24 April - 4 May 2025
Uganda
Nature Lovers
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This trip is for all wilderness lovers, for those seeking strong emotions, where it is possible to see and observe an infinite amount of living beings, you will be dazzled by the sounds, smells and colors that your senses will to capture. A rich and complete road trip to experience this incredible country at its best. One of the main interests of this trip is definitely the Bwindi National Park, the impenetrable forest where we will stay in close contact with the fascinating mountain gorillas for a few hours. In fact, this is a special tour that allows us to stay with these primates for quite some time. My personal experience on site has allowed me to develop a program to make one of the most spectacular trips ever. This is an exclusive, and therefore private, tour designed for those who need the best of the best. I will be with you throughout the trip and my knowledge of places and people will be essential to enrich your experience. Being an exclusive and private tour it will be possible to meet your every need.
On your arrival at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda you will be welcomed be our representative and transferred for overnight to the hotel.
After breakfast, we will begin our adventure driving northwest to Masindi and Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest national park, which offers beautiful scenery of savannah acacia grasslands to the north and tropical forests to the south.
We will stop for a nature walk at the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary, the breeding project that saw the rebirth of endangered white rhinos. You can see them up close as you walk freely in the reserve. We will have lunch before proceeding to the national park; we will reach the Nile River where the beautiful Murchison Falls create a narrow canyon of water. We will be able to observe this spectacle from the top of the falls. On the way back to the lodge we will have the chance to go on an incredible photo safari. We will arrive at the lodge for an exquisite dinner. Overnight stay.
Note: Today’s drive is approximately 6 hours, part of it on a dirt road within the park.
After breakfast, you will embark on an early morning safari, explore the savannah in the delta of Nile on lake Albert, Northern bank. As you view and take memorable photographs of the animals in the wild, you might find elephants, lions, buffalos, giraffes, waterbucks, bushbucks, spotted hyenas and very rarely, the leopards. Drive back to the lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you take the boat safari along the river Nile to the base of magnificent Murchison falls. It is amazing the concentration of wildlife in the bank of the river Nile, including hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of bird’s species, like African eagles, pelicans, kingfisher Egyptian geese and much more. Dinner and overnight at lodge.
Enjoy freshly made breakfast from the lodge and then proceed to lake Albert and Rift Valley escarpment, with breathtaking panoramic sceneries. Stop over for a cup of coffe and lunch en route. later in the afternoon, arrive in Fort Portal the capital town of Toro kingdom which lies on the shadow of Ruwenzori Mountains, the biggest mountain range in Africa. Dinner and overnight at lodge. Today the transfer is about 8 hours drive.
After breakfast, today you will go for a chimpanzee Habituation Experience, in Kibale forest National park for experiencing the rain tropical forests and especially to encounter the chimpanzees in their natural environment. Other primates you might see while on the trek include black and white clubs, red tailed monkey and velvet monkey. After lunch transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The transfer will be about 3 hours and you will arrive in the park in the evening. Dinner and overnight at lodge.
After breakfast, enjoy the morning safari. Lunch at the lodge. In the afternoon take the most exciting safari by boat along the Kazinga channel. This is one of the most popular sites in Uganda for its concentration of wildlife, bird’s life and opportunities for good photographs, moreover, you will see plenty of hippos, buffaloes and elephants while drinking from the channel. Dinner and overnight at Enganzi lodge.
After breakfast, leave the Queen Elizabeth and head southwards, where you find the rain tropical forests which are the natural habitat for the endangered mountain gorillas. Lunch on our way.
Reach Bwindi National Park by evening for dinner and overnight at lodge.
Today transfer can be from 3 to 5 hours and depends on accommodation selected, roads conditions and place of allocation of gorilla permits. The choice of the area of gorilla safari depends on the availability of permits at time of booking the trip.
In the morning you will enter the rain tropical forest of Bwindi for the gorilla Habituation Experience. The Activity starts at 8am and you will follow the ranger guides in a group of maximum 4 people a you searcher the family of mountain gorillas still undergoing habituation, which was allocated according to the permits. Bwindi forest in Uganda has a population of 420 gorillas, which is more than half of the world population according to 2018 gorilla population surveys. It is not predictable the time you will spend to encounter the gorillas. You have four hours for observing the primates and their behaviors, while taking photographs. Ensure you take the packed lung and water with you in the bag and for this you might need the support of available porters. Dinner and overnight at lodge.
After breakfast, transfer to Lake Mburo National Park, the smallest of Ugandan National Parks. Lunch en route. We will immediately go on a photographic safari, perhaps catching a glimpse of the beautiful eland, the largest species of impala, as well as antelope, buffalo, zebra and many giraffe, hippo and countless bird species. Lake Mburo offers many photographic opportunities, and an interesting optional activity is a boat trip with a local guide. We return to the lodge for dinner.
Note: Today transfer is about 4 hoursβ drive, through tarmac roads.
After breakfast, drive to Entebbe for the Mabamba shoebill stock. later transfer to the Airport for the late evening departure flight.
End of our wonderful experience in the African Pearl.
Today trasferimento is about 4 hours drive, approx drive distance 299km
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