Our Journey is the most comprehensive Uganda primate and great ape photography Safari available. While we focus on excursions to photograph Mountain Gorillas and Chimpanzees, we will also visit a Rhino sanctuary as well as the endangered Golden Monkey who have made a stunning stretch of bamboo forest their charismatic home. While we are travelling we may encounter Grey-cheeked Mangabey, L’Hoest’s Monkey and Red Colobus.
Secondly, our tours are limited to just 14 participants, which is smaller than many Uganda wildlife photography tours, allowing guests to enjoy a more intimate experience and the guidance of our highly experienced leader.
We will spend an afternoon and morning tracking Southern White Rhinos on foot with rangers. Staying out until dusk and then beginning under special permit, at sunrise the following morning, you will be able to get to eye level with these iconic African creatures at a reserve that is preparing them for an eventual reintroduction to the wild.
Itinerary
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will transfer to your guest house in Entebbe.
Accommodation: Horizon hotel
After breakfast, drive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. After lunch, together with a guide you will track the rhinos and observe them in their habitat at a very close and safe distance.
Accommodation: Ziwa Rhino lodge
We have a special permit today to enter the sanctuary at sunrise. After a second rhino trek we’ll drive to Kibale National Park in western Uganda.
Accommodation: Isunga lodge
After a mandatory briefing we will start our hike into the forest. Follow the footsteps of a large habituated family of Chimpanzees, with over 120 individuals that have made Kibale one of the best locations in Africa for Chimpanzee viewing.
Late in the afternoon, we drive through the kasenda crater rim as we drive to the popular queen Elizabeth National park.
Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge.
Embark on a captivating morning game drive along the Kasenyi Track, unveiling the park’s hidden treasures, from majestic lions to graceful elephants. Later, in the afternoon we will head down to meet our lost cousins in the Kyambura gorge known as the valley of apes.
Accommodation: Twin Lake Safari Lodge.
After a morning cap of coffee, you will head out for an early morning game drive in search for the early risers such as the lions, elephants, kobs, buffaloes and alongside you will have chance to spot a number of bird species. The game drive may take roughly two hours before you return to your lodge for lunch. After lunch, you will head for boat trip at Kazinga channel, where you will have a great chance to spot other numerous wildlife. You as well spot other wildlife that is found in this park before you return for dinner and overnight stay at Twin Lake Safari Lodge.
Drive to the Ishasha region of Queen Elizabeth National Park, famous for its tree-climbing lions. A game drive in Ishasha covers a search of the large cats as they lounge in the park’s trees; this is only possible in Uganda & Tanzania. Other species in this area of the park include buffalo, topi, Uganda Kob, baboons, and leopards.
Accommodation: Topi lodge Ishasha
Early morning after breakfast, we head out for a morning game drive in the Ishasha plains in search for the famous tree climbing lions, as they relax in the fig trees.
Later in the mid-day we drive more south to the home of the mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable forest.
Accommodation: Buhoma Gorilla Camp
After an early breakfast, transfer to the national park offices where we will be briefed and then allocated a gorilla family.
Upon sighting the gorillas, we’ll spend the allowed one hour with them as they go about their daily life, feeding, grooming, playing.
Afternoon will be at leisure. This is another opportunity for photo review and discussion.
Accommodation: Lake Mulehe Safari lodge
After breakfast, transfer to Mgahinga National Park. Golden Monkey trekking. This is a chance to walk through a very different environment: a bamboo forest.
Accommodation: Lake Mulehe Safari lodge
Depart the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and head for the Mabamba swamps, near Entebbe.
Accommodation: Horizon Hotel Entebbe
A very early start today. After a very short drive, we will board the wooden boat in search of mainly a prehistoric-looking bird: The Shoebill. We’ll depart after lunch for Entebbe to connect with the international flight back home
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