5 Days Kampala, Jinja and Murchison Falls Wildlife Tour

DAY 1: Volunteering, Visiting Families, and Kampala City Tour

Our Guide will pick you up from your hotel in the Morning heading through Kampala city to the Volunteering school in Katanga Slum. Meet the School Children incase you have carried scholastic materials for them it will be great. Later on, Meet different Families and drive through Kampala the Capital of Uganda to visit different Historical and cultural sites like;

The National Mosque for the best 360 degrees aerial view of Kampala City, The King’s Palace, King’s Lake, Kasubi Tombs which is a burial site for the Kings of Buganda, Bahai Temple, Owino Market the biggest Market, Independence & Gorilla Monuments, Craft Market for Souvenir shopping before heading back to the Hotel for Overnight at Mestil Hotel, Hilton Graden Inn, Forest Cottages.

Meal Plan: BB

DAY: Visit Jinja and the Source of the River Nile

After an early breakfast at the Hotel, our driver guide will Pick you up at about 7:00 Am and start your journey heading East to Jinja the second biggest city in Uganda. You will have a stopover at Sezibwa waterfalls which holds great cultural significance and is a sacred site for the local Baganda people, who believe the falls possess spiritual powers, you will take a guided hike of about 30 minutes and discover the natural beauty that surrounds Sezibwa Falls, The scenic trail offers breathtaking views and a chance to spot red tailed monkeys and different bird species like Great blue turaco, pied craws and many more.

Later, continue to Mabira Forest, the second biggest tropical rainforest in the country, covering 306 square kilometers. You will go for a nature walk of about 45 minutes to 1 hour, depending on your pace. The canopy walkway offers a breathtaking perspective, suspended high above the forest floor. The views are stunning, and you can expect to see common wildlife like the grey-checked mangabeys, birds like the casqued hornbill, and many more.

Have lunch in Jinja town and then continue to Lake Victoria where you will take a boat cruise for about an hour to the source of the River Nile, offering you stunning views of the surrounding landscape and opportunities to spot some inhabitants for example monitor lizard and a lot of birds including pelicans, cormorants, Pied kingfisher, egrets, Open bill stork and many more! You will have a chance to see the point where the Nile starts its journey of 6654 Km to the Mediterranean Sea. We later head back to Kampala and by 6:00 pm you will be in Kampala for your drop off to the Hotel for your dinner and overnight as above.

Meal Plan: BB

DAY 3: Kampala – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

After breakfast at your Hotel in Kampala, you will set out with your driver guide from Nsheka African Adventures and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in South Western Uganda. enroute to the Park, you will have a brief stopover at the Equator for water experiments and also get a chance to stand at a point where the two hemispheres start from. Continue with the journey and have another stopover at Mpambire drum village basically known as drum making village. You will have lunch in Mbarara town. Later after lunch, you will proceed with your Journey to the Park headquarters. Dinner and overnight at

Luxury Accommodation: Gorilla Forest Camp / Gorilla resort / Buhoma lodge

Midrange Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Camp / Lake Kitandara camp

Budget Accommodation: Buhoma community Bandas

Meal Plan: HB

DAY 4: Gorilla Trekking Experience and Community Visit

After breakfast at the lodge, you will go to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides. After the briefing, the ranger will lead you into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day. Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, you will only be allowed to interact with them for only one hour and you should always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. You are allowed to take photographs and so on. To find the Gorillas, it’s such a tiresome experience since it can take you almost 3-8 hours to find them. However, once you meet these gorillas, you will easily forget the hatches you have gone through to find them and instead save the good memories you will experience with them. After the interaction, you will return late to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay as above.

Meal Plan: FB

DAY 5: Drive back to Kampala

After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will drive back to Kampala with your lunch enroute in Mbarara town. On your way back, you will pass via Kabale commonly known as the Switzerland of Africa because of its hills and beautiful scenery. Reach Kampala late evening and drop off will be at your Hotel in Kampala or Entebbe.

 End of your 5 Days Uganda Gorilla  Safari.

The above Tour includes:

  • All ground transportation in a 4×4 wheel drive vehicle and fuel
  • An English-speaking driver guide
  • Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
  • Kampala city Tour
  • Jinja Tour
  • All park entrance fees
  • Bottled water
  • Gorilla permit at $800 per permit
  • Airport transfers as per itinerary
  • Batwa Community Experience

Essential Things to Pack

•             Warm jackets or sweaters can be put on during cold morning.

•             Pack enough drinking water, energy drinks and food. Once you’ve set off from the gorilla trekking centres, you have no place to get eats and drinks. Usually your lodge prepares lunch boxes. Gorillas also move frequently in the forest and it can take 30 minutes or more than 8 hours to locate them. We recommend tourists to speak to their guides at the start of the gorilla trek about their trekking capacity and fitness levels. Once you do that, you’ll be allocated to gorilla families that easy to reach and avoid disappointment.

•             Hiking boots are very essential over steep mountainous terrain between 2400 to 4500 meters above sea level in Volcanoes National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla Park. In Bwindi mountains have thick vegetation. Boots should cover up your ankle borne; add on long wool stockings and guitars for protection since you go through deep muddy trenches, river and sharp thorny bushes can be harmful without protection.

•             Have long trousers/ pants which can dry quickly but most important to protect your legs against thick undergrowth forests with a lot of stinging nettles and thorns. Tuck trousers inside boots to prevent safari ants and leeches from crawling into your trousers.

•             Pack long sleeved shirts or sweaters with environmental friendly colors. Searching for gorillas, you maneuver thick canopies characterized by stinging nettles, insects, thorny vines or branches which can cut your arms. T-shirts are also great because of hiking up the mountains heat and warmth can make you sweat. It’s better to have an extra fleece cloth in case of spider webs and usually when you reach gorillas, it can get cold.

•             Pack garden gloves to protect your hands. Caterpillars or insects can harm your hands when hiking in the forest. Grab a walking stick, muddy trails will inevitably make you hold against tree branches or grass for support. •             Breathable rain jackets or poncho are very important to have on a gorilla trek to prevent you from getting wet and also protect your camera equipment. Rain is highly unpredictable in the gorilla parks whether it’s a dry season or not