This 6 days Uganda chimpanzee and gorilla habituation tour is one of the best Uganda safari tours offering the best opportunity to both wildlife seekers and primate lovers. The Uganda chimpanzee and gorilla habituation tour takes you first into the great Semuliki National Park and further enables you to experience Uganda’s top popular safari activities which include chimpanzee habituation tour in Kibale Forest and gorilla habituation safari in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
While on this Uganda chimpanzee and gorilla habituation tour, you will have plenty of time to enjoy chimpanzee experience and the great mountain gorillas in Uganda. Spend a full day in Kibale and up to 4 hours of gorilla meeting in Bwindi Impenetrable.
Book now, for this Uganda chimpanzee and gorilla habituation tour, for the most unmatched Uganda safari tour during this coming holiday season.
Uganda Chimpanzee and Gorilla Habituation Itinerary:
Day 1: Kampala – Semuliki National Park
Leave Kampala after breakfast for the fascinating drive through papyrus swamps and thick jungle of the Nile Delta to Semuliki National Park just above the mighty Rwenzori Mountain ranges. You will then get our afternoon lunch and get ready to visit the famous Sempaya hot springs of Semuliki National Park. Sempaya Hot Springs are Semuliki’s most famous attraction. The male spring, known as ‘Bintente’, measures 12m in diameter and is set in a lush swampy clearing.
The female spring ‘Nyasimbi‘, meaning ‘the female ancestors’, is a boiling geyser (103°C) which spurts bubbling water and steam up to two meters high. The steam cloud can be seen from as far as 2km away. Local people used to cook their food in these boiling pools.
Dinner and overnight stay at Semuliki Safari Lodge (high-end facility). Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner.
Day 2: Wildlife Tour in Semuliki National Park – Kibale National Park
Morning will be for a boat ride along Lake Albert for an amazing birding opportunity. Look out for the Blue Swallow, White-throated Blue Swallow, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Spotted Greenbul, White-starred Robin, Lowland Akalat, Red-throated Alethe and Fire-crested Alethe among others.
Thereafter, enjoy a game drive en-route while exiting Semuliki National Park. Semuliki National Park is home to forest elephants and buffaloes which are smaller versions of their savannah-dwelling relatives. It is also a home to over 53 mammals of which 27 are large mammals. 11 species are endemic to the park including the pygmy antelopes and two flying squirrel species. It is also home to the peculiar water chevrotain, known as the ‘fanged deer’.
Drive to Kibale National Park and if time permits you will get on an afternoon guided nature walk in the crater lakes area of the park, for outstanding community visit.
Meals and overnight stay at Ndali Lodge (luxury facility), in a stunning location overlooking a dramatic crater lake and the fabled ‘Mountains of the Moon’. Meal Plan: L & D.
Day 3: Kibale Chimpanzee Habituation Experience
Today is dedicated for chimpanzee habituation experience, so you will start the day with an early morning breakfast. Carry your packed lunch and set off to the forest before dawn breaks. You will meet your guide, for a briefing and then set off to where the chimpanzees built their nests the night before. Dawn is just breaking and the chimpanzee community you are going to be with the rest for the rest of the day is rising from their sleep in the nests.
Your day will be full, so your camera will fill up with quality pictures of the chimpanzees. You will also get to learn to identify them as individuals by their markings, sometimes scars and other unique features that make separate each from the rest. Besides everything described, there are the most colorful butterflies, plants and trees that will also amaze you because the forest setting is simply awesome.
Meals and overnight stay at Ndali Lodge (luxury facility), in a stunning location overlooking a dramatic crater lake and the fabled ‘Mountains of the Moon’. Meal Plan: B, L & D.
Day 4: Kibale Forest National Park – Bwindi Impenetrable
Take on an early morning breakfast, and thereafter proceed to Bwindi via Queen Elizabeth National Park. While at Queen Elizabeth you may spot many wildlife including the giant African elephants, buffaloes and antelopes among others. This is the lushest highland rain forest on the earth, filled with primates and exotic birds, valleys, hilltops and papyrus swamps.
Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Safari Lodge (high-end). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Experience – Part of Uganda Chimpanzee and Gorilla Habituation
Begin the day with breakfast and get ready for gorilla trekking experience, which begins at 8:00a.m with a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority staff. Ensure that you carry along your rain jacket, drinking water, snacks and jungle boots among other important gear.
Join the researchers and guides who will lead you inside the jungle to see the shy primates for a group you have been booked for. Do not forget to take your lunch boxes and all the necessary gear to track the rare mountain gorillas, which is perhaps one of the most exciting wildlife experiences on earth. The habituation experience will take a day but it’s well worth the effort.
Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Safari Lodge (high-end) Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Bwindi – Kampala/Entebbe
Return to Kampala, then Entebbe, with lunch en-route and a stopover at Igongo Cultural Center and explore the life style of the Ankole and Bahima. Thereafter, proceed to the Equator crossing in Uganda before your evening departure home. Meal Plan: (B, L).
You can also opt to fly from Kisoro airstrip to Entebbe direct, with a morning flight departure and an additional flight fare.
Uganda Chimpanzee and Gorilla Habituation Tour Inclusions and Exclusions:
Includes
- Transportation by a 4 x 4 safari Land cruiser
- Hot spring visit
- Boat ride a log Lake Albert
- Game drive Semuliki
- One Gorilla Habituation permit per person
- One Chimpanzee Habituation permit in Kibale
- Community walks Bwindi
- Crater Tour Kibale
- Accommodation and meals as per the Itinerary
- Igongo cultural visit
- Park fees
- Driver/guide subsistence allowance.
- Enroute lunches
- Ranger guide fees
Excludes
- Night game drive in Semuliki,
- Expenses of personal nature like: Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, and tobacco.