3 Must Activities On a Uganda Safari Tour

Gorilla Trekking Safari

Gorilla trekking in Uganda is key activity on a Uganda safari tour that you must not leave without visiting. Gorilla tracking starts with booking a gorilla trekking permit but this must be done as early as possible because only 8 gorilla permits are released per day per gorilla tracking group. Bwindi forest National Park is the largest home of mountain gorillas in Uganda and 10 gorilla tracking families are open for tracking. Gorilla permits can be booked from Uganda Wildlife Authority either directly or through a Uganda safari operator.

Gorilla trekking starts very early with briefing at the ranger station where you are told how to behave while with the gorillas, how to behave, how long to take while in there presence. You are given a ranger guide who takes you through the formalities of gorilla trekking starting from where the gorillas were last seen the previous evening. Gorilla trekking is done only once in the day and in case you miss out on briefing, are not allowed to join other trackers.

Game drives on a Uganda safari.

Uganda is endowed with a number of games like lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, water bucks, giraffes and so many others that live freely in the national Parks. Murchison Falls National park and Queen Elizabeth National park are endowed with a number of animals that you may spot during your game drives. In case you requested for a lunch cruise, Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Parks have this provision. In Murchison Falls, a launch cruise takes you to the thundering falls where the Nile squeezes through the narrow gorge to plunge down the 44meters high cliff. On the way, you get to see schools of hippos, crocodiles, elephant families and so much more. A launch cruise in queen Elizabeth National Park gives you a chance to sail on the Kazinga channel which is the link between Lake George and Lake Edward. A number of animals like elephants, buffaloes, hippos, crocodiles, birds both local and international can be spotted.

Chimpanzee tracking

Chimpanzees are known for being the closest cousin of humans in the animals kingdom. In Uganda, they live in Kibale National park, Kyambura gorge and Kaniyo Pabidi. Trekking chimpanzees requires that you book a chimpanzee tracking permit from the Uganda Wildlife Authority or a Uganda safari operator. A number of other primates like olive baboons, vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, grey checked mangabey, can be seen on the way. This activity starts early in the morning with briefing and later you proceed into the forest. It has an evening session where you have to search for the chimpanzees following there path.