Uganda Shoebill, Chimps, Culture and Game with Johnnie Uganda Safaris

Arrive at Entebbe International Airport meet & greet by your driver guide and proceed to accommodation about 10 minutes away.

Dinner and Overnight at Airport Link Guest House (Full Board)

Early breakfast, then proceed to Mabamba Wetlands where you will get onto a motorized boat to look for the mighty Shoebill and other birds like Long-tailed Cormorant, Squacco Heron, Yellow-billed Duck, Malachite Kingfisher, Long-toed Plover, Blue-headed Coucal, and Blue-breasted Bee-eater. While on this boat ride, you will have spectacular landscape scenic views and a cool breeze from the mighty Lake Victoria.

Lunch at Nkima Lodge, relax then walk around the Lodge forest to look for some primates like Red-tailed Monkeys, Black and White Colobus Monkeys, Vervet Monkeys, and lots of butterflies.

Dinner and Overnight at Airport Link Guest House (Full Board)

After breakfast, we will head to We will drive to Fort Portal where you will spend a night. Look out for baboons, lots of birdlife, and experience the way of life of the Ugandan people as you drive through different towns. We will have lunch at the lodge before checking in.

Dinner and Overnight at the Chimpanzee Forest Lodge (Full Board)

Breakfast, then we drive to the Kanyanchu visitors centre where you will be briefed before heading out to look for your distant cousins (Chimpanzees). While on this walk look out for other Primates like Red Colobus, Black and white Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey, and L'Hoest's Monkey among others.

In the evening, head out for a community walk to experience the way of life of the indigenous tribe, the Batoro like how they used to smelt iron, share knowledge about traditional medicines, basket weaving, and cooking traditional dishes, to mention but a few. This village tour gives you an insight into the culture of the western tribes of Uganda and gives you a chance to try out some of their practices. We will then head to the lodge to wait for the Greys to come to the palm tree, have dinner, and retire to our rooms for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge (Full Board).

These crater lakes were formed through volcanic eruptions but instead of forming cones as volcanoes do, they simply blew ash and rock far and wide thus leaving beautiful lakes to form.

Some offer great places for swimming, viewpoints, and nature trails that one can hike surrounded by primates, birds, and breathtaking views. You can visit the "Top of the World," a hill with a 360-degree view of the crater lake area.

You will also do a tea tour where you will have the experience of picking tea leaves and processing them to the stage where it is brewed.

Sleep at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge (Full Board).

After breakfast, drive to Amabere ga Nyina Mwiru where you will learn a lot about the cultural significance of this site, hike the hills around to see a few crater lakes as you get more information about the history of Tooro Kingdom. Lunch, then transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, driving along the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains and crossing the Equator. Game drive en route to the accommodation. Look out for mammals like elephants, Uganda Kob, Defassa Waterbacks, Hippos, if lucky a leopard.

Dinner and Overnight at Enganzi Game Lodge. (Full Board)

This National Park was named after Queen Elizabeth who visited it in 1954 and is the second largest national park in Uganda with a bird species list exceeding 600 and a mosaic of habitats from moist forest at Imaramagambo to wild savannah.

In the morning we will head out for a game drive, have lunch then drive to the Jetty for the afternoon boat ride.

The Kazinga channel boat ride will take between 2 to 3 hours and will have views of mammals like Uganda Kob, Bushbuck, Defassa Water buck, Buffaloes, Elephants, Warthog, and water birds like African Spoonbill, Cattle Egrets, Pink-backed Pelicans, Grey-headed gulls, African Pied Kingfisher, to mention but a few.

Dinner and Overnight at Enganzi Game Lodge. (Full Board)

Today we embark on a long drive toward Entebbe, passing via the equator, and will make stopovers for lunch, coffee, and body stretches. This drive also takes you via Lake Mburo National Park and could give you sightings of the gorgeous Giraffes and Zebras. We will get to Entebbe in the late evening.

Dinner and Overnight at Airport Link Guest House (Full Board)

A very early breakfast and then transfer to Entebbe International Airport in time for your flight.