Comprising all the finest that the Pearl of Africa has to offer, this is the ideal overland road journey throughout Uganda.

Perfect to spend campfire evenings beneath the stars, Meander Uganda in our special adventure van with a kitchen, wonderful food and drink, cozy bedrooms, and hot shower. Four nights in excellent lodgings; seven nights camping.

Four or more larger groupings in self-drive convoys. Trust your spirit of adventure and really sink yourself into Africa.

Day 1: Camp with the Hippos at Lake Mburo National Park.

With a trained birding guide, an introduction to Uganda’s rich birds and an opportunity to observe the famed shoebill stork, you will leave Entebbe with a short ride for a boat excursion to Mabamba Swamp.
Lunch will be near the equator, then a wildlife safari into Lake Mburo National Park will follow.

Though one of the smaller National Parks in Uganda, Lake Mburo is a wonderful jewel. Impalas, zebras, giraffes, warthogs, water buffalos, elands, waterbucks, and, should luck call for leopards.
Camp stylishly at the lake with the hippos and a ranger.

Listen to them laughing all night; however, be careful in the morning when the cheeky monkeys attempt to grab your eggs. Dinner and beverages beneath the stars and around the campfire are fully supplied by the overland truck. Comfortable mattresses in up to two state-of- the-modern roof tents (2×2 person sharing – additional people in ground tents with air beds), a clean toilet block, and a private hot shower on the truck.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 2: Lake Bunyonyi and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Featuring a delicious breakfast at Kazuma Lookout with amazing views across the park, your wildlife safari via Lake Mburo will break camp.

You will leave the park driving southwest to Kabale—the “Switzerland of Africa”—for a picturesque lakeside drive and late lunch at Lake Bunyonyi, one of the deepest and most beautiful lakes in Africa with a rich and magical past.

Following lunch, you will go on amazing mountain paths into Bwindi Impenetrable Forest from Buhoma.
Early following morning, you will camp at Ruhondeza Lodge, Buhoma, supper, beverages, campfire, and preparation for the gorilla walk.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 3: Gorilla Trek, Ishasha Sector and Kazinga Channel.

For briefing, traditional dance, and a jungle walk to witness the threatened mountain gorillas, you will have an early transport to Buhoma Gorilla HQ. To spend an hour with our near relatives in their natural environment and to be pulled over multiple hedges—or softer if you would want—this is a wonderful experience.

After the walk, you will go on the woodland route for a guided wildlife drive at Ishasha Wildlife Reserve, a component of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Like any other lions, but unlike others, abundant fauna includes elephants, kob, topi, hippos, and water buffalos calls home unique tree-climbing lions.

You will go to the Kazinga Channel right in the middle of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Rift Valley scenes are matched by Savannah plains. You will relax in a magnificent banda with view of the waterway, earning. Look out for elephants and hippos.

Accommodation: The Bush Lodge (Banda)

Day 4: Queen Elizabeth National Park.

You will have early breakfast and go for a morning game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park’s Kasenyi Sector under the direction of a guide. Plenty of animals and a decent opportunity to observe lions and maybe leopards in their natural habitat.

Short trip to the boat harbor for a guided boat safari over the Kazinga Channel. Great approach to see the wildlife, aquatic and birdlife along the banks including elephants, water buffalos, and hippos as well as kingfishers, weaver birds, and fish eagles.
Lunch and a little sleep will find you back at the Bush Lodge.

You leave mid-afternoon for the adjacent rift escarpment and the amazing twin crater lakes at Kyambura. optional little stroll in gorgeous surroundings between the lakes.
You will spend a second night in luxury banda back at the Bush Lodge.

Accommodation: The Bush Lodge (Banda)

Day 5: Chimps and Rhinos in Kyambura Gorge.

Breakfast early and a quick trip to Kyambura Gorge for a chimpanzee hike. Trained guides will lead you down into the canyon and monitor the chimpanzees as they play and search for food either in the forest canopy above or along the river banks.

You will leave Queen Elizabeth traveling north for lunch at Fort Portal and then have a long drive via undulating hills and tea farms to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.

Along with supper, beverages, and a campfire, you will spend the night at the Ziwa campsite. If you’re fortunate, the rhinos will graze late evening or early morning near the (reinforced!) campsite fence.
One featured will be a late afternoon birding or nature walk and/or nocturnal stroll in the middle evening.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 6: Rhinos and Murchison Falls National Park.

Breakfast at the camp will be followed by rhino tracking under direction of a qualified guide. You will stroll beside the rhinos and discover the amazing initiative aiming at reintroducing the white rhino into Uganda’s parks.

You will leave Ziwa and go to Murchison Falls National Park to see the falls from top down. The most striking waterfalls on Earth will be up close and personal to you; the River Nile is roaring torrent as it is being squeezed through a small 7-meter wide breach. Lunch for a late snack will be enjoyed with view of the Nile rapids.

From the falls, you will make a short jump to the Red Chili Restcamp. Either surrounding the camp or in the banda bar and restaurant, or maybe both, you will camp for the night with a lodge fire, meals, and beverages.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 7: Murchison Falls National Park and the Nile.

