13 DAYS UGANDA EXPERIENCES FOR GORILLAS, CHIMPS

In this specially arranged "behind the scenes" experience, you will observe the animals’ behaviour and experience first hand how the keepers feed the lions, carry out health checks, or bring them back to their holding facilities. Have the luxury of a privileged few and visit the food preparation areas, the pharmacy, the exhibits and much, much more. This way you can say that you have truly visited the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre

After breakfast, we will head out to the waterfront club jetty located on Lake Victoria to catch a boat to Ngamba Island 23kms from Entebbe town. At the island, you will be welcomed by your guide and check-in at an East African style Tented Camp on the island overlooking Lake Victoria with en-suite bathroom facilities and solar lighting.

Have breakfast at the Ngamba Restaurant after that we go direct to Transfer to Ziwa Rhinos Sanctuary

Rhino tracking, Ziwa Sanctuary After breakfast, you will go to meet the Rhinos, not just from a vehicle but up close – great opportunities for these fabulous animals – there is other wildlife to be found here, so keep your eyes open so you do not miss any and your guide will also point any other animals.Birders will find this a most fascinating place and best to keep the binoculars handy since an abundance of bird species is found

After breakfast head to the delta in search of birdlife and enjoy the game drive to look for lions, giraffes, herds of elephants, buffaloes, and many more. We will drive back to the lodge for lunch before taking an afternoon boat cruise to the foot of Murchison Falls. This boat trip along the Nile is often cited as being the highlight of a trip to Murchison since it allows you to get up-close and personal with the animals. Along this stretch of the river, there are reported to be around 4,000 hippos in addition to some enormous Nile crocodiles. The birdlife is stunning with brightly colored kingfishers and bee-eaters darting along the riverbanks.

Leave Murchison Falls National Park for Kibale Forest National Park via the Lake Albert escarpment, having a good view of the lake. Stopover at Kolping Hotel in Hoima for lunch and after a drive across the interesting river Nkusi (flowing from the southern end of Lake Albert, through the villages of Kagadi, joining Victoria Nile). Both rivers join Lake Kyoga and flow through the Murchison Falls continue to Lake Albert and north to the Mediterranean sea.

Chimp habituation experience, Kibale ForestToday we’ll accompany Kibale’s researchers in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to a “soft” habituation project with chimpanzees. You’ll learn to safely observe the chimps during their daily activities, so they get comfortable with human presence without changing their natural behaviors. You will be able to experience the chimp families as they wake up, hunt, patrol, play, fight, copulate and breastfeed.

We then drive to Queen Elizabeth. The game seen will depend on the season; the Kasenyi plains are good for lions and the Mweya peninsula for a variety of animals. Shift to Queen Elizabeth National Park this morning (about 3 hours driving). Leaving through Fort Portal town, you turn south and early this afternoon enter Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is dominated on its northern border by the snow-capped 16,000 foot Rwenzori Mountains - the famed "Mountains of the Moon".

See a different face of the park as we venture off-road with a research team to track lions and contribute to a valuable lion research project in the Ishasha Sector. The researchers' Land-cruiser is fitted with radio-collar-receiving equipment. You get a full briefing on the animals with the opportunity for as much lion photography as you can manage.

Tree climbing lion, UgandaAfter breakfast, we drive further south through stunning savannah grasslands as we head to the southern sector of the park – Ishasha. This is the best area to see the famous tree-climbing lions draped from the low hanging limbs of fig trees.

Mountain Gorilla habituation Experience (spending 4 hours with the gorillas) touched by gorilla habituation experienceTo many of our guests on a safari like this one, the gorilla habituation experience is the highlight of the vacation.

Golden Monkey Habituation Exercise in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, unwind at Lake Bunyonyi.After an early breakfast, set off for the national park for the Golden Monkey habituation experience which allows you up to 4 hours with the monkeys.


Return to Kampala - Entebbe (optional flights available to Entebbe) or to Kigali Airport Rwanda.Early breakfast before embarking on our return to Entebbe, driving down the 10 grassed and terraced escarpments of southwestern Uganda while taking in the breathtaking sights of the hills of the region dubbed ‘the little Switzerland of Africa’.