Day 1: Arrive In Uganda | Murchison Falls National Park | Top Of Falls
Arrival in Uganda, you will be picked up by our representative at the Entebbe International Airport in the morning and will be transferred to Murchison Falls National Park. The vehicle will leave you near the falls from where you can hike from the top of the falls to bottom. It is an exciting experience that brings you very close to the rushing whitewater as it squeezes itself through the narrow crevice below. The resulting mist from the turbulence often produces rainbows.
Stay at: Pakuba Safari Lodge (B)
Activity : Hiking
Day 2: Morning Game Drive | The Boat Cruise | Evening Game Drive
Embark on an early morning game drive on the Northern bank where your guide will help you spot a great number of animals and birds. In the afternoon you will headback to the lodge to grab some lunch and rest before you head for afternoon Boat ride scheduled at 2 Pm. You will safari upstream by boat to the calm Victoria Nile and the base of the falls. There you can marvel at toothsome hippos, crocodiles and over the 17-kilometer stretch you may also see elephants, waterbucks and Uganda kobs. This is also the habitat for many bird species.
Stay at : Pakuba Safari Lodge (FB)
Activity : Game Drive and Boat Cruise
Day 3: Travel To Kibale National Park | Explore Kyaninga Crater Lake
After breakfast, you will start your journey from Murchison Falls National park, driving Southwest through the Albertine Escarpment of the great Western Rift Valley. Drive through Hoima, Kyejonjo district, Fort Portal situated in the shadow of the fabled "Mountains of the Moon," the Rwenzori. After noon you will reach Kyaninga Lodge which is located at the top of Kyaninga Crater lake and enjoy your lunch. After lunch, you will have a walk at the edge of a rare twinned-volcanic crater lake. Take a guided walk with one of the lodge guides around the rim of the Crater Lake and see it in all of its majesty. You can also walk down to the Lake through the 'land that time forgot' forest at Kyaninga. You can tour the local villages and gain a fascinating insight into rural Ugandan life. A little further, and you can take a walk up to the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley itself and stare in wonder as East Africa opens out beneath you.
Stay at : Kyaninga Lodge (Luxury) or Mountain of the moon hotel or Ndali lodge (Upper Mid range) /Primate Lodge (luxury) or Rwengoma Courts and Apartments (Mid range) or Kibale Forest Camp (Luxury)
Activity: Walking Tour
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking | Visit Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves | Visit The Sempaya Hot Springs
Today kick start with a two to three hours tracking depending on the location of the chimps. After the trek you will go back to the resort for lunch and then you will visit the Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves and the three surrounding explosion Crater Lakes. This makes it a most interesting day adventure and can be done while staying in Fort portal. A side-trip to the Amabere Caves and the three nearby Crater Lakes will be a time of hiking, learning about the local culture and legends. After visiting Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves, you will drive to Sempaya hot springs which are the main attraction of this park and our safari highlight. At the springs, you will witness water boiling itself by the natural forces. The strength and hotness of the springs are amazing as one can boil eggs and matooke in a few minutes, its ready to eat.
Stay at : Ndali lodge (Upper Mid range) (FB)
Activity: Chimpanzee Tracking, Hiking
Day 5: Travel To Queen Elizabeth National Park |Boat Ride | Game Drive
After breakfast, you will be taken to Queen Elizabeth National park. It’s a park where wildlife and people coexist in harmony. Check in at your hotel for lunch, and then head out for a boat ride on Kazinga channel which connects Lake Edward and Lake George. Some of the best wildlife viewings are done on a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, passing squacco herons, pied kingfishers, large numbers of buffalo and hippo, basking crocodiles and many different bird species and large mammals. This is one of the most memorable experiences from the park. Over 300 hippos can be found in the lake.
After the boat ride, you will go for an evening game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park aiming to catch the lions hunting in the evening. Lions usually hunt when the temperature is cooler. We also expect to see the Uganda kob, elephants, buffalo, warthog, leopard and waterbuck.
