8-Day Gorillas – Lions – Chimpanzees Luxury Safari in Uganda

Meet the researchers, trackers, and guides and head for the location of your gorilla family group being habituated and your four hours in their presence and learning their ways.

With the trek in and trek out – the 4-hour Gorilla Habituation Experience – this is an all-day trek. Not only do you see the Gorillas with only 4 participants, but you learn about the Gorillas’ habits and ways from the Gorillas and the Researchers.

Please return to the trailhead, and it is back to the lodge.

Tips – Advice for the Gorilla Habituation Experience:  This gives you all you need to know about the Gorilla Habituation Experience, including what to wear and bring while on your trek.  Covid -19 Rules and Face Mask requirements.

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge:  Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge or Gorilla Safari Lodge

Day 3- Queen Elizabeth Park Ishasha Area:

After Breakfast, we drive to Queen Elizabeth Park, the Ishasha Region of the park, where we check into the lodge you have chosen.  There is only one luxury Lodge in this more remote portion of Queen Elizabeth Park.

Check into the lodge of your choice and Lunch.

Afternoon Game drive in search of the famed tree-climbing lions who sleep in the fig trees for up to 15 hours a day.

There are about 50 of them here in various pride.  You might also see some leopards, a lot of elephants, which have increased vastly in numbers.  The elephants that you see here will be both Savannah and Forest Elephants.  Most likely, you will not be able to tell the difference, but forest elephants are hairier, have straight,

The elephants that you see here will be both Savannah and Forest Elephants.  Most likely, you will not tell the difference, but forest elephants are hairier, have straight, shorter tusks, are slightly smaller, and have one less toe on each foot.  You will also see large herds of buffaloes, Topi, and Uganda Kob antelopes.

Note – If you are staying at Ishasha Wilderness Camp, a Sundowner can be arranged in the Bush for you, hosted by Camp Staff reminiscent of the days of old in the African Bush.

Lodge:  Ishasha Wilderness Camp

Day  – 4 – Queen Elizabeth Park – Mweya Area:

Lodge:  Kyambura Gorge Lodge

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Day 5- Queen Elizabeth Park:

Breakfast

Lion Tracking Research – here you are with Researchers from the Carnivore Project and track the Collared Lions, leopards in this part of the park. Not only will you see lions, but a learning experience about the lions.

The lion tracking research begins at the crack of dawn, and you can have breakfast after the experience.

Lunch

In the afternoon, we take one of the most scenic drives – the 27-kilometer Explosion Crater Drive – this is the highest point in the park where you have some incredible viewpoints of the Western Rift Escarpment, the Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon, plus the craters themselves which were featured in National Geographic a few years past.

Meal Plan:  Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner

Day 6- Kibale Forest:

Breakfast and early morning game drive, after which we move to Kibale Forest, where you check into the lodge of your choice.

Lunch

Afternoon – Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary Hike.  This is a guided 3-hour hike through a Jungle Swamp. Much of it is on planks that act like a boardwalk above the swamp.  Your experienced guide is from the local community that has maintained the Wetlands for many years, with thousands visiting each year.

During the Afternoon, you might spot Chimpanzees, Colobus Monkeys, also baboons.  The area is well-known for birds. The chief attraction is the Blue Turaco.

When it comes to Mammals, you can see otters, bush pigs, mongoose, and the rare Sitatunga Antelope, to name a few.

Dinner

Take the Nocturnal Forest Walk, where you see the creatures of the night such as pottos and bush babies with spotlights, plus other creatures of the Night.

Meal Plan:  Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Crater Lake Safari Lodge

Day 7 – Chimpanzee Habituation Experience Kibale Forest

Early Breakfast and you are off to meet with your Ranger-Guide, who will take you into Kibale Forest, where a Chimpanzee Group is being habituated, a process that takes up to two years.  Habituation teaches the Chimpanzees to allow humans in their presence.

A chimp community can number over 100 members. Chimpanzees live in a relational social structure, and the alpha males defend against other chimpanzees trying to move into the territory.  Females are part of smaller family groups and nurture the young.

Way before you see the chimpanzees, you will hear their hooting calls in the distance.  Soon you come upon them and spend one hour with them observing their ways and habits.

Usually, you might see 4 to 6 primates here, many of the birds, the butterflies, mammals found here, and of course the forest itself with its vegetation that is unique. On all-day habituation, you will see a lot more than on a trek.

You must wear the right clothing and shoes and have at least 3 liters of water with you, plus a packed lunch.

Meal Plan:  Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Crater Lake Safari Lodge

Day 8 – Entebbe:

Breakfast

Our Departure depends on your flight-time out of Entebbe.  We can stop at the Nakajima Tree, where traditional cultural practices continue to this day as they have for 300 years.

Arrive in Entebbe for the flight home – 4 1/2 hours drive-time.

Fly to Entebbe Option: You can fly with Aerolink directly to Entebbe International Airport.  There is a flight in the morning and an additional Flight in the afternoon.  The luggage Limit is 15 Kilos.

Safari includes All Permits and activities except where it says optional.  All lodging, full-board is included except drinks, tips, laundry at lodges.

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