All-inclusive 10 Days Uganda Safari (Updated 2024)

After an early breakfast, your safari driver or guide will pick you up from your hotel in Entebbe or Kampala (after briefing you about your trip) and drive northwest to Murchison Falls NP, Uganda’s largest park and home to 76 animal species and 451 bird species.

You will stop over at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking and lunch before proceeding to Murchison Falls. On arrival, you will access the park through the Kichumbanyobo gate and visit the top of the falls before checking in at your reserved lodge for dinner and overnight.

The ride takes about 6-7hrs.

Accommodation & meals:

• Luxury: Paraa Safari lodge/ Nile Safari Lodge/Chobe Safari Lodge.
• Midrange: Fort Murchison/ Baker’s lodge/Murchison River Lodge.
• Budget: Fort Murchison/Red. Chilli/Murchison River Lodge in tents.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 

Wake up to a sumptuous breakfast and then prepare for a 3 to 4-hour game drive on the northern side of the park. Expect to see abundant wildlife such as Uganda kobs, Rothschild’s giraffes, elephants, lions, topis, Jackson hartebeests, other antelopes, and different bird species in the savannah.

You will embark on a boat cruise in the afternoon to the bottom of the falls which is best known for being the most powerful waterfall in the world. The pressure with which the equivalent of 200 bathtubs full of water is forced through a narrow gorge less than seven paces wide, producing a thunderous roar every second, is so great that the ground around it shakes.

It then plummets 43 meters before calmly flowing out toward Lake Albert as a placid river whose banks are dense with hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks, buffaloes, and countless water birds. You will also hike to the top of the falls to observe it from another perspective. After these incredible encounters, you will retire to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Enjoy an early breakfast and transfer to Kibale Forest on a scenic road trip. You will take in spectacular views of the gorgeous scenery in the countryside, local homesteads, and farms along the Albertine Rift escarpment.

You will have a brief lunch break en route in Fortportal town, visit the Amabere Ganyinamwiru stalagmites, have great views of the Rwenzori ranges, and finally check in at your reserved lodge upon arrival.

Your adventure in Kibale begins with a guided nature walk along the Bigodi wetland. This sanctuary is home to various bird and primate species, including the great blue turaco, including Black and white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, red colobus monkeys, Baboons, mangabey, grey-cheeked monkey, red tailed, L-hoest and vervet monkeys, and chimpanzees among others and animals like bush pigs, otters, sitatungas, bushbucks, mongoose, and warthogs, among others.

You will explore this biologically diverse conservation area, interact with the locals, and later return to the lodge for dinner and overnight sleep.

The ride takes about 7-8hrs.

Accommodation & meals:

• Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge/ Primate Lodge.
• Mid-range: Kibale Forest Camp/Turaco Treetops.
• Budget: Chimps Nest/Wild Camping.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 

Kibale Forest National Park is popular for its chimpanzee tracking excursions which all start from the Kanyanchu visitor Centre. This 795 km2 area comprises one of the most beautiful and varying tracts of tropical forests in Uganda and provides home to a number of forest wildlife, most especially 13 species of primates, including chimpanzees.

After an early morning breakfast, you will report to the headquarters for registration and briefing before delving deep into the jungles in search of the primates. Thanks to the park rangers, who know where to find the chimpanzees easily. They will lead you during this thrilling activity and once you find a troop of chimpanzees, you will spend a maximum of one hour with them. You will observe these vocal apes grooming, feeding, playing and jumping from tree to tree and take enough pictures to tell your story back home.

In the afternoon, you will visit the Bigodi wetland and experience a lot of bird life and unspoiled nature, as well as take a walk through the Bigodi community found within the borders of Kibale Forest. Bigodi village settles in the highlands of western Uganda, in the shadows of the Ruwenzori Mountains, the famous “Mountains of the Moon.”

In this episode of your 10 Days Safari, enjoy a relaxed breakfast and check out of the lodge to start a scenic road trip to Queen Elizabeth NP. You will have spectacular views of the Rwenzori Mountain Ranges fading away from your rear – the beautiful landscape vistas made up of rolling hills, Lake George, and tea plantations. You will check in at your lodge upon arrival and be served lunch.

An afternoon game drive will be your introduction to a wide variety of wildlife in the plains of Murchison Falls, such as elephants, cape buffalos, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, bushbucks, and warthogs, among others. You will retire to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation & meals:

• Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge/Katara Lodge/Kasenyi Safari Lodge.
• Mid-range: Bush Lodge/Enganzi Game Lodge.
• Budget: Bush Lodge in the Tents/Simba Safari Camp.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 

Queen Elizabeth National Park is a popular safari park in Uganda, and it is made up of savannah grasslands, wetlands, lakes, and forests. At least 95 species of mammals and over 600 species of birds find home in this incredible park.

