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This safari takes you to Lake Mburo and Queen Elizabeth National Parks. Don’t miss a photo at the equator and a souvenir that will always refresh your memories of Uganda. Apart from zebras, topis, elands and impalas, the Rothschild giraffes have also been introduced in Lake Mburo. On the other hand Queen Elizabeth National Park is known for its wildlife including close to 100 types of mammals and over 612 different bird species – the highest number in any African park.
Uganda boasts of about 1,000 bird species the most on the African continent. The wildlife includes the hippos, lions, leopards, elephants, chimpanzees all in their natural habitat. This six day safari gives you the opportunity to explore and discover the many riches that these two parks have to offer.
Includes: Accommodation, Meals as per the itinerary, Queen Elizabeth and Lake Mburo Park entry fees, Game drives, Cruise on the Kazinga Channel, Boat ride at Lake Mburo, Nature walk and private 4×4 ground transport with an English speaking driver guide.
Excludes: Beverages, tips, and personal expenses.
On arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be received by our driver/guide who will transfer you to your hotel for a pre-safari briefing before overnight rest. Overnight at Boma Guest House booked on bed and breakfast basis.
Transit Time: 5 minutes
Leave Kampala after breakfast heading southwest for Lake Mburo National park. Make a stop at the equator for a photo moment and perhaps pick a memento for you or your loved one back home. Continue to the park arriving with an en route game drive to check in at your lodge.
In the evening make a game drive in the evening and look out for buffalo, elland, spotted hyena, leopard, impala, zebras, water hogs, waterbucks among others. Lake Mburo is an excellent place in the country to go watching the huge eland antelope, as well as zebra, topi, impala.
For birders the menu has African fin foot, bare faced go away bird, the African Fish Eagle, papyrus gonolek and many others. Return to Mihingo Lodge for dinner and overnight accommodation.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner Transit
Time: Approximately 4-5 hours
Today after an early breakfast you take a morning game drive looking out for more wildlife giving you an excellent opportunity to catch the mysterious leopard, jackals, hyenas returning to their dens and hippos retreating to the waters. Do not miss out on the recently reintroduced Rothschild giraffes roaming the park.
Return to the lodge for relaxation before lunch and after lunch take a boat ride on Lake Mburo which is one of the five lakes within the park that attract hippos, crocodiles as well as a vast range of water birds. In the evening drive to the observation post near the park headquarters to see animals at the natural salt lick.
Return to Mihingo Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
This morning, with the help of a ranger guide you will embark on a guide nature walk through the African Wilderness. Following designated circuits through the Savannah grasslands trailing the unsuspecting wildlife to the Hyena’s Den. Proceed through the swamp ending at the Lake. Alternatively one might opt for a horse ride or a quad bike trailing the wildlife. (This attracts an additional fee and can be arranged in the park).
Depart for Queen Elizabeth National park stopping at Igongo Cultural Centre in Mbarara for lunch. Continue driving through amazing sceneries, beautiful tea estates and splendid banana growth canopy through the great east African rift valley arriving at the park in the evening for an en route evening game drive via the leopard loop. Dinner and Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Time: Approximately 2-3 hours
You will be out of bed early enough to prepare for the morning game drive that starts at 0630 hours. After a hot cup of tea or coffee drive out of the lodge heading to the Kasenyi track where the cats are usually sighted before they retreat to the thickets after sunrise. Along the way you will stop to see a variety of animals like the hippos moving back to the water, elephants, water bucks, hyenas, buffaloes among others.
With over 612 bird species recorded Queen Elizabeth National Park is a bird haven. Return to your lodge for breakfast and after lunch you will go for a Cruise along the Kazinga channel. The 32 kilometers stretch that joins Lake Edward to Lake George is believed to hold the largest concentration of hippos in the entire world. Elephants, solitary buffaloes and waterbucks are among the animals normally sighted at the banks. On a lucky day lions and other predators are also sighted in the hideouts waiting to pounce on their prey as it goes for a drink at the channel.
The channel is also rich in bird life as thousands of birds are always at the channel both indigenous and migrant species that fly thousands of miles all the way from Europe and other parts of the world to escape the winter. Some of the bird species include the Martial Eagle, Black-rumped Buttonquail, African Skimmer, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Pinkbacked Pelican, African Broadbill, Verreaux’s Eagle Owl, Black Bee-eater, White-tailed Lark, White-winged Warbler, Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Canary, Corncrake, Lesser and Greater Flamingo, Shoebill, Bar-tailed Godwit. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Breakfast at leisure before embarking on your drive back to Kampala again going through Bushenyi, Mbarara and Masaka before reaching Kampala or Entebbe where you will be dropped off.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
Transit Time: About 6 Hours to Kampala