20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour – Uganda at a Glance & Primate Safari “Culture & Game un Explored”

This 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour is the MOST exciting but more adventurous holiday trip that will lead you from the Mighty streams e of the source of the NILE up to Sipi – Mountain Elgon, onto the flats of Lake Kyoga to the newest Conservation area of Pian Upe in the far Eastern part of the Pearl-Uganda, continuation to the flats of Kidepo Valley National Park, as well as to the Magnificent Murchison Falls, Culture, Wildlife, Birding and Primate Exploration in Impenetrable Forests of Bwindi, Lake Bunyonyi – Lake Mburo National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park Savannah Conservation area and a glimpse to the Endangered Golden Monkeys of the Muhavura mountains of Kisoro.

20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour Details

Day 1:  Arrive –Entebbe – meet/greet – transfer to the hotel – briefing – overnight

On arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be met by our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour representative who will transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe/Kampala for a briefing and overnight. (Meal Plan on B/D)

Accommodation options: Laico Hotel (Standard upmarket), Karibu Guest House/Cassia lodge (Midrange)

Day 2: Entebbe – The Source of the river Nile – Overnight Jinja

After breakfast drive to Jinja via Kampala for a city tour highlight, depending on your interests in Kampala, we will have lunch and later take off to Jinja via Mabira/Ssezibwa/tea and sugar cane plantation we will be in Jinja in time to explore the source of the Nile the world’s longest river NILE, keeping time in mind we will head to the lodge for check-in, dinner and overnight. (Meal plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Wild Waters (Luxury), Kingfisher Resort (Mid-range)

Day 3: Jinja – half-day dedicated to – (optional activities) – transfer to Sipi – overnight

An early morning breakfast, depending on your interest of the day (Options-White water Rafting/Bungee Jumping/Kayaking/floating boat cruise at the Nile, will proceed to the points from where we will start with our exciting day’s activities, we will have lunch at leisure, as we start with our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour journey extension to Sipi Fall, from where we will have our next dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Rafiki Lodge Sipi (Moderate) or Sipi River Lodge (Moderate)

Day 4: Sipi Falls visit – Pian Upe game reserve – evening game drive

After an early breakfast, we go for a nature walk to the Sipi Falls, four a spectacular waterfall on River Sipi, which originates from Mount Elgon. The starting point is from Rafic parking for an organized community walk with a local 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide who will make us able to reach the caves the base of the falls; also, we will an opportunity to experience the farming of coffee, this region of the country is among the best coffee producer in Africa, we will return in time enough to pick our parked lunch to head to the newest eastern game reserve of Pian Upe. We will reach in time to check in at the Uganda Wildlife Bandas/for a nature lover you can take this opportunity to camp in nature dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Uganda Wildlife Bandas (Bask-Budget) Campground (Budget)

Day 5: Pian Up – Morning game drive – nature walk – transfer to Moroto – an experience of Culture

After breakfast, leave for an extensive game drive, wildlife rear species are seen here, ostrich, different species of antelopes Zebras, Eland, Oribi, Elephants, Lions, and a variety of bird species. We will return for lunch, relax and in the early afternoon, we will go for a nature walk to give a close attachment with nature, return in time to go to Moroto for another life about these remote communities/entertainment, dinner, and overnight. (Meal plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Karatunga – Karamoja Experience (Mid-range)

Day 6: Moroto – Kotido – Kabongo – to Kidepo valley National Park – evening game drive

After early morning breakfast, we will embark on our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour drive to the further North East of Uganda Kidepo, we will cross the traditional villages of Kotido, with close views of the Moroto mountain ranges, cross the sand beds of the dry rivers of Kidepo down to Kabongo, a stopover for lunch and community interactions creates beautiful safari memories, we will access Kidepo via the gate of Karenga, head to the national park center for accommodation and overnight (Meal plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Apoka Lodge (Luxury), Savannah Nature Lodges/ Nga’Moru Wilderness Camp (Midrange)

Day 7: Kidepo Valley National Park – Game drive – Nature walk – Community experience

After early morning breakfast, you will embark on a morning game drive to Kanangorok hot spring where a variety of animals and birds can be seen roving around like the fast-running Ostrich. You will continue with the game drive that will take you through the Narus Valley to see herds of Buffalos, Elephants, Giraffes, Zebras, Lions and if lucky the leopard and the elusive cheetah, several stops will be made to allow for pictures of fabulous wildlife and birds, return for lunch, in the evening you will go for a cultural tour in the Karamojong community, a wonderful evening with Karamojong people gives an insight of their way of life and beliefs. At the end of the 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour, you will be able to understand why their pride makes them slow to adapt to globalization. (Meal plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Apoka Lodge (Luxury), Savannah Nature Lodges/Nga’Moru Wilderness Camp (Mid-range)

