Discover the undiscovered secret of wonders, lush green highlands, wildlife, sport and adventure, the great inland sea, fascinating cultures, mythology and history that live and breathe in sacred sites and lively traditional festivals. Capture the spirit of East Africa, Spark the imagination, reward the sense stimulate the intellect and enliven the spirit in this safari capital of the world, a vast mosaic of lion-gold savannah Rolling grassland, the waving palms, silver sand and clear blue sea. This Package involves the discovering the beauty of Uganda. Get an opportunity to witness what is considered as one of the most exciting safari combined with spectacular landscape providing the setting for Africa’s most memorable visitor experience of Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable come face to face with the amazing peaceful giants for the best ultimate iconic Gorilla Tracking experience. Unforgettable encounters with Chimpanzee during a walk in underground forest,
Highlights of this Trip in Kenya Includes; Giraffe Center, Shedrick Elephant Trust, Hell’s Gate, Ol Pajeta, Amboseli, Masai Mara, Tsavo West National Parks, Shimba Hills, and Mombasa Beach, Serengeti national Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Zanzibar, Lake Mburo, Bwindi Impenetrable, Queen Elizabeth, Kibale, and Murchison Falls National Park.
Day 1 :Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Arrive and Transfer to the Hotel in Nairobi city for overnight. Experience the first hand rich dynamic and promising future of Nairobi’s melting pot and see this city through the eyes of an excited adventure. Nairobi is one of the largest cities in Africa full of excitement.
Visit the Paradise Lost Cave near Nairobi
The paradise lost amusement park offers a myriad of activities which include walking inside a labyrinth of caves whose entrance secretly hidden away by the waterfall at the front. The caves are well lit with electricity from the entrance up to a wide cavern inside and are estimated to be at least 2.5million years old according to carbon dating done on some obsidian rock artifacts found within.
The Paradise lost & the small paradise lake offers boat riding in the lake in motor boats and this is a very popular acidity especially on weekends when it’s a beehive of activity.
Interestingly, Paradise lost day trip is also a buzz day tour paradise with many other activities including feeding ostriches, horse riding, camel riding, bird watching, picnicking on the grounds near the lake, camping or taking a nature walk on the property. You will need to bring your own picnic food as they don’t provide food at the paradise lost amusement park
Day 2:Visit Giraffes Center & Shedrick Elephant Trust
After Breakfast drive to Giraffe Center which is about 40-minutes’ drive from Nairobi city Center. It is located in Langata approximately 20kms from the city Center of Nairobi. It was established in order to protect the endangered giraffes that are found in the grasslands of East Africa.
Visit to the Elephant Trust
After Lunch Visit Elephant Orphanage Located in Nairobi National Park, using Kenya Wildlife Services central workshop gate entrance off Magadi Road in Langata. This Orphanage was founded by Daphne Dame Sheldrick.
During this time the Orphans can be witnessed enjoying a milk, feed and mud bath or soil dusting on cooler days. This visit is intended to provide an opportunity for visitors to learn about the work of Shelderick Wildlife Trust in the rescue and rehabilitation of orphaned elephants, with one of the Keeper giving a talk throughout the visiting during which time they will tell the stories of different orphans in the care and explain about the process of raising Milk dependents baby elephants. The Visit is both Educative and Informative, throughout the talk the elephants will be enjoying themselves eating greens, drinking their milk, playing with one Another and on hotter days splashing about in the mud, afterwards drive back to the lodge
Observing Giraffes from Wooden Platform
This activity is great full of fun and very interactive with People. It’s an amazing to see these animals up so close. This center, which protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffes which are about 300 giraffes, combined serous conservation with enjoyable activities you can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a wooden structure, which is quite an experience, you may also spot warthogs snuffling about in the mud, and there is an interesting forest walk through adjacent Gogo River Bird Sanctuary. This Giraffes Center was Established in1983 by the Kenyan grandson of Scottish Earl and his wife Betty begun African Fund for Endangered wildlife. After drive to the selected Hotel/Restaurant before proceeding to Nairobi National park.
