Private Tour
7-Day Murchison Falls, Chimps & Gorilla Trekking
Overview
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168 hours
Mobile ticket
Travel to the Murchison Falls NP. Expect the roaring rapids of the Murchison Falls, the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest National Park teaming with abundance of wildlife. Go chimp trekking in Budongo Forest Reserve. You will return to Kampala before travelling to Bwindi. Go gorilla trekking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation and sightseeing. Return to Entebbe International Airport to catch your flight out.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 3 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.<br>If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
What‘s Included
Private transportation
WiFi on board
Air-conditioned vehicle
Restroom on board
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Entebbe Airport
Entebbe Uganda
What To Expect
Pick up and Transfer to Murchison with detour rhino tracking in Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Accommodations
Fort Murchison Lodge
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
Murchison Falls National Park
Hopefully, your flight is scheduled for an early (not past noon) landing in Uganda. Your guide/driver will pick you from Entebbe Airport and you will hit the road for Murchison falls. The highlights of this park include; the roaring rapids of the Murchison, the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest National Park where you will have the chance of viewing lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. Then surely you will be fascinated by the concentration of hippos and the Nile crocodiles here. For birders, Murchison Falls boasts 450 bird species including the elusive shoebill stork, dwarf king fisher, the white-thigh hornbill, and the Goliath heron among others. En route, make a detour visit to Zziwa Rhino sanctuary. You will have at least one hour of rhino tracking while here. Another stop will be in Masindi in order to enjoy your lunch. Continue to the park and check in to your accommodation to relax for the Evening.
Murchison Falls’ game drive and launch/boat trip to the base of the falls
Accommodations
Fort Murchison Lodge
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
Murchison Falls National Park
Have your breakfast, depart for an early morning game drive across the rolling plains of Uganda’s largest National Park, where you will have the opportunity of viewing lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. For any birder, this area supports the secretary bird, and black chested snake eagle to name a few. Return to your accommodation for lunch. After lunch you will head out for the boat trip to the base of Murchison Falls where you will also be able to catch sight of more animals including Hippos and Crocodiles and several water birds. Continue with a hike (if you like) to the top of the falls. The hike may be a strenuous one but the thrill on reaching the top is breathtaking. Miss it only if you must. Return to your accommodation and have a relaxed evening.
Go chimp tracking in Budongo Forest including sighting birds
Accommodations
Sambiya River Lodge
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
Budongo Forest
Budongo is astonishingly bio-diverse, with 24 mammal species, over 360 birds, 289 butterflies and 465 plants. Budongo is also known for its primate population, which includes around 800 chimpanzees. After breakfast, you will be driven through the Ugandan countryside which alone is worth a trip as you go for chimpanzee trekking in Budongo Forest. Also, look out for other primates like the black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, baboons and grey-cheeked mangabeys. With over 360 bird species, you will have an absolute bird sighting experience while here. After your chimp experience, you will return to the lodge for lunch and relax probably enjoying the sounds and sights of the area. Else, you may opt to take some nature walk to feel the beauty of the forest firsthand.
Exit Budongo and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Accommodations
Kikorongo Safari Lodge
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
Kampala
Have a relaxed breakfast at the accommodation and then set off to Queen Elizabeth National Park. On arrival, you will be dropped off at the booked accommodation where you will have relaxation plus the overnight stay (awaiting next day’s trip to Bwindi NP).
Transfer to Bwindi for the Epic gorilla trekking
Accommodations
Bweza Lodge
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Your guide/driver will pick you from the accommodation and then depart for Bwindi Impenetrable national park. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda harboring over 300 of them, more reason as to why it should be your next safari destination. The drive takes you southwest Uganda, cross the Equator, and then to Mbarara for Lunch and through Savannah grasslands to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The scenic drive through Kigezi Highlands, banana plantations and sight of herds of long-horned Ankole cattle – endemic to this area take you to the gorilla Sanctuary of Bwindi. You will arrive in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the evening and will mainly do less but just check into your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the following day.
Go gorilla trekking Bwindi and later transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation
Accommodations
Heritage Lodge, Habuharo
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
DINNER
Dinner
After an early breakfast and a briefing by a ranger guide, you will enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular! The area offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long savored. Return to your lodge. Have your lunch and thereafter check out for a transfer to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of (2,200 – 2,478m) but it’s the 29 islands of various shapes and sizes scattered across the water that make it most magical — you could admire them all day.
Depart Bunyonyi for your outbound flight in Entebbe Airport
Accommodations
no accomadation
Food and Drinks
BREAKFAST
Breakfast
LUNCH
Lunch
Entebbe
Have a relaxed breakfast at the accommodation with spectacular view of the Bunyonyi little islands just right in front of you and thereafter embark on your return journey to Entebbe Airport. Expect enroute stopovers in Mbarara town for lunch and the Uganda Equator line mark in Kayabwe for some memorable photos (if you didn’t stop on the first day) and may be buying some art pieces of interest. Proceed with the journey arriving late afternoon/evening for drop off at the airport. We do recommend for a late afternoon/evening outbound flight schedule for this day (if flying out). We hope to see you (or any referral) when next, you visit and thanks for choosing Ngoni Safaris Uganda!
Options
7-Day Murchison Falls, Chimps & Gorilla Trekking
Pickup included
Reviews
20 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Perfect trip thanks to Alex
germanaG8964AI,
Aug 28, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Very well organized. Special thanks to Alex, our marvelous guide who always was there to help and explain. He has made us feel like home. Totally recommendable guide.
