6 Days Gorilla and Wildlife Tour

Day 1: HEAD TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
Get up early in the morning and a safari guide from EXPERT GUIDES ADVENTURE will pick you from your overnight hotel. You will drive westwards to Queen Elizabeth National Park. At times this park is referred to as a biosphere reserve because of the variety of animals and plants that it habours. It is situated at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains, encompassing over 200 sq km of Rift Valley Savanna, interspersed with sections of forest and crater lakes thus a thought for a safari. The time you get to the park, you will carry out a game drive where you may get the chance of seeing elephants, warthogs, waterbucks, bush bucks the list is endless. Dinner and overnight at:

Luxury accommodation: Mweya safari lodge/Jacana lodge
Mid range accommodation: Hippo Hill camp/King fisher camp/Ihamba Lodge
Budget accommodation: Mweya Hostels/Simba safari camp/ Ishasha wilderness Camp

Day 2: GAME DRIVE AND CHIMPANZEE TRACKING IN KYAMBURA GORGE
Rise up early in the morning and head for a game drive. As you drive through the northern part of the Kazinga channel. The network of tracks enables you to find elephants, lions, antelopes, giant forest hogs, waterbucks and others. You may get the chance to see wild animals like lions, Uganda Kobs, elephants, spotted hyenas and leopards plus many others. Having enjoyed your lunch, head for an afternoon chimpanzee tracking in the Kyambura gorge. During your trek, search for man’s closest cousins (the chimpanzees) as they feed there young ones, you may get the chance of seeing others playing from the tree branches. Come back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: GAME DRIVE AND TRANSFER TO BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST
Wake up early in the morning for breakfast, prepare to depart Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will go through the Ishasha sector of the park which is famous for habouring the tree climbing lions. You may also get to see other animals that you might have missed during the previous drives. Remember this park is famous for its richness in biodiversity. It is estimated to host approximately 68 different species of mammals like waterbucks, jackals, Buffalo, Eland, leopard, elephants, to mention but a few. The five lakes within the park attract crocodiles, hippos, and a variety of water birds, while the fringing swamps hide secretive papyrus specialists, like the sitatunga antelope and red, black and yellow papyrus Gonalek. After this additional fun carry on to Bwindi Forest and on arrival relax while preparing for the next day. Dinner and overnight at:
Budget accommodation: Buhoma Community bandas or Bwindi View bandas or Nkuringo campsite tents or Virunga Hotel or Nkuringo safari centre
Moderate accommodation: Lake Kitandara camp or Nkuringo camp site or Wagtail Eco lodge or similar
LuxuryUpmarket accommodation: Buhoma lodge or Engagi lodge or Gorilla Resort camp or Traveler’s rest camp or Silver back lodge
Luxury accommodation: Gorilla Forest Camp or Clouds Lodge or Gahinga Volcanoes Lodge, or Volcanoes Bwindi safari Lodge
Day 4: GORILLA TREKKING
After your hearty breakfast early in the morning, move to the ranger station with your packed lunch and tracking gears. The ranger guide will brief you about how to behave in the presence of the gentle eyed mountain gorillas. Move into the park to begin the memorable search in the gorilla sanctuary. Have fun in the beautiful prehistoric forest and feel its freshness. This forest is always wet, moist and it may rain at any time of the day therefore you need to wear warm water proof clothes. Remember to wear long trousers because there are beetles that may sting you. The time to take meet the gorillas is not known because of the movement of the gorillas as they look for there food. Also during your search, you may have the chance of seeing other primates that live in the forest like the, black-and-white colobus monkey, red tail monkey and chimpanzee. The moment you meet the brown eyed, calm gorillas you may forget the fatigue you have because it is a memorable and exciting encounter. Stay with them for an hour watching and following the gorillas. Take there photo graphs however you need a sound proof camera. In case you are not so tied, you will have the chance of participating in the community walk to the Batwa land. Enjoy your dinner and overnight at your budgeted accommodation.
Day 5: DRIVE FROM BWINDI TO LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK
After that interesting gorilla tacking expedition, rise up early in the morning and drive to Lake Mburo National Park. View the undulating Kisoro hills on the way. Have your fun while taking your lunch and head to the park for a game drive. This park is uniquely known for being the habitat to the burchell Zebras, statungas, impalas gigantic eland antelopes the list is endless. You should remember that this park is also the only one of its king in Uganda that has a big lake midst it. You can also carry out a walking safari in this park because it is proved to have no predators/ man eaters. The animals cannot be exhausted because of time. Dinner and over night at;
Luxury accommodation: Mihingo Lodge/ Mantana tented camp
Mid range accommodation: Arcadia cottages
Budget accommodation: Rwonyo Bandas/ UWA tents
Day 6: GAME DRIVE ENROUTE AND RETURN TO KAMPALA
Following this interesting tour, rise up early in the morning, enjoy your breakfast and carry on to Kampala for your home bound flight.