In this 15-Day Uganda Luxury Safari Tour, you will enjoy wider Wildlife Safaris, Boat Rides, Gorilla Tracking, White Water Rafting, and Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Tracking.
Tour Prices – per Person
$5675 (1 Person)
$4345 (2 People)
$3625 (3 People)
$2865 (4 People +)
including 1 gorilla permit per person
Day 1: Travel to Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Drive to Murchison Falls in the morning, making a stop in Masindi for lunch, then proceed to the park, where you arrive in the evening.
Murchison Falls National Park is characterized by Savannah and riverine woodland. The park has a variety of animal species, including lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hartebeests, oribis, Uganda kobs, and numerous bird species.
You will drive to the top of the falls, where the Nile perfects its magnificence. Here you will see the calm Nile forcing itself through a narrow gorge, falling a distance of about 150 feet and producing a roar of white water. Dinner and overnight at Paraa Safari Lodge, Sambiya River Lodge, or Red Chilies Rest Camp.
Day 2: Game Drive and Launch Cruise in Murchison Falls
Start the day with a game drive in the morning. You will see animals like lions, leopards, hyenas, elephants, and many others. In the afternoon, after lunch, go for a boat ride on the Victoria Nile to the bottom of the falls, a very captivating exercise that exposes you to animals like crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes, and many birds. Overnight at Para Safari Lodge, Sambiya River Lodge or Red Chilies Rest Camp.
Day 3: Leave Murchison Falls Park for Kibale National Park
Leave Murchison Falls for Kibale National Park and arrive in the evening. Overnight and dinner at Ndali Lodge, Primates’ Lodge, or in any booked accommodation in Fort Portal Town.
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking Safari in Kibale Forest
Transfer to the park headquarters in the morning for a briefing, before heading to the forest to seek out chimpanzees. You will come close to chimps and other primates, like the red-tailed monkeys, colobus monkeys, and many more. The trek will give you a chance to spot a wider range of primates, birds, and butterflies through a network of forest-sheltered trails. In the afternoon, you will go for a nature walk in the Bigodi wetland area, then retire for the night at Ndali Lodge or Primates’ Lodge, Fort Motel, Mountains of the Moon Hotel, or Toro Resort.
Day 5: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Have breakfast and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, where you will arrive in the afternoon. After lunch at the lodge, you will go for a boat ride on the Kazinga Channel, where you will see animals like hippos, buffalo, and a profusion of birds for bird watchers. Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge or Mweya Hostel.
Day 6: Game Drive Queen Elizabeth National Park
In the morning, you will enjoy a game drive in the park, searching for animals like lions, elephants, hyenas, buffaloes, bushbuck, Uganda kobs, warthogs, and more.
Afterward, you will visit the Crater Lake region, on your way to Kyambura Gorge. In the afternoon, you will have a walk, searching for chimps and other primates like baboons, bush babies, colobus monkeys, and many more. Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge.
Day 7: Enjoy a game drive as you head to Bwindi, the Gorilla Home
Have a game drive en route in the Ishasha sector, where you will see the tree-climbing lions as you transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, the area of the gorillas. You will reach the park in the evening. Overnight and dinner at Gorilla Resort, Volcanoes Lodge Bwindi or Buhoma Community Bandas.
Day 8: Gorilla Tracking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
After breakfast, get your packed lunch and move to the forest, looking for the giant apes. The search might take about 2 to 9 hours before you stumble on the gorillas. Once you meet them, you will spend an hour watching them feed, play, and care for their young. Afterward, you will return to your lodge.
Day 9: Travel to Lake Bunyonyi
Wake up and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi – one of the deepest crater lakes in Uganda. This lake is characterized by numerous small islands.
You will reach there in the afternoon and settle down by the shore. You may decide to take a boat ride to Bushara Island or take a walk along the shores of Lake Bunyonyi. The lake is known to be inhabited by lots of small birds. Overnight at Bushara Island, Bunyonyi Overland Camp, Crater Bay Cottages, Bunyonyi Safaris, and Heritage Lodges.
Day 10: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park
Wake up early enough, clean up, have your breakfast, and drive to Lake Mburo National Park, which you will reach in the afternoon, after a lip-smacking lunch in Mbarara town. On arrival, check in at either Mantana tented camp or Rwonyo camp and go for a boat ride on Lake Mburo to view animals like hippos, buffaloes, and crocodiles, alongside the many eye-catching birds around the area.
Day 11: Uganda Travel to Jinja
You will start your journey to Jinja after breakfast. From Lake Mburo, you will drive through Lyantonde, Masaka, Mpigi, Wakiso, and Kampala (have lunch here), then proceed to Mukono, and finally to Jinja in the early afternoon or evening. Overnight at Jinja Nile Resort or Hotel Triangle.
Day 12: Rafting Safaris/Source of the Nile Tour
You will raft the whole day. You will also visit the source of the Nile and the Bujagali Falls. After rafting, return to Kampala for an overnight.
Day 13: Visit Ngamba Island, the Home of Chimpanzees
You will move to Ngamba Island for a motivating watching of the chimpanzees. Ngamba Island, a Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT) in Lake Victoria, was established as a joint national and international initiative and an internationally recognized, collaborative conservation effort aimed at developing and implementing a long-term strategy for the conservation of chimpanzees and their habitats.
The island is home to 40 orphaned chimpanzees, an endangered species found in forests, 20 of which have been brought to the island since the sanctuary opened. Overnight and dinner on the island.
Day 14: Viewing Chimpanzees in Ngamba Island
Have breakfast, then start a forest walk on the island with the chimpanzees. After the walk, you will sail to the main lake shores in Entebbe, from where you will be driven to a hotel in Entebbe.
Day 15: Airport Transfer for your flight back home
End of your Uganda Safari Tour.