7 days murchison falls and kidepo valley national park

Overview

Our 7-Day Murchison Falls and Kidepo Valley gives you a chance to experience 5 of Ugandas National Parks and introduces you to the traditions and customs of the indigenous amazing and welcoming people. Kidepo being ranked among the best National Parks in Uganda has got a lot to offer in terms of flora and fauna.

Highlight

• Day 1: Entebbe to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
• Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruise In Murchison
• Day 3: Transfer To Kidepo National Park
• Day 4: Game Grive In Kidepo
• Day 5: Game Drive At The North Of The Park
• Day 6: Hike Mount Murungore And Community Vist
• Day 7: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

Day 1: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

After breakfast you will be picked from the hotel/guest house by our professional driver/tour guide he will brief you about our 7 days safari and head to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track the endangered white rhinos at least for an hour. Along the way you will have a stopover in Masindi District for lunch and then proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. On arrival you will check in a hotel for an overnight as you prepare for the next day’s program.

Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruise In Murchison

After breakfast you will embark on a morning game drive and be able to spot some lions (percentage of seeing them like 70%), antelopes, buffalos, elephants, giraffes and many others. After the exciting game drive return to the accommodation for lunch then back for a boat cruise where you will be able to sail through the floating hippos and spot other animals at the river bank like the crocodiles, elephants and numerous bird species. After the boat cruise you will head back to the accommodation for an over night.

Day 3: Transfer To Kidepo National Park

In the morning have breakfast, checkout the hotel and then head off to Kidepo Valley National Park. Along the way we shall have a stop over for lunch then proceed to Kidepo Valley National Park. We shall reach in the evening then check in the hotel and have enough rest in preparation for the busy schedule the following day.

Day 4: Game Grive In Kidepo

After breakfast you will embark on a game drive in the park/ Kidepo Valley National Park is one of the best wilderness places in Africa and a home for most extinct wildlife species that are rare to find in other game parks in Uganda, like the cheetahs. It is also gifted naturally with the most interesting communities in Uganda that have preserve their traditional way of life (the kamajongos, Acholis and other interesting communities). It harbours over 70 mammal species and over 400 bird species that live in open savanna. After the game drive return to the hotel for lunch and rest, then later head back for another game drive in the evening.

Day 5: Game Drive At The North Of The Park

Have breakfast and head off for game viewing along Kidepo River. Kidepo River is a seasonal river along the Kidepo Valley in the Karamoja region. The river traverse Kabong and flows its water in White Nile in to Sudan. You will be able to spot various wildlife species all day and return to the hotel for an over night.

Day 6: Hike Mount Murungore and Community vist

On this 6th day after breakfast, we shall embark on a journey to hike mount Morungole which has a beautiful view of the area and later visit the local community to learn about the way of life of the Karamajong people. They are such amazing people endowed by nature/ later we shall return to the hotel for an over night.

Day 7: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

Have early breakfast and return to Kampala where you will be dropped at Entebbe airport or to the guest house depending on the arrangements.

End of tour

Included

1. Park fees (For non-residents)
2. All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
3. All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
4. A professional driver/guide
5. All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
6. All Taxes/VAT
7. Roundtrip airport transfer
8. Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
9. Drinking water

Excluded

1. International flights (From/to home)
2. Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
3. Tips (Tipping tour guides US$10.00 pp per day)
4. Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
5. Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees

8 Days Safari Western Circuite Of Uganda

Overview

These 8 days best of western Uganda safari takes you to the key tourist attractions which include; gorillas and chimpanzees. It also offers you classic game viewing activities including on foot rhino trekking, game drive safaris and boat rides. You will go on an adventure through 4 national parks which include Murchison falls, Kibale forest, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi impenetrable forest national parks.

Game drives and boat cruises in Murchison falls national park and queen Elizabeth national park offers an opportunity to spot large mammal species. These include lion, leopard, hyena, giraffe, elephant, buffalo, Jackson’s hartebeest, Uganda Kob, waterbucks, hippos, Nile crocodiles, water birds. devil’s cauldron. You will visit Ziwa rhino sanctuary and track the white rhinos on foot.

Highlight

• Day 1: Arrival And Travel To Murchison Falls National Park
• Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruize
• Day 3: Transfer To Kibale Forest National Park
• Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking And Bigodi Swamp Walk
• Day 5: Transfer To Queen Elizabeth National Park
• Day 6: Transfer To Bwindi National Park
• Day 7: Gorilla Tracking And Transferr To Lake Bunyonyi
• Day 8: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

Day 1: Arrival And Travel To Murchison Falls National Park

When you arrive at Entebbe international airport, meet and greet with Travel Time driver guide and set off 6-hour drive north west to Murchison Falls National Park. Along the way, branch off the main road inNakasongoro district to visit Ziwa Rhino sanctuary for rhino trekking on foot with a ranger. Rhinos became extinct in Uganda in the 1980s and this project is trying to bring them back to the protected area.

