10 Days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
These 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari will take you through the unique jungle experience with the greatest highlights including chimpanzee trekking in Kibale forest, crater walk tour, Gorilla trekking in Bwindi which are all in Uganda, this is an experience you can’t find elsewhere in the world.
Your visit to Kenya into Nakuru national park and Masai Mara reserve for an exclusive wildlife encounter in Kenya with over 95 mammals found here including lions, elephants, buffalos, cheetahs, leopards, Hyenas, Gazelles, Topis, and an opportunity to catch the annual wildebeests and zebra migration.
Highlights of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
- Arrival at Entebbe airport and transfer to Kampala
- Transfer from Kampala to Kibale National Park
- Chimpanzee trekking at Kibale forest National Park Kibale
- Bwindi Gorilla Trekking
- From Bwindi to Entebbe and fly to Nairobi
- From Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park
- Lake Nakuru to Maasai Mara National Park
- Spend the other two days at Maasai Mara
- Transfer back to Nairobi
Chimpanzee in Kibale forest national park
Detailed 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe Airport Kampala
Upon arrival at the airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our guide. He will then transfer you to your hotel for an overnight and dinner
Recommended Accommodation:
- Kampala serena hotel
- Acacia villa
- Protea hotel Marriott Kampala
- Hilton garden
- Latitude 0 degrees
- Boulevard suites
- Meal plan: dinner
Day 2 of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari: Transfer from Kampala to Kibale National Park
After breakfast early in the morning, your driver guide will be there to and your trip starts. He will brief you about the whole trip before starting up the drive.
You be able to enjoy the fascinating drive through the papyrus swamps and thick jungle of the Nile Delta to Kibale. Feel free to ask your guide anything that you feel needs explanation.
You will have lunch en route at Fort Portal. By late afternoon you will check in your lodge, refresh and get ready for a guided walk-in crater lakes area of the park, you will experience an outstanding cultural visit. Later you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight
Recommended Accommodation:
- Luxury: Papaya Lake Lodge
- Midrange: Turaco Treetops
- Budget: Chimpanzee Guest House
- Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
Day 3: Chimpanzee Trekking at Kibale Forest Np and Transfer to Bwindi
After an early breakfast, your guide will be there to take you for a half day search of the chimpanzees. You will also have a chance to see other primates including phoestes, red colobus, blue and red tailed and grey cheeked Mangabey.
The guide will drop you at the office headquarters. You will be briefed by the park rangers and hand you to the guide you will take you through the trek.
After spotting the chimpanzees you will be allowed to spend an hour with them in their natural life. Take as many pictures as possible.
After this experience, you will return to the starting point to meet up with your guide who will drop back to the lodge, have lunch and check out.
You will embark on a six hours drive to Bwindi Impenetrable forest through Queen Elizabeth National Park, here you will be able to spot some animals like elephants, Buffalos, among others.
You will arrive good time for dinner, check into your lodge, refresh and have dinner and later overnight
Recommended Accommodation:
- Sanctuary Gorilla forest camp
- Buhoma lodge
- Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
- Mahogany Springs
- Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
- Gorilla Safari Lodge
- Rushanga Gorilla Camp
- Gorilla Heights Lodge
- Meal Plan: full board
Day 4 of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari: Bwindi Gorilla Trekking
This is the highlight of our trip Gorilla Trekking. After breakfast, we assemble at the briefing point of the park offices, before being guided in the forest by the park ranger guide.
You will also be escorted by the touring police to protect you against any threat be it from forest Elephants, buffalos and even wild Gorillas. Trekking of the gorillas depends on how lucky you were on the family of the gorilla permitted.
After spotting your gorilla family, then you will be given an hour to spend with the family up close. After this you will return back to your lodge for an overnight dinner
Recommended Accommodation:
- Sanctuary Gorilla forest camp
- Buhoma lodge
- Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
- Mahogany Springs
- Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
- Gorilla Safari Lodge
- Rushanga Gorilla Camp
- Gorilla Heights Lodge
- Meal Plan: full board
Day 5 of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari: Transfer from Bwindi to Entebbe and Fly Out to Nairobi
Return to Kampala, then Entebbe with lunch en route with stopovers at Igongo cultural center to explore the lifestyle of the Ankole and Bahima, thereafter proceed to the Uganda equator before evening departure flight to Nairobi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Upon arrival at the airport our safari guide will be there to meet you to transfer you to a hotel. Later you will have dinner and overnight
Recommended Accommodation:
- The monarch hotel
- Serene suites furnished studio apartments
- Hilton hotel
- Sagwe furnished apartments
- Sarova Stanley
- Jewel stone hotel
- Kenya comfort hotel
- Meal plan: full board
Day 6: Transfer from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park
After an early breakfast, you will check out by around 8 am. Your guide driver will be there to pick you for the safari. Shortly after leaving Nairobi, you will begin your descent down the floor of the great rift valley, you will enjoy short photography stopovers at the viewing point where you can enjoy a stunning view of the of this geographical phenomenon.
