Our guide will come pick you up very early in the morning from a hotel in Kampala, brief you before you start the journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will take a brief stop over at the Uganda Equator in Masaka to take pictures, have some experiments carried out before you will proceed to Mbarara where you will have your lunch before you proceed through the East African Rift valley before arriving in Queen Elizabeth National park. Just before you get to your lodge, you enjoy an en route game drive along your way to the lodge where you will have your dinner and spend an overnight.
Budget Accommodation: Institute of Ecology / Simba safari lodge
Mid-range Accommodation: Marafiki safari lodge / Bush lodge / Hippo Hill Camp / Ihamba Lodge
Luxury Accommodation: Ishasha wilderness camp / Mweya safari lodge / Jacana lodge / Katara Lodge / Kingfisher resort
You will have a cup of coffee or tea when you wake up and then go for the early morning game drive in the park and during this game drive, you will get the perfect opportunity to search for the different wildlife like; bush pigs, Buffaloes, forest hogs, elephants, Lions, bushbucks, Uganda Kob, there may be jackal, Leopards and Lions.
There are also lots of bird species, butterflies, and many more others. After the game drive and will be through by mid-morning, head back to the lodge have your full breakfast, and then wait for lunch at your lodge. After lunch, you will go for a launch cruise along the Kazinga channel that connects lakes Edward and George. This boat trip will reward you with wildlife like Buffaloes, hippos, crocodiles, so many birds. You can always take some pictures and then return to the lodge for dinner and overnight
The lodge will serve break fast and then drive to Kyambura gorge for briefing about the chimpanzee trekking exercise or go for the nature walk but you need to decide if you go for chimpanzees so that chimpanzee permits are bought earlier in Kampala . You and your park ranger will go for the nature walk or to search for the chimpanzees in the Kyambura gorge and search for the chimpanzees which are main primates in that forest.
During the search, you will come across other attractions like monkeys, bush babies, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, baboons, many more and will also see wonderful vegetation species. Usually Chimpanzee trekking ends at midday, then go have your lunch and after lunch, you will drive back to Kampala.