From Ziwa, you will continue to the park and visit the world’s strongest waterfalls. At Murchison falls, the river squeezes through a canyon and plunges over a 40-metre cliff with a thunderous roar into the devil’s cauldron.

Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruize

After a cup of tea, you will get out of the lodge early in the morning to enjoy the sunrise rise at the Nile River followed by a game drive until noontime. Murchison falls National Park attracts over 79 mammal species including the big 4: lions, leopards, elephants and buffaloes. You might encounter Nubian giraffes, Jackson’s hartebeest, bushbuck, waterbucks, buffalo, warthogs, Uganda kobs, oribi and there are over 445 species of birds.

After lunch, take a relaxed boat cruise which lasts 3 hours as you sail from Paara to the bottom of the falls. Along the banks of the Nile, you might spot Nile crocodiles, hippos, monitor lizards and water birds such as African fish eagles. Elephants and buffalos may also be encountered while coming down to drink water. Enjoy funtime aboard with refreshments and a cool view of the Nile makes you feel good. The guide will pick you up when you return back to Paara for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: Transfer To Kibale Forest National Park

In the morning after breakfast, transfer to Kibale forest national park about a 6-7 hour drive. Along the way, make a stopover for lunch in Fort Portal town (Kabalore), the home of Tooro Kingdom led by one of the youngest king Oyo. Proceed to Kibale just 1 hour drive from the town and relax at your lodge the rest of the evening.

Kibale is known as the primate capital of the world because it’s home to the highest concentration of primates with 13 species including over 1400 chimpanzees. It proves the best opportunities to see chimps in the wild while helping to conserve their habitats.

Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking And Bigodi Swamp Walk

After breakfast at the lodge, you’ll head to Kanyanchu to start your chimpanzee trek, there will be a briefing on the dos and don’ts. Guides will accompany visitors into the forest so they can spend an hour up close and personal with the chimpanzees. During the walk through the forest, you might spot other primate species such as the blue monkey, the grey checked mangabay.

Return for lunch and later in the evening go enjoy a community walk in Bigodi wetland, which is home to 8 primates, 100 species of birds, sitatunga. Besides being a wildlife habitat, Bigodi is also a source of medicinal plants and weavers obtain papyrus reeds to produce baskets.

Day 5: Transfer To Queen Elizabeth National Park For Boat Cruise

Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national arriving in the afternoon for a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel, which connects Lake George and Lake Edward. The freshwaters attract elephants and buffaloes as well as hippos, crocodiles and a variety of bird species.

After the boat cruise, arrive at the lodge and check in for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 6: Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

An early morning game drive will be done in the Kasenyi game tracks in search of lions, leopards and hyenas and breakfast will be served when you return. Thereafter, transfer to Bwindi through Ishasha wilderness, where you might see tree climbing lions while enjoying breathtaking views of the rift valley and Kigezi hills. Arrive and check in your room for a good night rest ahead of gorilla trekking in the morning the following day.

Day 7: Gorilla Tracking And Transfer To Lake Bunyonyi

You will get up early for breakfast and move to the gorilla centre for a briefing. A packed lunch and drinking water is required given that you’re gonna spend 1 to 5 hours in the forest. Visitors will be led into the forest by guides and rangers in search of a habituated gorilla family. Once located, guests can spend an hour watching and photographing gorillas in their natural habitat.

When you return from the forest, you will have lunch thereafter and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda’s most beautiful lake with 19 islands and terraced rolling hills. Dinner and overnight at Lake Bunyonyi.

End of tour

Day 8: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

After breakfast you will be transferred to the predetermined departure destination. End of 8 days best of Uganda tour.

Included

1. Park entry fees
2. All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
3. All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
4. A professional driver/guide
5. All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
6. Roundtrip airport transfer
7. Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
8. Drinking water

Excluded

1. International flights (From/to home)
2. Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
3. Alcoholic drinks
4. Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
5. Transboundary flights

12 Days Safari To Lake Mburo, Gorillas And Wildlife

Overview

The 12 Days Lake Mburo, gorillas and wildlife offers you a Midrange tour of the best of driver guided game drives for you to look out for huge concentrations of impalas plus other mammals, boat cruise which exposes you to several aquatic species including hippos, birds and crocodiles. You will also enjoy the best of guided bush walk to explore your favorite animals at a close range and don’t miss cycling experiences with zebras, elands as they graze. Your trip will begin and end in Entebbe city, Central Uganda.

