Friday, September 4, 2009

Uganda Wildlife Safari

(Queen Elizabeth NP, Kibale and Murchison Falls National PARK)

KAMPALA- QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

At 07hrs00, you will be picked from the Lodge or hotel and head Queen Elizabeth National park.Gorilla Safari Make a stop over at Mpigi crafts and the Equator crossing. At the Equator, you will view some men representing an experiment to test whether water does in fact go in differing directions down a plug hole on opposite sides of the equator. This experiment is a verification to show that the equator is the separator of the two hemispheres. Many people have it that the equator is there, but being there after a short drive is worth while evidence! Take snaps and then after proceed Queen Elizabeth national park.  A game drive En route  a game drive in search for the unique game like the Topi, Elands, Elephants and many other animals. Uganda Safari Have lunch, Visit the crater lakes region and then wait for dinner and over night at Mweya Safari lodge/ JACANA SAFARI LODGE / INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY (FB).

LAUNCH CRUISE ALONG THE KAZINGA CHANNEL

Wakeup very early for a morning game drive to catch-up with the early risers and predators – lion, leopard, getting back to their hideouts. You will be likely to meet grazing elephants, spotted hyenas ,the elusive leopards, bushbucks, water buck and stripped jackal, and of course the several warthogs. Gorilla Tracking Return to the lodge for break fast and there after, In the afternoon you will go for a launch cruise along the kazinga channel the waterway that joins Lake Edward to Lake George . Its banks are  is crammed with families  of hippos, buffaloes, with elephants at the banks. If time allows take an evening game drive to the crater area. Get back to your lodge for supper  and Overnight at the lodge (FB).

CHIMPANZEE TRACKING IN KIBALE

We shall  head to Kibale national park. This will take you through the good-looking foot hills of the Rwenzori Mountains. Rest at the lodge as you wait for a meal. In the Afternoon, you will gather  at Kanyankyu tourist centre for an update from the Ranger guides before you go for chimpanzee tracking in the Kibale tropical rain forest. Though you will be chimpanzee tracking, you will be astounded to come across more primates and mammals like the Red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, the Blue Mangabeys, Mauritius Holidays Bushbucks, Warthogs, Bush pigs, Duikers, Golden cats among others, a number of bird types including African Pitta, Warbler, Blue headed sun bird among others. Probabilities of seeing chimps in this park are 95%. After that, you will come across man’s closest cousins in their family playing as they move from tree to tree . Zanzibar Travel Dinner and over night at Ndali Lodge/ Primates Lodge/ Rwenzori View guest house.(FB)

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