#PKG-40
Package Type: COUPLE, PRIVATE OR GROUP
Package Location: UGANDA
Features: FREE PICKUP
Grand Total
12days-Adventure bird watching safari!!
Day 1: ARRIVAL At The Airport. On the arrival at Entebbe International Airport you will meet our Topi tours drive who will take you for dinner and overnight at Imperial view Hotel or Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe or Boma Guest House.
Day 2: Botanical Gardens and mabamba Swamp. After breakfast, you will start birding around the botanical gardens. Look out for Slender-billed Weaver, Brown-throated Weaver, Golden-backed Weaver, Yellow-backed Weaver, Grey-headed Gull, Long-tailed Cormorant, Common Stucco Heron, Yellow-billed Duck, Pied Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Swamp Flycatcher, Broad-billed Roller, Black-and white Casqued Hornbill, Splendid Glossy Starling, Black-headed Gonolek, Orange Weaver, Verreaux's Eagle-owl, Red-cheated Sunbird, Ross's Turaco, Pied Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill, Open-billed Stork, Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Grey-capped Warbler and many others. After lunch at the hotel proceed for Mabamba Swamp and board the canor for the best tour of the swamp. You can find the Shoebill stork, Swamp Flycatcher, Purple Swamphen, African Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, African Pygmy-goose, White-faced Whistling-duck, Stucco Heron, Goliath Heron, Black Crake and many more birds. Return to imperial golf view Hotel, Botanical Beach Hotel or The boma guest house for dinner and overnight.
Day 3 and 4: Queen Elizabeth National Park. After breakfast you depart for Queen Elizabeth National park. This Park records over 680 bird species. The one-day record in this Park is 296, which is one of the highest in the world. After lunch go for the boat cruise along Kazinga Channel, where the meditation of water birds and photographs is astonishing. Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge, Bush lodge, or katala lodge.
Day 5 and 6: Bird watching in the park and Ishasha sector. (QENP) After amorning cup of coffee, you start birding early morning in the open savannah for birds like the Temminck's Courser, Martial Eagle, Rappel’s Griffon Vulture, then return to the lodge for breakfast and lunch. In the afternoon proceed to Windy Impenetrable National Park through maramagambo Forest and Ishasha sector. Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Homestead silverback lodge, Mahogani springs or G & C lodge.
Day 6 ,7 ,8: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest. In the morning you can hear the songs of the white browed Robin-chat, Lender’s Bush-shrike and the Grey-capped Warbler while having breakfast. You will spend the whole day birding in bwindi Impenetrable National Forest, one of the most interesting ecosystems in African for the concentration of biodiversity. Over 350 bird species are recorded. These include Red-throated Ale the Equatorial Akalat, Grey-throated Barbet, Black Bee-eater, Forest Robin, Montane Oriole, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Pettit's Cuckoo shrike, Black-faced Rufus Warbler and many more. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 8 and 9 Buhoma - Ruhija in Bwindi N/park. Early morning gorilla tracking in the forest sanctuary starting from Buhoma. Depart to reach Ruhijja in the south of the forest, spending two nights at Ruhijja lodge. In the second day after breakfast you go for birding in this fertile area, which makes jt very productive. One has to be prepared to walk on steep mountain tracks. You drop from about 2400m to 2050m above sea level. Birding in the bamboo zone is good for the Handsome Francolin, Archer's Robin-chat, Stripe-breasted Tit, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Dusky Crimsonwing, Mountain Illadopsis and Mountain Yellow Warbler. The third day, we proceeds for dinner and overnight in Mburo National Park, Mantana Tented Camp or Muhingo Lodge/ Rwakoob Rocks.
Day 10 and 11 Lake Mburo National Park .After breakfast, enjoy birding in the swampy area and a boat ride on Lake Mburo. You will hear the songs of white browed robin chat Dideric Cuckoo, Grey-capped Warbler, Black-headed Weaver and Ring-necked Dove. Among other you will go searching for Brown-cheated Lapwing, Lilac-breasted Roller, Black-bellied Bustard, Helmeted Guinea fowl, Coquina Francolin, Rufus-napped Lark plus many raptors. In the evening transfer toEntebbe Town for dinner and overnight at Boma Guest House or Imperial golf view hotel.
Day 12 - Reserved for airport transfer or extensions.
End of safaris!!
You can Choose between luxury or Mid-range Tariffs.
The safari includes:
- Accommodation on full board.
-Ground transportation by a 4x4 Land Cruiser or minibus.
-Park entrance fees.
-One Gorilla permit per person to be secured and paid for in advance.
-English Speaking /Germany Driver/Guide -Government Taxes.
The safari excludes. drinks, tips, laundry, telephone, cigarettes etc.
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