Experience the Best of Uganda's Safaris

5 DAY SAFARI TO MURCHISON FALLS AND KIBALE NATIONAL PARK

Day 1      You safari guide will collect you from your hotel and depart by road to Murchison falls National Park. This scenic drive takes about 5-6 hours drive. You will stop in Masindi for lunch before driving to the top of the falls. Here you will explore the different viewpoints and the refreshing spray as the Nile thunders through different rapids from a 7-metre gap to fall over 40 metres below. Continue to Paraa Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili for dinner and overnight listening to the sounds of Hippos, crickets and the roar of the Nile.

              Dinner and overnight at Paraa safari Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili camp

Day 2      After a morning cup of coffee, you will go for a game drive. Here game viewing will be done aboard your open topped safari vehicle in search of Giraffes, Elephant, Bushbucks Lion, Jackal, Hartebeest and birdlife. Return to the lodge for lunch.

              In the afternoon, you will go for a launch cruise which will allow you to have close up photo opportunities of schools of Hippo, crocodile, water birds, sometimes elephants and other wildlife that comes down for a drink in the afternoon heat. On docking at the mid River Island, you will take pictures of the Murchison Falls before returning to you accommodation for dinner and overnight.

              Dinner and overnight at Paraa safari Lodge/Nile safari camp/Red chili camp.
Day 3      Following breakfast, drive from Murchison Falls NP and head Southwest through the Albertine Escarpment of the Rift Valley. Continue through Hoima town and reach the beautiful town of Fort Portal which is located on the shadow of the mythical Rwenzori Mountain. Continue to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
            Dinner and Overnight at Ndali Lodge/Primate Lodge/Rwenzori View Guest house/Kanyankyu Ecological site.

Day 4      Begin the day with a hearty breakfast after which go to Kibale Forest National Park for Chimpanzee trekking. Here you will be able to encounter so many different primate species among them including Red-Colobuses, grey cheeked Mangabeys, black-and-white colobus monkeys, butterflies, birds and many other small insects.

            Return to the lodge for lunch after which drive to Bigodi Swamp for a walk. This walk is excellent for viewing the different species of birds and it is an ideal of the local community and the revenues got go direct to the locals.

            Dinner and Overnight at Ndali Lodge/Primate Lodge/Rwenzori View Guest house/Kanyankyu Ecological site.

Day 5      Drive back to Kampala.