point before the chimpanzee trekking activity. The experienced park warden will take you through a briefing on what to anticipate and how to conduct yourself in the forest. Immediately after the briefing, you will kick start the hike through the dense tropical forest for the memorable and rewarding adventure in search of man’s closest cousins the Chimpanzees. You are allowed keep closer to them for 1 hour after locating them. Then after have lunch, and transfer for the Swamp walk in Bigodi community for the nature walk and birding experience. From the swamp walk you will visit several homes for the coffee, and banana brewing experience, basketry and learn about traditional medicine.

Today your ultimate safari proceeds to Queen Elizabeth National Park via the Crater lakes region and enjoy the scenic views of the Rwenzori mountain ranges. You will have an option of having a late breakfast and then after checkout of the lodge. Upon arrival in Queen Elizabeth National, alternatively you can opt to have an evening game drive through the park before checking in at your lodge, as well you can take on an evening community walk around your lodge.

Uganda is home to a vast, unrivalled number of the wildlife species. Queen Elizabeth national park records the highest concentration of biodiversity in Africa. The best time for game viewing is morning hours when the predators are on looking out for the prey and before they go into hiding. Your popup roofed safari vehicle will allow you to spot animals in a 360 degrees perimeter. Enjoy the exotic and rare wildlife species like the Africa Elephants, Lions, Leopards, Cape Buffaloes, and Uganda Kobs etc. In the afternoon enjoy a boat cruise on Kazinga Channel towards Lake Edward where you will encounter several wildlife and aquatic bird species.

The Gorilla ultimate safari adventure in Uganda will involve spending the day with the endangered mountain gorillas. On this activity you will hike through the dense Bwindi impenetrable forest in search of gorillas. Your adventure day will start with the briefing from the park warden after which you are segmented into group and each group is allocated to 1 gorilla family. You will then enter the forest in search of the gorillas with your ranger guides. Once you locate them, you will have 1 full hour observing, learning their characters and behaviors. The gorilla trekking activity takes about 3 to 7 hours. After gorilla trekking drive back to the lodge for refreshment, dinner and overnight.

Your safari guide will pick you after the breakfast for the morning game drive before leaving the park. On this day you will drive back to Kampala. You will drive out of the park with a stopover at the Equator line for lunch, souvenirs and photo sessions in both the northern and southern hemispheres. This will put an end to your 10 days Uganda primate ultimate safari, thank you for choosing us.