Itinerary
Arrive at Entebbe International Airport, meet & greet by your driver guide and transfer to the accommodation about 7 minutes away.
Dinner and Overnight at Airport Link Guest House( Bed & Breakfast).
After an early breakfast, we will head out to the Mabamba Wetlands on the shores of Lake Victoria. This is one of the few remaining swamps in the country protected by the local communities. It is an extensive papyrus swamp, with a labyrinth of channels and lagoons, and is home to several pairs of Shoebills, Uganda’s most famous avian resident. This charismatic monotypic species is certainly among the most sought-after birds in Africa, and we’ll make special efforts today to find it.
There will of course be a good selection of classic East African water birds to observe along the way like Pink-backed Pelican, Long-tailed Cormorant, Squacco Heron, Yellow-billed Duck, Malachite Kingfisher, Long-toed Plover, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue-breasted Bee-eater etc., Bird your way back to Entebbe looking out for birds like African open billed Stork, Grey Kestrel, African Green Pigeon, Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, Red-headed Lovebird, Swifts, Sunbirds, Weavers, Finches among other birds
Dinner and Overnight at Airport Link Guest House( Full Board).
After breakfast, bird your way to Kibale, getting there in the late afternoon. Look out for birds like Striped Kingfisher, Great blue Turaco, and Eastern-grey Plantain Eater, Lizard Buzzard, Lesser Stripped Swallows, Greenbuls, Cisticolas, Grey-backed Shrike, Common Fiscal, Stonechat, Flycatchers, Starlings, Widowbirds, Weavers, among other birds.
Dinner and overnight at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge ( Full Board).
After breakfast, proceed to bird the vicinity of Kanyanchu, looking out for the Green-breasted Pitta and other birds like Yellow-billed Barbet, African Emerald Cuckoo, Black-billed Turaco, Narina Trogon, Blue-shouldered Robin-chat, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Narrow-tailed Starling, among other birds. Primates like Red Colobus, Black and white Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey, and L’Hoest’s Monkey, among others.
Dinner and overnight at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge( Full Board ).
After breakfast, proceed to bird the Bigodi swamp, have lunch, and then bird as you head towards Queen Elizabeth National Park, driving along the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, crossing the Equator. Game drive en route to the accommodation where you will be spending your nights. The park, which is named after Queen Elizabeth, who visited it in 1954, is the second largest national park in Uganda, and ranks highest with respect to overall diversity, with a bird species list exceeding 600.
The park has a mosaic of habitats from moist forest at Imaramagambo to wild savannah excellent for Lions, Leopards, Elephants, Hyenas, Ugandan Kobs, Baboons, Giant Hogs, and warthogs, among others. Look out for birds like White spotted Flufftail, Yellow-billed Barbet, African Emerald Cuckoo, Black-billed Turaco, Kingfishers, Lesser Striped Swallow, Cisiticolas, Shrikes, Starlings, Widowbirds, among other birds.
Dinner and Overnight at Bush Lodge- Bandas (Full Board).
Breakfast, then we will set off for a game drive with our packed lunches. In the afternoon, go for a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel to see a variety of wildlife, including hundreds of hippos, crocodiles, and bird life from a boat for two hours. Look out for birds like Pelicans, Green-backed Heron, Storks, African Spoonbill, Kittlitz’s Plover, Senegal Plover, Wattled Plover, Larks, Yellow-throated Longclaw, Babblers, Sunbirds, Weavers, and Widowbirds, among others.
Look out for mammals like Uganda Kob, Bushbuck, Defassa Waterbuck, Buffaloes, Elephants, Warthog, when lucky, a leopard, spotted Hyena, and Lion among others.
Dinner and overnight at Bush Lodge-Bandas. (Full Board).
Bird your way to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is home to approximately half of the world's population of Mountain Gorillas. This vast reserve offers arguably the most productive montane forest birding in Africa and supports 23 of Uganda's 24 Albertine Rift endemic bird species. Once part of a much larger forest that included the Virunga Volcanoes in neighbouring Rwanda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is now an ecological island within a sea of human cultivation and is of immense conservation importance.
Look out for species like Raptors, Bee Eaters, Kingfishers, Barbets, Tinkerbirds, Woodpeckers, Apalises, Honeyguide Greenbul, Swallows, Larks, Cisiticolas, Pipits, Chats, Shrikes, Starlings, and Widowbirds, among other birds.
Dinner and Overnight at Ride 4 A Woman(Full board).
fter an early breakfast, we will enter the forest looking out for birds like Black Bee-Eater, Tinkerbirds and Barbets, Woodpeckers, African Broadbill, Greenbuls, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Red-throated Alethe, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Mountain Masked Apalis, Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Luhder’s Bush-shrike, Pink-footed Puffback, Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Starlings, Sunbirds, Black-billed Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, among other birds.
Dinner and Overnight at Ride 4 A Woman (Full board).
After breakfast, bird as you transfer to Ruhija via the neck looking out for birds like Black Bee-eater, Red-throated Wryneck, Mountain Wagtail, Toro Olive-Greenbul, White-starred Robin, Olive Thrush, Cassin’s-grey Flycatcher, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Banded Prinia, Mountain Masked Apalis, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Collared Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Sharpe’s Starling, Regal Sunbird, Strange Weaver, Dusky Twinspot, Yellow Bishop, Black-throated Seedeater among other birds.
Dinner and overnight at Agandi Uganda (Full board).
After breakfast, walk down to the Mubwindi Swamp looking out for specials including the Black-billed Turaco, Western Green Tinkerbird, Fine-banded Woodpecker, African Green-Broadbill, Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, African Hill Babbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Collared Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Rwenzori Batis, Doherty’s Bush-shrike, Bar-tailed Trogon, Blue-headed Sunbird, Regal Sunbird among other birds. Certainly one of the highlights of any birding trip in Uganda, this walk is physically challenging, but taken slowly, it is quite manageable.
Dinner and overnight at Agandi Uganda ( Full board)
After breakfast, bird to Lake Mburo, looking out for birds like Bateleur, Handsome Francolin, Crested Francolin, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Brown Parrot, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Blue-napped Mousebird, African Grey Hornbill, Spot-flanked Barbet, Mountain Masked Apalis, Yellow-breasted Apalis, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Stripe-breasted Tit, Mountain Masked Apalis, Rwenzori Batis, Fork tailed Drongo, Black-crowned Waxbill, and Black-headed Waxbill among other birds.
Dinner and Overnight at Rwakobo Rock. (Full Board)
Whole day birding Lake Mburo National Park looking for birds like the Black-bellied Bustard, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Brown Parrot, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Blue-napped Mousebird, African Grey Hornbill, Spot-flanked Barbet, Long-tailed Cisticola, Yellow-breasted Apalis, and more. Before dinner, try the African Scops Owl, Swamp Nightjar, and Black-shouldered Nightjar, among others. Look out for animals like the gorgeous Eland, Zebra, Impala, Buffalo, Reedbuck, Topi, Waterbuck, Bushbuck, Hippos, Oribi, and Bush-duike, among other birds.
Dinner and Overnight at Rwakobo Rock. (Full Board).
After an early breakfast, transfer to the Airport in time for your departure flight.
