Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport and transfer to the hotel in Entebbe

You will be picked up from the airport in Entebbe and transferred to your hotel by your Safari guide. Check in at your pre-booked lodge for a short stay along Lake Victoria. Depending on your time of arrival, rest and relax from jet lag before starting your trip the next day.

Destination: Entebbe

Meals: Dinner

Day 2: Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park and have an evening boat cruise

Following an early morning breakfast, you transfer to Lake Mburo National Park. The drive takes you past the equator line in Kayabwe, where you stop for photography. You continue with the drive southwards with several bird sightings. You have lunch en route.

Arriving in the afternoon, we go for a boat cruise on Lake Mburo. The park is home to an avifauna diversity of up to 313 bird species. Some of the bird species to look out for include the Red Faced Barbet, which is the park’s endemic, long tailed cisticola, African finfoot, Rufous Bellied Heron, Brown chested plover, White winged Warbler, and many more.

In the evening, you slowly drive to your hotel while looking out for some birds. You check in and spend the night at a prior booked lodging facility.

Destination: Lake Mburo National Park

Meals: All meals included

Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

From Lake Mburo, take the road trip to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The drive takes you to the beautiful highlands of Kigezi. Arriving in the evening, you check into a booked hotel or lodge in the Ruhija sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You have lunch along the way and spot several bird species during the drive.

Spend the rest of your day relaxing at the lodge. Dinner and overnight stay at the Lodge.

Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Meals: All Meals Included

Day 4: Birding in Mubwindi swamp of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

In the morning, you have breakfast, then drive out for birding to the Mubwindi swamp. You will spend the entire day birding in this area. There are several Albertine Rift endemics in this region, and you can spot them on this 4km trail.

These include the Grauer’s Broadbill, Regal Sunbird, Archer’s Robin-Chat, Dwarf Honeyguide, Stripe-breasted Tit, Ruwenzori Apalis, Grauer’s Scrub Warbler, Black Goshawk, and Ross’s Turacco, Handsome Francolin, Cinnamon Chested Bee-eaters, Dusky Crimsonwing and many more.

Return to the lodge later after your adventure for dinner and an overnight stay.

Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Meals: All meals included

Day 5: Bird watching to the Buhoma sector of Bwindi

On your second day of birding in Bwindi, you will transfer from the Ruhija sector to the Buhoma sector while birding along “the neck”. This place is known as the neck because this is where the forest narrows, but offers very good excellent forest birding opportunities.

Along this spot, you should look out for bird species like the Red-throated Alethe, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Collared Apalis, Rwenzori Batis, Blue-headed Sunbird, Strange weaver, Dusky Crimsonwing, Regal Sunbird, Red-headed Malimbe and many more.

After birding along this trail, you reach Buhoma sector in the evening, arriving in time for dinner and at a booked accommodation facility. Here you relax and spend the night.

Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Meals: All meals are included

Day 6: Mountain Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Have early morning breakfast, carry a packed lunch, and head to the park headquarters. On arrival, you receive a briefing from the park rangers on the dos and don’ts of gorilla trekking. Thereafter, go to the jungle for gorilla trekking starting from 8:00 am.

Trek through the forest on a gorilla search that lasts about 2 to 4 hours or more, depending on where the mountain gorillas have spent their night. On meeting with the mountain gorillas, you spend a maximum of 1 hour seeing the elusive giants interact within their family and playfully live within the bamboo forest. During the 1 hour, you can take as many pictures and record videos using your non-flash photography camera.

After the 1 hour with the mountain gorillas, you trek back to the park headquarters. Receive a congratulatory certificate at the park headquarters. Return to the lodge for relaxation and dinner.

Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Meals: All Meals are included

Day 7: Transfer from Bwindi to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Leave the Bwindi forest foothills and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You take a slow drive through the ishasha sector in the southern part of the park, then continue and spend the night in the northern sector. You take lunch en route and spot several bird species along the way. Dinner and overnight at the lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Meals: All Meals are included

Day 8: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga channel

From your lodge, have breakfast and go for an early morning game drive in the Queen National Park savannah plains. Have an opportunity to see several wildlife species including lions, elephants, kobs, antelopes, and many more. After about 4 hours searching through the several trails, you will then head back to the lodge for lunch before going for an evening boat cruise.