Stay at: Natural Lodges Uganda (FB)
Activity: Boat Ride and Game Drive
Day 6: Ishasha Sector | Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable Forest | Cultural Interaction
After an early morning breakfast, you will be transferred to Ishasha, southern sector of Queen Elizabeth which is famous for its tree climbing lions. The Ishasha sector is notably recognized for its resident Tree climbing lions that are an exceptional attraction and one among the highlights on all safaris taken within Queen Elizabeth National park.
After game drive in Ishasha it is time to move to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home of the famous mountain gorillas. Check in at your lodge for lunch; prepare for yet another highlight of this amazing trip: tracking mountain gorillas. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to over 346 bird species, 120 mammal species, 400 plant species, 27 frog species among others and covering an area of 331 sq km. After arrival, we will embark on a community walk where you will visit the Batwa, which is an indigenous group of people that has lived in the forest for 500,000 years, enjoy traditional dances and drama from them.
Stay at : Rushaga Gorilla Havens (FB)
Activity: Game Drive, Gorilla Trekking
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking | Travel To Lake Bunyonyi With 29 Islands
After breakfast, head out to the park’s head office with your guide, have a briefing about the Do’s and Don’ts while in the park with gorillas. After briefing head out for gorilla trekking through the mist rain forest, trekking can take 2 hours or up to 6 hours and this is based on the location of the gentle giants.
Make sure you carry enough water, sturdy shoes, non-flash cameras, and rain jackets
At the end of this long and exciting adventure, return to our lodge for a well-deserved shower, and then have lunch and relax and thereafter check out in the evening for a transfer to Lake Bunyonyi which is a twisting water body dotted with 29 islands with various shapes and sizes, scattered across the water will amaze you.
Stay at: Arcadia lodge (FB)
Activity: Gorilla Trekking, Island tour
Day 8: Relax | Zip Lining | Ninja Warrior
After breakfast, you will relax at your hotel until lunch time. Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of (2,200 – 2,478m). It is probably the second deepest lake in Africa. It is one of the few African lakes completely safe for swimming - there is no bilharzia. After lunch, you will head out for zip lining; this activity is done over the lake. You will have another interesting activity, here you still stretch your muscles as you have the Ninja warrior.
Stay at: Arcadia lodge (FB)
Activity: Zip Lining
Day 9: Equator | Transfer To Kampala
After your breakfast, you will be driven to Kampala. You will have a stopover at the Equator in Masaka, see where this imaginary line divides our planet into two equal hemispheres. Snacks, souvenirs and photographs may be taken here.
Stay at : Sheraton Hotel (FB)
Day 10: Travel To River Nile | White Water Rafting & Discovering The Nile
Depart for Jinja at 6:00 am with packed breakfast. You will go through Mabira forest, a rainforest covering about 300 square kilometers. On arrival in Jinja, you will go for White Water Rafting on the rapids which are an adventure and an unforgettable experience. The Nile River finds its source in Jinja where it starts and flows for 4000 km through different African countries. After white water rafting, you will check in at your hotel for lunch. Post lunch relax and enjoy at the lodge with swimming pool.
Stay at: Wildwaters Lodge (FB)
Activity: White water rafting
Day 11: Relax at Wildwaters Lodge
On this day, you will relax in Wildwaters lodge which is uniquely perched on granite rocks with noisy and exciting foamy rapids roaring all around. The ten stand-alone elevated timber-floor and super-spacious luxury suites nestled in the rainforest with amazing river views. Each are linked by raised wooden walkways to the restaurant, bar and library, and feature glass-fronted windows, locally handmade furniture, stylish bathrooms with rain showers, and secluded wooden decks with daybeds and romantic free-standing open-air bathtubs. There are also delicious and far above standard sunrise breakfasts and candle-lit three-course dinners and a lovely swimming pool carved out of natural pink granite rocks in the attractive main communal lodge area.
