Adroa Travels - Explore Uganda and other destinations in Africa

Lush Tropical South West Chimpanzee and Gorilla Tracking Uganda Safari

DESTINATION:

UGANDA
Entebbe – Kibale – Queen Elizabeth – Bwindi – Lake Bunyonyi – Kitwe or Mbarara – Lake Mburo

DURATION

11 days
Wildlife and Cultural exploration

Prices start from $1,930

PRICES
start from

$1,930

The ultimate cultural and wildlife safari in Uganda

For the best cultural and wildlife Safaris, Adroa Travels is here to provide you with an ultimate experience that is going to stay imprinted in your memories forever. We are here to make your dream come true organizing memorable holidays and expeditions that is one in a lifetime experience.

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Highlights

  • Boat trip in Lake Victoria.
  • Chimpanzee tracking and crater lakes tour in Kibale. Experience the Bachwezi myths.
  • Safari in Queen Elizabeth. Boat cruise in Kazinga channel with the highest population of hippos in Africa. 
  • Ishasha safari searching for the tree climbing lions.
  • Visit the pygmies in Bwindi and have gorilla tracking.
  • Relax on the shores of the magical lake Bunyonyi. Toms’s islands visit and storytelling experience.
  • Cow milking, Ghee making, Clay pot making, or basket weaving in Mbarara or Kitwe.
  • Lake Mburo Safari, walking safari, and community visit for cow milking and ghee making.
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  • Boat trip in Lake Victoria.
  • Chimpanzee tracking and crater lakes tour in Kibale. Experience the Bachwezi myths.
  • Safari in Queen Elizabeth. Boat cruise in Kazinga channel with the highest population of hippos in Africa. 
  • Ishasha safari searching for the tree climbing lions.
  • Visit the pygmies in Bwindi and have gorilla tracking.
  • Relax on the shores of the magical lake Bunyonyi. Toms’s islands visit and storytelling experience.
  • Cow milking, Ghee making, Clay pot making, or basket weaving in Mbarara or Kitwe.
  • Lake Mburo Safari, walking safari, and community visit for cow milking and ghee making.

Itinerary

Activities

Upon arrival at Entebbe Airport, You’ll be met by our Adroa Senior guide and driver to your hotel.

Depending on your time of arrival, we can either have a boat ride on great Lake Victoria near Entebbe or take a city tour of the Capital Kampala. 

A boat ride to the prehistoric Shoebill stork bird is another option too (Optional)

Included: airport transfer, Boat or Kampala Tour
Optional: Shoebill Stork Visit (50$)

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Cycad guest House (BB)

Medium Budget:
Lake Heights hotel (BB)

Luxury Upgrade:
Hotel no.5 (BB).

Activities

After breakfast we will journey to Kibale National Park.

 Before arriving at the lodge for lunch and check-in, we will enjoy the breathtaking views of the Rwenzori Mountains, which are known as the Mountains of the Moon. Traveling down the Albertine Escarpment, which is part of the East African Rift Valley’s western arm, passing by beautiful scenery, traditional villages, and stunning views.

Arrive at Kibale Forest in time for check-in and lunch. 

After lunch, have a nature walk around 2 of the hundreds of crater lakes, which are thought to have been formed by the earliest humans—Gods—who descended from the sky millions of years ago.

 On our way, we will learn about local herbs and medicine and the traditional way of living.

Later dinner and rest at the hotel.

Included: Crater lakes and cultural tour

 

Hotel and meals

Low Nudget:
Kibale forest camp (BB)

Mmedium Budget:
Kibale Guest Cottages(FB)

High Budget:
Primates lodge(FB)

Activities

After breakfast today, we’ll visit the park for a morning stroll through the jungle for a 2-3 hrs chimpanzee tracking.

The magnificent Kibale Forest jungle is widely recognized as the primates’ global capital. Baboons, chimpanzees, grey-cheeked mangabeys, black-and-white colobus, red colobus, and L’Hoest monkeys are just a few of the 13 species of primates that may be found in Kibale Forest. 

