Wake up early in the morning and embark on a game drive for a chance to catch the animals enjoying their morning meal.

You’ll drive through the park following the instructions of an experienced ranger and encounter lions, buffaloes, elephants, hippos, different kinds of antelopes, warthogs, and many species of birds and butterflies. You’ll return to the lodge to enjoy a late breakfast, explore its surroundings, and lounge by the pool. After lunch, you’ll take a boat down the Victoria Nile River to the base of the Murchison Falls. The ride takes you along the extensive papyrus-edged Victoria Nile home to many animals and birds. Expect to encounter hippos, crocodiles, buffalo, and other animals that come to the river for a drink and a dip. Finally, a hike to the top of the falls to enjoy the views and experience the power of the roaring Nile as it squeezes through a narrow gap and cascades down into the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’. Activities: Game Drive & Boat Cruise

You’ll then set off for the pristine Kibale National Park, a scenic drive that will take you through a lush green countryside dotted with tea plantations. You will have a packed lunch which you can enjoy along the way. On arrival, you will enjoy the rest of the evening relaxing at your hotel. Activities: Scenic Drive

Kibale Forest National Park contains one of Uganda's loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest. Forest cover, interspersed with grassland and swamp patches, dominates the park's northern and central parts on an elevated plateau. Kibale Forest is the most accessible of Uganda’s major rainforests and is home to a remarkable 13 primate species, including the red colobus and L’Hoest’s monkeys. You will track chimpanzees with an experienced guide and on finding them will spend approximately an hour with them. These delightful apes, more closely related to humans than to any other living creature, are awesome to watch as they bicker and have fun in fruit trees. A network of shady forest trails also provides much to engross botanists and butterfly lovers, while birders are in for a treat with 335 species recorded including the Prirogrine’s ground thrush. After lunch, you’ll take a trip to Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary which is located outside the park in Magombe Swamp. Alternatively, you can take a cultural village trek and a lakeside walk along the shores of one of the crater lakes. Return to the lodge in the evening for dinner, delightful conversation, or a good book and some rest if you please. Activities: Chimpanzee Tracking, Nature & Cultural Treks

After breakfast, you’ll relax at the lodge before making trails in the early afternoon for QENP further west of Kibale. Queen Elizabeth National Park is located in western Uganda and stretches across Kasese, Bundibugyo, and Bushenyi districts, and covers an area of 1978 km2. The park’s ecosystem which includes sprawling savanna, shady, humid forests, sparkling lakes, and fertile wetlands makes it the ideal habitat for the classic big game, ten primate species including chimpanzees, and over 600 bird species. Set against the backdrop of the jagged Rwenzori Mountains, the park’s magnificent vistas include dozens of enormous craters carved dramatically into rolling green hills, panoramic views of the Kazinga channel with its banks lined with hippos, buffalos, elephants, and the endless Ishasha plains, whose fig trees hide lions ready to pounce on unsuspecting Uganda Kobs. After an evening game drive, you’ll retire to your lodgings for the night.

After an early breakfast, go for an early morning game drive in the park’s well-maintained tracks. This drive provides excellent opportunities to see lions, leopards, warthogs, buffalo, elephants, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, topis, bushbucks, and many more. After lunch, take a rewarding scenic boat cruise down the channel which joins lakes, George and Edward. You’ll cruise just meters from hundreds of enormous hippos and buffaloes while elephants linger on the shoreline. Return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and relaxation. Activities: Morning Game Drive

In the morning you’ll set off for the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Ishasha is dominated by acacia woodland and features the meandering Ishasha River, banked by a riparian forest, and is most famous for tree-climbing lions. You’ll then proceed south to Bwindi Forest Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi Forest is an old-growth or virgin forest and is one of the oldest and most ecologically diverse forests in Uganda. Located in the southwest on the edge of the Albertine Rift Valley, it covers an area of approximately 331 square kilometres and is famously home to almost half the world’s last surviving mountain gorillas. The forest is also the source of five major rivers which flow into Lake Edward. You’ll check into your lodgings and relax.

Very early in the morning, we will receive a briefing from the park guides on the dos and don’ts, and then we’ll venture off into the forest. Tracking gorillas is an exhilarating experience taking you deep into the thick jungle and requires a modest level of physical fitness as it can take anywhere from 2- 4 hours to find the gorillas. Once you have found the gorillas, you’ll be able to spend up to one hour with them! “At a distance of about fifteen feet, a mountain gorilla with her baby appears. She comes out of the bushes, looks at me, and lies down. My presence does not seem to bother her. She just wants to rest, whether I am there or not. I can almost touch her. My heart dances with joy. I am in a good position to take pictures, so I let my camera do its work. It is the thrill of a lifetime. I cannot but agree with the American zoologist George Schaller, the first to study gorillas in the Virunga volcanoes, who once said: ‘No one who looks into the eyes of a gorilla, gentle and vulnerable, can remain unchanged.” In the afternoon we can take an optional guided trek to visit the surrounding communities. You’ll meet and interact with the locals and immerse yourself in some of the traditional pastimes like cultural dances and storytelling. Returning to the lodge late in the day and settling in for a quiet evening, dinner, and a good night’s sleep. NOTE: Please note that if you are unwell with anything contagious, even a common cold, you may be denied any of the treks to ensure the safety of these creatures. Activities: Gorilla Tracking, Nature & Cultural Treks

In the morning, you’ll set off for Lake Mburo National Park which is located in Mbarara district. On the way, you’ll visit the Great Lakes Museum along Ntungamo-Kabale Road. The Great Lakes Museum was opened in 2014 to preserve and promote the history and culture of the region. On arrival in Mbarara, you’ll visit the Igongo cultural centre which also has a museum dedicated to the cultural history of western Uganda. You’ll then set off for Lake Mburo National Park, about an hour’s drive away. On arrival at the park, you’ll take a short game drive before checking into your lodgings for the evening. Activities: Great Lakes Museum, Game Drive

Together with 13 other lakes in the area, Lake Mburo forms part of a 50 km-long wetland system linked by a swamp. Five of these lakes lie within the park’s borders. Once covered by an open savanna, Lake Mburo National Park now contains much woodland as there are no elephants to tame the vegetation. In the western part of the park, the savanna is interspersed with rocky ridges and forested gorges while patches of papyrus swamp and narrow bands of lush riparian woodland line many lakes. Lake Mburo National Park supports globally threatened species of birds, including two of the endangered cichlid fish species which have gone extinct in the main lakes and it is the only area in Uganda in which the Impala is found. The park also provides refuge to 22 species of Palaearctic and Afro-tropical migrant birds during adverse conditions, within the wooded Savanna with Acacia/Commiphora thicket and grasslands. Lake Mburo National Park is one of the two parks where bush walks are allowed led by an experienced ranger guide. You will enjoy the scenery and get up close and walk with the wild animals. After lunch, you’ll set off for Kampala/Entebbe arriving at your lodgings late in the evening.