11 Days grand big five safari
This grand safari takes you to 5 of Uganda’s best National Parks. These include for Lake Mburo National Park, Bwindi Forest Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kibale Forest National Park & Murchison Falls National Park. Enjoy chimpanzee and gorilla tracking, exciting wildlife sights featuring game drives through different parks. Boat rides on different water sources for aquatic views. Enjoy break taking nature sceneries including waterfalls. Also engage in community and nature walks. Do not miss activities like hiking and canoeing.
- Wildlife
- Gorilla and chimp trekking
- Game drives
- Kazinga channel launch cruise
- Murchison top of the falls
- Community/nature walks
- Birding, nature walks and cultural encouters
- Top of the falls hike
- Ziwa rhino sanctuary visit
Itinerary
Itinerary summary
- Day 1: Arrival
- Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park.
- Day 3: Nature walk at Lake Mburo – Transfer to Bwindi Forest Park.
- Day 4: Gorilla tracking and Cultural walk in Bwindi Forest Park.
- Day 5: Transfer and Game drive at Queen Elizabeth national park.
- Day 6: Game drive and launch cruise in Queen Elizabeth NP.
- Day 7: Transfer to Kibaale for Chimp trekking
- Day 8: Chimp trekking in Kibale forest national park
- Day 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls National park.
- Day 10: Game Drive and Launch cruise in Murchison Park.
- Day 11: Transfer to Kampala
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One of our company representatives will pick you from Entebbe International Airport and transfer you to your place of accommodation. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………. /Midrange: ……… ………..
Transfer time: 45 mins
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After breakfast, our company guide/driver will pick and brief you about the tour. Then embark on a journey to the west with a brief stopover at the equator for a coffee and craft shopping. Continue to the park through Nshara gate, check in and have lunch at a lodge. After lunch, around 2:30 PM, we shall take a boat on Lake Mburo for close range views of hippos and buffaloes and more. In the evening, we shall continue this adventure with a game drive for wildlife, look out for elands, warthogs, buffaloes, zebras, bush bucks, lions, leopards, giraffes and more. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mihingo Lodge /Midrange: Arcadia Cottages /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Hippopotamus – Lake Mburo
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Have an early morning breakfast and take a morning game walk. This is the major highlight of the trip because Lake Mburo happens to be the only national park where you can have a guided nature walk, it’s an experience not to miss. On this 2 hours walk, get the opportunity to spot wildlife like many bird species, hyenas and hippos as they return to the lake. After the nature walk, check out of the lodge and depart for Bwindi National park with lunch enroute. Arrive, check in at the hotel and relax from the journey. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………….. /Midrange: …………….. /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 8 hours
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After an early breakfast, we head to the Uganda Wildlife Authority headquarters at Buhoma. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to the largest number of habituated mountain gorilla families. After a short briefing by the guides, we proceed through the dense forest to track these endangered animals depending on where they built their nest the previous night. Tracking can take between 1 and 3 hours. For conservation purposes, time allowed with these gentle, great apes Gorillas is 1 hour. For many visitors, this is the wildlife highlight of their trip. Enjoy the beauty and freshness of the forest, home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas. After lunch, we shall go for a community/cultural walk in the Batwa people, enjoy activities like cultural dances, farming, crafts making, black smiths and meet traditional healers. Birding and Nature walks are (optional) activities. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………….. /Midrange: …………….. /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 8 hours
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Gorilla Carrying Baby On Its Back – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
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After breakfast, check out of the lodge and proceed north to the endowed Queen Elizabeth National Park. You could possibly sight tree climbing lions on this drive. Arrive just in time for lunch and check in at the lodge. After lunch, we head for an evening game drive in the Mweya peninsular to view the park’s diverse eco-system and abundant wildlife. Enjoy sights of numerous wild animals like the lions, antelopes, Uganda Kobs, hyenas, elephants, topis, buffaloes and much more. We could possibly visit Lake Katwe town to check out salt mining activities and the attractively displayed crater lakes. Later return to the lodge. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mweya Safari Lodge / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ………………
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Have an early morning game drive to the Uganda Kobs’ mating grounds and spectacular sights of tree climbing Lions, Elephants, Uganda Kobs, Buffaloes, Warthogs, topis and Bushbucks and much more. Early morning game drives are such a perfect time to spot nocturnal animals before they return to their hide outs. The end of this drive leads back to the lodge for relaxation and refreshment.
