Itinerary for the 5 days

Day 1: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth

At around 6:00am Set off from Kampala and head to Queen Elizabeth national park; located on the foothills of Mountain Rwenzori in Kasese using the Masaka-Mbarara highway.   Stop over at Mpambire drum makers and the equator for photographs.  Go on to Queen Elizabeth; check in at your lodge. After checking in, have an evening of relaxation, you can either do an evening game drive in the Mweya Peninsular. You will spot buffaloes, warthogs, antelopes and elephants or you can visit the Lake Katwe town with its attractive display of crater lakes. Check out salt mining. Return back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 2: Game Viewing and Launch Cruise
Wake up early, take breakfast then start with a game view to Kasenyi plains. You are likely to see water bucks, bush bucks, Uganda Kob, buffaloes, topi, Defassa waterbuck, and African elephants. A collection of birds like Cassin’s grey flycatcher, broad billed roller, black bee-eater along the banks of Lake Edward. Return to lodge for lunch; then in afternoon go for a launch cruise on Kazinga channel (2hrs) along Lake George-Lake and Lake Edward, come eye-eye with gaping hippos, crocodiles, leopards though infrequent. Ornithologists should look out for over 550 resident species like flamingos, red chest, papyrus Gonolek, pink backed pelicans, malachite kingfishers, yellow crown, pink backed pelicans, water thick-knee, yellow billed stork, shoebill stock. Don’t forget your camera. Return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 3: Chimp trekking in Queen Elizabeth National Park
After an early morning breakfast you will go for chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura Gorge at exactly 8:00am with packed lunch. Did you know that chimps are our closest relatives? You can easily spot the similarities we share with chimps. Check out more primates mainly Black and white Colobus monkeys, L’Hoest monkey among others. After getting in contact with our relatives, we retire to the lodge for an afternoon at leisure at the lodge. Evening Camp fire, Dinner and overnight stay.

ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH

• Twin Lakes Safari Lodge / Lake Munyanyange Caves Lodge / Ishasha Jungle Lodge

 Day 4: Transfer to Semliki National Park “Sempaya Hot springs”
After breakfast in the morning, transfer to Semliki National Park which is just 4 hours’ drive. This Park is found at the western border of Uganda and Congo Republic next to Lake Albert and covers the eastern part of the Ituri forest joining Uganda and Congo River separated by the Semliki River. Semliki is an ornithologist’s haven having about 400 bird species. Check in at the lodge have lunch and proceed to the most eye-catching item in Semliki, the Sempaya hot springs. These natural springs have a geyser shooting up from an 8m-wide hole at a hot temperature.  It’s the largest of its kind in the country. Along the same trail, you can recognize quite a number of bird species like blue –breasted kingfisher and Frasier’s ant-thrush and primates like the grey-checked mangabeys and red-tailed monkey. Return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay

ACCOMODATION OPTIONS FOR SEMULIKI

• Mountain Of the Moon Lodge

Day 5: Return to Kampala.

Enjoy breakfast at leisure and head off to Kampala not forgetting to stopover in Mityana for lunch [you will be served the local delicacy of Uganda]. After the sumptuous meal, you will continue your journey to Kampala/Entebbe where you will be dropped off at your hotel.