This tour includes Birding in Kibale forest, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, and lake Mburo national parks.
Activities include:
- Bird watching tours
- Forest walking
- Chimpanzee & primates watching
Day One: Drive to & Birding in Kibale national Park
Drive to Kibale National Park, a forest of its own kind that boasts of about 335 species of birds. You will make a stopover in Mbarara for lunch and a leg stretch reaching the Park in the late afternoon. In the evening you will bird around the Kanyankyu area. Expect to see birds like the Red-Winged Francolin, White-Naped Pigeon, Abyssinian Ground Thrush, Red-Chested Flufftail, Green-Breasted Pitta, Grey-Winged Robin, African Pitta and many more. Overnight at Primate Lodge/Kanyankyu Tourist center.
Day Two: Birding, Forest Walk, Chimpanzee & Primates Watching
Go for a forest walk in search of more birds. The walk will reward you with birds like Olive Long-Lived Cuckoos, Dark-Backed and Yellow-Mantled Weaver, Willcock’s Honey Guides, the Superb Black Bee-Eater, and Cassins Honey-Birds. The forest is also a site for the joyful Green Bul, reasonably common and conspicuous here but scarce else where in Uganda. On you walk, you will also get to see primates like the Monkeys, Mangabeys, Chimpanzees, Baboons and Bushbabies. In the afternoon you will visit the Bigodi Swamp, where you will encounter birds like the Yellow-Rumped and Yellow Throated Tinker-Barbet, Black & White Casqued Hornbill, Brown Eared Woodpecker, Snowy-Headed Robin –Chats and others. Overnight at your preferred Lodge.
Day Three: Drive To & Birding in Queen Elizabeth national park
Go for a walk in the Magombe forest if you want, before you drive off to Queen Elizabeth National park. You will reach in the afternoon and go birding on the Kazinga Channel. You will go for a boat ride on the Kazinga channel that connects Lakes Edward and George. You will view plenty of game and birds as you go along. Birds to look out for include the African Mourning Dove, Grey-Capped Warbler, the beautiful Black-Headed Gonolek, the Great White Pink–backed Pelicans, the Swamp Flycatcher, the African Fish Eagle, Long Tailed Cormorants and the rare Shoebill. Overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/Jacana Safari Lodge/Budget Institute of Ecology.
Day Four: Birding Safari
Go birding the whole day in the park, taking the morning to bird in the Kasenyi area and the afternoon, in the Maramagambo forest. You will see the Crested Guinea Fowl, African Emerald Cuckoo, the Red-Headed Bluebill, Yellow Bill, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Ross’ Turaco’s, Yellow Throated Leaflove, and many more. Overnight at your preferred Lodge.
Day Five: Drive To Bwindi National Park
Have breakfast then drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National park. You will pass through the Ishasha sector. Look out for Tree Climbing Lions enroute. You will reach Bwindi in the late afternoon. Bwindi is known to harbour plenty of Albertine Rift endemic bird species and also offers some of the finest montane birding in Africa. In the evening you may go for a community walk and entertainment in Cultural Dances. Overnight at the Gorilla Forest Camp/Gorilla Resort/Volcanoes Exclusive Camp/ Buhoma homestead.
Day Six: Ruhija area Birding Safari
Spend the whole day birding in the Ruhija area. Expect birds like as Green Tinkerbird, Archers Robin Chat, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Northern Olive Thrush, Abyssinian Crimsonwing, the rare and Beautiful Shelley’s Crimsonwing and many more. Overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp/Gorilla Resort/Volcanoes Exclusive Camp/Buhoma homestead.
Day Seven: Bird watching Whole day at Mubwindi trail
You will go birding along the short and long trail to-Mubwindi the whole day. Expect birds like the Grey Chested Illadopsis, the montane Oriole, White Headed Wood Hoopoe, Bar-tailed Trogon, the beautiful Carruthers’ Cisticola and the Great Blue Turacos. Overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp/Gorilla Resort/Volcanoes Exclusive Camp/Buhoma homestead.
Day Eight: Drive To & Bird at Lake Mburo National park
Have breakfast and depart for Lake Mburo National Park, you will bird enroute along the road. Lake Mburo NP is the Best place to see the typical of Southern Savannah species and Acacia associated species. Dominated with tall grass and dotted with Acacia and Eurphobia, the park harbours species such as the Red Headed Love Bird, Black Collared Barbet, Narina Trogon, Lead coloured Flycatcher, Green-capped Eremomela and many more. You will reach in the afternoon to bird around the Rwonyo Camp. Overnight at Mantana Tented Camp/Mihingo Lodge/Rwonyo Camp.
Day Nine: Birding
Go birding in the park to search for birds like African Fin Foot, Hamerkop, White Winged Warbler, Papyrus Gonolek, Northern Brown Throated Weaver, Spur Winged Plover, Malachite Kingfisher, the Lesser and Greater Swamp Warbler, African Water Rail, the rare shoebill among others. These are easily seen when you go for a dugout canoe on Lake Mburo. Overnight at Lodge of your choice.
Day Ten: Game Drive And Return Journey
Go for another morning game drive and then drive back to Kampala.
You will reach in the afternoon. Overnight at your preferred hotel in Kampala.