(QUEEN ELIZABETH NP, KIBALE AND MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK)
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1st DAY: KAMPALA- QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
At 07hrs00, you will be picked from the Lodge or hotel and head Queen Elizabeth National park. Make a stop over at Mpigi crafts and the Equator crossing. At the Equator, you will view some men representing an experiment to test whether water does in fact go in differing directions down a plug hole on opposite sides of the equator. This experiment is a verification to show that the equator is the separator of the two hemispheres. Many people have it that the equator is there, but being there after a short drive is worth while evidence! Take snaps and then after proceed Queen Elizabeth national park. A game drive En route a game drive in search for the unique game like the Topi, Elands, Elephants and many other animals. Have lunch, Visit the crater lakes region and then wait for dinner and over night at Mweya Safari lodge/ JACANA SAFARI LODGE / INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY (FB).
2nd DAY: LAUNCH CRUISE ALONG THE KAZINGA CHANNEL
Wakeup very early for a morning game drive to catch-up with the early risers and predators – lion, leopard, getting back to their hideouts. You will be likely to meet grazing elephants, spotted hyenas ,the elusive leopards, bushbucks, water buck and stripped jackal, and of course the several warthogs. Return to the lodge for break fast and there after, In the afternoon you will go for a launch cruise along the kazinga channel the waterway that joins Lake Edward to Lake George . Uganda safari Its banks are is crammed with families of hippos, buffaloes, with elephants at the banks. If time allows take an evening game drive to the crater area. Get back to your lodge for supper and Overnight at the lodge (FB).
3rd DAY : CHIMPANZEE TRACKING IN KIBALE
We shall head to Kibale national park. This will take you through the good-looking foot hills of the Rwenzori Mountains. Rest at the lodge as you wait for a meal. In the Afternoon, you will gather at Kanyankyu tourist centre for an update from the safari blog Ranger guides before you go for chimpanzee tracking in the Kibale tropical rain forest. Though you will be chimpanzee tracking, you will be astounded to come across more primates and mammals like the Red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, the Blue Mangabeys, Bushbucks, Warthogs, Bush pigs, Duikers, Golden cats among others, a number of bird types including African Pitta, Warbler, Blue headed sun bird among others. Probabilities of seeing chimps in this park are 95%. After that, you will come across man’s closest cousins in their family playing as they move from tree to tree . Dinner and over night at Ndali Lodge/ Primates Lodge/ Rwenzori View guest house.(FB)
4th DAY: TO MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK
It will be quite a long drive but rewarding with a stunning Scenery .Have breakfast and relocate to Murchison falls National park cross ways the elegant Albertine rift. Get lunch, en route and as you get close to the park you will make a stop over briefly at the escarpment overlooking L. Albert. This point has the lowest Altitude 622 M (ASL). Still as you drive along Budongo forest way, you may view Black and White Colobus Monkeys, Red Tailed and Blue Monkeys and lots of Olive Baboons may be seen. Birds for example Alep Pigeons, the Nightjar, Black Billed Turacco, Great Blue and Ross’s Turaccos, Narina’s Trogon, White thigh Hornbills, African Green Pigeons and Nahan’s Francolin may also be seen. Go head for dinner and over night at Paraa safari Lodge / Nile Safari Camp/ Sambiya River lodge/ Red Chilies Camp.(FB)
5th DAY: LAUNCH CRUISE ALONG THE RIVER NILE AFRICAN SAFARI
Arise early enough and get your break fast while getting ready for the morning game drive in the Northern part of Murchison falls national park. This morning before the sun goes too high, expect encounters of herds of Buffaloes, Elephants, Rothschild’s giraffe, prides of lions, the Illusive leopard, Oribis, Hartebeests, Waterbucks, Kobs, watch elephants as they graze on the grassy hillsides plus a variety of other bird species for example the Nightjar. Back in time for late breakfast. There after you will rest as you wait for your meal. In the afternoon, you will take a launch cruise along the Victoria Nile to the foot of the falls, watch families of Hippos relaxing by the Nile bank, Nile crocodiles will be incubating eggs, as many of the birds stand on the backs of these mammals. You will return to your lodge for dinner and over night.
Optional: If you are physically fit and interested to hike to the top of the falls, (1 hour’s hike) the launch will drop you at the cliff on the right side of the bottom of the falls. With the accompaniment of a guide you will hike to the top of the falls. Simple hiking shoes and water are obligatory prerequisites. The walk is a little bit arduous conversely once you reach the top; you will realize that it is a worthwhile as you witness water dipping from a gorge that is 5o meters wide down into a narrow gorge of a 7 metres width…
Return to the lodge for dinner and over night (FB)
6th DAY : RELOCATE TO KAMPALA
We shall relocate you to Your Hotel in Kampala. Lunch En route
End of safari
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