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The best of Uganda's famous national parks and including exciting
chimpanzee treking. A mix of luxury lodges and adventure camping
(where no lodges exist) to optimize the game viewing experience.
Queen Elizabeth National Park Chimpanzee tracking Kibale National
Park Lake Bunyonyi Semliki National Park Start: Entebbe
Day 1 Kampala You'll be personally met when you arrive Entebbe airport,
and transferred to the newly renovated Nile Serena Hotel in Kampala.
For those arriving earlier, an afternoon excursion can be planned
to the famous tombs of the Kabaka kings.
Day 2 Kibale National Park Leave Kampala after breakfast for the
fascinating drive through papyrus swamps and thick jungle of the
Nile Delta to Kibale National Park just under the Ruwenzori Mountains.
Afternoon guided walk in the lakes area of the park for outstanding
birds and primates. Meals and overnight at Mantana's Camp.
Day 3 Kibale National Park, Semliki Reserve Early morning trek for
chimpanzees. Kibale is the best reserve in Africa to view chimps,
a thick jungle with a towering canopy. In the afternoon, drive to
the Congo border right under the Ruwenzori Mountains, into the Semuliki
National Park jungles. Dinner and overnight at Semuliki Safari Lodge.
Day 4 Semliki Reserve Two full days in the closest habitat available
in East Africa to true central African jungle. The new Semuliki
National Park is a lowland, dense forest, with exotic primates,
hundreds of bird species and good mammals as well. Its location
on the shore of Lake Albert provide excellent shoreline game viewing.
Meals and accommodations at the luxurious Semuliki Safari Lodge.
Few tourists get into this incredibly beautiful area!
Day 5 Semliki Reserve, Queen Elizabeth National Park This morning
drive south into Queen Elizabeth National Park, sightseeing and
game viewing enroute. Dinner and overnight at spectacular Mweya
Lodge perched right on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the
Ugandan Great Lakes.
Day 6 Queen Elizabeth National Park Dawn game drive in Uganda's
best park, where all the big game can be seen in abundance. Famous
for elephant and kob, expect to see some rarer animals like giant
forest hog. There are 638 recorded bird species in the park! After
lunch, enjoy a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel which connects
Lakes Albert and George, for large numbers of buffalo and hippo.
Meals and overnight at Mweya Lodge.
Day 7 Lake Bunyoni Today's drive is through what is probably East
Africa's most spectacular scenery, the highland rain forests which
reach to the volcanoes in which live the mountain gorillas. This
is the lushest highland rain forest on earth, filled with primates
and exotic birds. The afternoon is spent on a foot safari around
the magnificent crater lake, Bunyonyi. Meals and overnight in our
Bushara Island Camp.
Day 8 Return to Kampala, then Entebbe, today, with private rooms
at the Lake Victoria Hotel before your evening departures home.
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