This comprehensive trip takes you into Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Queen Elizabeth National Park as well Kibale Forest. Highlights include gorilla viewing, big game viewing in Uganda's best game viewing area, chimpanzee trekking in both Chamburu Gorge and Kibale Forest - you might call this a spectacular primate safari - which it is!

Minimum age for gorilla trek is 15 years, people with flu or transmittable diseases are not allowed to be in the presence of gorillas.

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Day 1 - Entebbe

Pick up from Entebbe airport and transfer to hotel for overnight stay.

Days 2, 3, 4 - Bwindi National Park, Gorilla Trek

Pick up from Entebbe hotel and transfer to the airstrip for your scheduled flight to Kihihi airstrip. From here we meet you and drive to Bwindi National Park. Balance of afternoon free to explore the area. Overnight Buhoma Lodge. 

Next day is an amazing, full day - hiking in the forest to your selected group or family of gorillas - its a special experience and the hour you spend with them seems to fly by. You do need to be reasonably fit to walk up into the forest and back down again!

Days 5, 6 - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Ishasha area

Optional second gorilla tracking or forest walk in Bwindi Forest/village visit/curio shopping and then drive to Ishasha, southern sector of QENP. En route to Ishasha option - visit COMMUNITY PROJECT 

The park is named after Queen Elizabeth II and was established in 1954. The park was later renamed Ruwenzori before it returned to its royal name. QENP is known for its wildlife, although many animals were killed in the Uganda-Tanzania War. Many species have recovered, including hippopotami, elephants, leopards, lions and chimpanzees; it is now home to 95 species of mammal and over 500 species of birds. The area around Ishasha in Rukungiri District is famous for its tree-climbing lions, whose males sport black manes, a feature unique to the lions in this area. The park is also famous for its volcanic features, comprising volcanic cones and deep craters, many with crater lakes such as Lake Katwe, from which salt is extracted.

Stay at Ishasha Wilderness camp.

Day 7 - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Mweya area

Game drive to the central area of the park called Mweya, where you enjoy a boat cruis on the Kazinga Channel - plenty of hippos and other mammals are viewed along with wonderful birdlife.

Stay at Mweya Lodge or similar.

Days 8, 9 - Kibale Forest

Kibale National Park is a national park in South Uganda protecting moist evergreen rain forest. It is 766 km2 (296 sq mi) in size and is located between 1,100–1,600 meters (3,600–5,200 ft) in elevation. Despite encompassing primarily moist evergreen forest, it contains a diverse array of landscapes. Kibale is one of the last remaining expanses to contain both lowland and montane forests. In East Africa, it sustains the last significant expanse of pre-montane forest.

The park was gazetted in 1932 and formally established in 1993 to protect a large area of forest previously managed as a logged Forest Reserve. The park forms a continuous forest with Queen Elizabeth National Park. This adjoining of the parks creates a 180 km (111 mi) wildlife corridor. It is an important eco-tourism and safaridestination, popular for its population of habituated chimpanzees and 12 other species of primates.

Stay at suitable lodge in or near the park.

Day 10 - Depart

Return to Entebbe by road, a 6 or 7 hour journey, via the markets in Kampala