This 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Lake Mburo Tour is a unique combination of both Savannah game as well as mountain gorillas in the impenetrable jungles of Bwindi.
This 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Wildlife Tour to Bwindi & Lake Mburo also provides opportunities to spot permanent Savannah residents including zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, numerous species of antelopes as well as boat trips along Lake Mburo.
Detailed Uganda Gorillas & Wildlife Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
On this day of your 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Lake Mburo Tour, set off from Kampala at 7am immediately after your breakfast for the 8 hours’ journey.
Drive towards Southwestern part of Uganda to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. This journey will be so interesting, as you will be traversing the scenic countryside, marked with vast plantations of banana, coffee, sights of Ankole long horned cattle, rolling hills, and so much more.
A stopover in Mbarara town for lunch, refreshing and continue on the road through the terraced Kigezi highlands, later arrive at Bwindi impenetrable National Park, which hosts a rich ecosystem of different endangered species, with mountain gorillas being the highlights.
Day 2: Gorilla tracking & Optional community walk to the Batwa
Start a day with breakfast and make sure you carry packed lunch from the lodge, as well as other requirements like drinking water, cameras, sunglasses, sturdy shoes, rain jackets, and a pair of long trousers.
The guide will take you to the information center for briefing where you will meet with other trekkers before you start trekking at 8:00am.
Enter the mighty Bwindi forest as led by the Park rangers, who will take you to where an allocated family of gorillas can be found at that time.
The Uganda gorilla trekking activity has duration period of about 2 to 8 hours, but highly unpredictable as these gentle giants tend to roam the forest and cannot be stationed in one place as they search for food and water availability.
There is nothing as astonishing and thrilling as watching the Silverbacks guard their territories, watch the females feed young ones, play, and grumble at each other among other things, and all these can be well captured with photos.
Go back to the lodge and later in the evening, depending on availability of time, you can have a walk within the Batwa community and see how they live. After have dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Bwindi National Park to Lake Mburo National Park
On this day of your 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Lake Mburo Tour, have breakfast and there after drive to the Lake Mburo National Park – an adorable home to large numbers of antelopes, and other animals like zebras, hippos, buffaloes, warthogs and birds, leaving the spectacular Kigezi highlands behind passing via Mbarara town with opportunities of sighting the long-horned cattle.
Have lunch along the way at Igongo Country Hotel, later arrive at the park, check in at the lodge and take an optional evening game drive or boat trip depending on your time of arrival.
Day 4: Lake Mburo Boat cruise and Departure back to Kampala
Get breakfast on this day of your 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Lake Mburo Tour, and set out on a boat safari where you will be able to see other smaller lakes like Lake Bwa and Lake Kazuma, also enjoy watching buffaloes, hippos, crocodiles, near the shallow waters.
There will be a chance to see vast populations of birds like the crested cranes, saddle bill stork, Abyssinian ground hornbills and others.
After, go back to the lodge, as you relax at the bar area or the swimming pool. Then have lunch and say bye to the park staff and the park itself as you travel back to Kampala.
Make a stopover at the equator for photos; you could also buy some crafts at the nearby shops, reaching Kampala late evening to mark the end of your 4 days Uganda safari.
End of 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Wildlife Tour to Bwindi & Lake Mburo.
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