You will wake up early in the morning and embark on an early morning game drive in the Kasenyi sector to see various wildlife species such as elephants, Uganda kobs, leopards, antelopes, buffaloes, waterbucks, giraffes, and amazing bird species. Return to the lodge for a late breakfast and visit the Katwe salt pans, where you will encounter locals mining salt.

In the afternoon, you will embark on a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. It is a 40-kilometre-long channel that connects Lake George and Lake Edward. During the boat trip, which lasts for about 2 hours, you will view large concentrations of hippos and Nile crocodiles in water, buffaloes, elephants, and warthogs drinking water along the banks, and water birds like yellow-billed storks, cormorants, hornbills, African skimmers, kingfishers, fish eagles, and many more, which you won’t miss seeing.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to half of the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. Several endangered species of birds within their limited ranges also inhabit this Afromontane Forest. Bwindi is the richest forest in Uganda, with the highest biodiversity rating. Its name, “Impenetrable Forest,” is derived from the dense ground cover of herbs, vines, and shrubs, with only a few trees the valley bottoms contain.

You will have a quick breakfast and transfer to Bwindi Forest through the Ishasha sector, where you will spot tree-climbing lions. Enjoy amazing and spectacular views of banana and tea plantations, the overall green vegetation of the area, rolling hills, tropical rainforest, and the majestic Virunga volcanic chain. You will have lunch en route and arrive at Bwindi in the afternoon.

Accommodation & meals:

• Luxury: Mountain Gorilla Lodge/Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge/Buhoma Lodge.
• Mid-range: Engagi Lodge/ Silverback Gorilla Lodge.
• Budget: Gorilla Valley Lodge/Bwindi Forest Lodge/Nshongi Camp.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 

After an early morning breakfast, you are expected to be at the park headquarters in time (around 7:40 a.m.) for registration and a briefing session. You will join a group of other trekkers (usually a maximum of eight) and be led into the forest jungle by two armed ranger guides for your safety while trekking the primates.

Gorilla trekking is an once-in-a-lifetime experience and trekking these gentle giants in their natural habitat is worth every penny. You will spend between 4 and 8 hours looking for the gorillas, depending on their movements and location. Therefore, it is advisable to carry a packed lunch, enough drinking water, and trekking equipment (sturdy shoes, non-flash cameras, rain jackets, and walking or supporting sticks).

After finding a family of habituated gorillas, you will be allowed to spend a maximum of one hour with them. This time seems to be too little, but it is enough for you to observe these gentle and charming creatures from a safe distance of 10 metres. You will take as many pictures as you want, then return to the headquarters for your gorilla trekking certificate and return to your lodge.

In the evening, you will embark on a community walk where you will visit the Batwa pygmies, an indigenous people who have lived in this forest for ages. You will meet them, learn about their culture and way of life, and also contribute to conservation programs.

After an early morning breakfast (6:30 a.m.), you will transfer to Lake Mburo National Park, home to over 332 bird species. You will stopover in Mbarara town for lunch and then proceed with the road trip. You will enjoy breath-taking views of Kabale’s scenic landscape, a combination of terraced hills, forests, and banana plantations.

Upon arrival at the park, you will embark on a boat ride on the lake. It is rich with a wide variety of aquatic animal species, including hippos, crocodiles, and numerous water birds. Lake Mburo National Park is the capital of zebras and impalas. That means it has the highest populations of zebras and impalas (the only place to see them) in Uganda.

You will also see other residents of this park on game drives. They include warthogs, topis, waterbucks, buffaloes, reedbucks, and bird species, among others. You can also take a nature walk in the evening before retiring to your lodge for dinner and overnight sleep.

The ride takes 7hrs.

Accommodation & meals:

• Luxury: Mihingo Lodge
• Mid-range: Rwakobo Rock/Lake Mburo Safari Lodge
• Budget: Eagles Nest Lodge

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

End your 10 Days Uganda Safari by embarking on an early morning game drive to take in your last views of wildlife such as zebras, impalas, warthogs, topis, elands, Klipspringer antelopes, and many more.

You will return to the lodge for a late breakfast, pack up, and then drive back to Kampala or Entebbe. You will stopover for lunch in Masaka and another at the Equator to take photos and purchase souvenirs before arriving in the evening.

No accommodation
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch.

End of 10 Days Uganda Safari – Gorilla, Chimpanzee Tracking & Big 5.