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Magnificent Western Uganda Safari

DESTINATION:

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

DURATION

16 days
Wildlife and Culture

Prices start from $2,530

PRICES
start from

$2,530

The ultimate cultural and wildlife safari in South - West 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. Honey, Coffee, and cotton harvest and processing in Kyambura.
  • Ishasha safari looking 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.
  • Golden Monkey Tracking or Volcano hiking in Mgahinga National Park.
  • Cow milking, Ghee making, Clay pot making, or basket weaving in Mbarara or Kitwe.
  • Relax in jinja and do extreme sports in the Nile.
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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. Honey, Coffee, and cotton harvest and processing in Kyambura.
  • Ishasha safari looking 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.
  • Golden Monkey Tracking or Volcano hiking in Mgahinga National Park.
  • Cow milking, Ghee making, Clay pot making, or basket weaving in Mbarara or Kitwe.
  • Relax in jinja and do extreme sports in the Nile.

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 along 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 Budget:
Kibale forest camp (BB)

Medium 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 lunch, we’ll explore the Bigodi Swamp to see more wildlife and mingle with the local farmers, entertainers, and artisans.

A trip back to the hotel for dinner and rest.

Included: Chimp tracking, Community visit

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Kibale forest camp (BB)

Medium Budget:
Kibale Guest Cottages(FB)

High Budget:
Primates lodge(FB)

Activities

As the sun rises bright and early, a good breakfast today before heading to Queen Elizabeth National Park 

We will drive through exhilarating highways and scenic countryside as we head towards Queen Elizabeth National Park. We will visit local communities in Kyambura to learn about coffee processing, honey, and cotton harvesting

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

We will make our way back to the hotel for dinner and rest.

Included: Safari, Community visits

 

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

After an early morning breakfast, we will check-in at the park office and start our morning safari. Elephants, antelopes, lions, leopards, Uganda Kobs, warthogs, buffaloes, bush-backs, duikers, and beautiful bird species are all possible sightings. 

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 stay 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 harvest.

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

After breakfast today, we’ll begin our journey into the park’s Ishasha region, 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.

After Lunch, Start your safari.

We will schedule two game drives. One in the morning en route and later in the afternoon.

A quiet dinner and rest at the lodge to charge up for tomorrow’s journey.

Included: Game drive

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Topi lodge (BB)

Medium Budget:
Ishasha Jungle Lodge (FB)

High Budget:
Ishasha Wilderness Camp (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 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.

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

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. Inquire for options.

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 (700$), Pygmies visit (30$)

 

Hotel and meals

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

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 (700$), Pygmies visit (45$)

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Mutanda eco camp (BB)

Medium Budget:
Mutanda lake resort (FB)

Mulehe lake resort (FB)

High Budget:
Chameleon Hill (FB)

Activities

After breakfast we will visit the Mgahinga National Park, the only place where Silver (Silverback gorillas) meet Gold (Golden Monkey).

We will have a 2-hour nature walk in the park looking for this gorgeous and very photogenic and playful monkey. We will also see many species of birds and other primates.

We will drive towards Lake Bunyonyi 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 and local culture with a bonfire 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: Golden Monkey tracking, Toms homestay storytelling 

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Hawks Eye (BB)

Medium Budget:
Supreme Adventure Park (FB)

High Budget:
Birds Nest (FB)

Today, after breakfast, we will drive to Kitwe or Mbarara for informative cultural activities such as cow milking, basket weaving, clay pot making, and much more. We will experience decades of preserved and still practiced methods that the Ankole used in their day-to-day lives.

Unwind at the sound of cultural entertainment and have dinner at the hotel.

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: Safari
Optional: Night game drive (30$), Community visit (25$)

 

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 have a stop in the equator for lunch and photos. Later drive to the lodge in Kampala for dinner and rest. If the energy is there, we can have a night out in vibrant Kampala.

Included: Morning walk
Optional: Bicycle (30$), Horse riding (70$)

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Red Chilli (BB)

Medium Budget:
Latitude 0 Degrees (FB)

High Budget:
Speke Resort Munyonyo(FB)

Activities

After breakfast, we can either visit Owino, one of East Africa’s largest open-air markets, or a cultural and art group called Nilotika Cultural Assembly, where we can participate in a drum circle, tailor-made African fabric cloths, and instrument making.

Following the activity, we will drive to Jinja, where Lake Victoria gives birth to the Nile River, which flows from Uganda all the way to Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. We will take a boat ride to where the river begins, and then relax along the river with cocktails and freshly caught grilled fish from the lake.

We can go out for drinks and a night out in Jinja or chill with the view of the Nile and the city skyline.

Dinner and a good night’s rest at the hotel.

Included: Boat tour in the Nile, Market Visit, Cultural assembly visit

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Nile River Explore’s Camp (BB)

Medium Budget:
Nile porch lodge (FB)

High Budget:
The Haven Lodge (FB)

Luxury Upgrade:
Wildwaters Lodge (FB)

Activities

Today is a free day to explore and enjoy the river and the activities surrounding the area. You can do one of the following optional activities:

Bike and walking tours

Bungee jumping

ATV riding

Canoe and rafting in the Nile.

Contact us for more information.

 

Hotel and meals

Low Budget:
Nile River Explore’s Camp (BB)

Medium Budget:
Nile porch lodge (FB)

High Budget:
The Haven Lodge (FB)

Luxury Upgrade:
Wildwaters Lodge (FB)

Activities

We’ll travel to Kampala through the Mabira forest route and get you safely to Entebbe for your flight.

End of the trip.

 

Rates

Price/Person for 15 Nights
Persons
Low Budget
Medium Budget
High Budget
6
$2,530
$3,440
$6,140
5
$2,730
$3,730
$6,630
4
$2,840
$3,810
$6,650
3
$3,190
$4,230
$7,240
2
$3,630
$4,550
$7,370
1
$5,660
$6,780
$10,340

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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