Stay at : Wildwaters Lodge (FB)
Note that, the doctor will come at the lodge to take your covid-19 test
Day 12: Transfer To Kampala | Fly to Nairobi
On this day, after your breakfast, you will go for a guided boat cruise on the Nile. Have lunch in one of the restaurants in Kampala. Then be transferred to the Entebbe Airport for your flight to Kenya. Upon arrival at 9pm from Entebbe International Airport, you will be met by our Kubwa Five Safaris representative with your name printed on an A4 paper will welcome you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and later you will be transferred to your hotel in Nairobi
Stay at : Sarova Stanley (FB)
Activity: Boat Cruise
Day 13: Travel To Lake Naivasha | Boat Ride
Early in the morning have breakfast and check out and leave for Lake Naivasha. On arrival in Lake Naivasha national park, you will check in at your hotel and then go out for an evening boat ride.
Dinner and overnight
Stay at : Lake Naivasha Resort (FB)
Activity: Boat Ride
Day 14: Travel To Hell’s Gate National Park For Bike riding | Travel To Lake Nakuru National Park | Evening Game Drive
After breakfast, you will do bike riding at Hell’s gate national park which will take about 2 hours. You will be driven to Lake Nakuru National Park, back to your hotel in the afternoon. After lunch, you will head out for an evening game drive. The lake itself is a soda lake on the floor of the rift valley. The sight of at times millions of flamingos is quite spectacular. From a distance the lake appears ringed in pink. Lake Nakuru National Park has also earned a reputation as an important haven for endangered species- particularly the Rothschild Giraffe and the black and white rhino. Lions, waterbuck, buffalo and baboons are all residents here.
Stay at: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge (FB)
Activity: Bike riding, Game drive
Day 15: Morning Game Drive | Travel To Maasai Mara
After breakfast, depart for early morning game drive. Lake Nakuru is one of Kenya’s renowned soda lakes and is world-famous for attracting millions of flamingos to its alkaline shores. Feeding on the abundant algae that grows in the warm and shallow waters, witnessing these legions of fuchsia-pink flamingos is a sight to behold. After the morning drive, head out to Maasai Mara. You will pass through the floor of the rift valley arriving in the evening.
Stay at: Jambo Safari lodge Mara (FB)
Activity: Game Drive
Day 16: Full Day Game Drive | Maasai Village Maasai Mara reserve
After breakfast enjoy half day in the park with packed lunch and in search of its well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo and other animal species. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe over 450 species of animals has been recorded here. This is also the land of annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. In the afternoon, Visit the local Maasai village for a cultural tour. Learn about the Maasai community and interact with the local Maasai people. An overnight at the Maasai village can be organized upon request
Optional Activity at a fee: A balloon safari at USD 485 per person can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program.
Stay at: Jambo Safari lodge Mara (FB)
Activity: Game Drive, Cultural Tour
Please note that, you will have the covid-19 test on this day in the morning.
Day 17: Transfer From Maasai Mara National To Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast drive to Isebania Kenya - Tanzania border with packed lunches. Meet Tanzania driver/guide change safari car and immigration formalities and drive to Serengeti National Park with your packed lunches.
Stay at : Serengeti Serena Lodge (FB)
Day 18: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park
You will have full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, and many more. The Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers. It is Tanzania’s oldest game reserve, renowned for the part it plays in the annual Great Migration when an estimated three million antelope – mostly wildebeest – migrate to Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Reserve. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Here visitors to the park can roam its sprawling plains on exhilarating game drives or hop into a hot-air balloon ride for a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure.
Stay at : Serengeti Serena Lodge (FB)
You will have covid-19 test on this day in the morning.
Day 19: Travel To Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast drive to Ngorongoro crater for game drive with packed lunches
Late in the afternoon, drive to Arusha overnight at Mountain
Stay at : Village Serena Lodge. (FB)
Day 20: Final Day | Flight Back Home
After breakfast, you will be driven to Arusha town for shopping, have lunch in town, then drive to Kilimanjaro International for your scheduled flight back home (HB)