Enjoy your 5 day primate tour with a combination of chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park and gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and possibly include Queen Elizabeth National Park for a wildlife viewing experience.
Day1: Kampala – Kibale Forest
Morning pick up from your lodge. Transfer to Fort Portal in the western Uganda with scenic views of plantations. En-route lunch at garden restaurant in fort portal. Continue to Kibale Forest home to chimpanzees then to your reserved lodge. Dinner and Overnight stay at Kibale Tourist Safari Lodge/ Isunga Lodge. Meal Plan: F/B
Day2: Chimpanzee Trekking – Queen Elizabeth
Enjoy your breakfast after you guide will pick you from your lodge and transfer you to Kanyanchu park headquarters of Kibale Forest. You will be briefed about the chimps and the forest, then enter into the jungle to search for chimps. After the one hour experience with the chimps have lunch and continue to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Dinner and overnight stay Bush Lodge. Meal Plan: F/B
Day3: Queen Elizabeth –Bwindi Forest
Begin your day with a cup of coffee and an early morning game drive along Kasenyi. Visitors will be able to encounter elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, lions, Uganda kob and a variety of bird species. Drive back to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon, enjoy a boat ride and encounter more wildlife including crocodiles and hippos, plus the water birds. Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, of home to the rare mountain gorillas. Dinner and overnight stay Gorilla Valley Lodge. Meal Plan: F/B
Day4: Gorilla Trekking – Lake Bunyonyi
After breakfast, get ready with your trekking gears and packed and transfer to UWA park headquarters. Get briefed about gorilla trekking do’s and don’ts and what to expect on the trek. Time taken is between 2 to 8 hours, but when you located them, you will be given a maximum of one hour to take photos and videos of them. Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for dinner and overnight. Arcadia Lodge Bunyonyi. Meal Plan: F/B
Day5: Drop off in Kampala or Kigali
After breakfast, the driver will drive you either back to Kampala or drop off in Kigali via Cyanika Border. Drop off at the hotel or airport. End of services.
Inclusions:
Ground transportation
Accommodation and meals
Lunch en-route
Gorilla permits $800 per person
Chimpanzee permit $250 per person
Park entry
Car entry
Boat cruise
English speaking driver guide
Excludes:
Visa fees, trips, gratitude’s, drinks and all other personal expenses not mentioned in the itinerary.
What to wear/bring
Dress codes are informal. Daytime temperatures are generally warm, so bring lots of light clothing, supplemented by light sweaters for the cool evenings and heavier clothing for the higher altitudes especially volcanoes. When tracking gorillas layering your clothing is the best idea and we suggest: long sleeved shirts, cotton or gore tex trousers, strong walking shoes with ankle support, socks that you can tuck your trousers into, light gloves to protect your hands from thorns and nettles, a hat and sunglasses to provide protection against the sun and a water proof jacket in neutral colors may come in handy in the moist mountains. Travel light and remember that soft-sided luggage is required. One medium sized duffel bag and one small day pack (carry-on) per person should bead equate. Laundry services are available at most accommodations. You should also pack some zip lock bags for spare clothing, cameras, binoculars and film. Please note that you are not allowed to use a flash when photographing Gorillas. It is a good idea to take along several different speeds of film (64 to 1000) as gorillas can be found in open sun or in the dark underbrush of the forest.