5 Day Uganda Wildlife Tour

The 5-Day Uganda gorilla and wildlife safari offers you the best of Uganda. Visit the gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, go on game safaris, and take a boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The trip starts and ends in Kampala, Uganda.

Day 1: Pick up and transfer to  Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 2: Game Drive and afternoon boat cruise

Day 3: Ishasha Tree Climbing Lions Tour, Transfer to Bwindi forest

Day 4: Gorilla Tracking

Day 5: Travel back to Kampala

Detailed Itinerary

Arrive at Entebbe International Airport, meet your driver/guide, and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park in the foothills of the mystical Rwenzori Mountains. Lunch en route, dinner, and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge / Enganzi Lodge / Bush Lodge.

After a cup of tea/coffee, go for a dawn game safari to catch up with the early risers and predator feeding before returning to their hideouts. Expect an adventurous encounter with Lions, hyenas, herds of elephants, buffalo, jackals, bush pigs, bushbucks, and many more. Return to the lodge for a hot breakfast as you wait for lunch. Join a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel to see animals like Hippos, huge Nile crocodiles, more Elephants, and Buffaloes seen basking along the shores. Birdlife is prolific, with over 600 species—dinner and overnight at your lodge on Day 1.

Have breakfast and go for an exclusive game drive as you transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will go through the Ishasha sector (home of Tree-climbing lions) to reach Bwindi by early evening, dinner and overnight at Mahogany Springs Lodge / Buhoma Community Rest Camp, Gorilla Mist Camp.

Have breakfast and assemble at the park headquarters for the briefing before penetrating the impenetrable Bwindi forest in search of gorillas. The trek to see gorillas takes 2-7 hours, depending on their movement. Spend an hour with a gorilla family, observe how each gorilla plays a different role within the family, take pictures, and enjoy this magical encounter—dinner and overnight as on Day 3.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, we shall leave for Kampala, make an en-route stop at the Equator for photographs, and proceed to Entebbe Airport for your departure flight.

End of the tour

Tour Inclusions

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