Day 2:Transfer to Hell’s Gate National Park
After breakfast transfer to Hell’s gate is branded as a walk on the wild side and Named for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the Hell’s Gate National Park is a remarkable quarter of the Great Rift Valley. Spectacular scenery including the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub clad volcanoes and belching plumes of geothermal steam make it one of the most atmospheric Parks in Africa. Hell’s Gate is an ideal venue for a day trip from Nairobi where, in addition to the bio-diversity that includes raptors, visitors can enjoy mountain biking, rock climbing and a natural spa. The drive is scenic rewarding you with great photograph opportunities and therefore, arriving to the hotel for hot lunch
Day 3:Visit to the Crescent Island in Naivasha
This private island sanctuary can be reached by boat, or by driving across the narrow, swampy causeway from Sanctuary Farm. It’s one of the few places in the Rift Valley where you can walk among giraffes, zebras, waterbucks, impalas and countless bird species. If you are lucky you might even spot a leopard, but don’t count on it. You will go for Island guided walk, which will last between 90 minutes and three hours. It’s also a good spot for a picnic lunch
Day 4:Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve
After morning breakfast drive to Masai Mara the drive here is scenic full of oddities and attractions that never fails to amaze in the horizon that never end, you will go with packed lunch since you may not have enough time to stop over for lunch en-route as you will be having the Afternoon Game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve where you will enjoy the best photograph opportunities with beautiful sunset across the rift valley wall. Enjoy the grassy Savannah and the flat plains that are punctuated by river valleys of Masai Mara home of the classic African Safari literary known as home to the greatest varieties and concentration of wildlife populations in the world animals such as giraffes, buffaloes, elephants, wildebeest, Lions, Cheetahs, and varieties of different species of antelopes, after evening game drive you will proceed to the lodge for dinner as you relax and retire at your own patio
Day 5:Game Drive in Masai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast drive in search for the big five mammals. Here you will see and enjoy the best photographs of African bush-cloaked hills with commanding views of Africa’s most wildlife arenas, the scene of annual migration of over one million wildebeest. This is the best place for the perfect photographs. Here you will not miss the opportunities for close encounters with game, drive back to the lodge for hot lunch and after wards drive back to the park for evening encounter. You will begin the journey into African wilderness. It engages all your sense from the very first beginning sparkled to life when you first hear a distant roar of a lion or a laugh of a hyena in the night or a song of thousands of cicada beetles at midday then experience the heightening of these senses when you feel the ground vibrate of giant elephant cross right in front of you, never to be forgotten sights and safari moments. This prime wildlife pane for the best of iconic and unforgettable safari experience the true African wilderness in its natural secret scenic view for the fantastic photographic. Enjoy lions, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, cheetah, and wildebeest walk through the open grassland through this prime wildlife pane for the best of iconic and unforgettable safari experience. Animals here include several herds of elephants, giraffes, waterbucks, Topis, warthogs, baboon, leopards, hyenas, lions and several bird species encountered on this safari.
Visit the Masai People of Kenya
Kenya is a cultural microcosm of Africa, a land of miraculously harmonious contrast with rich cultural diversity, visit the Masai homestead see their culture ethnically the Nomadic who keep and survive on Cattle.
Day 6:Transfer to Ol Pajeta Conservancy
After Breakfast Transfer to Ol Pejeta Conservancy and remains a popular safari destination for both local residents and international visitors.
This is where you will be visiting the endangered species enclosure, where the northern white rhinos are kept, visiting the chimpanzee sanctuary. The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary is incorporated within the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and is the only place in Kenya where this highly endangered and remarkably intelligent species can be seen.
The Sanctuary opened in 1993 in a negotiated agreement between the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Jane Goodall Institute. The facility was initially established to receive and provide lifelong refuge to orphaned and abused chimpanzees from west and central Africa. An initial group of three chimpanzee orphans were brought to the sanctuary from a facility in Bujumbura, Burundi, that needed to be evacuated due to the civil war. This was followed in 1995 by another group of 9 adult chimpanzees, and another 10 in 1996. Over the last decade Sweetwater’s Chimpanzee Sanctuary has been compelled to keep accepting chimpanzees rescued from traumatic situations bringing the total number of chimpanzees in the sanctuary to 43.
