Jinja & Wildlife

You will go to Jinja, a key town in Uganda where the Nile originates, after breakfast. Have a great day rafting on the Nile today. Return to your hotel and get ready for your trip the next day after spending a fun-filled day in Jinja.

Drive to the well-known Murchison Falls, where your experience starts; en route, pass via the Rhino Sanctuary, which is home to southern-white rhinos, and have a guided nature walk.

You will go on a morning game drive. This is a beautiful drive through savannah, Borassus Palm Forest, and grassland down to Lake Albert, where the Albert Nile flows north. Drive through the open African savanna in search of lions, leopards, hyenas, buffalo, elephants, and other wildlife. Later in the afternoon, you will take a boat ride up the Nile to Murchison Falls, which gives the park its name. Enjoy these breathtaking falls. The Nile squeezes through a 7-meter gap, and at the bottom live massive Nile crocodiles.

After breakfast, you’ll head to Kibale Forest National Park, a sizable protected area of rainforest home to many primates, including chimpanzees, grey-cheeked mangabeys, red-tailed monkeys, and red colobus monkeys. The “World’s Primate Capital” is another name for it.

You will go chimp tracking today, have a lovely day in the jungle, and return to the lodge in time for lunch. You will get the chance to take a guided tour through Bigodi Swamp later in the day. Around 137 different bird species call this marsh home, and it is also abundant in vegetation, including wild palm trees, polita figs, and the predominate papyrus.

Today you will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park by car. As you enter the park, you will have the opportunity to see a variety of wildlife.

Enjoy an early morning game drive and an afternoon boat ride on the Kazinga Channel. The park has one of the highest bio diversity ratings of any game park or reserve in the world, ranging from open Savannah to Rain Forest, dense Papyrus Swamps and Crater Lakes to the vastness of Lake Edward. This park contains over 100 mammal species, including Lions, Hippos, Buffaloes, Leopards, Spotted Hyenas, Elephants, and the elusive Giant Forest Hog.

Today you will travel to Bwindi National Park, which is home to Mountain Gorillas. The drive will take you through the Ishasha Sector, where you will be on the lookout for the famous Tree Climbing Lions.

In the morning, you will go for gorilla trekking and enjoy the experience of tracking the rare and endangered Mountain Gorilla. In the afternoon, you can visit a pygmy community and go on a community walk, or you can go for a nature walk in the forest.

Today you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park. As you enter the park, you will a game drive in search of wildlife.

You will drive back to Kampala or Entebbe concluding you safari.