Highlight

• Day 1: Pick up, & Travel To Lake Mburo–Equator Crossing For Experiment
• Day 2: Early Morning Driver Guided Game Drive & Boat cruise
• Day 3: Bush Walk & Cycling
• Day 4: Game Drive
• Day 5: Gorilla Tracking In Bwindi Impenetrable NP
• Day 6: Batwa Cultural Encounter
• Day 7: Travel To Queen Elizabeth National Park
• Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari
• Day 9: Ishasha sector
• Day 10: Drive to Kibale
• Day 11: Explore Kibale
• Day 12: Travel to Kampala.

Day 1: Pick up, & Travel To Lake Mburo–Equator Crossing For Experiment

Arise early morning for tea or cup of coffee, meet your driver guide he will welcme you and brief you about the pearl of Africa and about the safari. He will let you inside the car and Take your seats in your comfortable 4×4 safari vehicle and start your journey to the western side of Uganda to Lake Mburo National Park.
En-route, make a stopover at the Equator crossing and it will be at this point where you will perform a water experiment to determine the Northern & Southern hemispheres. It is the best point to share exciting moments too with your dear ones and you will proceed to Lake Mburo National Park, home to lots of impalas, zebras, hippos, cape buffaloes, topis and birds.


Arrive at the park a bit early for lunch and relaxation. Late in the afternoon, embark on a guided evening/night game drive. It will be a great opportunity to catch up with nocturnal species as they become active. Expected sightings on your night game drive include leopards, hyenas, mongoose, jackals, civets, galagos, bush pigs and nightjar birds. You will return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and a night stay in a midrange accommodation facility.

Day 2: Early Morning Driver Guided Game Drive And Boat Cruise

Following breakfast, a guided game drive in a 4×4 tourist vehicle with pop-up roof/sunroof for your clear game viewing. This will run for 2-3 hours as you catch up with early risers while they become active for the day plus other mammal species. The day animal sightings will include hyenas, buffaloes, zebras, waterbucks, elands, impalas, leopards, reedbucks, topis and bird species.

Retreat from the game drive and enjoy lunch plus some refreshments, then relax. You will proceed for the afternoon boat cruise along Lake Mburo. The 2-3 hours’ boat cruise comes with clear views of hippos, crocodiles and water birds.

Day 3: Bush Walk & Cycling

A guided bush walk begins in the morning after breakfast. You will be led by an experienced guide and this is all about immersing yourself deep into the different habitats of the park as you search for wildlife, flora and birds. Get back for relaxation, lunch at the lodge till late afternoon when you will embark on a cycling excursion to see wildlife on a bicycle including zebras, elands, topis and impalas.

Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

After breakfast travel to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the Ishasha Sector. The Ishasha is known for hosting incredible wildlife including the tree climbing lions that hang on the fig trees.

Along the journey, you will come in contact with the country’s famous display of the equator and later having lunch at a stopover in Mbarara town.

Day 5: Gorilla Trekking In Bwindi

After breakfast, an early start of the mountain gorilla’s trekking through the forest and up the slopes which requires stamina and patience but the first encounter with these mighty animals will be a truly memorable one. This is done by the lead of experienced guides. After spending some time observing these magnificent creatures, you can have a guided nature walk in the forest or relax at the lodge.

Day 6 Batwa Cultural Encounter

Early in the morning after breakfast you will vist the batwa homes to understand how they live and how their homes look like you will learn their traditions, norms and customs. You will also be entertained in traditional dances and songs. Batwa experience is oner of the most interesting activity in Bwindi national park. As you head to Bwindi national park, you will have to enjoy it.

Day 7: Travel To Queen Elizabeth

After a morning breakfast, retracing your steps through this green and pleasant land. You will travel to Queen Elizabeth national park for the interesting activities such as game drives, launch trips, bird watching, chimpanzee tracking, lion tracking, mongoose tracking, hiking and nature walks & cultural visits. After reaching to queen Elizabeth, you will have an evening game drive as you enjoy watching wildlife hinting food.

Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari

Begin your day with a cup of coffee. Early morning game drive along Kasenyi and Queens Mile makes visitors encounter elephants, buffalo, water bucks, warthogs, lions, Uganda Kobs lakes and a variety of birds. Return to the lodge for breakfast and lunch. After lunch, a two hour boat trip along the famous Kazinga channel is worthwhile an opportunity to see Hippo, Buffalo, Kobs, Elephants, warthogs etc. This trip also enables visitor chance to see spectacular birds.

Day 9 Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari Ishasha

With previous day’s memories, enjoy your breakfast ready for guided primate walk along Kyambura Gorge to look for habituated chimps through the gorge. After primate walk, Drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are occupied by Savannah grasses and acacia. The drive takes you through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the (southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park) Ishasha sector where you will take on yet another game drive in search of tree climbing lions in the afternoon and evening.

