18 Days Classic Uganda Safari

• Pickup from hotel/airport by your guide.
• Guide gives safari briefing.
• Arrive and have lunch.
• Take a boat cruise to the source of the Nile.
• Drive to the lodge.
• Dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: haven lodge jinja

• Breakfast.
• Drive to Sipi-Kapchorwa (3–4 hours).
• Arrive in time for lunch.
• Check in at the lodge.
• Afternoon visit to different waterfalls.
• Catch sunset at the viewpoint (weather permitting).
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Sipi valley lodge

• Breakfast at the lodge.
• Drive to Moroto via PianUpe Wildlife Reserve.
• Spot animals along the way in PianUpe.
• Arrive in Moroto in the afternoon.
• Check in at the lodge.
• Evening visit to a Karimajong village for a community experience.
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: kara-tunga camps

• Breakfast.
• Leave Moroto for Kidepo Valley National Park.
• Adventurous drive through Karimajong villages.
• Pass Matheniko and Bokora wildlife reserves.
• Spot animals on a lucky day.
• Arrive late afternoon.
• Check in at the lodge.
• Relax or do an evening game drive (depending on arrival time).

Accommodation: kidepo savanna lodge

• Breakfast, then drive into the park for a safari.
• Search different game tracks.
• On a lucky day, spot lions and cheetahs.
• Other animals: buffalos, elephants, hartebeests, reedbucks, kobs, giraffes.
• Drive back to the lodge.
• Later, return for an afternoon/evening game drive.

Accommodation: kidepo savanna lodge

• Early morning breakfast
• Drive to Murchison falls national park with a stop in Gulu city.
• Reach the lodge and check in.

Accommodation:  Pakuba safari lodge

• Early breakfast.
• Half-day game drive in northern part of the park.
• Spot elephants, Rothschild giraffes, Jackson hartebeests, lions, oribis, waterbucks, and savannah birds.
• Return to lodge for lunch.
• Go on a Nile cruise to the bottom of the falls.
• See Nile crocodiles, hippos, water birds.
• Also spot land animals (elephants, buffalos) at the river banks.
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Pakuba safari lodge

• Wake up for Breakfast.
• Morning game drive in Uganda’s largest national park.
• Explore different parts of the park.
• Drive to lodge for lunch and check-in.
• Evening trip to the top of the falls.
• Enjoy a sundowner experience (weather permitting).

Accommodation: sambiya river lodge

• Early breakfast.
• Drive to Fort Portal via Hoima (approx. 8 hours).
• Enjoy views of Lake Albert in the Albertine Rift Valley.
• Lunch en route.
• Arrive in Fort Portal (town near Rwenzori Mountains).
• Reach lodge in the evening.
• Dinner and overnight.

Accommodation:  Isunga lodge

• Early morning breakfast.
• Drive to park headquarters with packed lunch.
• Register and attend briefing.
• Enter forest for chimp tracking.
• Guided walk to find chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black-and-white colobus, and others.
• Return to lodge for lunch.
• Go to Bigodi Swamp for a guided walk (community initiative, ~2 hours).
• Drive back to lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.

Accommodation:  Isunga lodge

• Drive through beautiful routes via crater lakes and banana plantations.
• Arrive in time for lunch.
• After lunch, take a 2-hour boat cruise on Kazinga Channel.
• See elephants, buffalos, warthogs by the water, also see crocodiles and hippos.
• After cruise, enjoy an evening game drive.
• Drive back to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: aardvark safari lodge

• Early breakfast.
• Drive to Kasenyi plains for morning game drive (3–4 hours).
• Search for lions and leopards, spot elephants, hyenas, kobs, warthogs, buffalos.
• Return for lunch.
• Afternoon visit to Bunyampaka salt lake, see locals mining salt.
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: aardvark safari lodge

• Early breakfast.
• Transfer to Ishasha sector (southern part of the park), hope to spot climbing lions.
• Journey through different vegetation covers, spot elephants, kobs, baboons, leopards, birds.
• Arrive in Ishasha, check in at lodge, have lunch.
• Afternoon/evening game drive, search for new animals (e.g., topi).
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast you will drive to Bwindi through the beautiful and rolling hills of kigezi.
• Reach in the afternoon to check in at the lodge.
• Relaxation in the afternoon or take a walk around the forest near the lodge.
• Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Accommodation: Four gorillas lodge

• Early breakfast.
• Drive to park with packed lunch.
• Register and attend briefing and enter the forest searching for gorillas
• Trek for mountain gorillas (2–6 hours).
• Observe gorillas eating, playing, resting. Time with gorillas: 1 hour.
• Hike back to park for trekking graduation.
• Drive to lodge for relaxation, dinner, overnight.

Accommodation: Four gorillas lodge

• Breakfast early in the morning.
• Drive to Lake Bunyonyi (Kabale district) through shaded forest roads.
• Arrive early, check in at lodge, have lunch.
• Enjoy a boat ride on Uganda’s deepest lake, watch many bird species (the lake’s namesake).
• Optional: dugout canoe ride with a local sailor.
• Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation:  Arcadia cottages Bunyonyi

• Breakfast.
• Drive to Lake Mburo National Park (~4 hours). Route through Kigezi hills, farms, banana plantations, and Mbarara.
• Enter park – see Ankole long-horned cattle.
• Check in at lodge.
• Evening game drive to spot giraffes, zebras, impalas, elands, buffalos. On a lucky day: leopard.

Accommodation: Rwakobo rock

Option: night game drive in search of nocturnal animals such as leopards and hyenas.

• Wake up for breakfast.
• Drive to park for a guided nature walk (~2 hours).
• Walk up close to giraffes and zebras.
• After the nature walk, set off for a drive to Entebbe for your flight home.
• Stop at Ugandan equator for lunch and photos.
• Arrive at Entebbe.

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