Private Tour
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360 hours
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This Uganda wildlife and activity safari takes you on an exciting adventure through the heart of Uganda. Starting from Kampala, you will go on a journey of white water rafting, safari game drives, chimp, and gorilla tracking, and much more.
You will go to the best tourist attractions in Uganda such as Jinja, Murchison Falls, Kibale, Queen Elizabeth N.P, Bwindi Impenetrable, Lake Bunyonyi, and Lake Mburo. You will see animals like zebras, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos, chimps, gorillas, and much more.
The trip program is perfectly balanced to allow for the exploration of the beautiful wilderness and culture of Uganda.
Take a closer look at the detailed itinerary and get a better idea of how this safari would work out for you. Additionally, keep in mind that all our trips are completely customizable and can be tailored to fit your specific needs.
Public transportation options are available nearby
Specialized infant seats are available
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Personal (medical/travel) insurance
Entebbe Airport
Entebbe Uganda
Papyrus Guest House Entebbe
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Depending on your time of arrival, we organize additional meals at your accommodation facility
Our driver/guide will be waiting at Entebbe International Airport to pick you up and then transfer you to your accommodation for the night.
Papyrus Guest House Entebbe
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Source of the Nile - Speke Monument
Early in the morning, after your breakfast, you will be driven to Jinja for a white water rafting experience which can either take a full day or half-day depending on your choice. This is one of the most exciting rafting trips on earth going up to 31 km and includes a fantastic barbeque lunch and complimentary drinks after the trip.
Pakuba Safari Lodge
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Murchison Falls National Park
Your day will begin with a scenic drive to Murchison Falls National Park – northwest of Jinja. The journey will take approximately 8 to 9 hrs with a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for Rhino Tracking. From Ziwa, you will stop for lunch in Masindi Town. After your lunch, you will continue to Murchison Falls National Park and have a chance to stop by the ‘top of the falls’ where you can see the Nile’s beauty perfected. This is where the Nile compresses from a width of 50 meters into a 7-meter canyon that forms the waterfall after which the park is named. From here, you will continue to your accommodation where you will rest for the night.
Pakuba Safari Lodge
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Murchison Falls National Park
Early morning, your guide will take you for a game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile spotting the Elephants, Lions, Cape buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, hartebeest, Waterbuck, Oribi, Bushbuck, Bohor reedbuck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard. Return back to your lodge for breakfast and lunch. In the afternoon, head for a boat cruise upstream on the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just tens of metres from the “Devil’s Cauldron”. Have a chance to marvel at the hippos floating in water, crocodiles and you will see many animals over this 19 km stretch including elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. You will also get to see many bird species like Goliath heron, Egyptian goose, Brown pelican, Red-throated bee-eater, various kingfishers, Fish eagles, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork. After the boat cruise, you will return to your accommodation.
Kibale Forest Camp
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Kibale Forest National Park
After an early morning breakfast, you will be transferred to Kibale National Park passing by Hoima and Fort Portal towns with views of a lush green countryside, tea plantations, past traditional homesteads and farms. Fort-Portal town rests in the shadows of the fabled Mountains of the Moon.
Kibale Forest Camp
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Kibale Forest National Park
After early morning breakfast, your driver/guide will drive you to Kibale National Park office where you will be briefed about the activity of tracking chimpanzees in the wild. You will then go on a guided primate walk in search of chimpanzees and 12 other primates including l’ Hoestes, Red colobus, blue, red-tailed monkeys, brown monkeys, and grey-cheeked mangabey. The park rangers will provide detailed explanations, not only on primates but on all the forest fauna and flora, and will ensure that your walk is informative and enjoyable. After finding the chimps, you will spend 1 hour with them before heading back to the park offices. You will go back to the lodge for lunch & refreshments. After lunch, you will visit the community and take a walk in Bigodi Swamp – which is the home of the great blue Turaco bird. The swamp is home to around 200 bird species and 8 primate species. Later, return to your accommodation for dinner & overnight stay.
Bush Lodge
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you will start the day with a cultural tour of the Amabere ga nyina mwiru caves – a great historic site located 10km from Fort Portal town. You will be accompanied by an informed guide who knows more about this place. remember to carry along a flashlight, hiking boots, long trousers, etc since you are going to enter the caves. Thereafter, you will hike the explosion crater lakes surrounding this area and then return to Fort Portal town for lunch and a visit to the Tooro Kingdom Palace. In the evening, drive to Uganda’s second-largest park, Queen Elizabeth National Park while enjoying the changing views of the mystical Rwenzori Mountain ranges.