After the activity, we will drive through exhilarating highways and scenic countryside as we head toward Queen Elizabeth National Park.

After checking in and having lunch at the hotel, we’ll leave for our afternoon safari.

A trip back to the hotel for dinner and rest.

Alternatively, as an optional activity visit local communities in Kyambura to learn about coffee processing, honey, and cotton harvesting.

Included: Chimp tracking, Community visit, Afternoon safari

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Irungu Lodge (BB)

Mmedium Budget:
Buffalo Safari Lodge (FB)

High Budget:
Elephant Plains (FB)

Luxury Upgrade:
Kyambura Gorge (FB)

Activities

After an early morning breakfast, check-in at the park office and start your morning safari. There are high possibilities to see animals like Elephants, Antelopes, Lions, leopards, Uganda Kobs, Warthogs, Buffaloes, Bush-backs, Duikers and of course beautiful species of birds. 

An optional opportunity to engage in predator tracking is available. Lion tracking involves following both male and female lions, and it is possible to go off-route. 

In the afternoon, we will drive to the north of Lake Edward within the Mweya Peninsula where we will go for a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel. This is the right time to meet animals coming downstream to quench their thirst. Moreover, aquatic animals like Crocodiles, Nile monitor lizards, Water Birds like pelicans, stocks, cormorants, and other species of birds. The largest schools of Hippos in the whole of Africa live in the Kazinga channel.

We drive back to the lodge through the channel track where you will witness herds of elephants coming from the channel back to their grazing land, return to the lodge for dinner, and overnight at the lodge/hotel.

Regarding a community tour, as an afternoon optional activity, we can visit the local communities in Lake Katwe and interact with them and their salt mining techniques as well as observe the hundreds of flamingos that enjoy the salty water. Another community activity is experiencing the local farming life and techniques of coffee, honey, and cotton harvesting.

Included: Game drive & Boat cruise
Optional: Experiential Lion Tracking (100$), Community visit (25$), Katwe Salt Lake (30$)

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Irungu Lodge (BB)

Medium Budget:
Buffalo Safari Lodge (FB)

High Budget:
Elephant Plains (FB)

Luxury Upgrade:
Kyambura Gorge (FB)

Activities

Today, after breakfast, we will have a community visit in Kyambura to observe how people harvest and process honey, cotton and cocoa. 

Later we will drive to Ishasha for lunch and check in at the lodge. 

We’ll begin our journey into the park’s Ishasha region in the afternoon, home to lions that can scale trees. Because of difficulties spotting their prey and the savannah’s dense grass, they acquired a habit of climbing the trees to get a vantage point.

Later have dinner and rest at the lodge.

Included: Community visit, Game Drive

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Topi Lodge (BB)

Medium Budget:
Ishasha Jungle Lodge (FB)

High Budget:
Ishasha Wildernes CampIshasha – Bwindi (FB)

Activities

After an early breakfast at the peak of sunrise, we will drive to Ishasha which is part of the Queen Elizabeth National Park and enjoy a game drive with more chances of spotting the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha.

The highlight of the trip is the Mountain Gorillas Tracking. After lunch in Ishasha, we will drive through the luscious green to Bwindi National Park for the night. 

Have dinner and rest.

If we arrive on time you can do one of the below optional activities.

Included: Game drive
Optional: Coffee tour (40$), Pygmies Visit (30$)

 

Hotel and meals

Our stay in Bwindi depends on the group of Gorillas we are tracking.

Activities

Alas! Tracking the Gorilla Beringei!

Leaving early in the morning with your ranger and guide to look for one of the most fascinating and endangered species in the world, the Mountain Gorilla! Depending on the region from where we look for them, the walk might take anywhere from one to five hours and can be rather taxing. To help you with your luggage, you can hire a porter.

