Sarania Adventure Safaris For Customized East African Safaris

Be part of this 18 days Uganda primates & game safari taking you through Uganda’s most famous national parks, expecting to see a lot of wildlife like lions, leopards, civet cats, jacals, hyenas, African cape buffaloes, African elephants, topis, water backs, warthogs, wild pigs, forest hoges, bush backs, ostriches, roan antelopes, elands, chimpanzees, golden monkeys, vervet monkeys, l’hoest monkeys, black and white colobus, red colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, gorillas, and many others.

Day 1: Upon your arrival, you will be met by your guide, who will drive you to the northeast of the country, passing through Jinja, where you will stop to visit the source of the Nile River, which is the longest river in the world. Here there are several activities that are options, like tubing on the Nile, bunji jumping, white water rafting, and many more other activities.

After that, we shall proceed to the Kapchorwa region on Mount Elgon National Park and stay at Sipi Falls.

Stay at Rafiki Lodge, Sipi Safari Lodge.

Day 2: Have breakfast in the morning and later go for a hike. The hike will take us through the famous 3 falls that are more scenic and provide a stunning view of the Karamoja plains. This will be through communities and will also enable social interaction with the community/the Sebei people. After we come back for lunch, we prepare to go for a coffee tour.

Here we shall go through the whole process of coffee community tourism, from coffee gardens processing to cupping. Come back for dinner and overnight.

Come back to the same hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Start our day after breakfast while heading deep northeast to Uganda’s biggest game reserve, called Pian Upe Game Reserve. This reserve covers a total area of 2275 sq km, harboring wildlife like lions, leopards, panther zebras, grants gazelles, civet cats, topis, jackals, common elands, cape buffaloes, rock hyraxes, hares, common duikers, spotted hyenas, roan antelopes, hedgehogs, patas monkeys, olive baboons, Uganda kobs, water backs, buffaloes, cheetahs, impalas, and ostriches.

The park has rare vegetations of the wooly caper, red acacia, bushwillows, yellow oleander, Harrisonia abyssinica, and many others. After reaching, we expect to have an evening game drive where we expect to see the above-mentioned animals and many bird species. Stay at Uwa Bandas, Karamoja, overland camp.

Day 4: After an early breakfast, we shall start our day with a morning game drive where we expect to see animals that we might have missed in the day before the evening game drive. Here we expect to see different bird species like the black-headed weavers, Karamoja apalis, foxes weaver, cattle egrets, rollers, piapiac, hooded vultures, lapped-faced vultures, and many more. After we proceed, explore deep to Kidepo Valley National Park. Stay at Apoka Lodge, Uwa Bandas, Savannah Lodge, or Zebra Safari Lodge.

Day 5: Start up our day while visiting this famous 3^rd biggest national park that covers approximately 442 km², doing a game drive to Kidepo National Park. Here we expect to see animals like the plane zebras, African elephants, Uganda kob, elands, water backs warthogs, hyraxes, giraffes, lions, leopards, and many more. This drive will take us half a day, and we expect to come back for lunch at the lodge.

After lunch, we move to the Karamoja community. We shall visit the communities living and staying around Kidepo Valley National Park. The Karamojong tribe of people are still the African people that trace their origin to be the same as the Dinker people that live in South Sudan and the Masai people who live and stay in Kenya and Tanzania. Stay at the same lodge.

Day 6: We start our day moving to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary after a heavy breakfast. Here the distance will take you a 7-8 hour drive driving through the Acholi region—through the Karuma Bridge that crosses the Nile River. Here we expect to reach in the evening, which we expect to reach in the afternoon. Stay at Ziwa Lodge or Amuka Safari Lodge

Day 7: We assemble at the Rhino Sanctuary for a briefing as we are allocated to our guide, who will take us deep into the 70 sq km looking for these giant white rhinos; however, this will allow us to see other animals like the warthogs, waterbucks, brushbacks, Uganda Kobs, vervet monkeys, olive baboons, and many more other animals. After that, we shall get back to our lodge for lunch. After lunch we shall go for an evening bird watching; this will help us see birds like the lilac-breasted rollers, woodland kingfishers, helmeted guinea fowls, crested francolin, spur-winged plovers, cattle and little egrets, hadada ibis, marabou storks, piapiac, and many more animals. Come back to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: We will have breakfast at the lodge, and later we drive to Murchison Falls National Park. This is Uganda’s biggest international park, located in the northwest part of the country. Upon reaching, enter through Kicumbanyobo Gate, which is located in the southwest of the country. Here we expect to drive through the tropical rain forest of Budongo Forest Reserve that stretches all through the park, where we expect to see animals like the olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, and many more. Reaching early in, thus visiting the top of the falls that will give us a magnificent view of that Nile River waterfalls that force themselves into a narrow gap of 8 meters, dropping deep down into 45 meters, creating good scenery.

After a view, we shall drive to our lodge, stay at Pakuba Safari Lodge, Tilenga Safari Lodge, Murchison River Lodge, and many more.

