12 Day Uganda and Kenya Wilderness Safari Trip

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel by our representative and transferred to Masai Mara Game reserve with a stopover at the Great Rift Valley for viewing. Masai Mara is one of East Africa’s most famous reserves. It consists of undulating hills and great rolling grasslands that sustain some of the most varied wildlife in Africa. You will arrive in time for lunch and an afternoon game viewing of animals like lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle and other plains game around, not forgetting the hundreds of species of birds.

Accommodation: Enkolok Mara Camp

After breakfast, you will set out for game drives through the unique park which really forms the northern part of the famous Serengeti National Park. Masai Mara supports the biggest population of cats besides other predators. You will spot elephants, lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, Giraffe, Zebras and wildebeest. You will return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Enkolok Mara Camp

After breakfast, you will depart for Nakuru National park with a stopover for lunch in Narok town enroute. You will have another stopover at Lake Naivasha where you will enjoy an optional one hour boat ride through the lake. You will proceed to Lake Nakuru National Park where you will arrive in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Flamingo Lodge

After breakfast, you will depart for Nakuru National park with a stopover for lunch in Narok town enroute. You will have another stopover at Lake Naivasha where you will enjoy an optional one hour boat ride through the lake. You will proceed to Lake Nakuru National Park where you will arrive in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Flamingo Lodge

After breakfast, you will enjoy a game drive in Nakuru national park. The park is famous for its millions of seasonal pink flamingos and other aquatic birds. You will enjoy the game drive and will spot rhinos, zebra, gazelle, buffalo, leopard and waterbucks. You will then be driven towards Uganda through Nakuru town and Eldoret. On crossing the border, you will be driven to Mbale for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Mbale Resort Hotel

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Jinja. We will drive further into Uganda which is the second country of the Kenya & Uganda safari. Our target in Uganda will be Jinja City, Fruit markets will decorate the day’s drive. In Jinja River Nile meets Lake Victoria and the source of the mighty Nile is found there.

Accommodation: Jinja Nile Resort

We will depart for Kibale Forest National Park after your morning breakfast, we will use the southern route via Hoima. You will enjoy the scenic features of tea plantations in Fort Portal and also have stopover there for Lunch enroute. After lunch we will drive for one more hour to Kibale Guest Cottages for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Kibale Guest Cottages

After breakfast we will visit Kibale Forest National Park. The Park boasts the highest number of primate species in the world including the chimpanzees with approximately 5,000 chimpanzees living in the wild in Uganda. The Park is the most famous for its 13 species of primates being Chimpanzee. It is also a home of species like the rare I’Hoest’s monkey, the black and white Colobus, Blue monkey, Grey cheeked mangabey, and Red-tailed monkey and the Olive baboon among others. The walk takes 2-3 hours.

After lunch we will go for Bigodi swamp walk where you may see a variety of bird species and other smaller mammals.

Accommodation:  Kibale Guest Cottages

You will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park in the morning where you’ll spot the ranges of Mt. Rwenzori enroute. You will embark on game drives in the park on arrival and while on the drives you will spot some animals like Elephants, Buffaloes, bushbucks, and Uganda Kob, Antelopes, Warthogs, among others.

After lunch you will enjoy the unique 2-hour boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. It is a 42kms channel that joins Lake Edward and Lake George.

The boat ride offers an excellent platform for photography along which you will encounter several hippos, crocodiles, elephants and over 500 bird species.

Accommodation: The Baboon Safari Resort

You will have an early morning game drive where you may have an opportunity to see the lion, leopard, giant forest hog, Cape buffalo, elephant, defassa waterbuck, Uganda Kob, topi and bushbuck among others.

In the afternoon you will be transferred to Ishasha sector in search for the tree climbing lions.

Accommodation: Topi Lodge

You will have another morning game drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park and thereafter proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest NP passing through the Kigezi Highlands with its terraced hillside and winding roads. You will enjoy the beautiful scenery of Kigezi terraced hills enroute.

Accommodation: Gorilla Mist Camp

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters where you will be briefed about gorilla trekking. Bwindi impenetrable National Park is renowned for its impressive mountain gorillas although it is unpredictable for how long you will track before finding them since it all depends on their movement.

You will set out with packed lunch and enough drinking water and you are advised to wear strong comfortable boots plus a light rain-jacket since the weather in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is highly unpredictable.

You will be availed with Walking sticks by the park rangers. Visitors are allowed to spend only one hour with the gorillas for the purpose of conservation. The ranger guide will brief you on how to conduct yourself while in the presence of the gentle giants.

Accommodation: Gorilla Mist Camp

You will depart for Kampala after breakfast and have an opportunity to take pictures at the equator enroute. On arrival, you will be transferred to Entebbe International Airport for your departure.

Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)