Best of Uganda (14 Days)

Arrive in Entebbe, Uganda, which earns its nickname, the “Pearl of Africa,” from its scenery. Transfer to your hotel for resting and leisure.

Optional: Visit the stunning Entebbe Botanical Gardens

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Papyrus Guest House (BB) High Budget: Hotel No.5

This morning, embark on a journey to the magnificent Murchison Falls National Park. First stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a Rhino Tracking excursion. Ziwa Rhino Raunch is the only place in Uganda where visitors can track the white rhino in the wild.

After lunch, proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. Visit the top of the falls and then transfer to your booked accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.

Included: Rhino tracking, Visit top of the falls

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Pakuba Lodge (FB) High Budget: Paraa Safari Lodge (FB)

Embark on a morning game drive through the vast Murchison Falls National Park landscape, observing the park’s timeless circle of life. Your explorations may reveal giraffe, elephant, buffalo, lion, Uganda kob, leopard, and far more. Return to the lodge for lunch.

This afternoon, take a 3-hour boat trip on the mighty Nile River to the bottom of the majestic Murchison Falls. The trip gives perfect opportunities and a platform to see and take great photos of several animals, including the permanent residents such as the hippos, Nile crocodiles, and birds. Afterwards, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay. You may do a short game drive to the lodge (if the time permits)

Included: Game drive, Boat trip

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Pakuba Lodge (FB) High Budget: Paraa Safari Lodge (FB)

After a hefty breakfast, embark on a journey to Kibale National Park along the Albertine Rift Valley escarpment and the countryside.

Arrive in Kibale and check in your booked accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.

Kibale Forest is a unique jungle with the highest population of Chimpanzees in Africa and 12 other primate species including baboons, red colobus, black and white colobus, L’Hoest monkeys and grey cheeked mangabey.

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Kibale Guest Cottages (FB) High Budget: Primate Lodge (FB)

This morning, go for a chimpanzee trek, listening to the silence of the forest as you go to meet man’s closest cousins. Kibale Forest is also home to 300 species of birds. Return to the lodge and for the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Included: Chimpanzee tracking

Optional: Nature walk in Bigodi

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Kibale Guest Cottages (FB) High Budget: Primate Lodge (FB)

After breakfast, drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, home to large strong herds of elephants, lions, hippos and kobs, any of which you may see on an evening game drive.

Included: Evening Game drive

Optional: Crater lakes walk

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Kasenyi Safari Camp (FB) High Budget: Mweya Safari Lodge/ Deluxe (FB)

Embark on a morning game drive through the vast landscape, observing the timeless circle of life in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Your explorations may reveal buffalo, elephant, lion, Uganda kob, leopard and far more. Return to the lodge for lunch.

This afternoon, embark on a 2-hour boat safari along the Kazinga Channel which is known for it high concentration of hippos in the whole world. Expect to see several water birds, crocodiles, buffalos, warthog, elephant, kob, and far more. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Included: Game drive, Boat cruise

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Kasenyi Safari Camp (FB) High Budget: Mweya Safari Lodge/ Deluxe (FB)

Proceed with game viewing to the Ishasha sector, searching for the tree-climbing lions, a species of lions seldom seen elsewhere in Africa.

Included: Search for the tree-climbing lions

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Ishasha Jungle Lodge (FB) High Budget: Ishasha Wilderness Camp (FB)

After breakfast, set out for a morning game drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park. Make your way out of the Rift Valley through the Kigezi Highlands to the mountains of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Check-in your accommodation and have the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Optional: Community Walk

After breakfast, you will be taken to the park headquarters for a short but important briefing from the park rangers and guides after which you will be allocated the gorilla family to visit. Enter the forest and start your trek (please note that a drive to the starting point of your trekking may be required).

Coming up close to endangered Mountain Gorillas in the forests of Uganda is a thrilling lifetime experience that surely ranks on most people’s travel bucket lists. Trekking at a high altitude through dense forests and up steep terrain can be challenging, especially in the African heat, but the hour you get to spend with these gentle giants is worth every step.

Only 8 guests may visit one gorilla family, at a time. One trek per day/ family.

Gorilla Tracking – is managed fully by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, with a head ranger, security personnel (who are armed as a precaution against wildlife among others), and trackers, with optional porters – who walk with the guests until a family is located. Once the gorillas are found, the rangers only take the guests closer to the gorillas – and your viewing time commences – which is one hour.

Porters – they are from the local communities, rotated for revenue sharing which goes directly to them. Recommended at least 1 per person trekking. Fees are usually additional to your tour and paid directly.

Included: Gorilla Tracking 

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Buhoma Haven Lodge (FB) High Budget: Mahogany Springs Lodge (FB)

Today, we drive to the 29 island-dotted Lake Bunyonyi. At Lake Bunyonyi, you can decide to go for a birding walk, nature walk, canoeing, swim in the lake, or visit the community.

Lake Bunyonyi is one of the deepest lakes and the most beautiful in Uganda. The lake is crocodile, hippo, and bilharzia free. It was formed as a result of multiple volcanic eruptions and is at an altitude of 2,000m.

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Bunyonyi Eco Lodge (FB) High Budget: Birdnest Lodge (FB)

After breakfast, drive to Lake Mburo National Park. Stop over at the Igongo Cultural Centre for an Ankole cultural experience and taste a local meal. Proceed to your accommodation in the park for dinner and an overnight stay.

Lake Mburo National Park is Uganda’s smallest savannah park, one of the only two with zebras and the only one with impalas. The park has no lions or elephants.

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Rwakobo Rock Lodge (FB) High Budget: Mihingo Lodge (FB)

Morning rise to a game drive in the park. You can also go horse riding inside or outside the park or go exploring Lake Mburo National Park on a bicycle.

Included: Game drive

Optional activities: Boat cruise, nature walk, birding, mountain biking, horseback riding

Accommodation: Medium Budget: Rwakobo Rock Lodge (FB) High Budget: Mihingo Lodge (FB)

After breakfast, depart Lake Mburo National Park and drive to Entebbe. This afternoon, transfer to the airport for your outbound flight back home.