Uganda
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in Uganda
Queen Elizabeth
and Murchison Falls National Park- 5 Days
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Day 1 Kampala
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast you will picked from your hotel
or residence and depart for Lake Mburo National
Park stopping at Mpigi crafts and the Equator
crossing. Arrive in time for lunch stop in Mbarara
and then proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
As you descend to the park stop for good scenery
point of the rift valley and Rwenzori mountains.
Arrive in the evening and check in at Mweya Safari
Lodge or Institute Hostel for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Queen Elizabeth National
Park
After breakfast, you will go for Chimpanzee trekking
in Kyambura Gorge where you will see not only
the chimpanzee but also other primates like the
colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys plus baboons.
Return to the lodge for lunch and after you will
take an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel
where you will see a variety of game mostly marine
animals. This waterway joins Lake Edward and Lake
George and it is filled with schools of hippos,
buffaloes, with elephants at the banks. Queen
Elizabeth National Park is one of the most outstanding
treasures of Uganda, and has been designated a
Biosphere Reserve for Humanity under UNESCO auspices.
If time allows take an evening game drive to the
crater area. Retire to your lodge for Dinner and
Overnight.
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Day 3: Queen
Elizabeth National Park - Murchison Falls Game
Park
Check out of the lodge carryout morning game drive
to catch-up with the early risers and predators
– lion, leopard, returning to their hideouts.
You will be likely to meet grazing, elephants,
spotted hyenas and leopards, bushbucks, water
buck and stripped jackal, and of-course the several
warthogs. Proceed to Murchison Falls National
Park with packed lunch or stopping in Hoima for
lunch . Proceed to Murchison falls arriving in
the evening.Check in at Paraa safari Lodge or
Sambiya River Lodge or Nile safari camp .
Day 4: Murchison Falls Game Park
Start the day with an early morning game drive
on the Buligi, Albert or Queens tracks north of
the river Nile. You are able to view those animals
that are unique to the African Savannah like lion,
leopard, giraffe, antelope, elephant, and many
warthogs. After lunch, you will go for a launch
cruise on the Nile River. The cruise takes to
the bottom of the thundering falls where you will
see huge crocodiles, schools of hippos, buffaloes,
elephants and a variety of water birds like herons,
cormorants, ducks, bee-eaters, kingfishers, skimmers,
fish eagle and the rare shoebill. Return to the
lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Murchison
Falls Game Park - Kampala
On this day before you leave the park, visit the
“Top of the falls” and proceed to
Kampala.
Jinja, Lake Mburo
and Queen Elizabeth - 5 Days
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Day 1 Kampala
- River Nile - Kampala
Morning at 7:00 AM will picked from designated
point to be driven to Jinja an old colonial industrial
town of Uganda set up at the source of the River
Nile at the shores of Lake Victoria. This day
is dedicated to white water rafting on River Nile-
day. Lunch will be served while rafting and at
the end will be served a barbeque. Clients who
will not go for rafting will visit the source
of River Nile, Bujagali Falls and proceed to Kampala
overnight.
Day 2 Jinja/Kampala—Lake
Mburo National Park
After breakfast you will picked from your hotel
or residence and depart for Lake Mburo National
Park stopping at Mpigi crafts and the Equator
crossing. Arrive in time for an evening game drive/
boat ride where you will see unique game like
the Eland, Topi, Klipspringer and Zebra. The attractive
acacia-dotted Savannah is a home for huge Zebras
and Buffaloes which graze these peaceful acres
.At the lake, there are Hippos and a wonderful
diversity of birds. Because of the different habitats
of the lakeshores and the broad Savannah, the
variety seems endless. Catch a glimpse of water
birds diving for fish, the Marabou stork, bee-eater
and cheeky bronze-tailed starling as well as the
majestic crowned crane. Check in at Mantana Luxury
camp or Rwonyo Camp for dinner and overnight
Day 3 Lake
Mburo -Queen Elizabeth National Park
Morning game drive /boat ride which you did not
do yesterday.Drive southwards with packed lunch
or sto for lunch in Mbarara town. As you descend
to the park stop for strategic view of scenery
and sight seeing point of the rift valley and
the Rwenzori mountains. Arrive in the evening
and check in at Mweya Safari Lodge or Institute
Hostel for dinner and overnight.
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Day 4 Queen
Elizabeth Park
After breakfast, you will go for Chimpanzee trekking
in Kyambura Gorge where you will see not only
the chimpanzee but also other primates like the
colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys plus baboons.
Return to the lodge for lunch and after you will
take an afternoon boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel
where you will see a variety of game mostly marine
animals. This waterway joins Lake Edward and Lake
George and it is filled with schools of hippos,
buffaloes, with elephants at the banks. Queen
Elizabeth National Park is one of the most outstanding
treasures of Uganda, and has been designated a
Biosphere Reserve for Humanity under UNESCO auspices.
If time allows take an evening game drive to the
crater area. Retire to your lodge for Dinner and
Overnight.
Day 5 Queen Elizabeth Park
- Kampala
Rise very early for a morning game drive to catch-up
with the early risers and predators – lion,
leopard, returning to their hideouts. You will
be likely to meet grazing, elephants, spotted
hyenas and leopards, bushbucks, water buck and
stripped jackal, and of-course the several warthogs.
After late breakfast proceed to Kampala with packed
stopping at tea estates in Bushenyi and continue
to Kampala.
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