10 Days Uganda Highlights

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Day 1: Entebbe - Kampala

Upon arrival, meet and greet and transferred to a city hotel for overnight stay.

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Day 2 & 3: Kibale Forest National Park

This day we drive to Kibale Forest Reserve via Mityana and Fort Portal, in a breathtaking landscape that forms the Albertine western Rift Valley. We will have several stopovers to relax, and sightseeing as we pass verdant countryside, traditional homesteads, and farms. We will have our packed/picnic lunch on the way.

Kibale National Park contains one of the loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda. Forest cover, interspersed with patches of grassland and swamp, dominates the northern and central parts of the park on an elevated plateau. Kibale is famously known for Chimpanzee tracking.

The next day you will be allocated to a chimpanzee community and your ranger guide will lead you on the trek in search of this great ape. Watch the chimpanzees in their natural habitat, as they swing from the branches in the canopy high above the forest floor, feed, play, and rest.

In the afternoon, explore the Bigodi village. You have the opportunity to visit a swamp with abundant butterflies, plants, animals, and spectacular birds like Great Blue Turaco and will be of great interest to birders. After this experience, you will take a village walk that will lead you to the Coffee experience, banana beer making, busked making, and traditional healer.

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Day 4 & 5: Queen Elizabeth National Park

After breakfast, you will take a packed lunch and head for a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park to see Africa’s highly famed “Big 5”, Bush Bucks, Giant Hogs, Antelopes, Waterbucks, and plenty of birds.

The next day in the early morning we do a game drive in the Kasenyi area, within Queen Elisabeth NP, on a lookout for the lions, buffalos, elephants, and large numbers of Uganda Kobs and other antelopes. After we will go back to the lodge for breakfast, and relax until lunchtime. At 1400 hours, we will go for a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel (2 hours approx.), to look out for the hippos, great herds of buffaloes, and lots of water birds.

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Day 6: Ishasha Sector

After your breakfast, you will be taken to Ishasha Sector, famous for the tree-climbing lions lounging in the tree branches while keeping a close eye on herds of Uganda kob, their favorite prey. You could have a chance to spot some tree climbing lions after proceeding to your lodge.

In the afternoon you will take a Boat Cruise along the amazing Kazinga channel to see, at close range, the water animals to include Hippos, Buffalos, Crocodiles, and elephants bathing on the channel banks. There is also a variety of bird species on the water banks especially the famous Shoebill, pelican, and Jacana.

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Day 7 & 8: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

After morning breakfast depart for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Arrive in time for lunch and check-in. Spent your afternoon at leisure with the option to visit Bwata people to learn more about their way of life

The next day you will have an early morning breakfast at 6:30 am and with packed lunch, you will move to the Park headquarters to join other trackers in a briefing about the gorilla trekking rules at 7:30 am. You will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you 1-8 hours. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access by tourists. You will stay with Gorillas sometimes once sited and later back to the lodge.

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Day 9: Lake Mburo National Park

After breakfast, you will board your safari vehicle, drive through the beautiful scenery, the Kigezi Mountains – you will have stops along the way. You will have lunch at a local restaurant in Mbarara en route to Lake Mburo National Park. Arrive for lunch and check-in in the late afternoon. Thereafter proceed for evening game drive.

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Day 10: Depart to Entebbe

You will have an early morning game drive, breakfast at the camp, and drive back to Entebbe with a brief stop at the Equator. Continue to the airport for our flight.

Inclusions

  • Airport return transfers
  • All Park/Reserve entrance fees
  • Bed and Breakfast accommodation in Nairobi
  • Full Board accommodation in the Lodges/Camps whilst on safari
  • Services of our English-speaking guide or clients Relations officers for briefings in Nairobi
  • Transportation on 6-seater Safari minivans or 4x4 Land cruiser, driven by English-speaking driver/guide (exclusive use of vehicle)

Exclusions

  • International flights
  • Any optional activity
  • Medical and travel insurance
  • Drinks (sodas, beer, wine, spirits...)
  • Visa Fees (currently US$ 50 per person)
  • Personal Expenses such as Tips, Laundry and Telephone

Extras

  • Complimentary Frate Tours 1 liter mineral water per person per day
  • Complimentary Frate Tours Safari bag
  • Complimentary Frate Tours Safari Hat
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fun facts

1220

photos taken

450

beaches visited

84

mountains climbed

120

cruises organized