At the Sweetwaters Sanctuary, chimpanzees are nursed back to health and enjoy the rest of their days in the safety of a vast natural enclosure. The chimpanzees live in two large groups separated by the Ewaso Nyiro River. Sweetwaters is a chartered member of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance, an alliance of 18 sanctuaries in 12 African countries, currently caring for over 800 orphaned and confiscated chimpanzees. PASA’s role is to help conserve chimpanzees and other primates and their habitats through public education and lobbying for political goodwill.
Day 7:Transfer to Amboseli National Park
After morning breakfast transfer to Amboseli via Nairobi this drive is long but scenic connecting to Mombasa road here you branch off at Emali and arrive in Kimana where you check in at the lodge before proceeding for evening game drive in Amboseli set against the backdrop of Africa’s highest mountain Kilimanjaro in this beautiful position at the heart of this famous national park for the best photograph opportunities in search for big herds of Elands, Buffaloes, Zebras, Giraffes, Warthogs, Baboon and Best Scenic View rapped in the golden Savannah plain with un-interrupted view and perfect birding experience and colorful birds, displaying and posing for the photos, where Mt Kilimanjaro provides a stupendous backdrop of your afternoon game drive with excellent African Sunset dream photography, Amboseli is one of the best National park in Africa for the true beautiful sunset and afterwards drive back to the lodge for Overnight at the lodge in Amboseli.
Day 8:Morning Game Drive in Amboseli National Park
After morning breakfast drive through Amboseli set against the backdrop of Africa’s highest mountain Kilimanjaro in this beautiful position at the heart of this famous national park for the best photograph opportunities in search for big herds of Elephants, Buffaloes, Pride of Lions, Elands, Zebras, Giraffes, Warthogs, Baboon and Best Scenic View rapped in the golden savannah plain with un-interrupted view and perfect birding experience and colorful birds, displaying and posing for the photos, where Mt Kilimanjaro provides a stupendous backdrop of your afternoon game drive. Overnight at the lodge in Amboseli.
Evening Game Drive in Amboseli National Park
After Relaxing morning drive to spend the evening for the best sunset scenic game drive and clear photographs in this vast savanna which is the perfect setting for the classic African safari experience. Get prepared to photograph animals such as, waterbucks, herds of elephants and buffalos which provide dream photo opportunities, the Oasis for many of the fascinating species that inhibit the park. Enjoy the fantastic view and the best chance to photograph animals and birds while the expert ranger guide narrates the stories of these creatures. Kenya is home to the greatest varieties and concentrations of wildlife populations in the world with more than 80 major animal species and Amboseli overflows with wildlife
Day 9:Transfer to Tsavo West National Park
After morning breakfast transfer to Tsavo west via Kimana gate, the drive here is long with great expanse of the beautiful sceneries and landscape in this dry country into the land known as the man eaters of Tsavo. You will proceed to the lodge for hot lunch, after lunch relax at your patio by the swimming pool as you wait for the evening game drives. It is located in the Coast Province of Kenya the park covers an area of 9,065 square kilometers. The A109 road Nairobi-Mombasa and a railway divides it from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo West is a more popular destination on account of its magnificent scenery, Mzima Springs, rich and varied wildlife, good road system, rhino reserve, rock climbing potential and guided walks along the Tsavo River. The park is operated by Kenya wildlife Service.
Evening Relaxed Game Drive in Tsavo West National Park
After lunch proceed for the relaxed evening game drive in this beautiful wildlife arena. Tsavo West National Park is located in the Coast Province of Kenya. The park covers an area of 9,065 square kilometers. The A109 road Nairobi-Mombasa and a railway divides it from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo West is a more popular destination on account of its magnificent scenery, Mzima Springs, rich and varied wildlife, good road system, rhino reserve. Enjoy the dream photography in the wild.
Visit Mzima Spring in Tsavo West National Park
Mzima Springs, is one of the other sources of water after Baaricho which supply 90 million liters per. The natural filtration process gives rise to Mzima’s famously clear stream, which flows through a series of pools and rapids. 2 KM downstream from the springs, the stream is blocked by a solidified lava flow and disappears below the surface again.
