10 Day Luxury Vacation in Uganda

10 Day Luxury Vacation in Uganda detailed itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe

Arrival in Entebbe as per your international flights and transfer to Hotel No.5.

If your flight arrives early you have the following optional activities to do while in Entebbe:
The Botanical Gardens for guided nature walk, Sunset Boat Cruise on Lake Victoria with the stop at the Equator line, the cruise comes with Cheese and Wine on board, canoe ride in Mabamba swamp in search of the endangered shoebill, or take a guided bicycle ride within Entebbe town and villages and the reptile village.

Accommodation and meals:
Hotel No.5
Bed & Breakfast

Day 2: Transfer to Jinja – Visit the source of the Nile.

Have an early breakfast and to start your 10 Day Luxury Vacation in Uganda with a transfer to Eastern Uganda by road via Mabira forest – stop by for a nature walk in the forest and later proceed to Jinja town. You’ll visit the Ghandi Statue and learn the history of this famous Industrious town, after lunch, proceed for boat trip to the source of the Nile as its springs out of Lake Victoria on its Journey to the Mediterranean Sea. After the boat trip you will transfer to the lodge.

Please note: Boat transfer from the mainland to the island (last boat transfer is at 1730 hrs).

Accommodation and meals:
Wild Waters Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: Rafting The Nile Waters in Jinja

Early morning Breakfast and transfer to meet your fellow rafters and guides. After a quick briefing, you will be fitted out with life jackets and helmets before heading off to the starting point of the days rafting. Experience grade 5 White Water rafting, provided by the rafting company as you draft away on the thunderous Nile.

Accommodation and meals:
Wild Waters Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: Transfer from Jinja to Entebbe

Relaxed morning at the Wild Waters lodge till mid-morning and transfer to Entebbe via Kayunga District, through Kampala suburbs onward to Entebbe.

Accommodation and Meals:
Hotel No.5
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: Entebbe – Kibale Forest National Park

Start the second part of 10 Day Luxury Vacation in Uganda with a transfer to Western Uganda where most of Uganda safari adventure happens. You’ll take a local scheduled flight from Entebbe to Kasese airstrip, an hours drive outside Kibale Forest. The driver will pick you and transfer you to Kibale Forest National Park.

The lively town of Fortportal is the base for activities around Kibale Forest National Park. The national park offers one of the most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda, 70 mammal species and 13 primate species.

Check into your lodge, after your lunch and a brief siesta you will take an afternoon nature walk through Bigodi Swamp and catch sight of some unique native wildlife and birdlife.

Accommodation & meals:
Primate Lodge/Chimpundu Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 6: Chimpanzee Habituation Experience in Kibale Forest

Here’s your chance to take on your first Honeymoon Special Vacation jungle challenge of finding the excited chimpanzee troop and keeping up with their daily natural habits. Can you take it? It’s really exciting and energy drenching by worth every moment.

Wake early morning at 6:30 Am and transfer to the trailhead (5 minutes walk) where you’ll be briefed on the chimpanzee habituation experience and then proceed into the jungle with an armed ranger, your personal guide, doctors and researchers; you will spend the full day with Chimpanzees following them around. While tracking, you will be able to spot different animal species like the Red Colobus, Black and white Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey, and L’Hoest’s Monkey among others and different bird species.

Accommodation & meals:
Primate Lodge/Chimpundu Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7: Local Flight to Kisoro

This part of the honeymoon special vacation flies you over western Uganda’s beautiful plains, mountain ranges and emerald tops of rainforest. A sight you’ll live to treasure. You set off after an early breakfast, transfer to Kasese Airstrip for the local chartered flight to Kisoro across central Uganda and offering a view of the country beautiful landscape of mountains, hills, cultivated terraces, tropical rainforest, bamboo forests and the majestic chain of the Virunga Volcanoes.

Upon arrival meeting with the vehicle then transfer to Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge.

Accommodation & meals:
Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 8: Mountain Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

GORILLA TRACKING
this is the highlight of this Africa safari where you get to spend precious (once-in-a-lifetime) moments with the gentle beasts of the mountain rainforest, a family of mountain gorillas living their dream in the jungle.

After breakfast, at around 7:45 am, with packed lunch and drinking water, you will be transfer to the National Park Head Quarters for the briefing on the dos and the don’ts tracking and with the gorillas. You then continue to the forest for the start of the actual gorilla tracking.

The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular. The area offers a dramatic, steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary as per the movements of these great primates. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long savored. Many find it to be a rare and moving opportunity. The tracking can take place at either Nkuringo or at Rushaga sector(1 hr drive from Nkuringo), as per the gorilla permits obtained.

Upon return, relax at the lodge and, for those who may like; at 5.00 pm either stroll through the community center or drive up to the “Top of the World” – the name given to the football field, high up in Nkuringo which offers amazing views over the peaks and forests around Nkuringo. A great way to stretch your legs after the gorilla tracking and to enjoy a sundowner.

Accommodation & meals:
Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 9: Optional Second Gorilla Trek or Buniga Forests (encounter with the Batwa)

If you choose a second gorilla trek today, you will be taken to another section, where you can trek a different group of gorillas from those that you saw yesterday.

Your gorilla tracking activity will very likely require you proceed some kilometers from the Rushaga visitors reception to the trail head where you will commence the tracking activity. Your time in the forest cannot be pre-determined as every day is different from that previous.

Or you can instead transfer to Buniga Forest Trail Walk, an informative project run by USAID and the local Batwa community. The Batwa tribe was forced to leave their home in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in 1991 when it was declared a UNESCO Heritage site for gorillas only. They had been living in the forest as nomadic hunter-gatherers for millennia, in perfect balance with the flora and fauna around. Moving out and suddenly living in communities with a completely different way of life has proven to be a huge challenge. They now survive as best as they can and earn a living explaining their previous life in the forest and their rich heritage.

Accommodation & meals:
Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 10: AeroLink flight to Entebbe

Early breakfast and transfer to Kisoro Airstrip for your morning AeroLink flight to Entebbe. The flight arrival time in Entebbe at 11:30am, connect to the outbound flight to Nairobi.

Accommodation & meals:
No Accommodation
Breakfast