Tour Overview
This 5 Days Chimpanzee and Gorilla Trekking Safari offers you a live experience of the world’s biggest primates, the mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable national park in South Western Uganda, this is a thick dense forest with an altitude range between 1160m and 2607m above sea level, Bwindi impenetrable forest is a very true rain forest with steep slopes and valleys so trekking the gorillas can be hard because usually the visibility is very poor, for pictures one really needs a very good camera. Bwindi forest has an average rainfall of 1500mm per year source of the major rivers that flows to lake Albert.
Kibale national Park for chimpanzee tracking/Habituation, and Kibale National Park has been declared the best place to view habituated chimpanzees with other primates, butterflies, monkeys, insects birds and others.
We shall drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park on your transfers, at there you will get a chance to see tree climbing lions at the Ishasha sector, Elephants, birds,hippos, leopard, warthogs, giraffes etc
It is tailor-made and therefore subject to adjustment upon the client’s request to accommodate special interests.
Tour Highlights
- Road Trip to Western Uganda
- Kibale Forest Chimpanzee Tracking
- Gorilla Trekking Jungle Safari in Bwindi
- Nature Treks & Jungle Safari
BRIEF ITINERARY:
- Day 1: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
- Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Rain Forest
- Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
- Day 4: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
- Day 5: Transfer Back to Kampala/Entebbe
DETAILED ITINERARY:
DAY 1: Transfer To Kibale Forest National Park
5 Days Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Safari is one of the main popular luxury trips organized by Noworks tours and travel. Our driver guide will pick you up from Entebbe international airport or from your hotel and leave for Kibale Forest national park in Western Uganda.
In the afternoon we will arrive at Kibale Forest Camp, sleeping with the noises of the tropical Rain forest. You’ll stay at Chimpanzee Guesthouse, overlooking Nyabikere Crater Lake. The lake is famous for the frogs at night as they always give a beautiful concert.
Driving time: is 6 to 5 hours
Accommodation:
Kibale Forest Camp (self-contained tents) or Chimpanzee Guesthouse/Bandas (self-contained Banda’s) – Both outside the forest)
Luxury Tour: Kyaninga safari Lodge or Primate Lodge Kibale
Budget Lodge.
DAY 2: Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
At 8.00am we will start with 4 hours chimp tracking – during which you may also get to see 10 other primates such Red-tailed monkeys, Black and white colobus monkeys, Bush babies etc. Kibale park is also known for all the butterflies and birds. In the afternoon you will walk through Bigodi Swamp (home to a community based project)
Accommodations:
Kibale Forest Camp (self-contained tents) or Chimpanzee Guesthouse/Bandas (self-contained Banda’s) – Both outside the forest)
Luxury Tour: Ndali Lodge or Primate Lodge Kibale
DAY 3:Transfer to Kisoro Bwindi 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 in time for lunch. From Kabale we will continue through a beautiful landscape also defined as the “Switzerland of Africa”: 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, where we will stay at the famous Travelers Rest Hotel.
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: 6-7 hours
Accommodation:
Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room)
DAY 4: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
The day starts with a cup of tea or coffee. You will then 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 for gorilla trekking.
Accommodation:
Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room)
DAY 5: Transfer to Kampala
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 Safari Tour.
