10 Days Uganda Holiday Tour
10 Days Uganda Holiday Tour is a combined safari tour package taking you to Uganda’s highlight safari destination such as Kibale forest national park for Chimpanzee tracking, Queen Elizabeth national park for Game drive viewing and Bwindi Impenetrable national park for Gorilla trekking as well as doing Kampala City tour. This trip starts and end in Kampala Uganda the pearl of Africa.
Highlights of the 10 Days Uganda Holiday Safari
- Day 1: Picked up from Entebbe Airport
- Day 2: Transfer to Kibale Forest national park
- Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
- Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth NP and Community walk
- Day 5: Game drive and Kazinga Channel –Boat cruise in Queen
- Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park
- Day 7: Gorilla trekking and Community walk
- Day 8: Batwa Community visit
- Day 9: Depart to Kampala
- Day 10: Kampala City tour
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Picked up from Entebbe Airport
Picked up from Entebbe Airport: Upon your arrival at the Airport, you will be picked and then transfer to your Hotel in Entebbe town to rest. Dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Dinner
Day2: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park-Bigodi wetland walk
Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park: After breakfast, you will transfer for your flight to Kasese early morning from 07:45am arrive by 10: 05am.You will be picked by our driver guide and be driven from Kasese to Kibale for Lunch and check in at the lodge relax.
Nature walk: Later in the afternoon you will go for a nature walk to Bigodi wetlands to view various species of birds as well as other primates like different types of monkeys. Back to the lodge for dinner and Overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Forest
Chimpanzee trekking: Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast and get ready for chimpanzee tracking. Your driver will drive you to the park headquarters by 7:30am local time for briefing. After briefing at 8:00am you will meet the ranger guide to accompanies you to forest trailheads in search for these great apes. The chances of seeing chimpanzees in Kibale forest in very high since it is primate capital. If chimpanzees are found, visitors are given an hour with them to learn their behaviours, take photos among others. Return to the lodge to rest in your room as you prepare for dinner and Overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth NP-Community walk
Transfer to Queen Elizabeth: Wake up enjoy your breakfast served at the lodge and transfer to one of the most attractive national parks in Africa known as Queen Elizabeth national park. On your visit to Queen you will tour to Katwe –Kabatooro Community and learn how the locals engage in salt mining to boost their incomes at Lake Katwe. Then proceed to the lodge for lunch and later an evening game drive.
Afternoon Game drive: Later on, you will go for game drive to explore the wildlife in the park such as elephants, kobs, buffaloes, lions among others. Drive back to the lodge for Dinner and Overnight stay.
Day 5: Game drive and Boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel
Game drive: Wake up have early morning breakfast, then drive to Kasenyi plains for morning game drive expecting to view early morning predators like Leopard, lions, hyenas, other species to see include antelopes, buffaloes, elephants, hippos, waterbucks, warthogs many more. Still Queen Elizabeth national park is a paradise of birds with over 620 species including number of migratory and Albertine Rift Endemics. Back to the lodge for lunch and relax.
Boat Cruise: In the late afternoon, you will walk down to Kazinga Channel for a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel that connects to Lake Edward and Lake George. This is the best way to watch hippos, crocodiles while in water as well as spotting water birds many more. Dinner and Overnight stay
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable: Have morning breakfast, then set off to Bwindi national park passing via Ishasha sector where you can’t go missing to view the famous tree –climbing lions. Continue driving to the park with rewardable scenic beauty of the landscape. Arrive at the park, check in at the lodge and rest or go visit the community walk. Dinner and Overnight stay
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day7: Gorilla Trekking &Community Visit-Bwindi
Gorilla Trekking: After morning breakfast, get ready for Gorilla trekking. Your driver guide will pick you up at the lodge with packed lunch boxes and be driven to the park headquarter for briefing about rules of Gorilla trekking. After, you will head to the forest trailhead lead by the park ranger to lookout for mountain gorillas. You will be given one hour after locating them learn about their life style. Dinner and Overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day8: Visit the Batwa Community trails in Buhoma
Visit the Batwa Community: After breakfast, you will go to visit the Batwa people who are forest keepers, before they used to live in this forest with mountain gorillas and could feed on the same food with gorillas. You will learn as they guide you through the forest, get amazed about their traditional dances and songs, storytelling on how they used to leave with mountain gorillas in the forest, handling the bow, gather honey and picking herbal medicine from roots and leaves a local behaviour. Get experienced on how they lived grass thatched houses, caves, hunted small animals which are used for food. The Batwa trailheads begins with walking safari hiking through the forest as you learn from the first keepers of the forest, this full day Community walk will give you a great honour to the Batwa people. Later return to the lodge for dinner and Overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Depart to Kampala
Depart to Kampala: Wake up have breakfast and transfer to your flight from Kihihi Airstrip at 09:45am and land to Entebbe Airport at 11:25am. Be transferred to your hotel in Kampala for lunch and relaxation as you get ready for next day activities. Dinner and overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: Kampala City Tour
Kampala City Tour: After break, go for Kampala city tour through visiting major touristic sites in the city such as visiting the Royal palace learn about the history of Buganda kingdom, Uganda museum where you will learn about different traditional /history of Uganda, Namugongo shrine where the 45 pillars were killed from and where the annual catholic gathering do cerebrate on every 3rd June of the year. Later drive back to your hotel for Dinner and overnight stay or at Entebbe Airport to catch up your flight back home
End of the 10 Days Uganda Holiday Tour
