5 Days Bwindi National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park is a Uganda wildlife safari where you will track mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable national park and visiting wildlife in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Uganda Safari Highlights
Day 1- Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day 2 – Game Drive and Kazinga Channel Boat Cruise
Day 3- Bwindi National Park
Day 4- Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi
Day 5- Transfer back to Kampala
Day 1; Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
On the 1st day of your 5 Days Bwindi National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park, You will be picked up from your hotel in Kampala and transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda.
On your way you will make a stopover at the equator at Kayabwe for the equator experience and photography. Proceed to Mbarara town for lunch and continue your journey to Bwindi and Queen Elizabeth national park arriving in the late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel.
Day 2; Game Drive & Boat Cruise – Queen Elizabeth
Wake up for an early morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park where you will spot a lot of wildlife including African elephants, Lions , buffaloes, antelopes, impala, among others and a lot of birds such as Swamp Flycatcher, African Skimmer, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Black-headed Gonolek, Verreaux’s Eagle-owl, Sedge Warbler, White-winged Terns, Grey-capped Warbler, Collared Pratincole, Martial Eagle, Gabon and Slender-tailed Nightjars among others
After the morning game drive, you will return to the lodge for breakfast, relax a bit and enjoy your lunch. In the afternoon, go for a Boat cruise along the Kazinga channel inside Queen Elizabeth Park where you will come up close with hippos, crocodiles among other aquatic life and an array of birds on the bay! Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 3; Transfer to Bwindi via Ishasha
On the 3rd day of your 5 Days Bwindi National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park, Enjoy your breakfast and head southwest of Queen Elizabeth national park in search of tree climbing lions in the Ishasha sector where on a lucky day, you will be able to spot many of them lounging on trees and enjoying the sun!
Continue and proceed to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park arriving in the evening. Check in to your hotel, unwind, and enjoy dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4; Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi
On the 4th day of your 5 Days Bwindi National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park, have an early morning breakfast and head to the park headquarters for briefing by the ranger guides before embarking on your gorilla trekking tour.
Head into Bwindi national park forest and trek until you find the Mountain gorillas. Gorilla trekking can take 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas. After finding the gorillas in Bwindi national Park, you will be allowed only 1 hour and then return. Your driver / guide will drive you back to your hotel to relax and spend another night.
Day 5; Transfer Back to Kampala
Enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer back to Kampala with a stopover in Mbarara for lunch, arriving in Kampala in the evening. Drop off to your hotel in Kampala or the Airport for your onward flight marking the End of your 5 Days Bwindi National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park
