Sample 10 night itinerary, privately-guided including gorilla trekking
 

 

 

Fly overnight from London to Entebbe  Drive to Lake Mburo National Park Overnight at Mantana’s Luxury Tented Camp Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Gorilla Forest Camp for 2 nights Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park  Mweya Safari Lodge for 2 nights  Drive to Kabali National Park  Overnight at Ndali Lodge Drive on to Semliki Wildlife Reserve Semliki Safari Lodge for 2 nights  Drive back to Kampala and overnight at Emin Pasha Hotel  Return to Entebbe and fly back to London

From £2,913 per person sharing

Your adventure begins immediately when your guide meets you at the airport and then drives you through Uganda’s rolling green hills to the charming Lake Mburu National Park, an extension of the Tanzania plains with herds of zebra, impala, eland and other ungulates.  A first night under canvas awaits you at MANTANA'S LUXURY TENTED CAMP before you head to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, best known as the home of the mountain gorilla.

The base for the gorilla trek will be the luxurious GORILLA FOREST CAMP where your spacious tented room has  a large bathroom and a verandah with views of the forest.

The trek to find the gorillas normally takes about two hours and does require a degree of fitness due to fairly steep, muddy paths.  Afterwards, you will be rewarded with a candlelit bath, either in your own room or outside, amazingly hidden away in the forest, to the sounds of nocturnal birds and the monkeys who pass high up in the trees.

Credit: Marcus Wilson-Smith

Drive north to Queen Elizabeth Park where you will spend the next two nights at MWEYA SAFARI LODGE, with spectacular views over the famous Kazinga Channel with its large hippo population.
 

Credit: Marcus Wilson-SmithThis park owes its great variety of game to the diverse ecosystems, and there is the possibility of seeing a tree-climbing lion draped from a low-limbed fig tree.  You can trek to find chimpanzees, take a boat trip along the channel and visit the huge cave which is home to bats and a python.

Credit: Marcus Wilson-SmithA scenic drive out of the park to Kibali travelling past the Rwenzoris, the Mountains of the Moon, will bring you to NDALI LODGE, overlooking a small lake.  Spend a relaxing evening here before a walk in the forest the next day to see a variety of primates.

Credit: Marcus Wilson-SmithContinue on though the Rift Valley to the Semliki Wildlife Reserve where, in a private concession area, is the beautiful SEMLIKI SAFARI LODGE.  In this area there is prolific birdlife with a good chance of seeing the rare shoebill stork as well as finding chimpanzees. Nearby Lake Albert also offers very exciting fishing for both expert and novice anglers.

You then take a scenic drive to Kampala leaving enough time to visit the Theatre Craft Market to buy souvenirs and local crafts.  Overnight at the new boutique EMIN PASHA HOTEL before travelling home the next day.
 
 

An itinerary could also include Murchison Falls National Park, the largest game park in the country, which boasts forest, swamp and open grasslands as well as the narrow cleft through which the Victoria Nile forces its course and spectacularly cascades down.  In the remote north of the country, Kidepo National Park is an area of outstanding panoramic scenery with a good variety of game and over 200 species of birds.

 

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