Safari Itinerary

DAY 1: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park to embark on our chimpanzee and gorilla trekking Safari.

5 Days Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Safari is one the main popular luxury trips organised by Gorilla safaris Uganda Travel. A tour guide from GS Uganda Travel  will pick you up from the  airport or form your hotel and leave for Kibale Forest national park for chimpanzee tracking.

In the afternoon we will arrive at Kibale Forest  national park,  After Check-in any lodge for your choice, for the over night.  Here we have the opportunity to visit the Bigodi  communities and they offer activities like: local beer brewing, coffee grinding, Traditional healer, local art weaving and others.

Driving time: is 6,5 hours

Accommodation:
Kibale Forest Camp (self-contained tents) or Chimpanzee Guesthouse/Bandas (self-contained Banda’s) – Both outside the forest)
Luxury lodge: Craters safari Lodge, Ndali Lodge or Primate Lodge Kibale

DAY 2: Chimpanzee Trekking in Kibale Forest National Park.

At 8.00am we will start with 4 hours chimpanzee trekking – during which you may also get to see 10 other primates. Kibale forests national park has the highest number of chimpanzees population in East Africa with over  15000 individuals, Kibale park is also known for all the butterflies and birds. In the afternoon we will walk through Bigodi Swamp (home to a community based project).

Accommodation:
Kibale Forest Camp (self-contained tents) or Chimpanzee Guesthouse/Bandas (self-contained Banda’s) – Both outside the forest)
Luxury Lodge: Craters Lodge, Ndali Lodge or Primate Lodge Kibale

DAY 3: Transfer to Bwindi Gorilla Impenetrable Forest National Park

Early in the morning we will leave for Kisoro. We will cross Kazinga Channel, traveling through Queen Elizabeth Park, and reach Kabale town in time for lunch. From Kabale town we will continue through a beautiful landscape also defined as the {Switzerland of Africa} rolling mountains, lakes, hills with cultivated terraces, tropical rain forest and bamboo forest. On the last hill the landscape unfolds beneath us, taking in the vast planes between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, with the Virunga volcanoes dominating the view. At the bottom of the valley is Kisoro

Accommodation:
Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro, Lake Muntanda lodge,
Luxury : Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room), Chameleon’s Lodge.

In the sixties the famous American ‘gorilla-woman’ Dian Fossey visited the Travellers Rest Hotel many, many times to do paperwork, relax or meet people. Fossey said about the hotel: “It was my second home”. Travellers Rest Hotel is just outside Kisoro and offers a cozy stay for the tourists coming to see the endangered mountain gorilla. The hotel, built in a somewhat colonial style, and entirely renovated in 1999, has a comfortable ambiance. Driving time: ± 8 hours

Accommodation:
Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro, Lake Muntanda lodge,
Luxury : Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room), Chameleon’s Lodge.

DAY 4: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park

The day of gorilla trekking, you will travel by car from Travelers Rest Hotel in Kisoro to Nkuringo, in the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (1hr). Once there you will first receive a briefing (7.45am) and at 8.30am you will start the tracking. Once you have found the gorillas, you will be able to spend up to one hour with them! You will be expected back to the starting point by 7.00pm at the latest. physically conditioned peoples are recommended, all participants will be a warded with gorilla trekking certificates  from the Park Head Quarters.

Evening we shall visit the Batwa communities the original forest dwellers of Bwindi forests.

Accommodation:
Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro, Lake Muntanda lodge,
Luxury : Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room), Chameleon’s Lodge.

DAY 5: Transfer to Kampala/Entebbe Airport.

Early in the morning after breakfast you will travel back to Kampala. On the way back to the city you will have lunch in Mbarara town, and after Masaka there will be an opportunity to a stop at the Equator for photo shoots and buying souvenirs and have tea or coffee.

We will then bring you back to Kampala or Entebbe for your flight back home and marks the end of the 5 days chimpanzee and gorilla trekking Safari Tour.

Driving time: ± 9 hours