6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari

Arrive Entebbe and transfer to Kibale Forest NP. This park is popular for its primate’s population like the chimpanzees, colobus monkeys, red cheeked monkeys and red tailed monkeys. Proceed to Queen Elizabeth NP and expect big game sighting and the boat trip on the Kazinga Channel.

Your next stop will be Bwindi Impenetrable NP for the ultimate gorilla trekking experience. Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation and sightseeing. Return to Entebbe for your flight out to end your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

Hopefully, your flight is scheduled for an early (not past noon) landing in Entebbe. Your safari will start from the Entebbe International Airport where you will be received by the assigned driver/guide and depart for Kibale Forest NP on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

The park is popular for its primate’s population like the chimpanzees, colobus monkeys and red tailed monkeys. On your chimpanzee trails, these are regularly seen swinging in the forest trees and others feeding on the wild fruits.

You will arrive in the late afternoon (evening) and just check into your accommodation, relax and later enjoy your dinner plus the overnight stay (awaiting the next day’s activity).

Lodge: Isunga Lodge

Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner

Have breakfast and head to the rangers’ point where you will receive some briefing on the dos and don’ts during chimp trekking. Thereafter, you will proceed to trek the chimps in the Kibale Forest on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

An experienced ranger guide will take you chimp tracking and you will be marveled by the sights of primates here. Once you locate the chimpanzees, you will have a full hour with them.

You will return to the lodge for lunch after which you will head out for Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will arrive in time for your dinner and overnight at the booked accommodation.

Lodge: Marafiki Safari Lodge

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Be up early and have your breakfast. Proceed for a morning game drive in the park during which you will see Lions, Elephants, Leopard (though a rare sighting), Cape bushbuck, Cape Buffalos, Defassa Waterbucks, Giant Forest Hogs, Uganda kob among others. Return to your accommodation for some rest time and then lunch on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari. 

In the afternoon you will go for a 2-hour boat trip on the Kazinga Channel which connects Lakes: George and Edward and you will surely be fascinated by the concentrations of giant hippos, elephants and crocodiles among others.

You will also see many varieties of birds at the water shores. You will have dinner and overnight at your accommodation.

Lodge: Marafiki Safari Lodge

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Have breakfast then set off for Bwindi Impenetrable NP through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park famously known for its resident tree-climbing lions.

The chance of spotting these lions is about 70% though sometimes they are really hard to spot (most especially when they’re down in the grassland looking for prey). Hoping you get the chance to spot them, the sight will be spectacular!

Continue to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

Bwindi is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda, harboring an estimated 400 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population, including several habituated groups which can be tracked.

With a strenuous day ahead, you will do less on arrival but just check in your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the next day.

Lodge: Mahogany Springs Lodge

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After an early breakfast and a briefing by a ranger guide, you will enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular!

The area offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long savored.

Return to your lodge. Have your lunch and thereafter check out for a transfer to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of (2,200 – 2,478m) but it’s the 29 islands of various shapes and sizes scattered across the water that make it most magical — you could admire them all day.

Lodge: Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Have a relaxed breakfast at the accommodation with spectacular view of the Bunyonyi little islands just right in front of you and thereafter embark on your return journey to Entebbe Airport on your 6-Day Gorillas Trekking, Chimps & Lake Bunyonyi Safari.

Expect en route stopovers in Mbarara town for lunch and the Uganda Equator line mark in Kayabwe for some memorable photos and maybe buying some art pieces of interest.

Proceed with the journey arriving late afternoon/evening for drop off at the airport. 

Meal plan: Breakfast & Lunch