6 Days Uganda Safari: Best Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Self Drive Tour
6 Days Uganda Safari: Best Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Self Drive Tour. Book a 6 day Uganda safari for Chimpanzee Tracking & Gorilla Trekking and wildlife self drive Tour in Uganda.
Make the most of your time in Uganda with this extensive 6 Days Uganda Safari Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Self Drive Tour. Throughout your 6 Days Uganda Safari Chimpanzee & Gorilla Trekking Self Drive Tour, you will discover all the famous natural wonders of Uganda’s National parks of Kibale Forest national Park, Queen Elizabeth National park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park including Isasha sector- the home of the climbing lions. Travel around Uganda on your own schedule and enjoy a complete adventure.
Best of all, you have total freedom to choose where to drive and when to leave
Safari Highlights:
Gorilla trekking
Batwa community visit
Chimpanzee trekking
Game drives & Boat Cruise Queen Elizabeth National Park
Crater lakes visit
Tree Climbing Lions of Ishasha
Boat ride in Lake Mburo National Park
Day By Day Itinerary For The 6 Days Uganda Safari
Day 1: Welcome to Uganda
Collect your car on arrival from Entebbe international Airport and drive to Kibale Forest national Park via fort Portal. On your way to Kibale Forest national Park, you could choose to pass via Fort Portal with lunch enroute. Upon arrival at Kibale Forest national Park, you can proceed to the crater lakes, where you have breathtaking views of the terraced tea estates. Drive back to the Lodge for dinner and an over night.
Day 2: Travel to Kibale Forest National Park
Day 2 sends you off for an exhilarating and thrilling chimpanzee experience in the wild. Start your journey to the primate capital of Kibale Forest National Park to meet face to face with the chimpanzees. You will start with morning briefing at Kanyanchu visitor center at 8:00am. Along with the group and the ranger guide, you enter into the wild to search for chimpanzees, and might take between 5-8 hours. Upon finding them, you are entitled to see the chimpanzees face to face. From here return to the headquarters for Chimpanzee trekking permit certificate for tracking chimpanzees.
Return in the lodge for Lunch and later embark on your 3 hours self drive to Queen Elizabeth national Park for an exclusive wildlife experience.
Day 3:Game Drive and Boat Cruise on the Kazinga channel
Start your day with a great cup of coffee to kickstart your morning game drive. You will drive along the Kasenyi plains alongside other tracks to spot numerous game including antelopes, Elephants, solitary buffaloes, lions, warthogs, and various birds.
After 2-3 hours, you drive back to the Lodge for a mid morning breakfast at your lodge, and spend the rest of the time relaxing and later on have lunch. Proceed to the boat for a ride on Kazinga channel where you will sight many elephants at the bank, buffaloes, crocodiles, hippos, waterbucks, birds etc.
Day 4: Journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Today is the day when you drive to Uganda’s most famous tourist Uganda national Park. Get a good start of the day with an early morning breakfast, and get behind the wheel so you can enjoy your morning game drive along the Isasha sector, where you might meet the tree climbing Lions on top of the Acacia tree branches. Proceed for lunch, and arrive in your hotel in the afternoon, check in and relax as you prepare for the interesting moment of the following day.
Day 5: The Uganda Gorilla trekking Experience
Today you will spend your day with the Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable national Park. You will start your day by driving to the park headquarters for a few briefing gorilla trekking. After here, the ranger guide along with the other group members shall leave for the search of the gorillas. Gorilla trekking usually lasts from 2-8 hours depending on your group physical strength and position where the gorillas might have moved. Upon meeting them, you will be allowed to interact with them for at most 1 hour. Return to the headquarters for lunch for your certificate and depart for your hotel/Lodge.
There is plenty to do in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. So before you ,move from the area, you can choose to go for the Batwa community visit for an impressive cultural experience with the locals.
Day 6: Fare Well to Entebbe
It time to say goodbye! Today you will drop off your self drive rental car at any location of choice in Kampala or Entebbe otherwise at Entebbe International Airport.
