Wild Uganda
Gorillas, Chimpanzees & the Nile

Touching down at Entebbe International Airport, you’ll be met by a friendly local representative, ready to whisk you off to your hotel. After the long flight, the rest of the day is yours — settle in, unwind by Lake Victoria, and let the anticipation build for the eight days of adventure ahead.

Your hotel sits just minutes from the airport, giving you easy, low-stress access to a proper bed, a good dinner, and a good night’s sleep before the real journey begins tomorrow.

After breakfast, you’ll head north to Murchison Falls National Park — Uganda’s largest, and one of its most spectacular. The drive alone is worth it: rolling countryside, village life, and landscapes that shift by the hour.

Along the way, you’ll stop at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, the only place in Uganda to track endangered southern white rhinos on foot. After lunch at Kabalega Diner, you’ll arrive at your lodge overlooking the mighty Nile, ready for two days of wildlife immersion.

Rise early for a morning game drive through the park’s northern sector, when wildlife is at its most active — elephants, lions, Rothschild’s giraffes, buffalo, and if you’re lucky, an elusive leopard draped over a branch.

After lunch back at the lodge, you’ll board a boat cruising upriver along the Nile, past pods of hippos and basking crocodiles, to the base of Murchison Falls itself — where the entire river is forced through a 7-metre gorge in a thunderous, misting cascade.

Today you’ll travel to Kibale Forest National Park, celebrated as the Primate Capital of East Africa. The drive winds through rolling hills, tea plantations and farmland — a scenic warm-up for what’s ahead.

Your lodge sits right on the edge of the ancient rainforest. Settle onto your private veranda, listen for distant monkey calls, and rest up for tomorrow’s chimpanzee trek.

After an early breakfast, you’ll set off into Kibale Forest with expert trackers in search of chimpanzees — spending a magical hour watching them feed, groom and swing through the canopy, our closest living relatives at their most unguarded.

From there, you’ll drive on to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda’s most popular safari destination, arriving in time for an afternoon boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel — hippos, elephants, buffalo and prolific birdlife line the shore as the sun drops low.

One more early start for a game drive through Queen Elizabeth’s cool morning light, then south through the Ishasha sector — the only place in Uganda where lions climb into the fig trees and doze high above the ground. Keep your camera ready.

From there, you’ll travel through terraced hillsides and rural villages to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to nearly half the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. Settle into your lodge for the night before tomorrow’s main event.

After an early breakfast, you’ll head to Bwindi’s park headquarters for a briefing from Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers on trekking etiquette and safety, before being assigned to a habituated gorilla family.

Accompanied by expert guides and trackers, you’ll push into the dense, mist-covered forest — the trek can take anywhere from a couple of hours to most of the day. Then comes the moment this whole trip has been building toward: a full hour face-to-face with a gorilla family, watching the silverback lead, and the young ones play, feed and tumble around him. Few wildlife encounters come close.

Back at the lodge, celebrate with a well-earned drink and an evening under the stars, reflecting on one of Africa’s most extraordinary experiences.

After a relaxed breakfast in Bwindi’s peaceful rainforest air, you’ll transfer to Kisoro Airstrip for your domestic flight back to Entebbe — with spectacular aerial views over rolling hills, lakes and the Virunga volcanoes along the way.

On arrival, our team will help you connect to your international departure flight. If you have extra time, we’re happy to arrange a day room, spa treatment or lakeside relaxation — a gentle close to an unforgettable Ugandan adventure.