This gorilla safari takes you to Bwindi Forest National Park to track the mysterious mountain gorillas, spend an hour close to them, and watch their antics and complex social behaviors in Uganda’s last stronghold of almost half of the endangered mountain gorillas.
Hike across the rain forest jungle using one of the oldest walking trails on the continent. The guided walking safari adventure will put you right in the centre of pure wilderness for an authentic forest bath. An incredible array of wild animals and plants has lived there for thousands of years. If you’re fortunate, you will meet some prominent ones, like chimps, forest elephants, monkeys, birds, and butterflies.
Take a game drive on the northern tracks of Queen Elizabeth National Park and watch some of the Savannah game favourites like lion, elephant, buffalo, hyena, antelopes, and leopard. Get closer to the game animals like Hippos, Crocs, and Elephants; take a boat safari cruise on the Kazinga Channel.
The journey begins in Entebbe and flies you across south-western Uganda’s enchanting rugged landscape to a small town outside the park. From Kisoro town, you get down a village track walking through rural villages, terraced gardens on the mountain slopes, to the volcano lake for a canoeing experience with local fishermen in dug-out canoes.
You will go on gorilla trekking tours in the south of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, cross the impenetrable jungle to the north sector, meet the mountain gorillas again, dance with the Batwa forest people, meet with the local skills women, and drive north for a 3-day wildlife viewing adventure.
Queen Elizabeth National Park offers a kind of safari experience similar to private conservancies in Kenya or South Africa, but it’s larger and has animals for show. You could have the whole game track to yourself at one time. So, you will spend here 3 days searching for game and finding the time to lay back and breathe the African air.
Get chance to reach close to Africa safari’s big game players on an early morning or evening game drive and a boat safari on Kazinga Channel, famous for hosting the largest population of hippos.
While on a game drive on Kasenyi tracks, you will encounter animals like enormous herds of elephants and buffalo. You’ll also spot many interesting antelope species such as Uganda Kob, Topi, and bush buck. The giant forest hog is unusually easy to spot. Search around the Kasenyi tracks for the elusive leopard.
On the Kazinga Channel boat safari trip that will set off at 14:00, you’re able to catch sight of elephants, buffalo, water buck, Uganda Kob, and large hippo pods daily. Keep an eye open for the enormous water monitor lizard, which is common in the riverine scrub, as well as crocodiles. You’ll also see the giant forest hog, leopard, and lion. The odds of seeing predators and other nocturnal creatures coming to drink are highest in the late afternoon.
