4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi SAFARI OVERVIEW:
The 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi is a 3 nights / 4 day Uganda gorilla tour taking you gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; wildlife viewing in Lake Mburo Park. The 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi begins and ends in Entebbe / Kampala. The 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi takes you to Lake Mburo National Park for amazing game viewing in the smallest Uganda safari park situated between Mbarara and Masaka in Western Uganda.
Lake Mburo National Park is the only park where you can see the impalas and is located in the open grassy valleys and rolling hills. The wildlife in the Lake Mburo Park consists of the Hippopotamus, Zebra, Pangolin, Warthog, Hyena, Leopard, Buffalo, Civet, Genet, Topi, Eland, Klipspringer, Oribi, Sitatunga, Impala, crocodile Aardvark, Hyrax, and Porcupine, giraffe and a variety of birds and beautiful scenery. There is plenty of water and acacia savannah bird species (357 bird species) like bronze-tailed starling, crested crane, the rare shoebill stork, marabou stork, bee-eaters, and more exotic birds, for example, Blue Naped Coucal from Lake Mburo National Park.
The 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi trip will then take you Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see gorillas in Mountain Gorilla trekking in the most biologically diverse areas on earth. Its rare, precious flora sustains roughly half of the world’s population of mountain gorillas. Seeing some of the last remaining 700 mountain gorillas in the world is a fabulous experience. Bwindi has four areas where you can see gorillas families.
4 days Uganda safari Lake Mburo and Bwindi SAFARI HIGHLIGHTS:
- Day 1: Kampala – Lake Mburo National Park
- Day 2: Game viewing in LMNP
- Day 3: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi
- Day 4: Departure
4 days Uganda safari Lake Mburo and Bwindi detailed itinerary:
Day 1 of the 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park
We shall Set off from Kampala to Lake Mburo National Park after you have been briefed by our safari guide/driver. This journey is approximately a 3-4 hours drive to get to the park. Along the way you pass by the Mpambire Drum makers, the Equator where you can have a stop to take pictures and if you like do the experiment to prove the equator passes through Uganda. Once you enter the park you will see the various wildlife which is in the dense thick Vegetation thus a fascinating environment in the late afternoon.
Later you will go for a boat ride in Lake Mburo to watch hippos and crocodiles and birds.
Accommodation: Dinner and overnight at Mantana Tented Camp.(L,D)
Day 2 of the 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi: Game viewing /Drive to Bwindi forest
After breakfast, you will go for game drive/ viewing in the park which is the main tourist activity in this Park, being popular for its wealth in biodiversity, It has an estimate of 68 different categories of mammals like Buffalo, Eland, Roan antelope, leopard, Hyenas and jackals Topi, Impala, Roan antelope, leopard, Zebra, and Eland. After the view, you will return to the camp for late breakfast and head through the highlands to Kabale, where you will have a lunch stopover whereas proceeding to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the home for the mountain gorillas.
You will have dinner and overnight at Engagi Lodge (Full Board)
Day 3 of the 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi
You will have your breakfast early morning and then head for gorilla trekking the major tourist activity in the park with packed lunch alongside an experienced guide. This trek to see gorillas may be tiresome but enjoyable. Your encounter with the mountain gorillas gives a good description of trekking. You will realize the forest sound as you see various forest Flora and fauna.
Dinner and overnight at Engagi Lodge (Full Board).
Day 4 of 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi – Departure
Early morning breakfast before you start your drive back to Entebbe you will have a stop in Mbarara for lunch and the Igongo Cultural centre. Arrival in Entebbe will be in the evening.
End of the 4 days Uganda Safari Lake Mburo and see Gorillas Bwindi
PRICE PER PERSON SHARING IN USD (MODERATE ACCOMMODATION):
1 PERSON = 2755
2 PEOPLE = 2044
3 PEOPLE = 1833
4 PEOPLE = 1728
5 PEOPLE = 1665
Single room supplement = US$182(Does not apply to one person price)
Safari package includes
- Airport transfers
- Transportation by safari van
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- Gorilla permits, one per person to be paid in advance
- Driver allowances
- En-route lunches
- Visit the equator and igongo cultural Centre.
Safari excludes:
- Items of personal nature
- laundry
- tips to local guides
- telephone
- porter fee while trekking
- Air fare
- Visa
- drinks
- personal insurance
- personal shopping bills and cigarettes ETC