Day 8: Kidepo Valley National Park – Gulu lunch – short stop – Murchison Falls National Park – evening game drive

After breakfast proceeds to Murchison Falls National Park, the largest protected area in Uganda, with 3,840 Km. which is named after the falls on the Victoria Nile, our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour drive will be so breathtaking as we break through the local village setting of Kitgum, Kulu, and the far north, lunch will be in Gulu town thereafter proceed to the park through Wankwar gate dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Paraa Safari Lodge (Luxury), Pakuba Safari Lodge (Mid-range)

Day 9: Murchison Falls National Park – Game drive – boat cruise – hike to the Top of Falls

After a cup of tea, embark on an early morning game drive/ bird watching, in the park. Return to the lodge for breakfast. Relax at the poolside. After lunch, you will enjoy a boat trip to the bottom of the falls, some meters before the “Devil’s Cauldron.” then take a hike to the top of the falls where you’ll be picked.

The birdlife, hippos, crocodiles, and other wildlife make this 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour awesome. You are likely to see among others, goliath herons, Egyptian geese, pelican bee-eaters, kingfishers, Hornbills, cormorants, and the rare shoebill stork. Dinner and overnight at a community lodge. (Meal plan on Full Board)

Accommodation options: Paraa Safari Lodge (Luxury), Pakuba Safari Lodge (Midrange)

Day 10: Murchison – via Hoima – Ziwa Rhinos/Shoebill game walk – Hoima/culture & Overnight

After breakfast, our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide will drive from Murchison Falls National Park through Bugungu wildlife reserve on Masindi to Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary for the Rhino and shoebill game walk/canoeing, after this exciting beautiful day, we will have lunch, drive to Hoima for a cultural experience, dinner, and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Hoima Cultural Lodge (Midrange)

Day 11: Hoima – via Fort Portal – Semuliki Valley National Park – community experience

Drive to Semliki and head to Bundibugyo, enjoy this spectacular drive with views of Lake Albert and the legendary Mountain Rwenzori ranges. This park is situated in Bundibugyo district along the western border of Uganda with the Democratic Republic of Congo near Lake Albert.

The park has a great location within the western Albertine Rift valley region and occupies the eastern section of the Ituri forest connecting Uganda with the Congo River separated by river Semliki. Semliki is a site for ornithologists with approximately 400 species of birds mainly forest birds.

Approximately 300 species of trees have been recorded here and more than 52 mammal species including 11 diurnal species. At the night you will have a spot-lit game drive. The night, only one of this nature in the whole of Uganda and see the thin white-tailed mongoose, very small night-jars plus several cats, dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on Full Board)

Accommodation options: Semuliki Safari Lodge (Luxury), Ntoroko Lodge/Kirimia Guest House (Moderate)

Day 12: Semuliki – Game drive – Sempaya hot springs – walk – transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

Visit the highlight in Semliki, referred to as the Sempaya hot springs. These natural springs have a geyser shooting high from an 8-meter-wide hole at a very high temperature. Of its kind, this is the largest in the whole of Uganda. On this very trail, you may identify a couple of bird types such as the blue breasted kingfisher plus Frasier’s ant-thrush in addition to primates such as the grey checked mangabey plus the red-tailed monkey.

Proceed to Mungilo waterfall to see some other fascinating birds; particularly ideal for birders. In the late afternoon, take a boat ride on Lake Albert, a wonderful lake. See the various water animals and later drive to Kibale National Park via Fort Portal for dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on Full Board)

Accommodation options: Kyaninga/Ndali Lodge (Luxury), Chimpanzee Forest Camp/Rweetera Safari Park (Mid-range)

Day 13: Kibale Forest National Park – Chimpanzee trekking – Queen Elizabeth National Park – evening game drive

Today head to Kibale another favorite tourist destination. Enjoy the beautiful 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour drive southwest through Fort Portal where you will have a lunch break. See the Toro Kingdom palace, the eating places, Royal tombs, the mosque, and several shops however drive on to Kibale, only a couple of kilometers ahead.

