Detailed Itinerary
Day1: Arrival and pick up
Upon your arrival, you will be picked up by one of our tour guides, who will transfer you to your hotel, where you will unwind, have dinner, and spend the night.
Meal plan: Dinner
Day2: Transfer to Murchison Falls NP and Evening drive
In the morning, after having breakfast, you will be transferred to Murchison Falls National Park, which is located approximately 5 hours away, to enjoy and take in the beautiful scenery along the roadside. Some of the attractions you should look forward to spotting during your transfer include forests, plantations, birds flying over, cattle grazing, plain fields, and buildings, to name a few. A lunch stopover will be made, and from there, you will continue with your journey with a second stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for the white rhino trekking activity, which will take about 1 to 3 hours. From there, you will head straight to Murchison Falls National Park, and upon arrival, you will check in at the lodge, have dinner, and sleep over.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 3; Morning game drive and Afternoon boat cruise
Wake up to an amazing African breakfast and then head to a guided morning game drive, which will take a bout 3 to 5 hours of riding in a 4x4 tourist vehicle along the different trails in the park while spotting several wildlife species all over the park. Some of the wildlife you should look forward to seeing or spotting in Murchison Falls National Park include elephants, antelopes, several bird species, baboons, warthogs, buffaloes, giraffes, and, if in luck, you will also be able to spot some cats (leopards and lions), to name a few. From the game drive, you head back to the lodge for lunch, after which you will proceed to an afternoon boat cruise, which will take approximately 4 to five hours of sailing on the Albertine Nile while spotting several attractions along the river banks and within the water. Some of these attractions include giraffes, buffaloes, hippos, crocodiles, antelopes, and birds, to name a few. You will also be able to witness the bottom of the strongest waterfall in the whole world (Murchison Falls). After the boat cruise, you will head back to the lodge for dinner, campfire, and rest up for the day.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day4: Transfer to Kibale National Park via flight
After enjoying the amazing breakfast prepared at the lodge, you will be transferred to the closest airstrip and fly to Kasese airstrip, where you will be picked up and transferred to Kibale National Park, which is about a 1- to 2-hour drive. Upon arrival, you will check in at the lodge, have lunch, and relax or head for a guided nature walk in the park. After returning to the lodge, you will have dinner and a campfire, then call it a day.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day5: Chimpanzee trekking and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth NP
Having enjoyed your breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for a briefing, where you will be told about the dos and don’ts of the chimpanzee trekking activity. After that, you will be divided into groups of not more than 8 people, each group will have its own game ranger and tour guide who are well experienced. The chimpanzee trekking activity will take approximately 2 to 6 hours of searching for or looking at chimpanzees in their natural habitats. Since you would have brought along your lunch from the lodge, you will be given a break to eat it and later continue with your quest of searching for chimpanzees. Upon finding a chimpanzee family, do not spend more than 1 hour in their presence. From there, you will head back to the lodge, check out, and get transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is approximately 12 to 160 kilometers, meaning that the transfer will take a bout 3 to 4 hours. Upon arrival, you will check in at the lodge, freshen up, have dinner, and call it a day.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 6: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise
On the 6th day after having breakfast, you will head for a morning game drive in the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, where you will be able to spot several attractions, including wildlife like antelopes, buffaloes, elephants, spotted hyenas, several birds, and, if in luck, since you're dealing with nature. You will be able to spot some cats like the lion or leopards, either resting, hunting their prey, or playing around. The game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park will take about 3 to 4 hours to witness the beauty around you. From the game drive, you will head back to the lodge for lunch, and later on, head for an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel, which connects both Lake Edward and Lake Gorge. The boat cruise will take approximately 2 to 3 hours of adventure on Kazinga Channel, witnessing several attractions along and within the water yo will be able to spot animals like hippos, crocodiles, elephants, antelopes, birds flying over, to name a few. Having enjoyed the cool breeze of Kazinga Channel, you will head back to the lodge, freshen up, have dinner, and then call it a day.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day7: Transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe
After having breakfast, you will be transferred back to either Kampala or Entebbe with several stopovers, including one at the equator, so that you can take in the beautiful scenery and take photos with beautiful backgrounds. You will also have an en route lunch along the way and continue later on with your transfer. Upon arrival at either Entebbe or Kampala, you will check in at the lodge, have dinner, and rest up for the night.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day8: Sheobill tracking and departure
Depending on your flight schedule and where you spent the night, you will wake up in the morning for breakfast and head for shoebill tracking at Mabamba Swamp. The Shoebill tracking on Mabamba Swamp takes about 3 to 5 hours of searching for the amazing dinosaur (shoebill bird)in the swamp. You will head for the racking along with your packed energy-giving snack because this activity needs a lot of patience and can take quite some time. After the activity, you will head for lunch back at the lodge, that is, if you had spent the night in Entebbe, but if you had spent the night in Kampala, you will have lunch elsewhere and later on head straight to Entebbe Airport for departure.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and lunch
