9 Days of Uganda Wildlife Safari and Mountain Gorillas

Day 1: Pick up from Entebbe airport to the hotel

Our staff will be waiting for you and ready to welcome you to another home away from your country. Mond safaris staff will drive you in a safari tour vehicle to the hotel for relaxation and overnight.

Accommodation options: 2 friends beach Hotel Entebbe

Meals plan: dinner

Day 2: Drive to Murchison Falls National park via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

Today’s journey will take you to Murchison Falls National Park. En route, you will visit Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will go for a guided rhino tracking on foot with an experienced ranger, which will give you a unique opportunity to view the rhinos from a close distance. On spotting them, you will spend an hour with the giants.

After a successful tracking, you will have a hot lunch at the sanctuary then proceed to Murchison Falls National Park.

You will visit the top of the falls from where you have a perfect view of the extraordinary falls and the river snaking below. Check-in at the lodge. Dinner will be served at your hotel

Accommodation: Red Chilli Rest Camp

Meals plan: All meals

Day 3: Game Drive and Boat trip to the bottom of the falls in Murchison Falls National Park

Today you will wake up very early. In the early morning hours, animals are the most active, the sun is not yet so bright and temperatures are cooler. It offers the best time to spot wild animals. After an early breakfast, you will go on a game drive to explore the northern part of the park. You will be eye-to-eye with the African animals. At 2 pm, you will take a slow 3-hour shared boat safari upstream the calm Nile to the bottom of the falls stopping just tens of meters from the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’. You will be watched by crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes, water birds, and all the other thirsty wildlife that the Nile attracts, you will return to the starting point, and mond safaris driver will take you back to the hotel or evening game drive if you have enough time.

Accommodation: Red Chilli Rest Camp

Meals plan: All meals

Day 4: Transfer to Kibale National Park

Today, you will begin your early morning journey to Kibale Forest. The long drive is incredibly scenic, passing through tea plantations and the lush green countryside that characterizes so much of Uganda. Kibale National Park is located in west-central Uganda just east of the Ruwenzori Mountains, near the town of Fort Portal. The 795 Km² Park predominantly covers evergreen rainforest and is home to a total of 70 mammal species, most famously 13 species of primate including the chimpanzee. It also contains over 375 species of birds including rare and endemic species. You will have lunch en route, arriving in the late afternoon in Kibale. Journey Time: 6-8 hours.

In the late afternoon, you will go for a guided Bigodi swamp walk. The 2 – 3 hours walk will take you through grassland, small communities, and some beautiful scenery, where the locals will greet you with enthusiastic waves. It is usual to spot three to four different primate species during this walk, though the highlight is catching a glimpse of the great blue turaco! Return for dinner and overnight at the lodge

Accommodation: Chimpanzee Capital Safari Lodge

Meals plan: All 3 meals

Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking & Transfer to hotel Near Queen Elizabeth National Park

After an early morning breakfast, you will depart to Kanyancu, the visitor’s center, and report to the ranger station at 7:45 am in Kibale National Park to track the habituated Chimpanzees. Although chimp sightings are not guaranteed, visitors stand a pretty good chance of hearing and seeing our distant cousins as they are habituated. These engaging apes, our closest living relatives, are great fun to watch as they play and fight in the fruiting trees. Your experienced guides will introduce you to the different members of the chimp community, as well as the birds and plant life of the forest. The trails through the forest are generally easy to navigate and you will always be accompanied by rangers. The tour lasts between 1-5 hours and the tracking starts at 08:00 am daily. You are only allowed to spend a maximum of one magical hour around the chimpanzees. Later have lunch and then your driver guide will transfer you to the lodge near Queen Elizabeth National Park, and check-in at the lodge.

Accommodation: Kazinga wilderness camp

Meals plan: All meals

Day 6: Transfer from lodge to Bwindi Impenetrable National park and Batwa community

You will wake up around 08:00 hrs in the morning and have breakfast then transfer to Bwindi, the journey will take around 5-6 hrs. Reaching in the evening, check-in at your hotel, relax, and later go for Batwa community walk.

Accommodation: Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Meals plan: All meals

Day 7: Gorilla trekking and evening relaxation at the lodge

With your gorilla permit and passport, packed lunch & plenty of clean drinking water from the lodge, report to the rangers’ station at 07:45 am for registration. At 8:00 am, gorilla trekking commences with a briefing by one of the rangers who will then lead you through the bush pushing your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas. The trek can take from 30 minutes to 7 hours. So, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a good pair of hiking shoes and after hiking some distance depending on the location of the Gorillas, you will sight them and spend up to one magical hour with them then start your descent back to the briefing point to get certificates then proceed to lodge for evening relaxation

Accommodation: Buhoma Community Rest Camp

Meals plan: All meals

Day 8: Transfer from Bwindi to Kampala

After morning breakfast, you will be transferred back to Kampala with a stopover at the Equator for a popular photo opportunity and a farewell picnic lunch. Proceed to your hotel in Kampala

Accommodation options: 2 friends hotel Entebbe

Meals plan: All 3 meals

Day 9: Transfer to the airport to fly back home

This will be the last day of your 9 day safari, Mond safaris driver will drop at the airport and this marks the end of 9 Day Uganda Wildlife safari and gorilla tour

Accommodation: No accommodation

Meals plan: Breakfast and lunch