Awesome tour company and safari
J3766OCkimberlyb,
Aug 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Winter was great! He showed up the night before our safari and introduced himself. He was kind and took great care of my daughter and I and made extra effort everyday to make us feel comfortable.
Best experience in Uganda with Hillary
SandroWagner1990,
Jun 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I am deeply thankful for having chosen Ngoni Safari for my trip to Uganda. It has been fully amazing from day one till the last day and Hillary as a guide and driver was perfect! Thank you for letting me have this unforgettable experience!
Wonderful safari in Uganda and Ruanda
pequenoviajante,
Jun 29, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Anyone who has followed us on social networks or on the blog for longer, knows that we always do everything completely independently, on our own, and hate guided activities. We only use guide services when it is forbidden to do the program without guide. But sometimes we study a particular destination and end up concluding that buying the 'package' has a better cost-benefit than doing the trip on your own - it was like that in Tanzania, for example, and in Uganda/Rwandan it was like that. So we hired @ngonisafaris to organize our trip through Uganda and Rwanda and Sedrick, owner of the agency, chose guide/driver Charles to go with us. I will tell all the details of this trip on the blog later, but I want to record here that Charles was simply PERFECT! We have no complaints about him, on the contrary, only compliments! The guy is quiet, gave us space and, at the same time, did ALL for us, gave us great tips, gave us all the important information, found lions, suggested optional tours, stopped for all the dozens of photos I asked to take, got last minute permits when we changed our mind, bought sleeves and green banana salts for us to try and never, at any time, was boring or inconvenient. For you to have an idea, even Peg, who has the patience even shorter than mine, found Charles great! If one day you decide to copy and paste this trip, try to get Charles as your guide! Spending days stuck with the same guide can be hell if the guy is inconvenient - and we don't have enough words to praise both the work of Sedrick, the owner of the agency, who delivered 101% of what he promised, and Charles 👌 As for Sedrick, it is worth saying that we requested several changes to the original schedule and he 'customized' the standard schedule that the agency offered to leave it exactly as we wanted (including some tours, excluding others, changing some hotels, etc). Tips: arrange everything in writing, by WhatsApp or by email, before making the payment (we pay 50% about 2 months before the trip and the other 50% when we arrive in Kampala, directly to Sedrick) - what is included and what is not, leave everything combined. We had NO problem with this, they delivered everything that was combined. As for drinks: all drinks you order in restaurants, will be on your own, even if you ask for water. The agency supplies bottled water daily in the car (and many hotels also leave water in the rooms). Important: Remember to always have plenty of money exchanged in the local currency for chips - they do not accept U$ bills if they are not very new - any scratch or crack is a reason to refuse U$ bills.
Ngoni Safaris Uganda
Roam07258858136,
Jun 22, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00In May 2022 and June 2024 I had amazing safari trips with Ngoni Safaris. The first one solo, the second one with my husband. Yes, I enjoyed my first trip with guide Jamal so much that I booked a second trip, 2 years later. :) The trip was well organized by Ngoni. Sedrick (the main contact person) was very helpful and always replied very quickly. Both my first guide Jamal and our second guide David were excellent. With their good eyes, they spotted the big cats (lions and leapards) hidden in the grass or tree. They were very good company, and also flexible and accomodating to our preferences. If there would be a third time, I would definitely consider Ngoni safaris again.
Great company, great tour!
AnnaHH87,
Oct 25, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This was one of the best trip I have ever did so far. It started with a warm welcome by my driver and guide James. I always felt safe and welcome as a female solo traveller and can relly recommend it to everyone. The choice of lodges and activities for a 7 day Tour was perfect and I will keep it in my heart forever. Sedrick is a great guy and always stays in contact with you if you have any question
Super Uganda experience!!
l0candagarzelli,
Mar 16, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00it was an amazing experience! organized down to the last detail, jamal, our guide was super! beautiful places, super welcome !!! top
I had the best experience with this tour, I can’t wait for my next trip in Uganda. Great memory and fun 👍🏿
Talibe W,
Feb 1, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I had the the best tour and gorilla trekking. What a memory and good people I met . I can’t wait for my next trip in Uganda. Great experience
Uganda trek
KentB171,
Aug 15, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Murchison Falls, rhino, chimpanzee, gorilla trek, safari. Jamal was our guide and was amazing. Made an already fantastic trip that much more special.
Wonderful Trip
Jeffry C,
May 23, 2022
- Review from Viator
4.00First, our guide James was awesome. He took care of us and made sure we were comfortable during the entire journey. All of the lodging was adequate. The last two nights at the Gorilla camp and the lake were amazing. The Rhino Sanctuary was only “Ok”. Seeing the Rhinos was fun but the food for lunch was terrible. Was not fresh and most likely reheated in a microwave. Murchinson Falls was amazing. The boat ride to the falls was perfect. Lots of animals on the banks of the Nile in the way to the falls. Recommend the morning boat tour as the afternoon tour was quite hot. The Safari game drive in Murchinson National Park was decent. If you have been to Masai Mara in Kenya you will be disappointed with the Murchinson Game Drive. Ft. Murchinson Lodge was ok. I’d give the food 3 stars. The accommodations were adequate. The Chimpanzee Trek was fun and the accommodation was adequate. The highlight of the trip was the Gorilla Trekking. Worth every bit if the cost. Spent 90 minutes with the gorillas. Just amazing. Overall, we had a wonderful trip. Recommend bringing extra food if you are not a fruit eater. Very limited protein options. Additionally, there was lots of driving. Be prepared for some long days in the van. Of note, there is no Wi-Fi in the van and most of the accommodations have limited Wi-Fi connectivity.
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