Overview
7 Days Uganda Safari Adventure; This is a well-organized Uganda Adventure Safari handled by Early Trials Expedition Uganda. Additionally, it is a mid-range safari package leading to a phenomenal safari experience. The trip will include Lake Mburo National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Kibale Forest National Park as the major destinations. Adventure expectations include; Boat cruise, game drives, horse riding, visiting Katwe salt lake, tracking chimpanzees, bird watching and nature walks. The adventure will take the Western route, giving you a remarkable wildlife experience. It is important to note that this safari will start from either Kampala or Entebbe, take the designed course and end at either Kampala or Entebbe International Airport.
Safari highlights
- Day 1: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 2: Explore Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 3: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park and evening game drive
- Day 4: Game drive and boat cruise
- Day 5: Transfer to Kibale National Park and Bigodi swamp walk
- Day 6: Chimpanzee trekking and community visit
- Day 7: Transfer back to Entebbe International Airport
Day 1: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park
On this day, upon reaching the Entebbe airport or at your lodge within Entebbe or Kampala, a guide from Early Trails Expedition Uganda will pick you up. When we arrive, we will greet you and explain about this trip. Then will ask you to board with all your travel luggage and embark on your drive. We expect this to be within the morning hours. Then, the guide will drive you to Lake Mburo National Park with lunch en route and photography shooting at Kayabwe Equator on Kampala-Masaka road. Reach the Park by evening hours, and check in at your lodge. Then will take a night game drive, perfect for sighting the pride of lions and leopards actively hunting.
Dinner and Overnight
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Mid-range: Arcadia Cottages
Day 2: Explore Lake Mburo, National Park
Following your morning breakfast then will take a boat ride on Lake Mburo. The morning boat cruise starts from Rwonnyo Jetty, and the earliest one starts at 8:00 am. The wild scenic boat ride can last for two hours floating beside the hippos, crocodiles, buffalos, zebras, waterbuck and many others. After a boat ride, rest and lunch, refreshments will take a horse ride. The horseback ride is a terrific and none polluting way of engaging nature. Mihingo Lodge organises the horseback ride under the guidance of expert instructors. The horse ride fees vary according to your time in the field.
Dinner and Overnight
Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
Mid-range: Arcadia Cottages
Day 3: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
This day following your served breakfast will en-roll on a drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Queen Elizabeth is Uganda’s most famous park and second visited park in Uganda. Reaching the Park, drive to Katwe Salt Lake to see salt mining activities. They will go and check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Park View Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Kasenyi Safari Camp
Day 4: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park (Game drive & boat cruise)
I want to give you some advice you drive with your morning breakfast to the Kasenyi section of the park for a game drive. This is done early, at 6 am, such that you set your breakfast under the arrays of sunrise. Then continue with a rewarding game drive through the stunning green savannah. Over 100 hundred Uganda Kobs will be welcome at their mating ground in Kasenyi. This drive connects to the real wild adventure while driving through various trucks. Expect to find herds of antelopes, buffalos, elephants, lions, leopards, and warthogs, among many other animals that call Queen Elizabeth, particularly the Kasenyi section, their home. Alongside countless bird species, this park is home to over 600.
Following the game drive, you can consider lunch refreshments at your lodge, then drive to Mweya Peninsular for a wild boat cruise on Kazinga Channel. The Kazinga Channel is a fantastic water channel jewelled with stunning golden landscapes. The water channel connects two lakes, Lake Gorge and Lake Edward. A boat cruise here exposes great wild amusements and sceneries. The encounters include a school of hippos, monitor lizards, crocodiles, and water and land bird species. Larger herds of elephants, buffalos, and antelopes are always a scene at the banks of the water channel. After about 2 to 3 hours, the boat cruise will be done, then return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Park View Safari Lodge
Mid-range: Kasenyi Safari Camp
Day 5: Transfer to Kibale National Park
Following your relaxed, served, delicious breakfast, you will embark on your drive and transfer to Kibale National Park northwards through Kasese town. It’s about 2 hours drive, but you should en route to Fort Portal city and drive to Amabere caves and explore the remarkable stories of the Bachwezi dynasty. Then, later with lunch en route will go to Kibale National Park for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Chimpundu Lodge
Mid-range: Primate Lodge
Day 6: Track Chimpanzees
Following the served early morning breakfast, we will hurry to Kanyachu’s starting point for a tracking etiquette briefing. After being grouped will be led by an armed ranger guide to roll into the thick forest and start searching for the habituated chimpanzees. The track can last 30 minutes to about 2 hours to find your assigned group while walking and finding your path through the thick and impassable tropics. It’s a bit tiresome to track chimpanzees; however, finding the species, you forget all the hurdles passed through.
It’s a lifetime moment finding these half-man species, and here you find out that they imitate almost all human characters—strictly one full hour before the species and after you walk back to the starting point. You are exhausted and need to relax; I will drive to your lodge and refresh with lunch. Then in the afternoon, hours will visit the Bigodi community to understand the lifestyle of people living around the park. On a visit, you can even buy souvenirs and return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Transfer back to Kampala
Today following your relaxed served breakfast, transfer back to Kampala; it’s about 5 hours of driving. However, we can consider a cultural en route at Walumbe e Tanda in Mityana. It’s believed to be where the first Muganda person lived and was followed by a brother-law called Walumbe, who turned into a spirit of death. You will be surprised by the mass of people you can find around doing traditional worshipping. I hope you buy sandals before reaching the area, as no one is allowed to walk around the room in shoes. Let’s call it a barefoot walk. Then with lunch en route, you will continue to Kampala or even use the Entebbe Express, provided you’re flying back this day.
Our driver guide will say goodbye to you on behalf of Early Trial Expedition Uganda. Be sure that Our driver guide will say goodbye to you on behalf of Early Trial Expedition Uganda. Then, could you take your flight back to your home? After this trip, you become our next ambassador for Early Trail Expeditions Uganda in your country and area. Thank you!
Trip inclusive;
- 4×4 safari vehicle
- All trip fuel
- All meals and soft drinks
- All Park entrances
- Chimpanzee permits
- Accommodation
- Driver guide
Exclusive;
- Visa and air ticket
- Laundry
- All hard drinks
- Souvenirs
- Tips
- All international flights
