9 Days African Safari Experience

You will be met at the airport by Pure Africa Tours safari guide who will transfer you to the hotel reserved for you in Kampala. Dinner and overnight at hotel

Accommodation

Budget:  Acacia Lodge, Sheraton Hotel, Munyonyo Speke Resort, Pearl of Africa Hotel

Mid-range: Imperial Royal Hotel, Speke Resort Hotel, Protea Hotel, Hotel Africana, Golf Course Hotel

Luxury: Kampala Serena Hotel, Sheraton Hotel, Pearl of Africa Hotel

After breakfast, you will drive to Kampala. There is quite a lot going on in Kampala. Your Kampala city tour will take you to different interesting places including the Uganda museum, Bahai Temple the only one of its kind in Africa, Ndere troupe for art and cultural performance. Dinner and overnight at the hotel

Accommodation

Budget:  Acacia Lodge, Sheraton Hotel, Munyonyo Speke Resort, Pearl of Africa Hotel

Mid-range: Imperial Royal Hotel, Speke Resort Hotel, Protea Hotel, Hotel Africana, Golf Course Hotel

Luxury: Kampala Serena Hotel, Sheraton Hotel, Pearl of Africa Hotel

Queen Elizabeth National Park is understandably Uganda’s most popular tourist destination. Set on the floor of the Rift Valley, the landscape of northern Queen Elizabeth comprises dozens of ancient craters carved into gentle rolling hills. The park’s diverse ecosystems, which include sprawling savanna, shady, humid forests, sparkling lakes, and fertile wetlands, make it the ideal habitat for a classic big game, ten primate species including chimpanzees, and over 600 species of birds.

Have you breakfast as you wait for your driver to pick up from the lodge and journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park.  Upon arrival, check in at the lodge, go for lunch and later set out for Kazinga Channel which connects Edward and George Lakes. Cruising on Kazinga Channel gives you opportunity to see world largest concentration of giant hippos, buffalo, and herds elephants lined on its banks. You will also identify many of the channel’s 100 bird species. Overnight stay at the lodge

Accommodation option:

Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages, Mweya Hotel, Isasha Bandas, Simba Safari Lodge

Middle-range: Kingfisher Lodge

Luxury: Mweya Safari Lodge, Aramanga Rifty Valley Lodge, Elephant Plains Lodge, Isasha Wildness Camp, Kyambura Gorge

Today, you will go for an early morning game; the best time to spot animals in their natural habitats. You will drive through Kasenyi sector where you will have a chance to see a variety of mammals including buffalo, elephants, hyena, Ugandan kobs, bushbucks, warthogs among others. We will drive to the lodge for breakfast, checkout the lodge and game drive in Isasha sector to encounter the tree climbing lions before driving to Kibale National Park

Accommodation options:

Budget: Kibale Forest Camp

Middle-range: Primate Lodge

Luxury: Kyaninga lodge, Primate Lodge, Crater Safari Lodge, Ndali Lodge, Papaya Lake Lodge

Kibale National Park is most popular for its population of chimpanzees and is considered the best place to track wild chimpanzees on earth. Your driver guide will pick you to transfer to Kanyachu Visitors Centre for chimpanzee trekking briefing about the rules, regulations and expectations of chimpanzee trekking. Spotting a family of chimpanzees may take just a few minutes or up to 6 hours of walking depending on where the animals are on a particular day. You will spend an hour observing how our closest animal relatives behave in the wild, watch them feed, enjoy the juveniles playing up in the trees. You will return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon go for a nature walk in the Bigodi Wetland to see a variety of birds and monkey species. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight

Accommodation options:

Budget: Kibale Forest Camp

Middle-range: Primate Lodge

Luxury: Kyaninga lodge, Primate Lodge, Crater Safari Lodge, Ndali Lodge, Papaya Lake Lodge

Spanning an impressive 350,000ha, Murchison Falls National is Uganda’s largest National Park and the park is named after the Murchison Falls which is also referred to as Kabalega Falls. One of the intriguing facets of the falls is the amount of water that squeezes through the through an 8m wide gorge and plunges down 141 feet (43 m) with a thunderous roar creating the greatest natural water force on Earth. The Park encompass a variety of beautiful landscapes, it’s also home to an abundance of wildlife including the four of the Big 5. After breakfast, meet with the driver and transfer to Murchison Falls National Park check in at the lodge and go for lunch and afternoon siesta or an evening game drive.

Accommodation option:

Budget: Red Chill banda, Fort Murchison

Middle-range: Murchison River Lodge, Pakuba Safari Lodge

Luxury: Paara Safari Lodge, Chobe Safari Lodge, Nile Safari Lodge

Today, your breakfast will be served before the day breaks so that you can start your morning game drive as the sun comes up when animals are most active. Elephants, buffalo and several species of antelope are some wildlife and luckily you may even spot a lion or leopard. You will return to the lunch for lunch.

After lunch, embark on a boat to navigate the River Nile to the thundering base of Murchison Falls Waterfall; the most iconic feature in the park and the river cruise offers fantastic wildlife viewing opportunities of crocodiles, hippos, and lizards. Big game such as buffaloes, elephants and antelopes, waterbucks, and giraffes can also be sighted drinking by the river banks. You will hike up to the top of the falls where you will meet your drive to drive back to the lodge.

Accommodation option:

Budget: Red Chill banda, Fort Murchison

Middle-range: Murchison River Lodge, Pakuba Safari Lodge

Luxury: Paara Safari Lodge, Chobe Safari Lodge, Nile Safari Lodge

After an early breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and drive back to Kampala via Masindi with a stop at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Trek over the grassland and through the African bush on foot with a ranger to visit Uganda’s most endangered creature, the Southern White Rhino. After lunch we will proceed to Kampala for overnight at the hotel.

Accommodation option:

Budget: Forest Cottages

Middle-range: Fairway Hotel and Spa

Luxury: Kampala Sheraton, Protean Hotel, Kampala Serena Hotel

After a relaxed breakfast, checkout the lodge, depending on your flight time, you can go for a short Kampala City tour and transfer to the airport for departure.