Fascinating Uganda

Early in the morning, after breakfast and once your luggage is stowed in the vehicle, you start your exciting gorilla safari through Uganda. The first leg is the drive to Kibale National Park. On arrival, a short briefing by the rangers of the national park authority follows before the chimpanzee trekking. Afterwards the hike begins, with the aim of locating the free-living chimpanzees within the protected area. The actual walking time can vary greatly, depending on where the constantly roaming chimpanzee families currently are. As soon as you have located a group, you spend an hour with the animals and learn all sorts of interesting facts about the life and social behaviour of the primates from your ranger. The group can number up to 130 chimpanzees: several males and females as well as a multitude of babies. Watch the animals’ behaviour as they squabble over food, race up and down the trees with deafening screams or even dash past you at close range. After an hour you make your way back to the ranger station. On the way you try to spot other species of monkey that also live here, such as black-and-white colobus monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, red-tailed monkeys or baboons. You stay at Papaya Lodge (mid-range) or Kibale Forest Camp (standard).

After a relaxed breakfast you set off towards Lake Mburo National Park, which you will reach in the afternoon. Large herds of zebra, impala, eland and other savannah animals live in the park. Bird lovers will also get their money’s worth here: so far around 300 different bird species have been counted. Among them is, for example, the somewhat quirky-looking shoebill, which you may spot with a bit of luck. Since mid-2012, lions have also been sighted in the park again. After check-in at today’s accommodation, you go on game drives within the park with your guide. You spend your last night on this eventful gorilla safari in Uganda at Kigambira Safari Lodge (mid-range) or Kigarama Wilderness Lodge (standard).

In the morning you leave the national park and head back to Entebbe/Kampala, which you will reach at around 2 pm. Here you can either spend another night (optional) or be taken directly to Entebbe airport to continue your journey in East Africa from there.