Bush Lodge
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you will go for an early morning wildlife safari game drive in this park. Queen Elizabeth National Park’s diverse ecosystem of grassy plains, tropical forests, rivers, swamps, lakes, and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife. With the massive Rwenzori Mountains as a backdrop, you will have excellent opportunities to see lions, leopards, giant forest hogs, cape buffalos, elephants, defassa waterbuck, Uganda Kobs, Topi, and bushbuck After lunch, you will go for a 2-3 hour boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel and into Lake Edward. This take will take you through possibly the highest concentration of hippos. Many animals may be seen drinking at the water’s edge. This launch cruise offers great opportunities for photography, bird watching, and game viewing. The prolific bird life is colorful and stupendous with more than 600 different species.
Embogo Lodge
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Queen Elizabeth National Park
After your breakfast, you will go the south to Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Ishasha is well known for its tree-climbing lions which like to take their daily rest up in the trees. Your drive through the park will present more wildlife viewing opportunities and you will reach the lodge in time for lunch. You will later go for an evening game drive in search for the tree-climbing lions as well as other animals such as elephants, buffalos, antelopes and more.
Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
After an early morning breakfast, you will leave Ishasha for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. This is a 6 hours journey passing through the Kigezi Highlands an area known as the “Switzerland of Africa”. The journey takes you through terraced hills and winding roads to the Bwindi forest. You will have a stop-over along the way for lunch.
Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Today is the big day! Prepare yourself for an encounter with the gentle giants; the rare mountain gorillas. For most people, this is the absolute highlight of their tour. You will go into the forest in groups of not more than 8 in search of mountain gorillas. En route, your guide will point out previous signs of gorilla activity such as dung, nests, and chewed bamboo shoots. Your trek will be an exciting journey along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes, and bamboo. Upon finding the gorillas, you will spend a maximum of 1 hour with them after which you will be led back to the starting point.
Bunyonyi Overland Resort
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After breakfast, you will leave Bwindi and go to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is located in the Kigezi region and is also the deepest lake in Uganda with more than 20 small islands. Here you will get to enjoy swimming, dug-out canoeing, sunbathing, hill climbing or mountain bike riding, and cray fishing. Here you will get to enjoy Bilharzia – free swimming, dug out canoeing, sunbathing, hill climbing or mountain bike riding and cray fishing.
Rwakobo Rock Lodge
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Lake Mburo National Park
After having your breakfast, you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park. The journey will take approximately 5 hours including a stopover in Mbarara for lunch. You will reach the park early enough to do both a wildlife game drive and a boat cruise on lake Mburo. You will be able to see animals like Zebras, Elands, buffalos and oribi among others. Birdwatchers will enjoy more than 250 species of birds found in Lake Mburo including Papyrus Gonolek, Brown-faced Lapwing, Carruthers Cisticola, the extraordinary White-winged Warbler, and Bare-Faced-Go-Away bird.
Papyrus Guest House Entebbe
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Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast, proceed for a wildlife safari walk in Lake Mburo National park. An armed ranger will escort you to make sure you are protected. You may also come across a herd of zebras peacefully grazing alongside the long-horned Ankole cattle. For those willing to get up a bit earlier, you may be able to see Lake Mburo’s hyenas in their cave. You will return to the lodge for lunch after which you will be driven back to Kampala. You will have a stopover at the Mpigi Royal Drum Makers where you will witness the making of ceremonial drums using methods passed down for many generations. There will also be time to stop at the equator for photographs.
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After breakfast, you will go for a city tour of Kampala. You will visit places such as the Uganda Museum, Craft Centre, Owino Market, Kibuli Mosque, Namirembe Cathedral, and other areas of cultural interest like the Buganda Kingdom Palace (Bulange). After the city tour, you will be transferred to Entebbe International Airport for your departure flight.
Pickup included
5 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Shelly Barger,
Jul 31, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
This was absolutely, hands down the best trip we have ever been on. The itinerary was perfect. We got to see everything we had hoped for (the Big 5, local communities and the Ugandan landscapes) plus many, many things we had never dreamed of. The accommodations that Primate World chooses are perfectly paired with the environment you’re in and each one has its own personality. The Ugandan people are some of the nicest we’ve ever met and are incredibly welcoming. We also loved that Primate World goes to great lengths to ensure they pair with businesses that support the communities, local people and sustain the environment for tourists to continue to enjoy responsibly. But what really made the entire tour was our guide George. He was very knowledgeable about all our destinations, was the best animal tracker and made sure we were taken care of the entire time. He even personalized our tour more and more as he got to know us. He has truly become a friend and because of him and Primate World, this “once in a lifetime trip” has become a trip we are already planning to do again with family and friends. If you want to experience the best Uganda has to offer with some of the best people you’ll ever meet, you have to choose Primate World.