One of our closest cousins will be your host for an hour or more. An encounter you won’t soon forget.

As an optional excursion in the afternoon and evening, we may see the pygmies for $30 per person, or we can call it a day and relax at the hotel.

Optional: Gorilla tracking (800$), Pygmies visit (30$)

 

Hotel and meals

Our stay in Bwindi depends on the group of Gorillas we are tracking. Inquire for options.

Activities

Early after breakfast, we will drive to the magical Lake Bunyonyi for our overnight stay.

We check in, for lunch and rest on the shores of the lake. Later in the evening, we will visit Tom, a brilliant and wise storyteller, on his island to hear stories about the lake with many birds and small islands and local culture with bonfires warming our souls.

We will have a local and delicious dinner at his place and then take our boat cruise through the night back to our hotel.

Included: Toms Island Visit

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Hawks Eye (BB)

Medium Budget:
Supreme Adventure Park (FB)

High Budget:
Birds Nest (FB)

Activities

Today after breakfast, we will drive and  arrive in Kitwe, towards the border of Tanzania, to experience the Ankole local life. Have a cultural experience at Nshenyi cultural village like basket weaving, clay pot making, or farming activities.

An alternative to Nshenyi is Mbarara and farming experiences.

Later rest and relax at the lodge.

Included: Cultural Activities

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Nataaha hotel (BB)

Medium Budget:
Triangle hotel (FB)

High Budget:
Emburara Farm lodge (FB)

Activities

After a bountiful breakfast, We will have a swift scenic road transfer to Lake Mburo National Park. With the help of the park rangers, we can explore the park and its inhabitants on foot, by bicycle, or by horseback thanks to the no-predator opportunity.

Later in the night, we have the option to continue with a nocturnal game drive(30$) with high possibilities of Leopard sightings.

Another optional activity regarding culture is visiting the local farmers in order to milk their famous long horned Ankole cows and prepare Ghee(a local type of butter).

Included: Game drive
Optional: Night game drive (30$), Community Visit

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Leopard Rest Camp (BB)

Medium Budget:
Rwakobo Rock (FB)

High Budget:
Mihingo Lodge (FB)

Activities

After breakfast, we’ll take a nature walk within the National Park striding among the majestic Zebras and Antelopes, optionally ride a bike or take a horseback ride for $25 and $70 respectively. 

We will continue our journey to Kampala or Entebbe for the trip’s climax.

Included: Game walk or game drive, community visit
Optional: Bike (25$), Horse ride(70$)

Rates

Price/Person for 10 nights
Persons
Low Budget
Medium Budget
High Budget
6
$2,080
$2,640
$4,820
5
$2,230
$2,840
$5,160
4
$2,310
$2,880
$5,180
3
$2,560
$3,210
$5,580
2
$2,870
$3,420
$5,690
1
$4,460
$5,190
$7,900

Included

  • Airport transfers
  • Accommodation and meals as outlined in the itinerary
    Low Budget = BB – Bed & Breakfast
    Middle and High Budget = FB – Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
  • Private 4×4 vehicle
  • Drinking water in the car
  • Experienced guide/driver
  • Park fees in the parks and sanctuaries
  • Activities as outlined in the itinerary

Excluded

  • Flights
  • Visa
  • Tips
  • Optional activities
  • Insurance
  • Drinks and alcohol
  • Personal expenses like souvenirs, cloth washing etc

High budget prices are based on high season. There are significant discounts when you are travelling during low season.

For high budget trips we use a 4×4 Safari Landcruiser.

For low and medium budget trips we use 4×4 Safari Mini-Van. Please enquire for Landcruiser upgrade.

We’d like to let you know that the lodges mentioned above are our top picks. However, depending on availability and the time of your booking, similar, lower, or higher lodges may be substituted. Discounts or additional fees may apply depending on lodge availability and options. For the HIGH season trips, we recommend booking at least six months in advance for groups of up to six travelers, and one year in advance for larger groups of six and above.

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