After lunch, we will then hope onto a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel at 3.00 pm. Kazinga channel is a natural strip that connects Lake Albert to Lake George. On the cruise abundant bird species are sighted and perhaps the highest concentration of hippos, crocodiles, elephants and more. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mweya Safari Lodge / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 8 hours
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Buffalo
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At 7: 00 am after breakfast, we depart about 8:00 am to Kibale forest National Park through the foothills of Mt.Rwenzori ranges. We will arrive just time for lunch, check-in at the lodge. Kibale National Park. Kibale forest national Park is home to the highest concentration of primates in East Africa. Currently, this park offers the best chimpanzee trekking expeditions in Uganda. After lunch, you can choose to rest and prepare for chimp trekking the next day or take a range of (optional- extra charges) activities like Hiking/Nature walks, birding and cultural encounters, in the Kayanchu/Magombe wetlands. Joined by a local guide, enjoy the fresh vegetation and bird species. Income from this activity is invested in education, health, sanitation and improving the livelihood of local residents. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ……………………. / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 6 hours
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After an early breakfast, report for briefing at the park headquarters at 8:00hrs. Thereafter, we set off for chimp trekking in Kanyanchu for approximately 2 to 5 hours depending on where the chimpanzees have decided to habit. Look out for more primates like the olive baboons, the rare L’Hoest’s, golden monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey, colubus red, blue, black, white monkeys and also a variety of birds, forest elephants and giant hogs.
In the afternoon, have lunch and go for a guided nature walk to the Bigodi swamps. Enjoy birdwatching, butterfly viewing, wild plants and colourful flowers. Birds sighted here include: Joyful and Cabanis Greenbuls, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Toro Olive and Cameroon Sombre Greenbuls, Green Twinspot, Brown and more. Note that this visit enables tourists to give back to the community yet enjoy the nature offered by the swamp. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ……………………. / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 8 hours
Chimpanzee Family – Kibale National Park
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Have early breakfast and take a scenic drive through the countryside and rugged villages. We will make some stopovers to stretch with lunch enroute. Arrive in Murchison falls National Park and inside the park, we will visit the Top of the Falls, enjoy a spectacular view of the mighty Nile being forced in a seven meter crevice to thunder 45 meters below in a series of cascades. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Paraa Safari Lodge / Midrange: …………………… / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Murchison Falls Water Falls
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After an early breakfast at 6:00am. We shall go for a morning game drive that will leave you thrilled with amazing savannah plains and wildlife species such as warthogs, bushbuck, Defassa waterbuck, Bohor reedbuck, Oribis, Warthog, elephants, Uganda kob, Jackson’s hartebeest, buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, lions, leopards, giraffes, hyenas, among others. Early morning is the perfect time to spot the early risers before they return to their hideouts.
At 11: 30 am return to the lodge for lunch, relax and head out for launch cruise at 3:00 pm to the base of the Falls. On this cruise, watch out for hippos, crocodiles, hippos and breathtaking birdlife such as the African Spoonbill, Red-throated Bee eaters, Wire-tailed Swallow, White-crowned Plover, Rock Pratincole and Pel’s Fishing Owl. At the base of the Falls, (optional activity) you can take a 45-minute hike to the Top of the Falls for splendid views of Murchison and Uhuru Falls. Your driver guide will be waiting at the Top of the Falls to drive you back to the lodge Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Paraa Safari Lodge /Midrange: ………………… /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Giant Elephant – Murchison Falls N.P
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After breakfast at approximately 9:00AM, check out of the lodge but before we depart for Kampala, you choose from a range of (optional activities – extra charges) like a nature walk in Kaniyo Pabidi, home to several families and also many bird species like Blue-breasted, the white thighed hornbill, purels illadopis, the chocolate backed Kingfisher and also monkeys. Alternatively, stop over at Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary, the proud home reserve of Uganda’s only wild rhinos. After these activities, we finally depart for Kampala or Entebbe airport. The tour will end when our driver returns you to your drop-off point.
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King Fisher
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COST OF THE TOUR
- 4 Game drives
- 2 Nature/community walks
- 2 Launch cruise
- Gorilla tracking and chimp trekking permits
- Park entrance fees
- Full-time English-speaking driver guide
- 4WD transport and fuel for whole trip
- 10 nights’ accommodation with meal plan as stated
- Drinking water throughout the trip
- All activities and meals as stated in the itinerary (except where it says optional)
- Any optional activities and meals not included in the itinerary
- Accommodation for the night after the trip
- Souvenirs and tips
- Personal expenses and drinks
- Air fares and visa fees
- Personal insurance
- Phone and laundry bills
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NOTE: GORILLA TREKKING IS UGANDA’S MOSTLY SOUGHT AFTER TOURIST ACTIVITY; IT’S THEREFORE ADVISABLE THAT CLIENTS OBTAIN THEIR GORILLA PERMITS IN ADVANCE BEFORE THE GORILLA TREKKING DATE.