Mzima is one of Tsavo’s most popular wildlife attractions owing to its resident populations of hippos and Nile crocodiles. Mzima’s isolation makes both species dependent on its waters. The hippos also sustain an entire food chain which gives visitors the best wildlife experience.
Day 11:Game Drive in Tsavo East National Park
After early morning breakfast drive to drive to spend the whole day for the best morning and afternoon clear photographs and in this vast savanna which is the perfect setting for the classic African safari experience. Get prepared to photograph animals such as, water-bucks, herds of elephants and buffaloes which provide a dream photo opportunities, the Oasis for many of the fascinating species that inhibit the park. Enjoy the fantastic view and the best chance to photograph animals and birds while the expert ranger guide narrates the stories of these creatures.
Day 12:Transfer to Mombasa
Transfer to Mombasa, the Kenya’s Indian Ocean beaches which are ranked among the top in the world. Enjoy the Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast it offers you with a plethora of equally thrilling activities, from wreck diving and kite-surfing to fresh water and deep sea fishing, tandem skydiving.
Day 13:Visit to Marine Park
After breakfast Visit the stunning array of Marine Park that offer coral gardens, rainbow fish and water that is warm and clear all year round enjoy and get the opportunity to watch the whales, dolphins tracking. The Indian Ocean boats a colorful coral-reefs teeming with tropical fish, dolphins, and humpback whales you can see gliding and leaping offshore. Spend a day exploring the coast on traditional dhow or relaxing on a palm-fringed sugar white beach, see kayak peddle-board, water-ski or windsurf the glistening waters with each experience here you will quench your thirst for unforgettable and adventure ridden journey. And you will be served hot lunch at the beach and then later in the evening you will drive back to the lodge for overnight.
Day 14:After Breakfast drive to Shimba Hills National Reserve
After breakfast drive to Shimba Hills Known as the Paradise of the Sable antelopes as one of the largest coastal forests in East Africa after Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, this reserve is rich in flora and fauna and hosts the highest density of African elephant in Kenya. Other animal species found in the area are Kenya’s only Sable antelope, elephant shrew, bushy tailed mongoose and other small mammals like fruit bats. The forest is an important bird area and is endowed with forest birdlife while the grasslands hold localized species such as red-necked-Spur fowl, Croaking Cisticola and Zanzibar Red Bishop.
Transfer to Taveta
After Forest walk proceed for lunch at the selected hotel/Restaurant and there after transfer to Taveta and connecting from Samburu, this drive is long but scenic and rewarding on Kisemeni Sinango road, it is 290 KM which takes about 5 hrs. Drive to get to Taveta where you check in at the lodge for night accommodation
Day 15:Transfer to Arusha National park
After breakfast Transfer to Arusha National park which 133 KM about 2 hours’ drive, you will have lunch at the lodge in Arusha National Park, here you stand the chance to stand at Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa the drive is scenic full of inviting African well positioned view of entire mountain spectrum see where the Swahili has turned cornered the nation into socialism, most of southern Tanzania is scenic with endless plains and arriving to the lodge to check in
Day 16:Morning Game Drive in Arusha National Park
Arusha National Park covers Mount Meru, a prominent volcano with an elevation of 4566 m, in the Arusha Region of north eastern Tanzania. The park is small but varied with spectacular landscapes in three distinct areas. In the west, the Meru Crater funnels the Jekukumia River; the peak of Mount Meru lies on its rim. Ngurdoto Crater in the south-east is grassland. The shallow alkaline Momella Lakes in the north-east have varying algal colors and are known for their wading birds. See as well monkeys
Mount Meru is the second highest peak in Tanzania after Mount Kilimanjaro, which is just 60 km away and forms a backdrop to views from the park to the east. Arusha National Park lies on a 300-kilometre axis of Africa’s most famous national parks, running from Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in the west to Kilimanjaro National Park in the east.
Day 17:Transfer to Serengeti National park
After breakfast transfer to Serengeti National Park, It is about 350 KM from Arusha to Serengeti national park, the journey is full of scenic view with horizons that never to seem to end arriving to the lodge during lunch hours and thereafter you will definitely enjoy evening game drive in Serengeti national park
The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian national park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions It is famous for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white-bearded (or brindled) wildebeest and 250,000 zebra and for its numerous Nile crocodile and honey badger, game drives are designed to take you close to the wildlife rich spots in Serengeti National Park. This gives you an opportunity to view wild animals in their natural habitat as they go about their daily activities.
