12 Days Holiday safari with golden monkeys, gorillas and chimps

Transfer to Murchison falls national park via Ziwa rhino camp
You will arrive in the morning at Entebbe International Airport. A Buyaga Safaris guide will pick you up for refreshments. You will start your journey to Murchison Falls National Park with lunch en route. You will visit the rhino sanctuary for tracking. You will proceed to Murchison Falls where you will visit the mighty falls and reach the top of the falls with thundering waters. Your overnight stay will be at Murchison River Lodge.

Early morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise
You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and at 8:00 am go for a game drive in search of unique African savannah animals like the giraffes, antelopes, lions, elephants, and the Uganda kob. Birds are also in plenty with the eagle being one of the high-quality sightings and the rare shoebill. While enjoying your game drive, tell your guide to show you the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm. After lunch, you will go for an evening launch cruise on the River Nile. This cruise will lead you to the bottom of the thundering falls where you will spot huge crocodiles, schools of hippos, buffaloes, elephants, and a variety of water birds like herons, cormorants, ducks, bee-eaters, kingfishers, skimmers, fish eagles and sometimes the rare shoebill. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Murchison River Lodge.

Early morning game drive and evening game drive
You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and go for an exclusive game drive in search of unique African savannah animals like giraffes, antelopes, lions, leopards, elephants, and the Uganda kob. Birds are also in plenty with the eagle being one of the high-quality sightings and the rare shoebill. While enjoying your game drive, tell your guide to show you the Congo Blue Mountains, on a clear morning. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm. After lunch, you will go for an evening game drive or choose to relax at the swimming pool. You will have dinner and your overnight stay at Murchison River Lodge.

Transfer to Kibale national forest via Hoima oil city
After an early breakfast, you will drive to Fort Portal with lunch en route. You will drive through traditional homesteads and farms and this will enable you to enjoy the beautiful scenery across that part of the country through the oil city of Hoima. You will arrive in the evening and have a rest while sipping some juice and wine. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest Lodge.

Chimpanzee trekking and Bigodi swamp walk
After an early breakfast at 8:00 am, you will report at Kanyanchu Tourist Centre where tourist activities begin, and set out to track chimpanzees in the forest. The chance of viewing the chimps is over 90% but not a guarantee. Kibale National Park is one of the most beautiful forests in Uganda. This is the home of our closest living relatives the endangered chimpanzee, the threatened red Colobus monkey, and the rare L’Hoests monkey. The forest also boasts of having one of the uppermost varieties and density of primates in Africa tallying up to 13 species including the black and white Colobus, blue monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, red-tailed monkeys and bush babies, and Pottos. After lunch, you will visit Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, and enjoy a guided walk around Magombe Swamp which will present you with a chance to see a wide range of flora and fauna. Your overnight stay at Kibale Forest Lodge.

Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga channel
You will have breakfast and at 8:30 am drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park viewing the magical Rwenzori Mountain range for much of the journey. You will sign in at your lodge facility as you wait for your lunch at 1:00 pm. Then after lunch, you will take on an afternoon launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel which joins Lakes Edward and George. The cruise is an astonishing way to see hippos, buffalos, kob, and the occasional Nile crocodile plus a spectacular bird watching on the water bank. Many who experience the launch cruise consider it the best part of their entire African safari. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at Aardvark Safari Lodge.

Early morning game drive and a drive to the craters in Queen Elizabeth national park
You will have breakfast early in the morning. At 8:00 am with your packed lunch, you'll go for a game drive to catch up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts and you will most likely meet grazing hippos, elephants and lions, spotted hyenas, bush bucks, water bucks, stripped jackals, comical warthogs and the fierce leopards. You will continue to the craters a habitat for elephants and a great view of the park with salt lakes. You may also see forest birds such as bat hawks, brown-eared woodpeckers, and other primates. You will have dinner and an overnight stay at Aardvark Safari Lodge

Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest via Ishasha for tree climbing lions
After breakfast, at 8:30 am, you will drive along the deep and wide dry craters that are full of savanna acacia and grasses. You will go through the unique western rift valley escarpment and the Ishasha sector in the south area of Queen Elizabeth National Park where you will take on yet another game drive in search of tree-climbing lions before going on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The journey takes about 4 hours taking you through interesting features. You will arrive in Bwindi in the evening. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to rare mountain gorillas and a variety of primates including the blue and red-tailed monkeys. The forest itself is lush and green and streams are running through it. You will stay overnight at Mist Gorilla Camp.

Gorilla trekking experience and transfer to Kisoro
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest is the major highlight of the trip. You'll set off early with the guides after breakfast to track the gorillas with a packed lunch and enough drinking water. Each gorilla encounter is different and has its rewards. You'll watch adult gorillas feeding, climbing, grooming, and resting as the youngsters play and swing from vines in a pleasant, good-humored show. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a magnificent green swaddle of dense rainforest, so ancient that it survived the last Ice Age! A recently proclaimed World Heritage Site, it is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth. Its unique, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world's population of mountain gorillas (estimated at six hundred). After the trek, you'll start your journey to Kisoro town. Your overnight stay will be at Ichumbi Hotel Kisoro town.

Golden monkeys in Mgahinga national park and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
You will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and start your journey to Mgahinga National Park for golden monkey trekking. This will involve hiking in search of golden monkeys in their natural habitat. The activity starts at 8:00 am with an orientation of what is to be expected. You will then head out in search of the golden monkeys using the Gahinga Trail. The trek may be long and you are required to carry a packed lunch and enough drinking water. After the trek, you'll transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation. Overnight at Birdnest Resort

Transfer to Lake Mburo national park
After an early breakfast at 8:30 am, you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park and arrive in the afternoon. You will have lunch and relaxation. Later, you'll go for a nature walk in the park with a ranger. The walk will enable you to see giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, Impalas, waterbucks, Pumba, zebras, and elands all these will make your visit memorable. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Arcadia Cottages.

Transfer to Kampala or Entebbe
You will have an early breakfast and at 8:30 am go for a morning game drive. Lake Mburo National Park is a very special place, every part of it is alive with a variety of interesting, colorful animals and features and it has a widespread wetland where you will see elands, impalas, water bucks, warthogs, topis, and zebras. You will go for lunch at 1:00 pm afterward, you'll start your journey to Kampala, and making a stopover at the Equator Line crossing and Mpambire drum makers. You will arrive at 5:00 pm and proceed to Entebbe.