- Wildlife
- Gorilla and chimp trekking
- Game drives
- Kazinga channel launch cruise
- Murchison top of the falls
- Community/nature walks
- Birding, nature walks and cultural encouters
- Top of the falls hike
- Ziwa rhino sanctuary visit
Itinerary summary
- Day 1: Arrival
- Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park.
- Day 3: Nature walk at Lake Mburo – Transfer to Bwindi Forest Park.
- Day 4: Gorilla tracking and Cultural walk in Bwindi Forest Park.
- Day 5: Transfer and Game drive at Queen Elizabeth national park.
- Day 6: Game drive and launch cruise in Queen Elizabeth NP.
- Day 7: Transfer to Kibaale for Chimp trekking
- Day 8: Chimp trekking in Kibale forest national park
- Day 9: Transfer to Murchison Falls National park.
- Day 10: Game Drive and Launch cruise in Murchison Park.
- Day 11: Transfer to Kampala
One of our company representatives will pick you from Entebbe International Airport and transfer you to your place of accommodation. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………. /Midrange: ……… ………..
Transfer time: 45 mins
******
After breakfast, our company guide/driver will pick and brief you about the tour. Then embark on a journey to the west with a brief stopover at the equator for a coffee and craft shopping. Continue to the park through Nshara gate, check in and have lunch at a lodge. After lunch, around 2:30 PM, we shall take a boat on Lake Mburo for close range views of hippos and buffaloes and more. In the evening, we shall continue this adventure with a game drive for wildlife, look out for elands, warthogs, buffaloes, zebras, bush bucks, lions, leopards, giraffes and more. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mihingo Lodge /Midrange: Arcadia Cottages /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Hippopotamus – Lake Mburo
******
Have an early morning breakfast and take a morning game walk. This is the major highlight of the trip because Lake Mburo happens to be the only national park where you can have a guided nature walk, it’s an experience not to miss. On this 2 hours walk, get the opportunity to spot wildlife like many bird species, hyenas and hippos as they return to the lake. After the nature walk, check out of the lodge and depart for Bwindi National park with lunch enroute. Arrive, check in at the hotel and relax from the journey. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………….. /Midrange: …………….. /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 8 hours
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After an early breakfast, we head to the Uganda Wildlife Authority headquarters at Buhoma. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to the largest number of habituated mountain gorilla families. After a short briefing by the guides, we proceed through the dense forest to track these endangered animals depending on where they built their nest the previous night. Tracking can take between 1 and 3 hours. For conservation purposes, time allowed with these gentle, great apes Gorillas is 1 hour. For many visitors, this is the wildlife highlight of their trip. Enjoy the beauty and freshness of the forest, home to more than half of the world’s mountain gorillas. After lunch, we shall go for a community/cultural walk in the Batwa people, enjoy activities like cultural dances, farming, crafts making, black smiths and meet traditional healers. Birding and Nature walks are (optional) activities. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ………….. /Midrange: …………….. /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 8 hours
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Gorilla Carrying Baby On Its Back – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
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After breakfast, check out of the lodge and proceed north to the endowed Queen Elizabeth National Park. You could possibly sight tree climbing lions on this drive. Arrive just in time for lunch and check in at the lodge. After lunch, we head for an evening game drive in the Mweya peninsular to view the park’s diverse eco-system and abundant wildlife. Enjoy sights of numerous wild animals like the lions, antelopes, Uganda Kobs, hyenas, elephants, topis, buffaloes and much more. We could possibly visit Lake Katwe town to check out salt mining activities and the attractively displayed crater lakes. Later return to the lodge. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mweya Safari Lodge / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ………………
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Have an early morning game drive to the Uganda Kobs’ mating grounds and spectacular sights of tree climbing Lions, Elephants, Uganda Kobs, Buffaloes, Warthogs, topis and Bushbucks and much more. Early morning game drives are such a perfect time to spot nocturnal animals before they return to their hide outs. The end of this drive leads back to the lodge for relaxation and refreshment.
