14 Days Uganda Safari Holidays Details
Travel from North to West to South and see the diversity of Uganda’s flora and fauna on this 14 Days Uganda Safari Holidays. The savannas of Queen Elizabeth and Murchison Falls and the rainforests of Kibale and Bwindi. This tour through Uganda is the perfect combination of nature, culture & animals and you will overnight in the best mid-range accommodations in Uganda.
Itinerary
Day 1: Welcome to Uganda!
Your guide will pick you up from Entebbe airport and transfer you to ViaVia Guesthouse, just 10 minutes away. The next morning, after breakfast, your 14-day Uganda safari with Laba Africa will begin. Depending on your arrival time, you can explore local attractions such as the Botanical Gardens or the Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre. ViaVia Entebbe offers cozy, self-contained rooms with private terraces, a beautiful garden, hammocks, and a swimming pool. Guests can enjoy a campfire at night and a restaurant serving fresh, international and local dishes, promising a warm, memorable stay.
- Accomodation : Via Via Guest house
- Journey time : 10 minutes
- Meal plan: No meals inclusive
Day 2: To Murchison Falls National Park
Today, we drive to Murchison Falls National Park, one of Uganda’s oldest conservation areas. The journey is long but rewarding, offering views of Northern Uganda’s diverse landscapes. Murchison Falls is the country’s largest and most famous nature reserve, known for its powerful waterfall and abundant wildlife. Visitors can enjoy activities like boat safaris and Delta safaris on the Nile, which divides the park into northern and southern sections before flowing into Lake Albert. Though poaching and conflict once severely impacted the wildlife, the park remains a must-visit destination in Uganda.
Most wildlife in Murchison Falls National Park, except rhinos, has quickly recovered. Game drives in the northern section offer sightings of elephants, giraffes, lions, antelope, buffaloes, hippos, and crocodiles. You’ll cross the river by ferry for these thrilling experiences. Fort Murchison Lodge provides comfort in en-suite rooms, with a swimming pool and exceptional hospitality. The raised lodge offers stunning views of the Albert Nile and the park’s wildlife. At night, a guide will escort you back to your tent, as the bush comes alive with wildlife.
- Journey time: 6 hours
- Accomodation : Fort Murchison
- Meal plan : Break Fast and dinner
Day 3: Murchison Falls National Park
After an early breakfast, you’ll begin your game drive through Murchison Falls National Park. While spotting wildlife requires keen eyes and some luck, you’ll have the chance to see elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, antelope, and tropical birds. A knowledgeable ranger will accompany you, offering insights into the park’s rich wildlife, especially its large elephant population and diverse bird species. You’ll explore the park’s varied ecosystems, from dense woodlands to savannahs. As it’s a private drive, you can ask your guide to focus on specific wildlife or birdlife of interest.
The afternoon boat safari to Murchison Falls is a must-do, lasting about 3 hours along the Victoria Nile. You’ll experience stunning scenery while observing crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes, water birds, and other wildlife along the river. Cold drinks, including local beers and sodas, are available on board. If you’re a hiker, the boat can drop you near the falls for a 1-1.5 hour hike to the top, offering incredible views.
- Meal plan : Break Fast and dinner
Day 4: To Kibale Forest National park
On this day of your 14 Days Uganda Safari Holidays , you will undertake the journey to green Kibale Forest. The drive is incredibly scenic, passing through tea plantations and the lush green countryside which characterizes so much of Uganda. On arrival at the forest, you will enter a completely different world… some serious monkey business!
Kibale Forest National Park, near Fort Portal, is a lush tropical rainforest known for its rich primate population and is a highlight of the 14-day Uganda Safari. A visit to the habituated chimpanzee groups is a memorable experience, along with sightings of the rare red colobus, black-and-white colobus, red-tailed monkeys, olive baboons, blue monkeys, and L’Hoest’s monkeys. Your lodge, located at the park’s edge, offers a unique jungle experience with views of the forest canopy and the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains. You’ll enjoy delicious meals while spotting monkeys like the Red Colobus and Grey-cheeked Mangabey right on the premises.
- Accomodation: Kibale Forest Camp
- Meal plan: Breakfast and dinner
- Journey hours: 6 hours
Day 5: Chimpanzee Tracking & Bigodi wetland nature Walk
Chimpanzees share 98% of human genes making them our closest living relatives. They are found in 21 countries throughout Africa, but are most easily sighted in Uganda due to their dense populations.
Today, in Uganda, there are approximately 5,000 chimpanzees left in the wild. The Chimpanzee Trekking experience here is done on several well maintained walking trails. There is also a wonderfully diverse concentration of other primates, more than any other forest in East Africa, in fact. Besides our delightful cousins, the chimpanzees, you can find red colobus, red-tailed guenon, white-nosed monkey, gray-cheeked mangabey, blue monkey, L’Hoest’s monkey, and the black and white colobus monkey. In addition, you may see olive baboons, bush babies and nocturnal pottos.
14 Days Uganda Safari Holidays the afternoon of this 14 day Uganda safari, you will go for a walk in Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary which features 8 primate species, over 200 bird species and many reptiles. During the walk – which takes 2 to 3 hours – you have a chance to many animals but the highlight is catching a glimpse of a famous bird; the Great Blue Turaco.
- Accommodation; Kibale Forest Camp
- Meal Plan: Breakfast and dinner
Day 6: Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park is located in south western Uganda and is most often included in visitors’ itineraries. It is the second largest park in the country and located at the base of the majestic Rwenzori Mountain range, next to Lake Edward and Lake George which are joined by the Kazinga channel. Few reserves in the world have such a high biodiversity with landscapes including savannah, bushland, wetlands and lush forests. On your first game drive, it is time to explore the Queen
Elizabeth National Park with her 200 kilometers of well-maintained game viewing tracks. We advise for you to be alert and pro-active on your game drive to help the ranger spot as many animals as possible.
