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UGANDA CULTURAL TOUR AND SITE SEEING

Day 1: ARRIVAL
A tour guide and representative from our company will pick you from the airport and transfer you to your proposed accommodation site in Kampala, depending on the time of arrival, you are advised to change your money in Ugandan Shillings for use in your safari. You can then make urban trips to some of Kampala's historical sites with the help of our driver/guide. This can be done in places like; Kasubi Tombs, Wamala tombs, Namugongo Martyrs Shrine, Museums and craft shops around town like on Bombo road name it.
Dinner and overnight at Sheraton Hotel / Hotel Africana or Holiday Express Hotel

Day 2: - FORT PORTAL
Depart for Fort Portal, the area where Semliki & Kibale Forest National Parks are situated. The drive is approximately 4- 6 Hours. Along the way, you will have a stop over at the Mpigi royal drum makers then proceed to Fort Portal. Have lunch as you wait for dinner and and overnight at
Luxurios Ndali Lodge/ Primates Lodge
Mid range rwenzori View guest House/ Basic kanyankyu ecological site park headquaters.

Day 3: FORT PORTAL - SEMLIKI - FORT PORTAL
Leave after breakfast for the crown and hot springs. The drive is a 2-4 hours .This will be the day in the pygmy villages located near the Ituri Rainforest. The visit to the villages has proven to be an appealing cultural experience. You take a tour to the Hot Springs from where you will visit the Pygmies. The guide will carry packed lunch for you so that you have a Picnic lunch while you experience the TRUE AFRICA! Afterwards, you will be transferred back to Fortportal. Dinner and an overnight at
Luxurios Ndali Lodge/Primates Lodge / Mantana Luxury tented Camps
Mid range rwenzori View guest House/
Basic kanyankyu Primates Lodge bandas

Day 4: KIBALE NATIONAL PARK.
Take breakfast early in the morning. You will be taken to Kanyankyu tourist centre for briefing from the guide before tracking and then after set off. Kibale Forest National Park is celebrated to have an unmatched miscellany and highest massing of primates in East Africa. Delight in a guided nature walk in the tropical rainforest evergreen in exploration of the Hot springs, black white colobus monkeys, wild chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, butterflies of different species and many others. Take your luncheon, then go for a walk in Bigodi Swamp. Bigodi Wetland sanctuary is situated just outside the park in Magombe Swamp. This is a community run initiative aimed at conserving the unique biodiversity and environmental values of the Wetland. The walk will expose you to a diversity of Flora that you might have missed out in the Chimp walk. Take your dinner and overnight at
Luxurios Ndali Lodge/Primates Lodge / Mantana Luxury tented Camps
Mid range rwenzori View guest House/ Basic kanyankyu Primates Lodge bandas
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Day 5: KIBALE - QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK.
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park The drive wil take 3-4 hours. Check in and relax at the lodge as we wait for Lunch. In the afternoon, we will we indulge in a launch -cruise along Kazinga Channel- a natural channel that links Lake Edward and Lake George. Expect to view birds in profusion both typical and migrants and the highest concentration of hippos in Africa. Dinner and overnight at Luxuriuos Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana Safari Lodge (FB)
Basic Institute of Ecology.

Day6: QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK.
Early in the morning after a cup of coffee to gain your warmth, you take a game drive in search for lions in their natural habitat, as well as elephants, buffaloes etc. before returning for lunch. After stretching our legs, we visit the bat cave in the Maramagambo forest where we take a close look at the bats, rock python, The Blue lake! and forest cobras. The same walk will provide a chance of seeing birds, primates, tree species etc. Dinner and overnight at
Luxuriuos Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana safari lodge (FB)
Basic Institute of Ecology.

Day 7: QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, cruising through grassland area, instantaneously we come across an astounding gorge of tropical rainforest 100 meters deep! Hike into Kyambura River Gorge for a bizarre experience tracking chimpanzees. It's so stunning to see the rich tropical river valley, home of many bird and butterfly species. Thwe walk will take 3- 4 hours but even though you might miss the Chimpanzee, chances of seeing other primates like the red tailed monkeys, the Black and white colobus monkeys, the Blue mangabeys and many others are supercilious! You will then be transferred to the Ishasha Wilderness camp for your dinner and over night. (FB )

Day 8: TO BWINDI IMPENETREABLE NATIONAL PARK
Having taken breakfast, we will take a short game drive through the Ishasha sector in search for tree climbing Lions in the Southern sector of this Park and then after drive to Bwindi national park. Have lunch. On arrival after check in you will go for a village walk around the communities. Dinner and over night at
Luxury Gorilla Forest camp / Buhoma Homestead/ Gorilla Resort Camp
Mid Range Lake Kitandara luxury tents / or
Basic at Buhoma Community Bandas / Bwindi View Bandas (FB)