Morning Game drive in Serengeti national park
After early morning breakfast go for game drive safari in Serengeti National Park the first thing in the morning, you will find the Serengeti at its most active. This is when Africa can reveal its cool side, so you should wrap up warm we aim to be on the road before the sun rises at around 6.00 am.
Our guides will bring you as close as possible to the wildlife, just when the action is likely to be most exciting. Few predators hunt during the heat of the day, so the early morning is the best time to observe the thrill of the chase. It is also a magical time, with the subtle light dappling the landscape, the birds awakening and the sense of a great adventure beginning to unfurl, before further viewing leads you back to the lodge in good time for lunch and leisure at the camp.
Evening Game Drive in Serengeti National Park
Heading into the bush for an evening game drive has a level of excitement and character all its own, as predators begin their nightly search for prey. As the day cools and the sky is streaked by red, gold and orange hues, you may be surprised by the roar of a lion, a galloping giraffe, or the high pitched giggling of hyenas fighting over a kill. At a suitable vantage point, your guide will pause, allowing you to enjoy a sundowner in blissful comfort.
Day 18:Transfer to Ngorongoro Craters
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a located 180 km west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. The area is named after Ngorongoro Crater a large volcanic caldera within the area. The conservation area is administered by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority the main feature of the Ngorongoro Conservation Authority is the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic crater, which formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two to three million years ago
The 2009 Ngorongoro Wildlife Conservation Act placed new restrictions on human settlement and subsistence farming in the Crater, displacing Maasai pastoralists, most of whom had been relocated to Ngorongoro from their ancestral lands to the north when the British colonial government established Serengeti National Park in 1959.The name of the crater has an onomatopoeic origin; it was named by the Maasai pastoralists after the sound produced by the cowbell (ngoro ngoro). Based on fossil evidence found at the Olduvai Gorge, various hominid species have occupied the area for 3 million years.
Visit the Oldupai or Olduvai Gorges , situated in the plains area. It is considered to be the seat of humanity after the discovery of the earliest known specimens of the human genus, The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, which stretches along eastern Africa. Olduvai is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania and is about 50 kilometers long. It lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro highlands and is the driest part of the region. The gorge is named after Oldupaai the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant,
It is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and research there has been instrumental in furthering understanding of early human evolution. Excavation work there was pioneered by Mary and Louis Leakey in the 1950s and is continued today by their family. Some believe that millions of years ago, the site was that of a large lake, the shores of which were covered with successive deposits of volcanic ash. Around 500,000 years ago seismic activity diverted a nearby stream which began to cut down into the sediments, revealing seven main layers in the walls of the gorge. The crater has one of the densest known population of lions.
Day 19:Full Day Game drive in Ngorongoro
these full day safaris are the best way to see the full range of what this magnificent park has to offer. Each excursion departs at around 6:30 am and returns back to camp by evening 6:30pm, with your private 4×4 fully equipped to cross the Ngorongoro in search of game.
The early mornings are relatively cool, but by midday it can become very hot indeed and sun-block lotion and hats are advised. Lunch is served between the game drives at the heart of Serengeti overlooking the plains and big game.
It’s rewarding to watch the wildlife grazing around the plains of the camp, drinking water, or taking bath along the main swap just in front you is a thrilling experience. Animals expected to be seen here includes, wildebeest, buffaloes, lions, elephants, giraffes and so many antelopes
Stone Town of Zanzibar, also known as Mji Mkongwe (Swahili for “old town”), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng’ambo, Swahili for ‘the other side’. Stone Town is located on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Former capital of the Zanzibar Sultanate, and flourishing centre of the spice trade as well as the slave trade in the 19th century, it retained its importance as the main city of Zanzibar during the period of the British protectorate. When Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined each other to form the United Republic of Tanzania, Zanzibar kept a semi-autonomous status, with Stone Town as its local government seat.
