5 Days Queen Elizabeth chimpanzee tracking and wildlife safari.
5 days Queen Elizabeth chimpanzee tracking and wildlife safari is Uganda’s best safari tour that takes tourists to Queen Elizabeth national park that offers tourists with both game drives, chimpanzee tracking and boat cruise in only one park. The safari starts and then ends in Kampala with the expert and professional safari guides from African Vacation Safaris.
Tour Highlights.
Day 1: Arrival and then transfer to your hotel.
Day 2: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park.
Day 3: Game drive and afternoon game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Day 5: Transfer to Kampala.
Detailed itinerary.
Day 1: Arrival and then transfer to your hotel.
On day one of the safari, depending on your arrival time, your safari guide from African Vacation Safaris will pick you, then welcome you from Entebbe International Airport. He will brief you about the safari and then transfer you to your hotel in Kampala to where you will relax, have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park.
On the 2nd day of the safari, wake up early in the morning and take breakfast, after breakfast check out from your lodge and then meet safari guide and then start on your journey to Queen Elizabeth national park that takes you approximately 6 hour’s drive in the western part of Uganda. Along the way you will have the lunch en-route in Mbarara, and after lunch you will proceed with your journey and then reach the park in the evening with the game viewing experiences as you are heading to your lodge. Upon your arrival you will check in your lodge for dinner, relaxation and overnight stay.
Day 3: Game drive and afternoon game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park.
On the 3rd day of the safari, wake up early in the morning and enjoy your breakfast, after breakfast you will meet your safari guide and then transfer to the park to sight the early risers, the game drive is such perfect that takes you to the verdant savannah plains to where you will sight the big four mammals of the big five mammals that includes the lions, buffaloes, leopards and elephants, as well as other mammals during the experience, without forgetting the bird species. After the game drive you will transfer to your lodge for lunch.
After lunch, you will return back to the park to see the various animal species and then the bird species that you missed during the morning game drive in the park; after the game drive you will drive back to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and overnight stay.
Day 4: Chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth national park.
After breakfast, you will meet your safari guide and then transfer to Kyambura gorge for the chimpanzee tracking in Queen Elizabeth national park with all your respective tracking gears, you will first receive a briefing about the rules, regulations to follow during chimpanzee tracking. After you will explore the forests with the experienced trackers and then rangers to look for the chimpanzees. Although hiking the Kyambura gorge steep slopes while looking for the chimpanzees is challenging but after finding them is such worth it, this is where you will be given one hour in their presence that is watching them feed, playing, breastfeeding, grooming, as you take their pictures and recording the best moments. After the experience you will trek back and then transfer to your lodge for lunch.
After lunch you will again come for more experience to do afternoon boat cruise on the famous Kazinga channel that connects Lake Edward and Lake George that is known for having the largest numbers of the hippopotamuses in the country, as well you will spot the giant crocodiles and lots of bird species including cormorants, African fish eagles, bee-eaters, yellow-bellied storks, African jacana and among others, and others. You will see other animals along the water shores that come to drink and soak up the channel. After you will transfer to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and overnight stay.
Day 5: Transfer to Kampala.
Day On the last day of the safari, wake up early in the morning and enjoy breakfast. After breakfast, you will check out from your lodge and then meet your safari guide and begin your journey to Kampala with the enroute lunch along the way. As you exist the lodge you will have the en-route game drive to spot the early risers that offers you fascinating safari experience.
Upon your arrival you will be dropped at your convenient place either at the airport or to your hotel in Kampala that will make your safari come to the end.
End of 5 Days Queen Elizabeth chimpanzee tracking and wildlife safari
Safari includes.
Entrance fees.
Chimpanzee tracking permits.
Boat cruise fees.
Service of a professional English speaking driver guide.
Full board accommodation.
Safari vehicle.
Pick up and droppoffs.
Bottled drinking water.
Safari excludes.
Visas.
Air flight tickets.
Optional activities not included on the itinerary.
Laundry services.