Day 10 Drive To Kibale

After an early morning breakfast, you will travel to Kibale national park as we are heading to Kibale national park, you will be able to see Rwenzori Mountains the famed "Mountains of the Moon". The snow caped mountains.Then from there we shall proceed to Kibale which is one of the highest diversity and concentration of primates in Africa. Home of primates such as black, white colobus, and red tailed monkeys

Day 11 Explore Kibale

You will begin with your breakfast very early so that you are ready to be transferred to the park headquarters for chimpanzee trekking briefing by 6;00. After the briefing, you will be led by a park ranger or a guide to head into the forest for an opportunity to track out the chimpanzees when they are still in their habitats. The purpose of tracking these chimpanzees as early as possible is for you to find them when they are just waking up or still sleeping so that you are able to see as many as possible. Thou chimpanzees are the most sought-after primates, visitors should also look out for other primates such as the black and white colobus, red tailed colobus and the red cheeked mangabey. After this amazing experience with these unique creatures, you will return to your lodge for lunch and rest of the day relaxation.

Day 12 Transfer To Kampala.

After having your breakfast from your lodge, you will get ready to start on your journey back to Kampala, proceed to Entebbe airport for your out bound flight and that will mark the end of this amazing 12 days safari.

Included

1. Park entry fees
2. All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
3. All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
4. A professional driver/guide
5. All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
6. Roundtrip airport transfer
7. Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
8. Drinking water

Excluded

1. International flights (From/to home)
2. Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
3. Alcoholic drinks
4. Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
5. Transboundary flights

7 days murchison falls and kidepo valley national park

Overview

Our 7-Day Murchison Falls and Kidepo Valley gives you a chance to experience 5 of Ugandas National Parks and introduces you to the traditions and customs of the indigenous amazing and welcoming people. Kidepo being ranked among the best National Parks in Uganda has got a lot to offer in terms of flora and fauna.

Highlight

• Day 1: Entebbe to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
• Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruise In Murchison
• Day 3: Transfer To Kidepo National Park
• Day 4: Game Grive In Kidepo
• Day 5: Game Drive At The North Of The Park
• Day 6: Hike Mount Murungore And Community Vist
• Day 7: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

Day 1: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

After breakfast you will be picked from the hotel/guest house by our professional driver/tour guide he will brief you about our 7 days safari and head to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track the endangered white rhinos at least for an hour. Along the way you will have a stopover in Masindi District for lunch and then proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. On arrival you will check in a hotel for an overnight as you prepare for the next day’s program.

Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruise In Murchison

After breakfast you will embark on a morning game drive and be able to spot some lions (percentage of seeing them like 70%), antelopes, buffalos, elephants, giraffes and many others. After the exciting game drive return to the accommodation for lunch then back for a boat cruise where you will be able to sail through the floating hippos and spot other animals at the river bank like the crocodiles, elephants and numerous bird species. After the boat cruise you will head back to the accommodation for an over night.

Day 3: Transfer To Kidepo National Park

In the morning have breakfast, checkout the hotel and then head off to Kidepo Valley National Park. Along the way we shall have a stop over for lunch then proceed to Kidepo Valley National Park. We shall reach in the evening then check in the hotel and have enough rest in preparation for the busy schedule the following day.

Day 4: Game Grive In Kidepo

After breakfast you will embark on a game drive in the park/ Kidepo Valley National Park is one of the best wilderness places in Africa and a home for most extinct wildlife species that are rare to find in other game parks in Uganda, like the cheetahs. It is also gifted naturally with the most interesting communities in Uganda that have preserve their traditional way of life (the kamajongos, Acholis and other interesting communities). It harbours over 70 mammal species and over 400 bird species that live in open savanna. After the game drive return to the hotel for lunch and rest, then later head back for another game drive in the evening.

Day 5: Game Drive At The North Of The Park

Have breakfast and head off for game viewing along Kidepo River. Kidepo River is a seasonal river along the Kidepo Valley in the Karamoja region. The river traverse Kabong and flows its water in White Nile in to Sudan. You will be able to spot various wildlife species all day and return to the hotel for an over night.

Day 6: Hike Mount Murungore and Community vist

On this 6th day after breakfast, we shall embark on a journey to hike mount Morungole which has a beautiful view of the area and later visit the local community to learn about the way of life of the Karamajong people. They are such amazing people endowed by nature/ later we shall return to the hotel for an over night.

Day 7: Return To Kampala/ Entebbe

Have early breakfast and return to Kampala where you will be dropped at Entebbe airport or to the guest house depending on the arrangements.

End of tour

Included

1. Park fees (For non-residents)
2. All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
3. All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
4. A professional driver/guide
5. All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
6. All Taxes/VAT
7. Roundtrip airport transfer
8. Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
9. Drinking water

Excluded

1. International flights (From/to home)
2. Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
3. Tips (Tipping tour guides US$10.00 pp per day)
4. Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
5. Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees