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Tour Details

6 Days Ape Trek

6 Days Exclusive Ape Trek

Duration

6 Days

Max People

20 People

Pick Up

Airport

Min Age

12+ Years

Tour Type

Forest, Mountain

Date

Fixable

Destination: Uganda

This is one of our primate tours. In 6 days, you will have an encounter with the chimpanzees in their natural habitat in Kibale national park and the gorilla habituation or tracking in Bwindi impenetrable national park. This program can be done by ground transportation on road or by flight using domestic flights to the destinations.

DAY 1: ENTEBBE/KAMPALA.

On arrival at Entebbe international airport in Uganda, you will be welcomed by the company representative and transferred for overnight on BB to the hotel. Overnight at Hotel No. 5, Precious guest house, Boma Hotel, 2 friends.

DAY 2: KIBALE NATIONAL PARK.

After breakfast drive to Kibale national park through Fort portal town which hosts one of the heritage sites that’s Tooro Kingdom lying beneath Rwenzori Mountain ranges in eastern equatorial Africa. Lunch en-route. In the afternoon you can do a community tour with local food and local beer experience, tea and coffee plantation visits, crater lake tours and swamp walk where you will encounter different primate species like black and white colobus, grey checked mangabey L hoest monkeys and over 260 bird species. Dinner and overnight at Primate lodge, Isunga lodge, Chimpanzee guest house, Kibale forest camp, Rwetera safari park.

DAY 3: KIBALE N.P

After breakfast. Proceed to the park for briefing about the day’s activity chimpanzee tracking in their natural habitat. K.N. P with its 766 sq.km of tropical rain forest contains the highest number of primates in the world which include L.hoest monkey, black and white colobus monkey, red tailed monkey, vervet monkey, olive baboon and over 325 bird species. Lunch at the lodge. You can spend the afternoon at leisure and do a forest walk. Dinner and overnight at Primate lodge, Isunga lodge, Chimpanzee guest house, Kibale forest camp, Rwetera safari park.

DAY 4: KIBALE N.P – BWINDI IMPENETRABLE N.P

After breakfast drive towards Bwindi impenetrable national park through Queen Elizabeth national park towards Maramagambo forest to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth national park Ishasha sector which is most famous of tree climbing lions which are seen during the hot hours of the day. Lunch enroute then continue to Bwindi. Bwindi is a natural habitat for gorillas and a heritage site for its biodiversity importance. The choice of gorilla tracking depends on the availability and allocation of the permit for this activity. So, transfer depends on the location of the gorilla permit. Dinner and overnight at 4 gorillas lodge, Bakiga lodge, Engagi lodge and Nkuringo lodge.

DAY 5: GORILLA TRACKING

After breakfast drive to the park for a briefing on the dos and the don’ts for a successful gorilla tracking experience and this starts at 8 am with a warm welcome of the Bakiga cultural dances from the local communities surrounding the park. This park has a population of over 400 gorillas which is half of the world’s population of the endangered mountain gorillas, 348 bird species, 220 butterflies,

and 120 species of mammals. After briefing you embark on the gorilla trek in a group of 8 with the lead of the ranger guide. Ensure you carry packed lunch, enough drinking water because the time you spend on the trek for the gorillas is not predictable, hiking boots and walking sticks because of the nature of the terrain. Upon finding the gorillas you spend a maximum of 1 hour viewing them unlike with the gorilla habituation where you spend 4 hours. This whole activity takes a maximum of 8 hours depending on where the gorillas where last sighted. In the evening proceed to lake Bunyonyi Dinner and overnight at Birds nest, Arcadia cottages, Bunyonyi rock resort, Bunyonyi overland.

DAY 6: LAKE BUNYONYI – ENTEBBE

After breakfast you can choose to do a community tour to the Batwa or visit different islands on lake Bunyonyi which is about 7 km wide and 25 km long and it’s the second deepest lake in Africa after Lake Tanganyika. Lunch en-route then proceed to Entebbe International Airport for your flight out. Alternatively, you can choose to fly out through Kigali Airport in Rwanda with a short city tour drive in the land of a thousand hills.

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