8 Days Uganda Birding & Wildlife Safari

Depending on the time your plane arrives at Entebbe International Airport, you will meet your driver/guide and be transferred to your hotel in Entebbe. After lunch, you can go on a quick tour of Entebbe city, stopping at interesting locations like the zoo, Kitoro market, and a few shopping centers.

Get up in the morning and eat breakfast. Take a trip to Mabamba Swamp to see the Shoebill Stork and other water birds like the African and Lesser Jacana, Allen’s and Purple Gallinule, Yellow Billed Duck, Purple and Common Squacco Heron, Northern Brown Throated Weaver, and Malachite Kingfisher. You’ll drive to Kampala City for lunch afterward, and then go on a birding safari around Kampala in the late afternoon. You will have the opportunity to visit a number of popular tourist destinations, including Independence Square, the Independence Monument, the Museum, the Baha’i Temple, the Namugongo Martyrs, and many others.

After breakfast, you will travel north through the Luwero triangle to the Murchison Falls national park, stopping in Masindi for lunch along the way. This park is Uganda’s largest protected area. There are roughly three different eco systems in Murchison Falls: the savannah, which is woodland and grassland, the riverine, tropical forest, and woodland, as well as numerous water ecosystems. . The park is home to a variety of wildlife, including rare Shoebills as well as Lions, Leopards, Reedbucks, Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, Hartebeest, Oribis, Uganda Kobs, and Chimpanzees.

You will leave for a morning game drive after breakfast to see a variety of bird species in the park. Watch out for bird species like the Northern Carmine Bee-eater and Red-throated Bee-eater, as well as mammals like the Rothschild’s Giraffe, Cape buffalo, Elephant, and Waterbuck. You will leave for a boat cruise in the afternoon after lunch, where you will have the chance to see birds like the Saddle-billed, Yellow-billed, and African Open-Billed Stork, African Fin foot, Hauglins Falcon, Senegal Thick-knee, Rock Pratincole, Giant, Woodland, Grey-Headed, Malchite, Pygmy, and striped Kingfishers, among others.

Today’s drive will be long, with only a few stops for birding. As you travel through Hoima, you will come across a few papyrus swamps, which provide excellent habitat for birds like the White-winged Warbler and Papyrus Gonolek. As well as Papyrus Gonolek, Double-toothed Barbet, Black-bellied Seed Cracker, and Gray-headed Olive Back may be found in the nearby scrub.

Starting at 8 am, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park can last anywhere from 4 to 6 hours, with an hour to spend with the chimpanzees once you’ve found them. You can either drive back to your lodge for lunch or eat the lunch you brought with you, if you did. You can travel to Bigodi Swamp after lunch to go bird watching for the rest of the day. Additionally, the forest is very rewarding, and you might come across Black Bee-eater, Hairy-breasted, Yellow Spotted and Yellow Billed Barbet, Chestnut-winged and Purple-headed, African Gray Parrot among others.

You’ll drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park in the morning after eating breakfast. With its diverse habitats, it is the second-largest national park in Uganda and home to 652 bird species that have been officially recorded. While traveling to the park, enjoy bird watching, Look for species like the African Mustached and Broad Tailed Warbler, Black and Senegal Coucal, Hollub’s Golden Weaver, Common Quail, and a variety of other birds.

We embark on a two-hour launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel in the afternoon. This natural channel connecting Lakes George and Edward is one of the world’s most fruitful birding cruises. In the sweltering dry afternoons, hippo, enormous buffalo families, elephants, and other antelopes congregate to drink water. After you will head back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Following breakfast, you’ll go on a morning game drive to search for any bird species you might not have seen during your stay in the park. The Red-backed Shrike, Red-necked Spurfowl, Arrow-marked and Sharpe’s Babbler, White-backed, Rupell’s Grifon, Palm Nut and Hooded Vulture, Violet-backed Starling, Brown, Black-Chested and Western banded Snake-Eagle, Holub’s Golden-backed Weaver, and other birds can all be seen in the Ishasha sector of the park. On the way to Kampala, you will stop for lunch and also take a few pictures at the Kayabwe equator monuments. When you arrive in Kampala, ask your driver to drop you off at any hotel of your choice in the city or right at Entebbe Airport, where you will catch a flight home that night.