Overview
Spend your vacation exploring the highlights of Uganda and discover the very best the country has to offer. Explore the beautiful national parks in search for chimpanzees and gorillas and take boat cruises to experience the nature from a different angle.
Country(s): Uganda
Duration: 1 - 2 Weeks
Type: Small Group Lodge Safaris
A small-group Uganda safari, exploring some of the most beautiful locations that the country has to offer. The tour starts and ends in Entebbe/Kampala – 11 Days
HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS UGANDA SAFARI
MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK
The highlight of a visit to the Murchison Falls National Park during the Highlights of Uganda safari is viewing the powerful falls. The waters from the Victoria Nile create a 43-meter-high waterfall which you will view during an exciting 3-hour morning boat cruise. During game drives, you will explore the diverse vegetation and discover the rich wildlife that call the woodlands, savannah and riverine forests home including the rare shoebill stork.
KIBALE NATIONAL PARK
Kibale Forest National Park forms a wildlife corridor of 180 kilometres with the adjoining Queen Elizabeth National Park and offers a protected, tropical rainforest teeming with unique flora and wildlife, including over 1,000 habituated chimpanzees and several other primate species. You will explore the Bigodi Swamp on foot to get close to the exotic birds that find shelter here.
QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
Your Uganda safari includes two nights at the beautiful Queen Elizabeth National Park. The park boasts one of the world’s highest biodiversity ratings and offers rainforests, swamps, crater lakes, and a lush savannah that is home to nearly 100 mammal species and almost 600 species of birds. During a game drive in the Ishasha sector look out for the famous tree-climbing lions! Chimpanzee trekking in the Kalinzu Forest is another exciting experience and you will spend the morning of day 7 trekking these primates on foot through the forest.
BWINDI FOREST NATIONAL PARK
Bwindi Forest National Park is home to many of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas, who feed on roots, leaves and fruits from the park’s many tree and fern species. Gorilla trekking in the Bwindi Forest is an unforgettable experience. You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with the women of the Buhoma community, weaving baskets and learning about their way of life.
LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK
The park consists of a series of swamp-fringed lakes, in fact, wetlands make up 20% of the park. Lake Mburo which forms part of a 50km-long wetland system linked by a swamp, is home to 350 bird species as well as zebras, impalas, elands, buffalos, oribi, Defassa waterbuck, leopard, hippo, hyena, topi and reedbuck.
THE EQUATOR
No Uganda safari will be complete without a photo op at the Equator. Stand at the point where Earth is divided into the Northern and Southern hemispheres at 0 degrees latitude; halfway between the North and South poles.
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