7 Days Small Group Adventure Holiday. Rafting, Wildlife and Gorillas

Our driver/guide will wait for you at Entebbe International Airport and welcome you to Uganda. You will then be transferred to your hotel for the night.

Your guide will also brief you on the details and expectations of your specific Small Group Adventure Safari such that everyone is well prepared and ready.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Dinner

Today you will go Rafting on the Nile and see a number of falls, also tour Jinja town depending on the time available. In the evening you will be transferred back to Kampala for your overnight stay.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, you drive for about 8-9 hours with a stop for lunch in the cozy town of Fort Portal then later continue to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is Uganda’s second-largest park and is located at the base of the majestic Rwenzori Mountain range, adjacent to Lake Edward and Lake George.

The park has prolific wildlife including Gazelle, Uganda Kob, Warthog, and Waterbuck. Lions are often sighted both in and around the entrance to the park.

Be prepared for huge numbers of hippos and elephants, and keep your eyes peeled for a leopard lazing in the sunshine. Watch wildlife at the waterhole from your own private verandah and fall asleep to the roaring of lions on the distant savannah.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, you will go for an early morning wildlife safari game drive in this park. With the massive Rwenzori Mountains as a backdrop, this provides excellent opportunities to see lions, leopards, giant forest hogs, cape buffalo, elephants, defassa waterbuck, Uganda Kobs, Topi, and bushbuck.

Queen Elizabeth National Park’s diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forests, rivers, swamps, lakes, and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife.

After lunch, you will go on a 2-3 hour boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel and into Lake Edward. This trip passes through possibly the highest concentration of hippos while other animals may be seen drinking at the water’s edge.

This launch cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching, and game viewing. The prolific bird life is colorful and stupendous with more than 600 different species.

You will be transferred back to your lodge after the boat trip.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After early morning breakfast, today we drive from Ishasha to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

This is a 4-7 hours journey passing through the “Switzerland of Africa” area known as the Kigezi Highlands, with its terraced hillside and winding roads to the Bwindi forest. We will have a stop-over on our journey in Kabale town for lunch.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Early morning after breakfast, get ready for an encounter with one of Bwindi’s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla. For most people, this is the absolute highlight of their tour in Uganda.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest boasts both Mountain Gorillas and Chimpanzees – the only forest in Africa which can make this. It also hosts five other species of primate, 113 species of mammal, over 200 butterflies, and 360 birds.

The Gorillas you will track belong to one of nine habituated family groups that can tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period every day. Your trek will be an exciting journey along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes, and bamboo before you eventually reach the Gorilla’s habitat.

En route, your guide will point out signs of previous Gorilla activity, including dung, nests, and chewed bamboo shoots. The time taken by Gorilla trekking can be as little as 2 hours to as much as 7 hours before one returns.

Once the Gorillas have been located, your group will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them. Coming face-to-face with a Mountain Gorilla is a truly humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Uganda’s very own Gorillas in the Mist.

In the Evening visit the community and interact with the local people.

Accommodation:

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

After breakfast, you continue your drive back(approx. 9 hrs) to Kampala or Entebbe (Airport). Of course, you stop at the equator, the best place for your souvenir shopping.

Your tourist driver/guide will bring you to your accommodation in Kampala/Entebbe or to Entebbe Airport (this is only possible if your flight leaves at midnight or later).

Accommodation: None. (Last day)

Meal plan: Breakfast & Lunch

This will mark the end of your 7-day Small Group Adventure Safari in Uganda.