The boat cruise on the kazinga channel is famous for being very rewarding with wildlife sightings. Enjoy the boat cruise and spot as much as you can during this experience. After the boat cruise, have a short sunset game drive enroute to the lodgel for dinner and an overnight stay.

Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Meals: All Meals Included

Day 9: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

This morning, you have breakfast then embark on the drive to Kibale Forest National Park. Along the way, you go bird watching and spotting several bird species. Arriving in the afternoon, you will arrive in time for dinner, relaxation and spend the night at a booked accommodation.

Destination: Kibale National Park

Meals: All meals are included

Day 10: Chimpanzee tracking and bird watching in the forest with a nature walk in Bigodi wetland in the evening.

After breakfast at your lodge, get ready for a chimpanzee trekking experience. Carry along your backpack with some drinking water and head out to the park for chimp tracking. The trek starts with a briefing on the trekking etiquette, then after head out to the jungle.

Some of the bird species seen in the Kibale forest include the Grey-headed Olive-back, Marsh Tchagara, Scaly Francolin, White-naped Pigeon, Narina Trogon, Pied Hornbill, Yellow-billed Barbets, African Goshawk, Grey Parrots and many more.

After the trek, you return to your lodge for lunch, then visit Bigodi wetland for birding. Bigodi wetland is host to an array of biodiversity, including primates and bird species. Some of the bird species include the Great Blue Turaco,White-collard Oliveback, Papyrus Gonolek, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Superb Sunbird and many more.

After the nature walk at Bigodi, you then return to your lodging facility where you relax, refresh and have dinner.

Destination: Kibale National Park

Meals: All meals are included

Day 11: Transfer from Kibale Forest National Park to Murchison Falls National Park

From the lodge in Kibale Forest National Park, you transfer to Murchison Falls National Park. The drive takes you birding along the way, arriving in the evening. You arrive in time of check-in and dinner at a booked accommodation in Murchison Falls.

Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Meals: All Meals Included

Day 12: Morning game drive, evening boat cruise and visit to the top of Murchison Falls

Have breakfast and get ready for a morning game drive. During the Early morning game drive, you will be able to sight as many animals as possible, such as Lions, Elephants, buffalo, Giraffes, antelopes, waterbucks, warthogs, jackals, and birds.

After the game drive, return to the lodge, refresh, and have lunch as you prepare for the afternoon boat cruise. On the boat cruise, which takes about 2-3 hours, you will be able to see various animals, including crocodiles, hippos, elephants, buffalos along the banks of the River Nile. Bird species such as the bee eaters, coloured kingfisher, shoe billed stork and many more can also be spotted. The boat ride will take you to the bottom of the Murchison Falls. When you reach here, you will be able to see clearly the mighty waterfalls. During the times when the water levels are low, you can then take a hike to the top of the falls. Transfer back to the lodge, have dinner and overnight.

Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Meals: All meals are included

Day 13: Transfer to Royal Mile in Budongo Forest 

From Murchison Falls National Park, you will transfer to the Royal Mile for bird watching. There is prolific birdlife in this spot with 2 bird species not found anywhere else in East Africa and 93 of the 144 Guinea-Congo Forests biome species recorded here.

You spend the whole day birding along this spot with chance of spotting bird species like the Dwarf Kingfisher, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Olive-bellied Crombec, Nahan’s Francolin, Little Crake, Yellow-throated Greenbul, Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-backed Weaver and many more. After the birding experience, transfer to hotel for dinner and overnight.

Destination: Murchison Falls National Park

Meals: All meals are included

Day 14: Bird watching and return to Entebbe International Airport 

On the last day of your 14 days Uganda birding, wildlife & gorilla safari, you will have breakfast at your lodge, then embark on the drive back to Entebbe. Depending on your flight departure time, you can drive while birding along the way. Your driver guide will ensure drop-off at the airport in Entebbe or a hotel.

Destination: Entebbe

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch