10-Day Primate Habituation Experience Safari in Uganda

Moderately Priced Primate Habituation Experience Safari Plus Abundant Wildlife

10 Days of Primates up-close on a Moderately Priced Habituation Experience Safari in Uganda

This Value+ 10-Day Moderately Priced Primate Habituation Experience Safari is about more time with the Primates. Using quality mid-range lodges, this Private Safari gives you 4 hours with a Gorilla Family, 4 hours with the Golden Monkeys, and all-day with the Chimpanzees. More times with the Primates, fewer participants, and more incredible encounters in Africa’s Premier Primate Destination. Uganda.

This Safari is also about Value, Value for your dollars that stretch further in Uganda. For 900 USD more than a standard permit in Uganda that gives you 1 hour with a Gorilla Family, you now get 4 hours with a Gorilla Family. For 50 USD more than a regular Chimpanzee Permit, you receive all-day with a chimpanzee Group adding extra Time with the Primates and Value for Your Money on this safari.

More time with the Primate, fewer fellow trekkers, your private Safari vehicle, and an experienced Driver Guide make this luxury Safari even a more enriching experience. Your Driver-Guide is the key to a successful safari, and that is what we plan for.

Your Value+ 10-Day Primate Habituation Experience Safari Highlights

Fly into Entebbe Uganda – fly out of Kigali – Rwanda
Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary – Jungle Swamp Hike
Chimpanzee Habituation Experience – Kibale Forest
Explosion Crater Drive in Queen Elizabeth Park
Lion Tracking Research with Uganda Carnivore Institute.
Wildlife Game Drives in Queen Elizabeth Park
Boat Safari on Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth Parks Sanctuary – Jungle Swamp Trail
Tree Climbing Lions in Ishasha – Queen Elizabeth Park.
Buniga Forest Walk with the Batwa Pygmies
Gorilla Habituation Experience – Rushaga Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Golden Monkey Habituation Experience in Mgahinga Gorilla Park

Arrival Arrangements: We can arrange Airport Pickup for you and a moderately priced Hotel in the Entebbe area. Please let us know when inquiring about this Safari.

Your Value+ 10-Day Primate Habituation Experience Safari in Uganda in Detail

Day-1 Arrival in Uganda:

We meet you at Entebbe International Airport as you arrive. You can obtain a Ugandan Tourist Visa or East African Visa on arrival. A yellow fever certificate is required but not always asked for.

Your driver will meet you at arrivals with Kabiza Wilderness Safari sign in hand. We take you to the 2-Friends Beach Hotel, where you spend your first night in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. Your room is a comfortable Terrace room with views of Lake Victoria. The room has airconditioning for your comfort. There is a private sandy beach, a treehouse bar on the beach, a swimming pool, and an excellent restaurant where you can have lunch or dinner.

The Hotel is 10 minutes from the airport in a quiet residential area of former colonial-era homes.

You are a short walk from the Entebbe Botanical Gardens. This is the perfect hotel, an excellent setting for you to begin your 10-day Primate Wildlife safari in Uganda. Your stay here is on a Bed and Breakfast Basis.

Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast Basis

Hotel: 2-Friends Beach Hotel

Day 2 – Kibale Forest:

We depart your Entebbe or Kampala Hotel at 6:30 am for Kibale Forest – about 5-hours plus drive time. Near Kibale Forest, we check you into the mid-range quality Isunga Lodge.

During the mid-afternoon, it is a visit to Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary, a Jungle Swamp filled with Natural Wonders that await you on this guided nature walk, often using boardwalks made of planks to stay above the water.

If you are a Birding enthusiast, this is a must place for you to visit. One of the birds most see here is the large blue Turaco. During the afternoon, you can often see chimpanzees who come to forage here from Kibale Forest, but also other monkeys,

You can also see the rare semi-aquatic Sitatunga Antelope here, which has webbed toes to help it get around swamp areas such as in Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary.

Your guide is from the local community of Bigodi, the swamp caretakers, which includes protecting it and the wildlife found there. This is UNESCO Sustainable Tourism Eco-Site.

Dinner

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Isunga Lodge

Isunga Lodge:

A newer, moderately priced lodge that gives its guests value plus for their money. We have used this lodge with great success on our safaris, and our Clients have responded more than positively.

There are four cottages with an en-suite bath in a very private setting. The food is prepared thoughtfully, and the service is excellent.

There are much higher cost moderately priced lodges in Uganda that do not match what you receive at Isunga Lodge.

Our Clients and others have highly rated the lodge. We have had not one complaint at this lodge from our Clients.

New Cottages are being added due to the demand for rooms wanted at this lodge.

Day 3 – Chimpanzee Habituation Experience – Kibale Forest:

Early breakfast and your Chimpanzee Habituation Experience with researchers, trackers, your guide is about to begin. This is being with the chimpanzees for the whole day and takes a bit of planning on your part.

You will need a daypack, a packed lunch from the lodge, two liters of water, some snacks as dried fruit that you can buy in Uganda, waterproof hiking boots, long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, light rain-jacket, a hat. Such clothing protects from getting scratched on branches, protecting from insects, and staying comfortable in the rainforest.

The Chimpanzee Habituation Experience lasts all day until the late afternoon. However, there is much to see as you observe the Chimpanzees, other primates, birds, and mammals found in Kibale Forest.

You are also in the company of rangers who will point out things that you otherwise might miss.

Lodging: Kibale Forest Lodging

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Isunga Lodge

Day – 4 – Queen Elizabeth Park – Mweya Area:

Breakfast and we take the 2 hours plus drive to Queen Elizabeth Park, and before checking into the Lodge of your choice, we take the scenic Explosion Crater Drive – with its craters and Lakes, stunning views at the highest point in the lodge.

This is a 2 1/2 hour drive, and some of the Craters were featured in National Geographic. You will know why when you see the sights before you.

There will be many photo opportunities on this drive, plus you will gain insight from the ranger with you during the journey of how this part of the park was formed.

Check into Enganzi Game Lodge – another quality mid-range lodge that has been consistent in quality with our clients.

Lunch

Afternoon Game Drive on the Kasenyi plains of Queen Elizabeth Park, where you have some excellent opportunities to see Lions, Leopards, Elephant Herds, Buffaloes, antelopes while slowly moving down a game track with an Uganda Wildlife Authority Ranger on board along with your driver-guide. There is not much that you will miss on a game drive with two expert guides with you during the fame drive.

Each game drive is about 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours in length, and you have a pop-up roof for the best wildlife viewing while on a game drive.

Dinner

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Enganzi Game Lodge

Enganzi Game Lodge:

Enganzi Game Lodge – with that affordable extra added touch, Enganzi Game Lodge offers quality and affordable prices.

Enganzi Game Lodge is the perfect base while exploring the scenic Queen Elizabeth Park with its wildlife, explosion craters, the vast Kyambura Gorge, the endless Maramagambo Forest, and more.

The tented cottages come with a full bath and have extensive views down the Albertine Escarpment to Queen Elizabeth Park.

Enganzi Game Lodge is also a family-friendly lodge open to children of all ages.

The Key-Features are the View of the Savannah below, the privacy and largeness of cottages, a full bath, and a veranda where you can sit and take it all in.

Day – 5 – Queen Elizabeth Park:

Breakfast

Lion Tracking Research with the Uganda Carnivore Project, where you take part in the research of collared Lions in the park’s northern area.

This is not just a game drive, but an interactive learning experience, and the aim is to teach the local communities how to live in harmony with carnivores.

Lunch

During the afternoon is the highlight of any safari to Queen Elizabeth Park – the Kazinga Channel Boat Safari. This is a two-hour boat ride with wildlife, birds, reptiles along the way.

You can choose a smaller boat at a slightly higher cost or use the larger Uganda Wildlife Authority boat- both will give you great views, or elephant, buffalo herds, antelopes, crocodiles, monitor lizards, hippos, and countless water birds, including large schools of pelicans.

Dinner

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Enganzi Game Lodge

Day – 6 – Isashasha Tree-Climbing Lions:

Breakfast and depart for Ishasha, which is home to the best Tree-Climbing Lion location in East Africa. This is a 2-hour plus drive.

Before Checking in to Ishasha Jungle Lodge, we take a Game Drive in search of the Tree Climbing Lions/ They climb into the trees after the night’s hunt. This is the best spot in East Africa for Tree Climbing Lions, known for the most consistent success in serving them.

Lunch

Afternoon Game drive in search of the famed tree-climbing lions who sleep in the fig trees for up to 15 hours a day. In recent times, they have moved further into the park, but seeing them is still one of the best probabilities in East Africa. There are about 50 of them here in various pride. You might also see some leopards, a lot of elephants, which have increased vastly in numbers. The elephants that you see here will be both Savannah and Forest Elephants. Most likely, you will not be able to tell the difference, but forest elephants are hairier, have straight,

The elephants that you see here will be both Savannah and Forest Elephants. Most likely, you will not tell the difference, but forest elephants are hairier, have straight, shorter tusks, are slightly smaller, and have one less toe on each foot. You will also see large herds of buffaloes, Topi, and Uganda Kob antelopes.

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Ishasha Jungle Lodge

Ishasha Jungle Lodge – Moderately priced:

Ishasha Jungle Lodge is Dedicated to the Preservation of the Tree-Climbing Lions

Ishasha Jungle Lodge is located just outside of Queen Elizabeth Park along the Ntungwe River.

Ishasha Jungle Lodge opened in January 2014 in the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth Park. The rooms are en-suite with bath, tented Cottages on platforms with privacy and views.

The lodge prices are moderately priced, and that means value in the Ishasha area of the park.

They have maintained their standard since opening, including quality of food, service and attractiveness and cleanliness of rooms.

Day – 7 – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest – Rushaga Area:

Breakfast, and we depart for Rushaga, the only place for the Gorilla Habituation. This is a 5-hour drive, and we depart at 7 am to arrive in time for lunch in the Southern Area of Bwindi Forest.

Check into Lake Mulehe Lodge

Lake Mulehe Lodge Optional Activities.

After Lunch, you can read a book down by a lakeside hammock or on your cottage veranda. You have other choices, some who are familiar, while others like some dugout canoeing might take a little getting used to it. Standard boats, including motorized boats, can be used to explore the Lake.

You can do a village visit from here which is partially by boat and on foot. Birders will be delighted by what awaits them here along Lake Mulehe in the shadows of the Brooding Volcanoes.

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge

Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge – Mid-Range

This grand newer lodge is combining a base for Gorilla Trekking in the Rushaga Area with the added plus of being along Lake Mulehe with the Virunga Volcanoes providing a beautiful backdrop.

Private, en-suite cottages, consistent customer service, meals prepared with an Italian touch.

Nearby Hiking Trails, Village Visit, Canoe Boat ride on the lake does not get any better.

The Southern area of Bwindi just got better with the addition of Bwindi Jungle Lodge, and the menu comes with an Italian Touch that is much appreciated by our clients who stay in this lovely setting.

The lodge is 45 minutes away from Trekking and or Habituation Locations in Rushaga and the same distance from Mgahinga Gorilla Park for Gorilla, Golden Monkey trekking, and Volcano Climbing.

Day – 8 -Gorilla Habituation Experience – Rushaga – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest:

Breakfast and the big day of spending four hours with the Gorillas have come. You will need a daypack, packed lunch, light rain jacket, a walking stick can be obtained, and it is advised that you do so, waterproof hiking boots, good socks, long-sleeved shirt and long trousers, gardening gloves to pull yourself up on branches, hat and two liters of water.

After a brief meeting with the Gorilla Habituation Researchers, you are off for your 1-hour session. The permit is 1,500 USD – at four hours with the gorillas, a real bargain compared to 2,400 used in Uganda on four treks or Rwanda at 3000 used for four gorilla treks plus add the extra lodging.

This will undoubtedly be the most crucial time for you on this one of the days of your life – being four hours with the Mountain Gorillas in Rushaga.

After your Gorilla habituation Experience, we take the short drive to Lake Mutanda, where you can check into the upmarket Chameleon Hill Lodge or moderately price Mutanda Lake Resort.

Dinner

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge

Day – 9 – Golden Monkey Habituation Experience – Mgahinga Gorilla Park:

Breakfast and off to nearby Mgahinga Gorilla Park, where it is your last Primate Habituation Experience with the endangered Golden Monkeys of the Virunga Volcanoes.

What you wear should be similar to Gorilla Habituation Experience, including packed lunch and two liters of water. You will go with researchers on an upward climb toward the Bamboo Forests where the Golden Monkeys have their habitat.

Out of all the groups of primates, the golden monkeys are the liveliest of them. You will find the jumping over, making noise all around you, wherever you turn, there they are.

It takes about two years to habituate any primate group, including the Golden Monkeys of Mgahinga Gorilla Park. The Golden Monkey habituation experience will take most of the day. Still, an enjoyable day it will be for you, not only surrounded by the golden monkeys but also the stunning scenery found at Mghahinga Gorilla Park and the Virunga Volcanoes.

After the Golden Monkey, we return to

Dinner

Meal Plan: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Lodge: Lake Safari Mulehe Lodge

Day – 10 – Kigali – Departure for home:

Your Value+ 10-Day Midrange Primate Habituation Experience Safari ends. Breakfast and leave for Kigali- Activities can be added depending on your departure time from Kigali airport.

Meal Plan: Breakfast

Safari includes all permits, all lodging, 4-wheel drive safari vehicle, all food, bottled water in the car, but not alcohol at lodges or tips.

If you are interested in this 10-day Primate Habituation Experience Safari – please Contact us.