Today we embark on our Journey to the west for the wild encounter. We drive to Queen Elizabeth National park via Fort portal. The journey to here is amazing through different landscapes, changes in vegetation, and the endless tea plantations of Fort Portal. We arrive in the early afternoon, check in at our lodge, refresh, have lunch and at 2pm we join for a cruise on the Kazinga Channel. After the 3 hour journey we return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Elephant Plains Lodge

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Famous for wildlife encounter and lion sightings at the park is the Kasenyi plains. Today we have an early breakfast we shall do a morning experiential game drive and try our luck on what nature will give us from the predators, grazers, birds, and other mammals. The network of tracks here make it easy to drive through as we do the search and watch wildlife. This includes elephants, water bucks, Uganda Kobs, leopards, lions, buffaloes, and some of the 95 mammals and 600 birds that are recorded here. After we shall return to the lodge for lunch and relaxation as we await for the evening to do the magnificent drive through the craters. These are less explored but classic region of the park.

Accommodation: Elephant Plains Lodge

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park

The “Valley of apes”, Kyambura Gorge has one community of chimpanzees that are always referred to as the lost chimpanzees. These are habituated for tracking and going down the 100m deep valley for these primates, doesn’t guarantee seeing them because they are always on the move but it is never disappointing. There is a lot of life from old trees, birds, monkey, and hippos that fill the Kyambura River. After tracking, we shall transfer to Buhoma where we shall have an overnight before the gorilla encounter the next day.

Accommodation: Silverback Lodge

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks

Today we go for the highlight activity- Gorilla tracking. Mountain gorillas only survive in three countries of Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo. Bwindi has half of the remaining population of gorillas and tonight you will join other trackers at Buhoma sector of Bwindi for briefing after breakfast. After briefing you will be allocated a group that you will go with for tracking. It can be a 3-8 hour tracking day so you will carry packed lunch and enough drinking water. After the tracking you drive back to the lodge and you relax and recover from the hikes. Have overnight and dinner.

Accommodation: Silverback Lodge

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Today is our last day, we have breakfast at the lodge, check out and drive back to Kampala or Entebbe. We shall drive through different districts and have a stop at the equator before continuing to Kampala and arriving late evening. You will do a Covid-19 test and have an overnight before your exit flight next day.

Note: You are required to arrive a day before the start of the tour. Accommodation on that day and Day 5 are not included but can be arranged at an extra cost considering (bed and breakfast, and Half board).