7 Days Best Gorilla Tour in Uganda

On this day the driver guide for your trip will pick you from either your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or Entebbe international Airport and start the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, this drive is long but worth it since you will enjoy amazing sceneries and meet up with the local communities along the way. You will have a stopover at the Equator for photographs, lunch will be en-route and other optional multiple stopovers depending on your request and time.

Drive time: 8-9 hrs. drive

Lodging: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/Four gorillas lodge

After breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda wildlife Authority ranger guides who will allocate you a gorilla family group you will trek with that day. Once you have your group of 8 people confirmed, the 2 ranger guides will lead you into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day. Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, you will only be allowed to interact with them for a maximum of one hour and you are advised to always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. You are allowed to take photographs and so on.

Gorilla tracking can sometimes be strenuous depending on the trek that day which is normally determined by weather and the movement of the gorillas in the forest but given the fact that it is a very well organized activity you have 99% chances of seeing the gorillas on your trek. The trek is guided by advanced trackers who monitor the mountain gorilla movements all day in the forest with this they will know where they nested for the last night and that’s where you start from looking for them. The 2 ranger guides will lead you all through the trek clearing trails, creating new trails and sharing with you information about the mountain gorillas and Bwindi forest as a whole . After the trek you will retrieve back to the starting point to pick your certificates as a sign of successful tracking of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

Lodging: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/ Four Gorillas Lodge

After breakfast you will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will arrive in the afternoon, you will have an en-route lunch and stopovers along the way for sightseeing. On arrival at the hotel you will be warmly welcomed and checked-in for relaxing, later you will go for an evening game drive to search for late grazers and after return to the Lodge for an overnight stay.

Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most popular and diverse conservation area with a variety of habitats ranging from grassland, acacia woodland, forests, wetlands and open water which sustains a wide range of mammals with the major being the Big 4 animals and a remarkable tally of bird life boosting to over 604 bird species.

Drive time: 4-5 hrs drive

Lodging: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Safari Lodge

After your breakfast you will drive to Kasenyi plains for a morning game drive search for early bird wildlife. Some of the animals you will see include the elephants, large herds of buffalos, leopards, lions, bushbucks, kobs, antelopes, bushbucks and many more.

The morning game drive will take you approximately 2-3 hours and then after you will drive to Mweya peninsula for hot lunch, relax and go for an afternoon boat cruise safari on Kazinga Channel, this boat ride is something worth it and considered as a highlight of your safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will have a chance to see various wildlife as they enjoy the shores of the channel, hippos enjoying the swim and various bird species. After the cruise you will return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and an overnight stay.

Lodging: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Safari Lodge

On this day, you will have a morning game drive through the Mweya Peninsula with all your belongings in the Car. After the 3 hour game drive, you will continue with the Journey back to Kigali. Instead of the game drive, you can instead visit Katwe Salt Lakes after which you will drive to Kibale National Park with a stopover for lunch en-route. On influx you will have a nature walk through the Bigodi Swamp where you will enjoy the awesome sightseeing of the resident monkeys and birds.

Kibale Forest National park is home to 13 species of primates and over 335 bird species making it a popular destination for birders and primates lovers.

Drive time: 1-2 hrs. drive

Dinner and overnight at Chimpanzee guest house/ Turaco tree tops

Subsequently you will have an early breakfast after which you will be guided to Kanyanchu head offices for a briefing about the track that you will be carrying out in a couple of hours. From there you will start the Chimpanzee tracking but that is not the only species you will be seeing on that day, you will be able to see 12 other different primate species like vervet monkeys, gray cheeked mangabeys and baboons.

Dinner and an overnight stay will be at Chimpanzee guest house/ Turaco tree tops.

In the early morning after breakfast, you will drive back to Kampala/Entebbe to end the tour.

Your driver guide will either drop you at a hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or transfer you to the Airport for your flight back home to end your 7 Days Best Gorilla Tour in Uganda . Book this trip now