You will be met on arrival by your driver / guide who will warmly receive and welcome you and will transfer you to your accommodation in Kampala for Dinner and overnight.

08:00am: Your guide will collect you from your hotel in Kampala and will remain with you throughout your safari. You will drive (approx. 8 – 9 hours) to Bwindi, passing through the beautiful Ugandan countryside with plenty of breaks en-route including one at the equator.

08:00am: After enjoying an early breakfast and a short briefing at the park headquarters with your small group, your ranger will lead you through the tropical rainforest in search of your gorilla family. Trekking through the steep, densely forested hills and then finally coming across the gorillas camouflaged in the vegetation is an inspiring and privileged moment. Tracking in the Bwindi Forest requires stamina and can often take most of the day. Join them for an hour, observing their behaviour in their natural habitat.

After you breakfast, you will drive to Fort Portal City, one of the greenest and coolest towns in Uganda with a rich colonial and political history.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart your lodge and head to the park headquarters/briefing point; you will be briefed about chimpanzee trekking.  Be assigned rangers to take you through the tracking. Enter the forest in search for the chimpanzees as you move in the jungles, you may encounter other primates such as the grey-cheeked mangabey, l ‘hoest monkeys, red tail monkey, colobus monkeys and several other forest bird species. As you transcend the jungles, you will notice sounds of the chimpanzees, upon meeting them, you will have a maximum of 1 hour interacting and taking photos with.

Visit the Stalactites and Stalagmites locally known as Amabeere ga Nyina Mwiru (Nyina Mwiru’s Breasts) and get to know how these were formed plus you get to listen to the traditional stories behind their formation. Later on, visit the Bigodi Wetland which is famous for the Shoe Bill stork.

Depart for the most beautiful protected area in Uganda: Murchison Falls National Park. Enjoy a lunch stop in Masindi before we enter the park. We will visit the magnificent falls where you will enjoy and marvel at the mighty Nile. The famous waterfall is being forced into a seven-meter crevice, to thunder 45 meters below in a series of cascades. This spectacular scenery can be viewed from different points up at the baler’s summit.

After an early morning breakfast, you will enjoy a half-day game drive on the northern bank of the Nile, escorted by a ranger. Game in this part includes the elephant, Rothschild giraffe, Jackson hartebeest, lions, oribis, waterbucks and a variety of savannah woodland birds. After lunch we will go on a Nile cruise for game viewing at close quarters. Watch how hippos take a bath, elephants come to drink and crocodiles lying lazy at the shores.

After breakfast drive back to Kampala with a stopover at the Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola. Enter the territory of the southern white rhinos on foot. Well-trained rangers will guide you through the bush to where the rhinos are on the day of your visit. You will get the opportunity to watch these endangered, magnificent creatures in their natural habitat. As these rhinos are free to move around on 7 000 hectares of land, it is often necessary to drive to the areas where the rhinos are, before taking the bush trek.

Visit a crafts market for your souvenirs and then fly back home.

NB: Depending which day falls on a Wednesday or Sunday, you can have a cultural entertainment in the evening at the Ndere Cultural centre in Kampala.