With an astonishing 5000 hippos, 2500 elephants and over 10,000 buffalo thriving in its grasslands and shorelines, this park guarantees sightings of some of Africa’s most iconic species. All being well you see elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, different species of antelope and just maybe some of the exciting predators such as; lion, leopard, civet, genal and serval cats. Ten species of primates enjoy the park’s diverse habitats. Vervet and black-and-white colobus monkeys are easily spotted in the trees, and of course the boldest species; baboons!
Bush lodge offers private safari tents on raised wooden floors with canvas walls, which can be rolled up. You can sit comfortably when watching the savannah plains with breath taking views across the park, the Rwenzori- and Virunga Mountains.
- Journey Time: 4 hours
- Accommodation: Bush lodge
- Meal Plan: Breakfast & dinner
Day 7: Game Drive & Boat Safari
The morning is the best time for a game drive as the African animal kingdom tends to me most active when during the golden hours of the first sunlight touching the savannah. You will continue the search for all the wildlife; elephant, buffalo, lion, waterbuck, leopard, Uganda kob, warthog and do not forget about the birds and the primates.
In the afternoon will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel. Here, you will see a lot of hippos more than you can imagine as well as a variety of other animals which come to the waterhole to drink or bathe. You can expect to see: Buffalo, Crocodile, bathing Elephant, and a range of beautiful birds.
- Accommodation: Bush lodge
- Meal Plan: Breakfast & dinner
Day 8: Ishasha and tree-climbing lions
After the hike you will drive in about 2,5 hours to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park. This part is famous for its’ tree-climbing lions. While lion cubs around the world frequently climb trees for fun, adults rarely do. However, these lionesses enjoy spending the hot afternoons snoozing in fig trees to get away from the tsetse flies and to enjoy a cool breeze. This is the most memorable sight in the park as you have never seen such photogenic lions posing for your camera before. During a game drive you will try your luck! Meanwhile don’t miss the stunning scenery and superb bird life in this southern remote section of the park either.
There is amazing bird life is and many herds of elephants, buffaloes and antelopes are regularly spotted. Vervet monkeys, baboons, black- and white colobus have become residents to the lodge
- Journey time: 2 hours
- Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge
- Meal plan: Breakfast and dinner
Day 9: To Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park
Today you will take yet another exciting and scenic drive to some of the oldest forests on the African continent. The drive to bind will show you the Ugandan countryside and villages with beautiful rolling hills that most people refer to as the switzerland of Africa.
- Accommodation: Bweza lodge
- Meal plan: Breakfast and dinner
Day 10: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest
Today is the big day… Prepare yourself for an encounter with one of Bwindi‘s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla. For most people this is the absolute highlight of their 14 Days Uganda Safari Holidays
Uganda’s oldest and most diverse rainforest, Bwindi, is perched on misty hillsides and has survived over 25,000 years, even through the Ice Age. This unique forest is the only one in Africa home to both mountain gorillas and chimpanzees, with half of the world’s mountain gorillas residing here in nine habituated groups. Bwindi also hosts five other primate species, 120 mammals, 220 butterflies, and 360 bird species. The park offers the ultimate opportunity to see the critically endangered mountain gorillas up close.
Your gorilla trek takes you through forested slopes, vines, and bamboo, where your guide will show signs of gorilla activity. The trek can last between 2 and 7 hours, culminating in a face-to-face encounter with these gentle giants.
Day 11 & 12 : Lake Bunyonyi
Today you will take yet another exciting and scenic drive to some of the oldest forests on the African continent. The drive to bind will show you the Ugandan countryside and villages with beautiful rolling hills that most people refer to as the switzerland of Africa.
- Journey time: 2 ½ hours
- Accomodation: Heritage Lodge Habuharo
- Meal plan Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 13 Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo is a small national Park (on the route from Bwindi National Park back to Entebbe) but should certainly not be underestimated. This is the only place in southern Uganda to see zebras and the only park in the country with impalas, slender mongoose and giant bush rats. You can also look for hyenas, leopards, topis, elands and the beautiful Rothschild’s giraffes, not to mention the lake itself which is teeming with hippos and crocodiles!. There are a lot of wonderful activities on offer, such as horse-riding, bush walks, boat safari on the lake and a mountain bike safari. It is exciting to approach the wildlife at such close range, especially combining the fresh air with the beautiful scenery of Lake Mburo National Park.
Today’s lodge is an ultimate place to breath in the essence of wild Uganda. This lodge’s aim it to ensure responsible tourism in every way. Zebras, warthogs, impalas and bushbucks often gather around the lodge to drink water beneath the dining area.
- Journey time: 7 hours
- Acoomodation: Rwakobo rock
- Meal plan : Break fast and dinner
Day 14: Game walk or mountain bike tour, and transfer to the airport
Lake Mburo National Park is one of the two parks in Uganda where guided walking safaris are permitted. Accompanied by an experienced ranger, you’ll learn to interpret footprints and animal droppings, creating an exhilarating opportunity to approach wildlife up close. This morning’s itinerary includes this exciting activity.
If you’re interested in a mountain biking safari, we can include it at an additional cost. This will conclude your 14-day Uganda Safari Holidays.
- Journey Time: 6 hours to Entebbe
Budget options
2 Pax-$3,950 pp
Mid range options
2 Pax-$4,750 pp