This national park has the biggest number of primates in the whole of East Africa such as chimpanzees, black & white Colobus monkeys, the blue monkeys plus baboons. After lunch,  we will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, the takes us along the foothills of this Africa’s largest block Mountains of the Moon “Rwenzori Mountain Ranges” we will arrive at the lodge in time for dinner and overnight at Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp- This lodge is along the edge of both the community enclave in the National Park, this gives it an all-around time viewing of animals (www.kazingawildcamp.com)

Only 1 hour is permitted for you to view the chimpanzee. Trekking takes about 1 hour to 6 hours based on the location of these relatives of Man.  We will return for lunch and thereafter depart to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Chimpanzee tracking fee $250.00 Net in Kibale National Park,

• Price Is Not Included in The Quotation (price/pax)
• (Meal Plan on F/B)
• Accommodation options: Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp (Mid-range – in the wild – community affiliated), Mweya Safari Lodge (Luxury)

Day 14:  Queen Elizabeth National Park – Game drive – Boat Cruise & Community experience

An early morning breakfast set off for a game drive, your 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide will search and point out wild animals as he leads you to the various habitats of game, return for lunch at the Lodge, and later in the afternoon take a boat ride on Kazinga Channel to see birds, semi- and aquatic animals that rely on the channel for their livelihood, (optional 3-hour night guided game drive depending on your strength and interest), stay or return at the lodge for your overnight.

• (Meal Plan on F/B)
• Accommodation options: Kazinga Wilderness Safari Camp (Mid-upper – in the wild – community affiliated), Mweya Safari Lodge (Luxury)

Day 15: Northern Sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park – Ishasha Southern Sector (So remote)

After our breakfast, our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide will drive off in the adventurous vast savannah of the Ishasha Southern area of Queen Elizabeth NP with Topis, the southern version of Elephants, and hopefully with the lions high in the Fig tree branches.

This is one of two areas in Africa where lions have the habit of regularly climbing trees to take a rest, we will check in our lodge, have lunch, and thereafter, we will go for an evening game drive in the lushes of this flat savannah grassland. We will return to the lodge in time for dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Ishasha Wilderness Camp (Luxury), Jangle Lodge Ishasha/Enjojo Lodge (Mid-range)

Day 16: Ishasha – morning game drive – drive out to – Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Free evening

After breakfast transfer Ishasha, we do a drive-through game drive on a search for the rare tree-climbing lions which you can see only in this area of Uganda/this will also allow us to explore other animal species and its flora, the landscape is an open Savannah with a variety of acacia trees and figs that are more favorable to allow a conformable climbing of the lions. Proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for an evening preparing for the next day’s activity of the Gorillas, dinner, and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Ruhija Gorilla Lodge (Luxury), Rushaga Gorilla Camp/Gorilla Mist Camp (Mid-range)

Day 17 of 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour: Encounter with mountains gorillas – Gorilla Trekking – Community experience

After breakfast, our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide will take you for an early morning briefing for gorilla trekking. The rain-forest is spectacular as it offers a dramatic, heavily forested, and densely endowed with wildlife plus a hike challenging landscape for tourists. This park is best known for the fascinating mountain gorillas, where the time taken and terrain varies according to the movements of these marvelous primates.

The thrill of spending time with and observing the gorillas is a rare, moving, awesome and exciting adventure. The gorillas are shy and peaceful animals and it is an unforgettable experience to watch and photograph them as they interact with each other, dinner, and overnight at Bwindi.

Only 1 hour is permitted for you to view the Gorillas. Trekking takes about 1 hour to 8 hours based on the location of these gentle giants. After the trek, in the evening you could go for a guided nature walk or a community visit, return to the lodge for dinner, and overnight. Gorilla tracking fee $800.00 Net,

• Price Is Not Included in The Quotation (price/pax)
• (Meal plan on F/B)
• Accommodation options: Ruhija Gorilla Lodge (Luxury), Rushaga Gorilla Camp/Gorilla Mist Camp (Mid-range)

Day 18: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park – Golden Monkeys experience/Batwa visit (Optional) – Lake Bunyonyi – Free evening

Enjoy early breakfast and then drive to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park where you will have a chance to visit the Golden monkeys and the Batwa and learn about their lifestyles in the forest. Along the trail, you will also visit the Garama caves and receive various explanations and performances regarding their life before and after being expelled from their native habitat, now known as forest reserves or national parks (Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Volcanoes National Park, Virunga National Park, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park plus numerous forest reserves within the region).

You will enjoy lunch at Kisoro Travelers Rest Hotel, famously known for hosting primatologist Dian Fossey during her days when she researched the Mountain gorillas within the Virunga massive, thereafter; we will transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for a free evening, dinner, and overnight.