After an early breakfast at Red Chili, you will embark an unforgettable boat safari to the foot of the strong Murchison Falls. Elephants, hippos, water buffalos, and birdlife abound on the Nile banks: kingfishers, weaver birds, fish eagles.

Overlooking the Nile, you will go to the well-known Paraa Lodge for lunch and a leisurely noon break around the pool.

Mid-afternoon you will go on a game safari. You will visit the wilderness camps along the Nile Delta near Lake Albert. Antelopes, elephants, giraffes, water buffalos, and plenty of birds abound in Uganda; over 1000 species call their home.

As you go, you will gather firewood and establish camp in the midst of nowhere, with Lake Albert just visible. After doing an evening wildlife drive with the greatest possibility to view lions and maybe leopards, you will return to camp for BBQ and beverages around the fire. Though we have a foldable toilet seat and a hot shower, this is wild camping! Hi Africa!

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 8: Destination Wilderness, Kidepo Valley National Park.

Before sunrise, you break camp with a cup of tea and travel into the surrounding hunting areas for the best opportunity to observe lions and maybe a leopard at work seeking for food. While we get ready, you will stop by the Nile and go for a guided walking safari to locate hippos or maybe a croc or two.

After the wildlife drive over Murchison, you will go out the far northeast gate via an area known for elephants. You leave the park and go to eat in Gulu. You will then keep northward into the isolated and magnificent Kidepo Valley National Park, ranked second among all the parks in Africa by CNN.

You will pause en way and, if time allows, at Aruu Falls. From isolated settlements and an often shifting terrain to eventually arriving for a pampering lodge night at Kidepo Savannah Lodge, a luxury safari banda overlooking the valley with a magnificent hilltop restaurant to relax and unwind, this is quite some travel by road and then track.

Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge (Safari Tent)

Day 9: Kidepo Valley National Park Wilderness.

After breakfast, you’ll go out on a wildlife safari into Kidepo Valley. Apart from the amazing landscape and the sensation of very big African sky, this is possibly the richest inhabited wildlife park in Uganda with plenty of antelopes, zebras, giraffes, elephants, and water buffalos as well as lions and a potential of leopards and cheetahs. One may also find birdlife everywhere.

Arriving in Apoka, the park headquarters for lunch, you will pick up a ranger for an afternoon safari headed towards Kakine Kopje for your second wild camp with a 360 outlook over the savannah plains of Kidepo Valley underneath. In the late afternoon, you’ll unwind, savoring the landscape and getting ready for an amazing sunset.

Dinner and beverages over the campfire beneath maybe the most brilliant stars on Earth. Once again, all the features of our support vehicle are yours, including “the seat” should so be desired. Breathe, shut your eyes, and what sound you hear? Not nothing.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 10: The Karamoja and Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve.

Your last opportunity to spot lion and maybe leopard in their natural habitat will be breaking camp at daybreak for an early morning game drive into real Lion King country. You will leave Kidepo via Kaabong, the lonely and mysterious Karamojo territory, and a brief stop to Nakaperumoru to visit the Jie warrior tribe people.

Mount Moroto and lunch at the Karatunga Foundation, a Karamojo Region community project. The Karamojong have apparently always lived with magnificent kraals and bomas seeming to date centuries and beyond, interspersed by volcanic plugs and apparently ever-present towns and villages.

Rising from the lowlands are enormous volcanic mountain ranges and infeasible rock formations.

After a late afternoon wildlife drive, you will keep south to Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve for a rare chance to observe roan antelope and ostrich. For a last night’s camping with food, beverages, and a campfire, you’ll go to the Kara-Tunga Eco Camp.

Accommodation: Budget camping

Day 11: Mount Elgon and Sipi Falls.

Breakfast is served, then you go out for the last game drive. Adorned with cave art, your little journey to the Upe tribe’s ceremonial caverns will be interesting. You will sense the presence of historic tribe meetings. You will leave Pian Upe and climb one of Africa’s tallest volcanoes with the biggest crater going toward Mount Elgon.

You will find yourself at Sipi. Over three stunning waterfalls, the Sipi River flows down Mount Elgon. After lunch at the lovely Lacam Lodge with a view of the lower falls, you will walk modestly down the mountain trail to the middle falls where you will spend your last night—a lodge night in the magnificent surroundings of the Sipi Heritage Lodge at the base of the falls.

Accommodation: Sipi Heritage Lodge

Day 12: Jinja and the Source of the Nile.

You will leave Sipi Heritage Lodge and tour a mountain slope ethnic coffee processing plant. This is an amazing chance to study the main phases of coffee production from planting to cupping; roasting and grinding your own beans; and grasp the potential of this important commodity to the local economy.

Starting the return part of the trip, you will descend Mount Elgon and stop in Jinja for lunch near the Nile’s source.

You will leave Jinja for a return transport to your lodging either Entebbe at 7.00 pm or Kampala at 6.00 pm.  You might choose to spend a day whitewater rafting or on more sedate activities on the Nile or inside the renowned city of Jinja while staying over in Jinja.

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