Stone Town is a city of prominent historical and artistic importance in East Africa. Its architecture, mostly dating back to the 19th century, reflects the diverse influences underlying the Swahili culture, giving a unique mixture of Arab, Persian, Indian and European elements. For this reason, the town was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000
Day 20:Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park
Pick from Entebbe at the Hotel and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park, with stop over at the equator then proceed through Masaka but stop over for lunch at a selected restaurant or hotel. This drive is a memorable one with a fantastic view of the dry rolling hills of Ankole with their signature long horned cattle just besides the roads.
Evening Game Drive in Lake Mburo National Park
Enjoy the evening Game drive for the best wildlife safari experience and photography in this sculptured landscape, rolling hills, rock outcrops, and open wooded savanna. The expected animals include: Zebras, Impalas, Elands, Topis, Giraffes, Waterbucks, Klipspringers, Velvet Monkeys, Buffalos, Warthogs, Baboons, and several bird species. This park alone has 332 known bird species, and 69 species of mammals. After wards, drive to the lodge to check in for an overnight. Afterwards return to the lodge for lunch and after lunch relax at the lodge on your private patio as you waiting to go for your sun set photography opportunity around Lake Mburo National Park.
Day 21:Morning Game Drive in Lake Mburo national Park
After breakfast, drive to the park for the excellent wildlife photographs and the compact jewel there are well presented wildlife at only 370Kms2. The park is small compared to other savanna national parks in Uganda.
Being a home to surprising wildlife, and the only national park in Uganda that has Impalas, you enjoy the beauty of these whispers of the wild. After game drive, return to the lodge for lunch.
After early morning breakfast meet the armed ranger guide for the walk. This walk gives you an opportunity to explore and photograph the attractions of these whispers of the wild in its natural state for the best memorable eye to eye wildlife in Uganda.
Day 22:Visit the Cultural Museum and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After lunch, visit the cultural museum where the future meets the past. Visit eriijukiro, Kwazi (Nkwanzi) crafts shop, cultural villages such as; Mparo Court and Kitami Palace. These places house the traditional huts for cattle and crop farmers.
Visit the magnificent sculpture of the warrior queen in her court, a representation of ancient Mpororo Kingdom before proceeding to Mbarara town as you drive through this amazing and spectacular scenery which never fails to impress. Some of the birds you expect to encounter on your way to Bwindi includes, Grey-crowned crane, Marabou stork, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, stripped kingfisher, grey-headed kingfisher, Double-toothed Barbet brown parrot, Ibis hadada, cattle Egrets and many others The region is sometimes referred as the land of milk and honey.
Enjoy the noble slow moving animals which were originally herded down from ancient Egyptians 2000 years ago called new long-horned Ankole cattle. Before driving through the small like roads though the green rolling mulched hills of Kigezi region before reaching Bwindi in the evening to check in at the lodge.
Day 23:Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast drive to the tourist gorilla tracking briefing point to get registered and set off to go and meet with these amazing beautiful and peaceful giants. The tracking begins after you have met the gorillas.
The Park gives you an opportunity to discover the secrets in this mist and fog covered hillsides which is blanketed by one of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforest gorilla tracking. It is a humbling experience to stand just meters from them as they eat, rest, play and bond with their young ones. The gorilla tracking starts at 8:30 am. The tracking lasts from few hours depending on the location of the gorillas as they freely range in the impenetrable forest and tours are limited to only 8 people per group.
After getting back to the lodge have your time to relax as you enjoy the perfect balcony view of the Forest from your room or on your private patio or just outside at the shade beside the restaurant and the bar.
Day 24:Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After morning breakfast, drive through Bushenyi – Ishaka- Igara- before reaching the land of craters in Bunyaruguru (Rubiriizi). This drive gives you the opportunity to enjoy the scenic view of the ever green tea plantations, before reaching Kalinzu forest reserve and Kichwamba Escarpment sceneries, the fantastic view of the Rwenzori mountain and drive in to the lodge and arriving late in the evening.
Visit Kitagata Hot Spring
Kitagata hot spring is located between Ntungamo and Ishaka, this hot spring it is one the places of interest and it has attracted so many people including the locals, you sit in there in the warm water temperature, as the locals believe that it the healing center for mysteries and misfortunes you find so many of them just bathing and sitting in this waters and drive to the lodge and arriving late in the evening to check in at the lodge in Queen Elizabeth national Park.
