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You'll meet your safari guide and drive out of Kampala in the morning for the start of your gorillas and chimps safari. You will make a stop at the equator to get the experience of standing with one foot on either side of the southern- and northern hemispheres. You will continue to the town of Mbarara for lunch before the final part of the journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will have a relaxed evening enjoying the view from the lodge. Your overnight stay will be at the lodge on full board.
In the morning, your guide takes you to Kyambura Gorge for a chimp trekking experience. You have a walk in a beautiful jungle and gorge, meeting with the chimps ahead of you. You will also be able to see a variety of monkeys including black and white Colobus monkeys, red-tail vervet monkeys, and many more. When you get back from the trek your guide takes you to the lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, it is time for the boat cruise on the Kazinga channel. This two-hour boat ride lets you look for hippos, crocodiles, elephants, and birds by the shores. Later, you'll go for an evening game drive in Kasenyi, well known as a breeding ground for many animals.
You will set off for the Ishasha part of Queen Elizabeth National Park after breakfast. Ishasha is known for tree-climbing lions and the game drive here lets you look for them as well as see topis and buffaloes, elephants. On a lucky day, you might see some leopards. After the game drive, you'll continue the journey to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the home of the mountain gorillas. Your overnight stay will be at the lodge.
Your guide will take you to the starting point of the gorilla trekking in the morning and you set off for your adventure. The trek takes you through the jungle up to the point where the gorillas are and you get to spend one hour with them. When you are back from the gorilla trekking your guide will take you to the stunningly beautiful Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation. Boat rides and Batwa experience are optional and not included in the price.
After breakfast, you'll start the journey back to Kampala. You will make a stopover along the way for lunch in Mbarara or Masaka depending on time. You have now reached the end of your gorilla and chimps safari and your guide drops you off in Kampala/Entebbe Airport.
This tour is 100% sustainable. We encourage our travelers to minimize their carbon footprint by choosing eco-friendly practices.
Cancellations made more than 60 days before departure qualify for an 80% refund of the deposit paid. Cancellations made between 30 and 59 days before departure qualify for a 50% refund of the deposit. Cancellations made less than 30 days before departure are non-refundable. Gorilla and Chimpanzee permits are non-refundable once purchased. Guests are advised to purchase comprehensive travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.
Among Uganda's gorilla trekking safari experiences, booking a trek to visit the Nyakagezi family in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park follows its own distinct logistics shaped by the family's unique cross-border movement, the park's smaller size, and a booking process that, while broadly similar to Bwindi's, carries a few important differences worth understanding before you commit your dates and your deposit. Here is exactly how to book the Nyakagezi gorilla trek, step by step.
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Every now and then a destination becomes so famous that people start questioning whether it can possibly live up to its own reputation. Serengeti National Park is one of those places. You have seen the photographs, watched the documentaries, read the articles, and somewhere in the back of your mind a small but persistent voice is asking whether the reality can genuinely match the legend. Whether all those wildebeest, all those lion prides, all that extraordinary golden savannah stretching to the horizon is truly as breathtaking in person as it looks on a screen. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that the Serengeti does not just live up to its reputation it quietly exceeds it in ways that no photograph or documentary has ever managed to fully capture, and here is exactly why.