Proceed further Naivasha, Gilgil and Elementaita areas arriving at lake Nakuru and check in at your lodge refreshen and have your lunch. This afternoon, you will enjoy game drives in the park and along the shores of the alkaline lake
You will enjoy a hot lunch at your lodge before taking an afternoon game drive along the shores of the lake to spot baboons, buffalo, lions, leopards, eland, waterbucks, and more. The popular pink necked lesser flamingoes may be spotted here.
Recommended Accommodation:
- Luxury: Nakuru Spa Lodge
- Midrange: Lake Nakuru Lodge
- Budget: Sewala Lodge
- Meal plan: full board
Day 7 of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari: Lake Nakuru – Maasai Mara National Reserve
After an early breakfast, depart for Masai
mara national reserve at 8 am, on arrival check in at your lodge refreshen and have lunch. In the afternoon, you will begin your evening game drive around 3 pm, in search for the BIG 5 and several other animals and bird species until late evening of around 7 pm. You will head to your lodge, freshen up and go for dinner and later overnight
Recommended Accommodation:
- Luxury: Keekorok Lodge
- Midrange: Jambo Mara Safari Lodge
- Budget: Mara Springs Safari Lodge
- Meal plan: full board
Day 8 And 9: Masai Mara National Reserve
Also known as the 8th wonders of the world
Wake before the dawn, for the once -in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a Maasai Mara sunrise. After a quick cup of coffee, you will head out into the park to watch as the sun sets fire to savannah and the big cats take advantage of the morning cool to search for a meal
Alternatively, you can take to the skies with a hot air balloon safari that will see you soar above all of the action before setting down on the plains for a champagne breakfast among the wildlife. Ask your safari expert about adding a hot air balloon adventure to your Safari
Your guide can also organize for a visit to a traditional Masai village (Manyattas) where you can join the pastoral community and learn more about their unique culture
You will then return to your lodge for a late breakfast before packing a picnic lunch and heading back out into the park for a day-long exploration of the Maasai Mara. You may also opt to relax at your lodge in the morning, enjoy lunch on site, and then
There are over 95 mammals and 450 bird species found here including lions, elephants, buffalos, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, gazelles, and topis. The annal wildebeests and zebra migration (over 2 million) from Serengeti also takes place here from June to October each year
Recommended Accommodation:
- Luxury: Keekorok Lodge
- Midrange: Jambo Mara Safari Lodge
- Budget: Mara Springs Safari Lodge
- Meal plan: full board
Day 10 of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari: Maasai Mara/ Nairobi/ Departure
After breakfast, check out, you will have a morning game drive as you exit the park. Embark on a long road drive back to Nairobi. Special barbeque will be served at the famous carnivore restaurant followed by a transfer to the airport and back home
End of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
Wildebeests Migration in Maasai Mara National Park
Background Information of the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
Maasai (Masai) Mara National Reserve
This is a vast game reserve in the semi-arid Narok county in Kenya. It is contiguous with the Serengeti national park in the Mara region of Tanzania.
It is named in the honor of Maasai people who are the ancestral inhabitants of the area. Mara means spotted in maa, a Masai language.
Maasai Mara is globally famous for its exceptional population in wildlife and wildebeests immigration to and from Serengeti every year during the dry season from July to October.
This is commonly known as the Great Migration. A visit to the reserve is great venture to undertake for cultural tour of one of the oldest inhabitants of East Africa, the Maasai.
This noble tribe is one of the very few tribes we have retained most of their traditions. It has a team of traditional dancers who dance o their call-and -dance response singing and perhaps their most widely known dance is the damu or rather jumping dance.
You can get to join the dancing as these flexible male dancers jump higher and higher to the rhythms of the enchanting music accompanying to their dance stroke
Masai Mara has several tourism activities. Among others, these are the hot air balloons over the reserve, safari drives, nature walk, bird watching, site seeing, guided bush walk and hiking
Lake Nakuru National Park Great Adventure of a lifetime on the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
The Great rift valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches across the middle east and Africa from Jordan to Mozambique.
The outstanding view, as you approach from Nairobi, is quite unbelievable. The ground unexpectedly disappears from under you, extending to thousands of kilometers in either direction.