Day 9 BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST NATIONAL PARK.
Well prepared with you tracking gear, water, and packed lunch, you will assemble for briefing from the ranger guides. Then after you will go for a gorilla tracking in the Impenetrable Forest. The time taken to walk and encounter the gorillas is unpredictable however an encounter of a Family with two silver backs is a worthwhile and it rubs away all the strenuousness you have heard all through the hiked. You are allowed to view these gorilla for only 1 hour and return to your lodge for dinner and over night. (FB)

Day 10 : BWINDI
Take breakfast and if you missed the Village walk because of fatigue on the first day you may opt to go for guided nature walk in Bwindi. Though gorilla tracking is the major tourism activity, a wide range of other activities provide more opportunities to spot Flora, avian species and primates while you explore Uganda’s exquisite rain forest . The walks depart at 09:00 and 14:15 hrs. A forest walk in the water fall trails through Uganda’s Most pure expanses of rain forest, passing beneath tree ferns, epiphytic ferns and orchids to visit water falls in this impenetrable forest is a worth while. Return to the lodge for lunch and then in the afternoon, if you missed the Buhoma village walk, you may opt to take it or relax as you wait for dinner and over night at you lodge. (FB)

Day 11.TO RWANDA
After breakfast, leave for Rwanda. You will arrive Gatuna before evening, Clear your Visa requirements as a prerequisite for entering Rwanda. [Clocks go backward one hour]. Stroll around the panoramic country side of Rwanda as you simply take in the panoramic sunset over the volcanoes. Lunch en route.
Dinner and over night
Mt Gorilla Nest Lodge / Kinigi Guest house/ Muhavura Lodge (FB)

DAY 12 Finding the gorillas
Early morning, you will enter the Gorilla sanctuary of Parc National des Volcans, the tropical rain forest covering the hills surrounding Virunga Volcanoes. The time spent in the forest depends on the movements of the Gorillas in their natural environments. After the activity, you will be transferred to Kigali for a visit to The Genocide Memorial. But if the Tracking ends late, this activity will be done on the next day.
Dinner and overnight at
Hotel Des mille Collines / Kigali serena Hotel(FB)

Day 13: LAKE BUNYONYI:
Not denying the foreseeable fussy days at Bwindi and Perc Des Volcans, if you did not visit the Genocide memorial, you will visit the area and then after transfer to Kabale. Most clients will cherish some relaxing moments on the shores of this peaceful lake which is also known to be the Deepest in Uganda. Tourists will choose among the various tour activities. They can choose to go birding, cycling, and sun bathing, swimming or even canoeing, Village walks. Have lunch at leisure.
Dinner and overnight at Habuharo Island camp/Arcadia cottages/ Bunyonyi Overland camp .(FB)

Day 14: LAKE BUNYONYI - LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK.
Very early in the morning after breakfast, given the little time, take breakfast, then have a drive of 4 hours to Lake Mburo National Park. Have lunch and then go for a boat ride. We will go for a walk to the salt lick area. A walk to the nearby saltlick is a highlight platform. A strategically located wooden Platform offers you a chance to see at least four different species of animals at any one time while they lick salty soil Dinner and overnight at
Luxurious Mihingo Lodge/Mantana luxury tented camp (FB)
Mid Range Agip Motel in Mbarara
Basic Rwonyo camp

Day 15: LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK - KAMPALA - JINJA.
After breakfast, take a short game drive game drive today which will enable us to see the zebras, topes, elephants, elands, impalas, buffaloes antelopes, etc. After we will transfer to Kampala then to Jinja. Dinner and overnight at Jinja Nile Resort / Gately On the Nile/ King Fisher Resort Jinja

DAY 16: Jinja – Mbale Abayudaya
Take breakfast, Visit the source of the Nile and the Bujagali falls, have lunch en route then transfer to Mbale . Then visit the Abayuday. If you get in Mbale in time for circumcision, you will be taken to watch this cultural norm of the Bagisu people of Uganda.. Dinner and over night at Mbale Resort or wash and wills.

Day 17 Mbale – Jinja – Kampala
Take breakfast and Transfer to Mabira forest for a forest walk have a picnic lunch and then in the afternoon you will return to Kampala for a city tour. Then to Entebbe for dinner and over night at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel / Boma Guest House.
Day 18 Visit the Orphanage
Visit our orphanage and then after you will be transferred to Entebbe for your next flight back home.