Day 9, wake up early in the morning for an early game drive. Here we expect to see animals like the lions, leopards, water bears, warthogs, bushbeasts, Jackson’s heart beast, oribis, African Cape buffalo, African elephants, vervet monkeys, baboons, pattas monkeys, and many more schools of hippos at the hippo pool. We also expect to see birds like the crowned lapwings, marsh sandpipers, black-winged stilt, spur-winged plover, Abyssinian ground hornbill, lilac-breasted rollers, cattle egrets, Egyptian goose, Kristel, lizard buzzard, goliath heron, cattle egrets, little egrets, little bae eater, canaries, white-browed coucal, African emerald cooko, scaley francolin, harmer kops, hooded vulture, white-backed vulture, long-crested eagle, saddle-billed stork, African grey crowned crane, and many more. Come back to our lodge for lunch as we prepare for our evening boat ride on the Nile River. On the boat we expect to see animals, mostly the hippos, crocodiles, abundant buffaloes, and elephants that come to drink water. Birds like the African fish eagle, peahood kingfishers, pygmy kingfisher, cinnamal breasted, African data, great cormorants, black crake, little egrets, African jacana, African water thicknee, saddle billed stork, Egyptian goose, harmekopes, marsh sand piper, black-winged stilt, black-headed heron, and many more.

Day 10: We shall wake up for our breakfast and ascend deep down in the southwest of the country to Kibale Forest National Park. Here we shall pass through different types of vegetational sceneries, from local plantations and farming to the Ankole longhorned cows, goats, and sheep, and to big tea fields and sugar plantations, as they are Uganda’s main cash crops. Helping us to have an explanation about how we do plant and process these crops to our packaging and expectations, especially in the Middle East. Passing near the mountain of the moon/Rwenzori Mountains National Park, which is Uganda’s tallest mountain and the second tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania.

Saty at Kibale Forest Lodge, Kibale Guest Cottages, Guereza Safari Lodge, and Turaco Tree Tops

Day 11: Start up our day to the park headquarters, as we shall have a general briefing about the park. After that, we will be separated into small groups of not more than 9 people per group, allocated to our ranger, and given 2 more armed rangers that will protect us in the forest by scare shooting in the air just in case you meet any dangerous animals like the African Cape buffalo, African elephants, and many more animals

Enter the park for tracking and later come back for lunch. After lunch we shall have a community visit where we expect to visit different community people by seeing and learning how coffee is planted and brewed, meet the banana man who will teach you how to make banana gin, juice, and beer, and meet the traditional women dancing group; they will dance for us and do weaving. Later we shall go for the swamp walk, where you will see animals like the black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, olive baboons, and many more others. Dinner and overnight at the same lodge

Day 12: Wake up after a morning breakfast and proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Here the distance is very short and will take you not more than 3 hours. Reaching midday for the boat ride, here we expect to see animals like the hippos, crocodiles, elephants, African Cape buffalo, Uganda kobs, water bears, and warthogs that come to drink water during the hot weather of the day.

This boat is done on the Kazinga channel that connects the two major lakes of Lake Edward and Lake Gorge. Here you also expect to see bird species like the African Data, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, African Water Thicknee, African Wattled Lapwings, African Fish Eagle, Papyrus Gonoleks, Little Egrets, and many more. After we proceed to your lodge of stay for dinner and overnight

Day 13: Wake up early in the morning for a game drive. Here we expect to enter Uganda’s second biggest national park, with a coverage area of 1978 km², which has around 97 species of animals and 600 species of birds.

On your game drive, you will see animals like lions, leopards, African Cape buffalo, African elephants, Uganda kobs, jackals, hyenas, water bears, warthogs, aardvarks, and many more others. We expect to see animals like the black-headed gonerke, palm nut vulture, hooded vulture, lapped-faced vulture, tchagras, spur-winged lapwing, and many more others. After the drive we shall have to go back to our lodge for lunch, swimming, and relaxation as we wait for an evening sundowner at the Twinlakes.

On the sundowner, we shall have an explanation about the formation of the volcanic lake as we enjoy taking photos and videos, while enjoying a cup of coffee, tea or bear. Come back at our lodge for dinner and overnight

Day 14, start our day while ascending down to Bwindi impenetrable national park. Here we shall have a full day drive to the rolling hills of kigezi region covered with terraces. Here we shall have our lunch on the way , after we proceed expecting to reach in the evening.

Stay at gorilla leisure lodge, dorotia safari lodge, 4 gorillas Bwindi, icumbi hotel

Day 15, wake up in the morning and assemble at the park headquarters for a general briefing about the park, here you will be briefed or explained on the formation and gazettement of the park, the size of the park and all animals within the park like apart from the gorillas, the park posses other animals like the chimpanzees, olive baboons, vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, l’hoest monkeys, and many more. After the general briefing, you will be allocated to your guide who will also introduce you with 2 armed rangers that will provide you with armed rangers that are ment to scare shoot in case of dangerous animals

This activity will take is have a day or full day while looking for this animal. After reaching this animals. The guide will allow you take photos, videos and many more.

16, transfer to Mgahinga National Park for golden monkey tracking. We expect to reach very early in the morning thus star our tracking in search of these small beautiful monkeys. This activity is done in one of Uganda’s small national parks, expect to spend half a day. This park also borders Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Virunga national park in Democratic Republic of Congo. It covers the 3 mountains of Mt Muhabura, Mt Gahinga and Mt Sabinyo, after we come back and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park we we expect to stay at hyena hill lodge, kigarama, rwakobo rock, Eagles nest

Day 17, wake up in the morning after breakfast and start our game drive. Here we expect to see animals like the zebras, topis, elands, impalas, cape buffaloes, water backs, warthogs, giraffes and many more.

After we come back for lunch and relaxation at the lodge.

Day 18, travel back to the airport for our departure