8-Day Explore Uganda

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Source of the Nile the longest river in the world, Morning and Evening game drives in hopes of spotting the big five in Pian Upe, Murchison falls, Kidepo Valley National parks. Kidepo Valley ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses, the Karamojong community in Moroto.

Highlights

  • Source of the nile
  • Murchison Falls National Park
  • Kidepo Valley national Park
  • Karamojong Community

Day 1 Arrival
Arrival at Entebbe International Airport. You will be Met and assisted by a Uganda Safari Chapter representative. Your guide will then transfer you to Entebbe for an overnight at 2 Friends Beach Hotel. A Beautiful place where you can feel like home. At 2 Friends beach hotel, we offer you excellent service. Comfortable rooms and cozy atmosphere. Your comfort is taken care of. It is ideally situated on the banks of Lake Victoria with convenient access to Kampala and the best spots around Entebbe.

Day 2 Murchison Nalls National Park
After breakfast, we will pass by Ziwa, It is the only place where you will be able to see rhinos in Uganda. Presently the sanctuary is home to thirty-two (32) southern white rhinos. The sanctuary has become increasingly popular with tourists; for Rhino Trekking.
We shall have lunch at the sanctuary then proceed to Murchison falls national park to see the top of the falls then check-in to the lodge
Murchison falls National Park.
It is the largest national park in Uganda, where you will spend the next 2 Nights. Murchison falls National Park is located in Northern Uganda near the Albertine Rift Valley and is one of the most visited Uganda National Parks.
Overnight at Pakuba Safari Lodge (LDBB).

Day 3 Evening and Morning game drives
After breakfast, you will go for an early morning game drive to the rolling plains where you have chances of viewing Lions, Giraffe, Hartebeest, Buffalo and Elephant as well as many of the other mammals of the Park. For the birders amongst you, these areas support the secretary Bird, Black Chested snake Eagle, tawny and Marshal Eagles carmine and swallow Tailed Bee- Eaters, to pick just a few. This is a beautiful drive across Borassus Palm Forest and grassland savannah down to Lake Abert where the Albert Nile heads north to the sudan.
In the afternoon after lunch, we shall go for a boat ride to the bottom of the falls with hopes of seeing more of the wildlife and aquatic life like the hippos, crocodiles.

Day 4 Kidepo Valley National Park
In the morning, after your breakfast, you will be driven to Kidepo Valley Park where you will spend two nights. The park lies in the rugged, semi-arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with Sudan and Kenya. Gazetted as a national park in 1962, it has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. The park boasts an extensive bird list of around 475 species, making it second only in Uganda to Queen Elizabeth National Park. A few species to note are the Ostrich, Kori Bustard and Karamoja Apalis.
shall have a stopover in Kitgum for lunch, then proceed to zebra lodge on the boundaries of Kidepo valley national park
Overnight at Zebra Lodge (LDBB).

Day 5 Nature hikes/walks
In the Morning after breakfast, we shall have a morning game drive in the national park which will take approximately 4 to 5 hours to the wildlife, the national park has almost all the animals which are found in the other national parks in Uganda.
We shall return to the lodge for lunch then proceed for the Karamojong experience. Cultural Tourism is one of the best activities done in the park and in Uganda as travelers visit the Karamojong. The visit to the karamojong people with their unique homesteads is one of the best encounters that will excite you more about the nomadic pastoralists of Uganda. You will continue to understand deeply about the culture of Africa especially in this ancient park of the land.
Overnight at Zebra Lodge (LDBB).

Day 6-7 Adventure and Nature
Pian Upe wildlife reserve offers interesting game drives in the vast plains dominating the reserve, this reserve is famed for being the only place where you get to spot roan antelope in Uganda.
Pian Upe is also a great birding paradise, the reserve is a habitat to a variety of bird species, birds in the reserve are more concentrated around the swamp terrain of loporokocho swamp. Bird species such as the great ostrich, jackson’s horn bill, Hartlaub’s bustard, white headed buffalo weaver.

Dinner at the Sipi falls. A chance to see bird life, nature walk and abseiling(optional)
Overnight at Rafiki Lodge (LDBB).

Day 8 Departure
After breakfast, Sipi falls is a waterfall found at the foothills of mountain Elgon just at the edge of mountain Elgon National Park, trek to the top of the falls do some activities like abseiling, bird life, nature walk around the communities, Mbale is well known coffee farming. We will pass by see who they plant I interact with the communities around, later return to the lodge have lunch, check-out and proceed to Jinja city.

  • Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
  • Park fees (For non-residents)
  • All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
  • Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
  • All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
  • Drinking water (On all days)
  • Addition Nights pre /post accommodation
  • Other meals
  • Premium drinks tips and gratuities
  • Internet and phone
  • Optional Activities
  • Departure tax
  • Personal Insurance
  • Items of a personal nature;
  • International flights
  • Visa not stated as included in the itinerary