An excellent starter to the Kenyan Rift Valley, it may appear, is the most amazing part of this experience- as it sinks deeper to explore the lake system of the Rift
The Great Rift Valley Viewpoint is always a perfect place to stop by, stretch and take vivid pictures. Here, you can watch the enthralling Rift Valley with its vast vegetation and the sun rays kissing the far and wide.
The stretching mountains in the vicinity meet the foreseeable edges of the land, giving the feeling of an abstract painting. There are a number of lakes around the viewpoint and these are Baringo, Bagoria, Nakuru, Elementaita and Naivasha.
They are all unique and support a staggeringly large proportion of Kenya’s Wildlife. The saline Bagoria is sometimes home to huge flocks of the lesser flamingo and contains more true geysers than any other area of Equal size in the world.
This place is known for hiking, trekking, game viewing, photography, guided walks around the crater lakes, picnic lunches, bird watching, golfing and community visits.
The Great Rift Valley is indeed a wonder of the world. It stretches from the middle east and passes through Africa. It has great and vast chunk in East Africa, and it ends in Mozambique in the South.
Bwindi Impenetrable forest
Bwindi is derived from the Runyakitara word “mubwindi” and means “a place full of darkness” this name comes from the extensive stands of bamboo interspersed amongst the larger forest hardwoods.
The bamboo and thick ground cover of ferns, vines, and other plants growth severely hinder direct access on foot. The forest is on the edge of the western arm of the great rift valley, only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border and about 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of the Virunga Mountains
The forest is one of the most biologically diverse area on earth where half the world’s population of the highly endangered Mountain Gorillas live in its natural habitant jungle.
The forest has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a world heritage site for its biological significance
The forest has been described as “riven by disputes and crosshatched by historical, political, biological boarders” by the researcher Craig Stanford, co-director of the park’s jane Goodall Research center. In 1991, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was established
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Explore Uganda the pearl of Africa) on the 10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari
it is located southwestern Uganda. The park part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
The Park is on the edge of the western arm of the great rift valley, only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border and about 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of the Virunga Mountains.
Composed of 321 square kilometers (124 sq mi) of both Montane and lowland forest, it is accessible only by foot.
BINP has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a world heritage site for its biological significance
Species diversity is a feature of the park. It provides habitat for 120 species of mammals, 348 species of birds, 220 species of butterflies, 27 species of frogs, chameleons, geckos, and many endangered species.
Floristically, the park is among the most diverse forest in East Africa, with more than 1000 flowering plant species, including 163 species of trees and 104 plant species of ferns.
The northern (low elevation) sector has many species of Guineo-congolian flora, including two endangered species, the brown mahogany and Brazzeia longipedicellata. In particular area shares in the high levels of Endemisms the Albertine Rift
The park is a sanctuary for colobus monkeys, chimpanzees, and many birds such as hornbill and turacos. It is most notable for the 400 Bwindi Gorillas, half of the world’s population of endangered mountain Gorillas.
Habituated mountain gorilla groups are open to tourism in four different sectors of Buhoma, Ruhijja, Rushaga and the Nkuringo in the Districts of Kanungu, Kabaale and Kisoro respectively all under the management of Uganda Wildlife Authority
Kibale Forest National Park
This is a national park in western Uganda, protecting moist evergreen rain forest. It is 766 square kilometers (296 sq mi.) in size and located between 1,100 meters (3,600 ft) to 1,600 meters (5,200 ft) in elevation.
Despite encompassing primary moist ever green forest, it contains a diverse array of landscapes to contain both lowland and montane forests. In eastern Africa, it sustains the last significant expanse of premontane forest
The park was gazetted in 1932 and formally established in 1993 to protect a large area of forest previously managed as a logged forest reserve. The park forms a continuous forest with Queen Elizabeth National Park.
This adjoining of the parks creates a 180 kilometers (110 mi) wildlife corridor. It is important eco-tourism and Safari destination, popular for its population of habituated Chimpanzees and twelve other species of primates
10 days Uganda Primates Tour & Kenya Wildlife Safari Inclusions
Safari includes:
- Transportation in a tour van/Landcruiser
- Service of an English -speaking tour guide/driver
- All activities mentioned in the itinerary
- Park admissions
- Accommodation on full board
- Entrance fees to all destinations as per the program
- Transfer to and from the airport
Safari exclusions
- All activities not mentioned in the program
- Phone calls bills
- Tips
- International transfers
- Gratitude to tour guides
- Personal insurance
- Personal effects of any nature
- Hotel fees before and after the safari
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