You will be picked up by a SafariHQ representative from Entebbe airport, Uganda. We will transfer you to Kibale Forest Camp on the edge of Kibale Forest National Park. This park is one of the best destinations for chimpanzee tracking in Africa. Kibale’s 795 km2 contains one of the most beautiful and varying tracts of tropical forest in Uganda. The park is home to 13 species of primate and also has the highest concentration of primates than any the park in Africa. It is the experience of a lifetime to trek through tropical forest to view chimps in their natural habitat. They will crash and bound about the forest and their natural inquisitiveness may even see them mimicking your own actions.  You will enjoy dinner and overnights stay at Kibale Forest Camp, where you can unwind and fall asleep to the sounds of the tropical forest.

In the early morning we will enter Kibale Forest National Park and start with a chimp walk. As well as observing chimps you may also encounter Guereza colobus, olive baboon, grey cheeked mangabey, red tailed monkeys. For the bird enthusiast there are 335 bird species to watch out for as well as thousands of butterfies.

In the afternoon we will walk through Bigodi Swamp (home to a community based project), which is home to 200 species of bird. The Bigodi wetland area is managed by the local community and hosts the ever elusive sitatunga, bushpig, bushbuck, otter, mongoose, civet cat and chimps.  Dinner and overnight stay at the Kibale Forest Camp.

Early in the morning we will leave for Buhomo. You will be crossing the Kazinga Channel, travelling through Queen Elizabeth National Park, and reach Kabale in time to enjoy lunch. From Kabale we will continue through a picturesque landscape described as the ‘Switzerland of Africa’ – mountains, lakes, hills with cultivated terraces, tropical rainforest and bamboo forest, arriving in Buhoma in the latter stages of the afternoon where you will retire for the evening at the famous Buhoma Lodge .

The day of gorilla tracking!

Today you will trek into Bwindi Impenetrable Forest NP in search of mountain gorillas.  Once you have found the gorillas, you will be able to spend up to one hour with them! You will be expected back to the starting point by 7.00pm at the latest. Being physically fit is recommended.

It is always best to hear from other visitors, and this is Stella and Trudy’s story:

“At a distance of about fifteen feet a mountain gorilla with her baby appears. She comes out of the bushes, looks at me and lies down. My presence does not seem to bother her. She just wants to rest, whether I am there or not. I can almost touch her. My heart dances with joy. I am in a good position to take pictures, so I let my camera do its work. It is the thrill of a lifetime. I cannot but agree with the American zoologist George Schaller, the first to study gorillas in the Virunga volcanoes, who once said: ‘No one who looks into the eyes of a gorilla, gentle and vulnerable, can remain unchanged.”

Dinner and overnight stay at the Buhoma Lodge.

Early in the morning after breakfast you will travel back to Kampala. On the way back to the city you will have lunch in Mbarara town, and after Masaka there will be an opportunity to a stop at the Equator for photo shoots and buying souvenirs and have tea or coffee.

We will then bring you to a guesthouse, campsite or hotel of your choice in Kampala or Entebbe – or, if you continue your holiday somewhere else or back home, we will bring you directly to Entebbe airport for an onwards flight.