Constance B,
Sep 6, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
We highly recommend Primate World Safaris for a trip in Uganda. We booked a car with a driver for our French family of 6 for 2 weeks in August. Jackson, the manager, was always available to answer our questions about the booking or the country on WhatsApp or by email. The booking was easy and Jackson made sure we were happy with our driver during the trip. Geoffroy, was not only a driver but also a guide and an activity planner. We thank him very much for his kindness and professionalism. He knows every road of his country, including the good ones of the national parks where we saw a lot of wildlife, including the big four (we decided to skip Rhino Sanctuary). Thanks to Geoffroy, we learnt many things about Uganda’s culture and history. He did his best for us to enjoy our stay. Our trip in Uganda would not have been the same without Geoffroy and Jackson. Thank you Primate World Safaris !
dannakatharina,
Jan 21, 2020
- Review from Tripadvisor
Great experience!Rammy -the guide the best I could imagine,so helpful,so informed,so great driver,and so kinde!I realy enjoyed so much every single moment.Thnx Rammy Jackson planed for me a great tour -didnt miss anything,made every day a different adventure--thanks Jackson for that. Lodges and food were exelent all the way-exept in River lodge /Jinja-the place is horible,stuff disappeared and left you all alone in a room with a broken door key and a lot of holes in nets and walls....not worth remembering All the local guides and rengers were so plesent,engaged in explining you everything,helping you enjoy as much as possible-thank them all for hospitality and such a good time The only annoying thing is that I had a lot of problems with monay -namely US $ I had to spend for activities(normaly I took it from my bank).They dont accept any banknote that is older (2013 y.),or with any kinde of fingerprints ,ink spots,.....terrible and unreal!!!Eaven in exchange office they do the same.So , advice for the future traveler -check every single bank note before you come to Uganda ! Highly recommanded for single traveler
corpart,
Jan 16, 2020
- Review from Tripadvisor
Everything promised was delivered. Program and schedule were perfectly planned by Primate Safari. Tour guide was very knowledgeable, good vehicle, excellent selection of lodges. We have no hesitation in recommending Primate Safari. Good job Jackson and Remmy!





JMKTMO,
Jul 15, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
We completed our 15 day safari and wildlife holiday on July 2, 2019 and it was beyond our expectations. Jackson did a great job of putting the trip together and adding things that we wanted to see (the Mbamba Swamp tour that allowed us to see the shoebill stork). Every lodge was very comfortable and all of the food was very good. Neither one of us got sick and we ate everything. Of course you go to Uganda for the wildlife and we saw a tremendous amount. If we were to do it again, we would have added on more days in Murchison Falls National Park for more game drives. Lake Mburo at the end was an easy relaxing stay but it was a bit repetitive from what we had seen earlier and on a trip in South Africa. I think Jackson would be more than willing to adjust any of these points. Leticia was our guide and one of the 7 female guides in the country. She was a great guide, driver, and occasionally a mechanic. All of the guides know one another and this came in very handy when she was able to get tips as to where some of the animals were located. We saw everything that we hoped to see - 10 lions in trees, a leopard, a gorilla family, and hundreds of birds, to name a few. A word of advice...don't spend money on the nighttime tour of Kipale Forest in an attempt to see the bush babies. We spent the money and saw nothing but when we saw where our guide was pointing the flashlight (80 feet up) we probably would not have seen anything except a pair of eyes. We did see lots of Safari Ants and Fire Ants as a result of that trek...all over our shoes and socks. If you have the stamina and money...a additional day of gorilla trekking might be a bonus. Our experience was wonderful even though it had poured rain the night before and everything was slippery. Definitely hire a porter for this experience. It is the best $15 (US) that you will ever spend. As an aside, if you are coming from the U.S. make sure that your U.S. bills are ABSOLUTELY NEW - no creases, no writing, no washing, 2013 printing or newer. Be prepared for lots of road construction. Our lodge for gorilla trekking (which was really nice) was 50km (30 miles) from where we were issued our trekking permits by the government. It took us three hours to get there because of the rain and the roads.
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