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8
Days Flying Safari
Day 1: Airport Transfer
You will be picked up from your hotel by your safari guide
and transferred to Entebbe airport for your flight to
Kidepo National Park. This hidden valley in the extreme
northeast of the country, along the border with Sudan,
is considered by many to offer the most stunning of any
National Park in Uganda. Surrounded by mountains, the
park is notable for a number of animals that are found
nowhere else in Uganda, including Cheetahs, Ostriches
and bat – eared foxes. You will reach in the afternoon
to have lunch and go for an evening game drive. Dinner
and overnight at Apoka Rest Camp (FB).
Day 2/3: Excursion to Karamaja
You will go for an early morning game drive to search
for early risers and predators. Retire for breakfast and
lunch at the Lodge and then in the evening go for an excursion
to Karamajong. Kidepo National Park is home to a total
of 86 mammal species, with approximately 460 bird species
and five different. Dinner and overnight at Apoka Rest
Camp
Day 4: To Murchison falls National park
Go for an early morning game drive to retire for breakfast
then fly to Pakuba. On arrival at Pakuba, you will be
welcomed by your safari guide. The guide will pick you
up and take you to the Top of the falls. Dinner and over
night at Paraa safari Lodge or Nile safari Camp
Day 5: The launch cruise along the Kazinga channel
Go for an early morning game drive on the Northern Bank
of the Murchison Falls National Park. Murchison Falls
National Park, whose palm-studded grassland supports dense
populations of lion, buffalo, elephant and Uganda Kob,
offers you wildlife enthusiasts a thrilling opportunity
to experience Uganda’s biodiversity. You are able
to view those animals that are unique to the African Savannah
like giraffe, elephant, antelope, lion, and the Uganda
Kob. Return to the lodge for mid morning breakfast, as
you relax to wait for Lunch.
After lunch, you will go for a launch cruise on the Nile
River. The cruise takes you to the Bottom of the roaring
falls where you will see huge crocodiles, schools of hippos,
buffaloes, elephants and a variety of water birds like
herons, ducks, cormorants, bee-eaters, skimmers, kingfishers,
fish eagle and the rare shoebill. Return to the lodge
for dinner and overnight at Paraa safari Lodge or Nile
safari Camp
Day 6: Transfer to Fort portal
You will be picked by our guide who will take you for
your flights to Mweya Airstrip.
The flight takes an hour. Have Lunch then after go for
an afternoon sight seeing tour around the crater lakes
region. Your will find species like Flamingos and also
see at Katwe salt lake how salt is traditionally mined
here in Africa. Dinner and over night Mweya safari lodge/
Jacana/ Institute of Ecology.
Day 7: Game drive/ launch cruise along the Kazinga
channel
Before dawn you will wake up and go for an early morning
game drive along the Queens mile or the Kasenyi miles
Tracks. You will search for animals like Elephants, Lions,
Leopards, and Hyenas among others. Return to the lodge
for mid morning breakfast.
In the afternoon you will go for a boat ride along the
Kazinga Channel. This provides you with an opportunity
to vie water game like Hippos which breathe and squirt
mere feet away from the boat, buffaloes and many birds
like Great White and Pink-Backed Pelicans, Great and Long-Tailed
Cormorants, African Jacana, Open-Billed Stork, Malachite
and Pied Kingfishers are commonly seen. Dinner and over
night Mweya safari lodge/ Jacana/ Institute of Ecology.
Day 8: Kyambura Chimpanzee tracking / Back to Kampala
In the morning you will transfer to the Kyambura region
to go track chimpanzees and other primates. The walk through
the Kyambura Sector will also reward you with other primates
such as colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys and bush babies.
After the tracking, you will be transferred to the airstrip
to meet your private charter plane to Entebbe International
Airport.
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