Only 1 hour is permitted for you to view the Golden Monkeys. Trekking takes about 1 hour to 6 hours based on the location of these relatives of Man.  We will return for lunch and thereafter depart to Lake Bunyonyi. Golden Monkey tracking fee $100.00 Net in Kibale National Park,

• Price Is Not Included in The Quotation (price/pax)
• (Meal Plan on F/B)
• Accommodation options: Birdnest Bunyonyi (Mid-range), Bunyonyi Overland (Moderate)

Day 19: Morning at leisure – visit the orphanage home – Lake Mburo National Park – Evening game drive

Morning at leisure, breakfast, visit the grace villa orphanage in Kabale town, later will drive to Lake Mburo National Park, the smallest in Uganda in size. Lunch in Mbarara at Lake View Regency Hotel, afternoon game drive in search of the beautiful impalas, zebras, cape buffalos, elands, Oribi, and topi, many visitors also enjoy a boat trip on Lake Mburo.

The park is a very good opportunity for bird watchers, who will enjoy more than 250 species of birds found here, including Papyrus gonolek, Brown-faced lapwings, Carruther’s Cisticola, and the extraordinary White winged Warbler and Bare-faced Go-away bird. Dinner and overnight at a community lodge. (Meal Plan on Full board)

Accommodation options: Mihingo Lodge (Luxury), Rwakobo Rock Lodge /Acadia Cottages (Mid-range)

Day 20: Lake Mburo – morning game walk – depart – equator stopover – airport for departure

After early tea/coffee, our 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour guide will take you for a guided game walk. Thereafter, you will return to the lodge for breakfast and checkout. En route, you will do a game drive as you exit the park. You will have a lunch stop at the equator and also take advantage to carry out water experiments along the 0-longitude line and also buy souvenirs. Proceed to Entebbe airport for departure.

End of Deks Uganda Safaris Services – 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour

20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour Quotation

• Based on 2 persons sharing services – per person standard rate
• Standard Net rate – based on Mid-range Accommodation per person: $9,990.00
• For an extra 3^rd person or more please contact the office for rates

Overnight stay options:

If staying in Entebbe, please request assistance at the time of booking this 20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour to allow us ample time to make arrangements. If departing Entebbe, the same night, please note’ by use of road’ returns to Entebbe are always late afternoon (approximately 16h00), please DO NOT book flights departing before 20h00 or 22h00 respectively to allow time for security, check-in, and if any delays due to weather.

20 Days Uganda Adventure Holiday Tour Inclusions and Exclusions               

Price includes:                      

• All accommodation and meals as indicated in the itinerary on FB & BB basis
• Gorilla permit fees/permit purchased NET from UWA each $700.0 per person per visit
• Chimpanzee permit fees/permit purchased NET from UWA each $200.00 per person per visit
• Full-time exclusive use of a 4 x 4 Safari Jeep/Toyota Land cruiser
• Full-time services of experienced English-speaking drive/guide
• All services in national parks i.e park entrance fees, guided nature walks, hikes & game drives
• Boat trips in both Murchison Falls Park, Queen Elizabeth
• A 3-hour guided night game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park (optional – depending on one’s strength and interest)
• Bottled drinking mineral water, coffees, teas, or soft drinks while on Safaris, game drives, walks, hikes, or transfers
• All Nature/Safari & Community walks as indicated in the itinerary-safari program
• All airport pickups and drop off from Entebbe & back to Entebbe airport
• All activities indicated & mentioned in the itinerary
• A $15.0 per pax off as a donation to orphanage homes whose parents’ death are/were as a result of animal conflicts within conservation areas
• All government related taxes

Price Excludes:                     

• Mgahinga Golden Monkeys permit fees Purchases NET from UWA each $60.0 per person per visit
• Optional Forest walks each at $20.0 plus entry of $40.0 park entry fees
• Optional Batwa community visit in Bwindi or Mgahinga or Nyakabade and the entertainment each at ($25 per person)
• Laundry service in different hotels we stay
• Bar bills, phone calls
• Personal insurance and medical bills
• Airfares
• All other services of a personal nature
• All services marked as Optional in the itinerary
• Driver/guides/hotel staff or any other person’s gratuity

Note:  

• Gorilla permit cost $700.0
• Chimpanzee permit costs $200.0 in Kibale Forest NP/$50.0 in Kalinju Forest & Kyambura Gorge in QENP
• Golden Monkey permit costs $60.0 in Mgahinga National Park

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