Day 25:Morning Game drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, drive to Kasenyi plains for a rewarding game drive and best photographs set against the backdrop of the jagged Rwenzori Mountains. Enjoy the vast savanna grasslands for a classic African Safari experience. This gives you an opportunity to enjoy the huge herds of Uganda Kobs that attract prides of lions, huge dark elephants, drive through this sprawling savanna, enjoy the panoramic view of this Park, the ideal habitat for classic big game. Its outstanding wildlife attraction such as; Buffalos, Warthogs, Waterbucks, Elephants, Leopards, Hyenas, and enjoy the scenic view of the park’s magnificent dozens of enormous craters curved dramatically into rolling green hills. At Mweya Peninsula the Queens focal point. Its elevation portion commands gorgeous views of the Kazinga Channel. Enjoy Kazinga Channel the Oasis for the many fascinating wildlife giving you an opportunity to cruise just metres away from hundreds of erroneous Hippos and Buffalos. While Elephants linger on the shoreline.
Day 26:Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Drive to Murchison Falls National Park. The drive from Queen Elizabeth National Park to Murchison falls is very long but rewarding through the ever green tea plantations route in Fort Portal combined with spectacular landscape and views of Rwenzori ranges. Proceed to Hoima, via Kagadi for lunch at selected restaurants/hotels before proceeding to Murchison Falls National Park via Buliisa. This route is longer but more scenic and the memorable descent at the Rift Valley Escarpment with beautiful scenic views across Lake Albert towards the blue mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Enjoy Bugungu Wildlife Reserve proceed and arriving late in the evening to check in at the lodge.
Day 27:Morning Game drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise in Murchison Falls National Park
After breakfast, drive to the northern part of the park for the best and most Uganda’s remarkable wildlife spectacles, enjoy a fantastic photograph of the wide range of animals such as; Uganda Kobs, elephants, pats monkeys, heartbeats, Waterbucks, Buffalos, giraffes and Hippos in this Park the most popular safari destination. Track a herd of Buffalos as they range along the great open expanse and witness that nature moves at its own speed. The more time you spend in the land walked by both predator and prey, it is the call of the wild, an invitation to a simpler world filled with excitement and awe. Start the day the way nature intended as the sun begins to rise and shine over the ironic bush veld scenery in palm-dotted savanna, drive back to the lodge for lunch before proceeding for afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of Murchison Falls, for the best adventurous experience in the primal wilderness presenting astonishing display of wildlife such as; Hippos, Crocodiles, Elephants.
Day 28:Hiking to the top of Murchison Falls
Enjoy the best photograph for the mighty Murchison Falls and freedom falls at the picnic platform view of the Nile squeezing itself on 7-8m wide gorge while standing at the Baker’s rock with thunderous roar into devil’s “cauldron” creating a trademark rainbow
It gives you an opportunity to see the violent compression through the narrow gorge creates a continuous roar from the top. It plunges 45m over the remnant rift valley wall creating the dramatic Murchison Falls, the center piece of the park and enjoy the fantastic view of the scenery down below the mighty cascade drains the last of the river’s energy transforming it into a broad placid stream that flows quietly across the rift valley floor. While at this point you will see a wide gorge and plunges with a thunderous roar into the “Devil’s Cauldron” creating a trademark rainbow. This is a fantastic and great reward for the pose and photograph opportunities
Transfer to Entebbe International Airport through Budongo Forest
Drive through budongo forest one of the few tropical rain forest good for butterflies and good concentration of primates, such as red colobus monkey, black and white colobus, vervet and olive baboons This drive through Kaniyo pabidi sector of Budongo Forest is very rewarding. Here you will enjoy a lot of attractions such as a cool shaded forest that promises an unprecedented density and diversity of flora ranging from towering hardwoods to luscious ferns and animals such as baboon vervet and black and white colobous monkeys with several forest endemic bird species such as puvel’s Illadopsis proceed and drive through Masindi town with stopover for lunch en-route at the selected Hotel/Restaurant at Kabalega dinners. After Lunch drive straight to Entebbe international Airport
END OF THE TRIP
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