5 Days Uganda Self Drive Gorilla Tour Safari, wildlife tour in Lake Mburo, and visit to Lake Bunyonyi
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Safari highlights
The 5 Day wildlife watching and gorilla trekking self-drive safari offers a great opportunity to explore the amazing Uganda wildlife in the Lake Mburo National Park and also stay closer to the endangered, hamble, and rare mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park which is home to half of the world’s total population of mountain gorillas.
Brief Itinerary
Day 1: Kampala – Lake Mburo National Park
Day 2: Lake Mburo – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Forest
Day 4: Bwindi Forest – Lake Bunyonyi
Day 5: Depart back to Kampala.
Detailed Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Kampala – Lake Mburo National Park
Entrance of Lake Mburo National Park – Uganda
After having your breakfast at the hotel in Kampala, the agent from Safari Car Rental Uganda Ltd will deliver the safari vehicle to you, do the paperwork, and then sign the car rental contract before you start your self-drive safari. Your safari will start with the transfer to the western part of the country to Lake Mburo National Park found 250km from Kampala that is something like a 3-4hrs drive; you will have an en-route stop at the Equator for photographs and continue to the park where you will have your lunch. In the afternoon after lunch, take an evening boat ride along Lake Mburo, the ride will reward you with the opportunity to see various water birds, for example, pelicans, black crake, heron, cormorant, fish eagle, and the rare shoebill. Other animals here incorporate crocodiles and hippos and many others. After the boat cruise, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options available here are; Arcadia Cottages or Mantana Tented Camps.
Day 2: Transfer Bwindi Forest Impenetrable Forest National Park
On the second day, you will have breakfast at the lodge and then go for a morning game drive in search of Wildlife in the part, and the common ones are zebra, impala, buffalo, topi, and eland as herbivores not to forget the rare leopards, hyenas, and jackals as predictors. After this adventurous drive, you will return to the lodge rest as you wait for lunch. After having lunch, you will prepare and leave Lake Mburo National Park and transfer Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park which is found approximately 300km from Lake Mburo National Park and it can take you something like 5-6 hours drive, dinner, and overnight will be at either Buhoma Community Bandas, Kitandara Camps, Buhoma Community Rest Camp or Gorilla Resort.
Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Mountain Gorilla Climbing a Tree in Bwindi Forest National Park
Wake up very early in the morning and prepare for today’s incredible experience, have breakfast, and drive to the national park headquarters with packed lunch for a briefing on the best way to act while with gorillas in the jungle. Tracking time goes between 2-9 hours depending on the movement of mountain gorillas in their search for food and shelter. The tracking goes through steep rocks, climbing and down through slippery and muddy jungle grounds, hence making it tiresome. However, the thrill of encountering these amazing apes erases the bad memories you experienced in trying to look for them in this thick jungle. You will stay with them for 1 hour for observation and photography and you will be free to ask the ranger any question and after one hour of watching these giant primates, you will descend back to your lodge for a rest.
If the evening is free when you still have some energy, you may go for an evening community walk in the nearby community of Batwa (Pygmies) where you will be entertained in some of the cultural dances by the local Batwa people. After you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Bwindi Forest – Lake Bunyonyi
Sunset at Lake Bunyonyi – Uganda
After having morning breakfast at your lodge, transfer to Lake Bunyonyi with loads of scenic views on the way. Lake Bunyonyi is popular for excellent bird viewing and boat cruise (Canoeing) to other beautiful Islands on the lake. All mills will be at Arcadia Cottages.
Day 5: Depart to Kampala.
After these great experiences, you will have to pack your bags and drive back to Kampala. Have your breakfast at the lodge and start your picnic drive through Kabale Town, Ntungamo, Mbarara with an en-route stop in Masaka town for lunch before you continue with your journey to Kampala, reaching there by late afternoon, do some last-minute shopping and continue to Entebbe International Airport for your departure flight in case it’s scheduled on that day or at the hotel. It will be you choose whether to bring the car our offices or you can tell us and we pick it anywhere you want either at your hotel or at the airport and that service is free of charge.
End of the Safari
