Safari highlight of 14 days vacation in Uganda
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe international airport
Day2: Transfer to lake Mburo national park
Day3: Game drive in Lake Mburo national park
Day4: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for rest
Day 5: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park
Day6: Gorilla trekking and cultural Walk
Day 7 Transfer to Ishasha forest
Day8: Game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park
Day 9: Rest Day In queen Elizabeth national park
Day10: Transfer to Mt Rwenzori national park
Day 11: Tour around Mt Rwenzori national park
Day12: Transfer to Kibale national park
Day 13: Chimpanzee tracking
Day 14 Return to Entebbe for the flight
Vacation in Uganda in 14 days will take you through the gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable national park, game drive, boat cruiser, cultural work, and chimpanzee tracking in the most visited places in Uganda just in 14 days. Spending a vacation in Uganda is the lifetime unforgettable experience
Detailed itinarary
Day1: Arrival at the airport
You will be welcomed by our professional driver /guide, who will take you through the itinerary and later transfer you to the hotel around Entebbe town for refreshment and rest. The accommodation will be a 10-20 minute drive from the airport. The accommodation booked includes lunch and supper for the first day the recommended accommodation is Airport Link guest house, Blue Monkey, Via via guest house, or Gorilla guest for the budget
Middle-class tourists can stay at 2friends Hotel, Victoria Hotel, wild frontier hotel, Luxury: k hotel, imperial beach hotel, Protea Hotel
Day2: Transfer to lake Mburo national park
On the next day, you will be picked up from the hotel at around 8 am after your breakfast, you will pass Via the express road to Masaka and Lake Mburo. You will have a stopover at Kayabwe at the Equator for simple drinks and take some pictures for a memorable time This can be done within 30min and later continue the journey to Lake Mburo which is approximately 3 hours drive from the Equator. The lunch will be taken from the hotel in Mburo national park, after Lunch you can have the sunbath and have some rest
Lunch and supper will be taken at the hotel you will sign in for a night.
Day 3: Game drive in Lake Mburo national park.
In the morning you will wake up, refresh and have breakfast at 8 am and the driver/Guide will pick you up after the breakfast for morning game drive. You will have to see different animals in the park-like impala eland, bushbuck buffalo, leopard, hyena zebra .since there are no Lions and Elephant you can do a safari walk in Mburo and you can enjoy bird watching in Lake Mburo since its one of the park with different bird species later you will return back to the hotel for lunch and refreshment and have rest. Afternoon you can go back for the evening Game drive if possible 2-3hours and after the game drive you will return to the hotel for the second night
Day4: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
The next morning you will be transferred to Lake Bunyonyi, the breakfast can be taken on the way lunch will be taken in Kabale town.on your way to Lake Bunyonyi you can spend like 1hour moving around Mbarara town learn the way how the people of Mbarara live and the reason behind the name of Mbarara city the city of honey and water. after the tour, you embark on the journey to Lake Bunyonyi. The journey may take around 4hours due to a stopover in Kabale town
Day5: Full day at Lake Bunyonyi
The whole day will be spent at Lake Bunyonyi enjoying the fresh air coming from one of the deepest crater lakes in Africa. You can have also a boat cruise on Lake Bunyonyi with a professional guide. Swimming is also allowed if you can swim and the cultural dance from the local people called Bakiga as you enjoy the local drink called Enturire
Day6:Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Bwindi impenetrable national park for Gorilla trekking. The Journey will take you like 1-3house. Accommodation will Depend on the sector and the group you’re signed to the trekking but enganje lodge could be the best accommodation for budget Travellers. will check into the hotel for one night.
Day7: Gorilla trekking as the headline of vacation in Uganda,
Very early in the morning, you will report to the briefing point where you will find a group of Rangers from UWA, they will take you through the rules and guidelines to follow during the gorilla trekking, and each group of 8 people will be assigned to one gorilla family. At the briefing point, that’s where you will be able to identify the type of gorilla family to trek. Weak and old people are always assigned to trek the easier family and the Strong group also takes the gorilla family that requires energy. This activity can take around like 5-6hours of trekking the gorilla with the help of the guide and you will have some good time to take photos and interact with gorillas. The time for trekking will vary depending on the movements of the gorillas. besides gorilla trekking, you will be watching birds in the forest and other animals like monkeys.
Day 8: Transfer to ishasha forest and then Queen Elizabeth
The next morning you can have a cultural walk and visit the people staying around the Bwindi forest which there well-known to be the pygmies(Batwa), you will learn where they originated from the life they live, and the food they depend on. This activity can take around 1-3 hours and later transfer to Ishasha. Ishasha you will have a chance to see the tree-climbing lion which is not common in Africa, drive through the forest, and then transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park.in the evening you can go for a boat cruise at Kazinga channel and watch the hippos
Day9:Game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park
In the morning you will wake up refreshed and have breakfast. After breakfast the driver will pick you up and enter the park, the game drive is done in two places queen kasenyi plains and Mweya the night game drive is only done in Mweya but kasenyi plains allow only the day game drive, the best season for the game drive in queen is the dry season that’s January to march and June to September the rest of the season its rainy which makes it difficult to do a game drive because it’s slippery and its always busy, Queen Elizabeth National Park is the outstanding national park in the country for the game drive due to the vast community of the wild animals and birds. the main animals are elephants, Lions, buffalo Hippos. You can do the morning game drive, in the afternoon. evening or night.
Day10: Resting Day In queen Elizabeth national park
This day will be for refreshment and having a good time at the hotel. The full day will be spent at the hotel having a green savanna view of the park as you can enjoy the fresh air from the natural trees as you hear the voice of different animals and Birds
Day11: Transfer to Mt Rwenzori
In the morning after breakfast and refreshments, you will be transferred to Mt. Rwenzori national park where you will spend a day Doing the walking safari and other activities like community walks. Mt.Rwenzori is famous for its hiking activity which involves climbing the second-highest mountain in East Africa After Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. besides mountaineering, the low planes of Mount Rwenzori have green vegetation, and this is where the national park starts. Rwenzori national park is home to various wild animals and birds, you can find chimpanzees, white colobus, monkeys, and birds in the vegetation zone.
You can spend a night at the Ruboni community camp.
Day12:Transfer to Kibale national park
The morning after breakfast you will transfer to Kibale national park. you can have a stopover around fort portal town where you will have your lunch, visit the Tooro Palace and walk around fort port the Uganda tourism city. After your Lunch, you can transfer to the park where you will check in to the hotel within Kibale national park and speed on the night. Dinner and breakfast will be provided at the lodge/guest house.
Day13: Chimpanzee trekking
on the secondary 14-day last day of vacation in Uganda, you will have the morning breakfast, and you will report to the briefing point where you will be taken through the procedure of chimpanzee tracking. You will be guided by the rules and regulations for chimpanzee tracking. this activity can take 3-4 hours depending on your interest in the chimpanzee, you will have time to take pictures with chimpanzees and interact with them. Kibale national park is a great park for chimpanzee trunking in Uganda. it has a beautiful tropical forest in the whole country with different tree species, it has almost 13premites and different bird species.
After the trekking, you can go for lunch at the Guest. After lunch, you can walk to Bigodi wetland. It’s the best place you can find the bird species during your walking safari after returning to the guest house for a night.
Day 14: Transfer to the airport
The driver will peak you up from the guest house after breakfast and drive to Entebbe international airport for the departure. The drive will take 6-7 hours. You can pass by Kampala city for lunch and then transfer to the airport making the end of a 14day vacation in Uganda