After lunch, we will then hope onto a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel at 3.00 pm. Kazinga channel is a natural strip that connects Lake Albert to Lake George. On the cruise abundant bird species are sighted and perhaps the highest concentration of hippos, crocodiles, elephants and more. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Mweya Safari Lodge / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 8 hours
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Buffalo
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At 7: 00 am after breakfast, we depart about 8:00 am to Kibale forest National Park through the foothills of Mt.Rwenzori ranges. We will arrive just time for lunch, check-in at the lodge. Kibale National Park. Kibale forest national Park is home to the highest concentration of primates in East Africa. Currently, this park offers the best chimpanzee trekking expeditions in Uganda. After lunch, you can choose to rest and prepare for chimp trekking the next day or take a range of (optional- extra charges) activities like Hiking/Nature walks, birding and cultural encounters, in the Kayanchu/Magombe wetlands. Joined by a local guide, enjoy the fresh vegetation and bird species. Income from this activity is invested in education, health, sanitation and improving the livelihood of local residents. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ……………………. / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 6 hours
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After an early breakfast, report for briefing at the park headquarters at 8:00hrs. Thereafter, we set off for chimp trekking in Kanyanchu for approximately 2 to 5 hours depending on where the chimpanzees have decided to habit. Look out for more primates like the olive baboons, the rare L’Hoest’s, golden monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey, colubus red, blue, black, white monkeys and also a variety of birds, forest elephants and giant hogs.
In the afternoon, have lunch and go for a guided nature walk to the Bigodi swamps. Enjoy birdwatching, butterfly viewing, wild plants and colourful flowers. Birds sighted here include: Joyful and Cabanis Greenbuls, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Toro Olive and Cameroon Sombre Greenbuls, Green Twinspot, Brown and more. Note that this visit enables tourists to give back to the community yet enjoy the nature offered by the swamp. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: ……………………. / Midrange: ……………………. / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 8 hours
Chimpanzee Family – Kibale National Park
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Have early breakfast and take a scenic drive through the countryside and rugged villages. We will make some stopovers to stretch with lunch enroute. Arrive in Murchison falls National Park and inside the park, we will visit the Top of the Falls, enjoy a spectacular view of the mighty Nile being forced in a seven meter crevice to thunder 45 meters below in a series of cascades. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Paraa Safari Lodge / Midrange: …………………… / Budget range: ……………….
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Murchison Falls Water Falls
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After an early breakfast at 6:00am. We shall go for a morning game drive that will leave you thrilled with amazing savannah plains and wildlife species such as warthogs, bushbuck, Defassa waterbuck, Bohor reedbuck, Oribis, Warthog, elephants, Uganda kob, Jackson’s hartebeest, buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, lions, leopards, giraffes, hyenas, among others. Early morning is the perfect time to spot the early risers before they return to their hideouts.
At 11: 30 am return to the lodge for lunch, relax and head out for launch cruise at 3:00 pm to the base of the Falls. On this cruise, watch out for hippos, crocodiles, hippos and breathtaking birdlife such as the African Spoonbill, Red-throated Bee eaters, Wire-tailed Swallow, White-crowned Plover, Rock Pratincole and Pel’s Fishing Owl. At the base of the Falls, (optional activity) you can take a 45-minute hike to the Top of the Falls for splendid views of Murchison and Uhuru Falls. Your driver guide will be waiting at the Top of the Falls to drive you back to the lodge Accommodation, dinner and overnight at: Top range: Paraa Safari Lodge /Midrange: ………………… /Budget range: ………..
Activity duration: 7 hours
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Giant Elephant – Murchison Falls N.P
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After breakfast at approximately 9:00AM, check out of the lodge but before we depart for Kampala, you choose from a range of (optional activities – extra charges) like a nature walk in Kaniyo Pabidi, home to several families and also many bird species like Blue-breasted, the white thighed hornbill, purels illadopis, the chocolate backed Kingfisher and also monkeys. Alternatively, stop over at Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary, the proud home reserve of Uganda’s only wild rhinos. After these activities, we finally depart for Kampala or Entebbe airport. The tour will end when our driver returns you to your drop-off point.
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King Fisher
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- 4 Game drives
- 2 Nature/community walks
- 2 Launch cruise
- Gorilla tracking and chimp trekking permits
- Park entrance fees
- Full-time English-speaking driver guide
- 4WD transport and fuel for whole trip
- 10 nights’ accommodation with meal plan as stated
- Drinking water throughout the trip
- All activities and meals as stated in the itinerary (except where it says optional)
- Any optional activities and meals not included in the itinerary
- Accommodation for the night after the trip
- Souvenirs and tips
- Personal expenses and drinks
- Air fares and visa fees
- Personal insurance
- Phone and laundry bills
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