12 DAYS BIRDING AND WILDLIFE ITINERARY

Day (1)MABAMBA AND LAKE MBURO

Early transfer at 06:30am to mabamba swamp for many water birds like the shoebill, African and Lesser Jaccana, Cauruther Cisticola, Common Morhen, Lesser Swamphen, Papyrus Gonolek, Red knobbed-Coot, Malachite Kingfisher, Blue-Headed Coucal, Northern Brown-Throated Weaver, after the canoe you will then transfer to Lake Mburo National Park making a stopover at the Equator for lunch then later re-embark on your journey seeing many several Birds along the way to the “WHISPHERS OF THE WILD”

You can choose to relax at the hotel before doing an evening game drive for many savannah species like the Crested Barbet, Double Collared Barbet, Long Tailed Cisticola, Rupells Starling, Trilling Cisticola and many more birds

Overnight is at Rwakobo Lodge, Eagle Nest Lodge, Accadia Cottages, Kimbla Mantana Tented Camp.

Day (2).BOAT CRUISE AND BIRDING

Early morning boat cruise on Lake Mburo for special birds like the African Finfoot, White Backed Night-Heron, African Fish Eagle, African Darter, after the cruise you can drive back to your hotel for lunch before doing an evening bird watching in search of the parks most sought specie called the Red Faced Barbet and many more birds flying back to meet up with their nests.After the bird watching session then you can drive back to your Hotel.

Day (3) TRANSFER TO BWINDI

After your morning breakfast you the transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest via Ruhija for the Albertine Endemic bird species making a stop over at the “NECK” where you will see many unique  bird species like the Graurer’s Broadbill, Strip Breasted Tit, Handsome Francolin, Bar Tailed Tragon, Black Bee-Eater overnight is at Buhoma community rest camp.

Day (4) GORILLA TRACKING

After breakfast you will then walk to the briefing point to meet up with Endangered Gentle Giants(Mountain Gorillas),the tracking may take 4-6 hours at most depending on the movements of the Gorillas then you can walk back to get you certificates of tracking. You can choose to relax in the afternoon or go back and do an evening bird watching for more higher altitude species.

Day (5) TRANSFER TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK.

On this beautiful day we transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park via Ishasha for the tree climbing lions and many Savannah Species like the Western Banded Snake-Eagle, Surlphur Breasted Bushrike, Madagascar Pond Heron, Saddle Billed Stork, Black Chested Snake-Eagle, Helmented Guinea-Fowl, then later proceed to the Northern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park overnight is at Pumba Safari lodge, Bush Lodge, Parkview Safari lodge.

Day (6) BIRD WATCHING AND BOAT CRUISE

Early morning game drive and bird watching seeing many birds like the Termnicks Courser, Yellow Throated Long-Claw, Red Necked Francolin, Senegal Plover, Gray Backed Fiscal, Crested Francolin  then do a boat cruise in the afternoon on the Kazinga channel for several water birds and many like the African Skimmer, Pink Backed and Great White Pelican, White Winged Tern and

more mammals  then later drive back to your place of accommodation.

Day (7)TRANSFER TO KIBALE

Early morning transfer to Kibale Forest National Park birding making several stopovers along the way then do either an afternoon chimpanzee tracking or do evening bird watching around the forest for species like the Cameron Sombre Greenbul, Narina Tragon,African crowned Eagle,

Overnight is at Primate Lodge, Chimpanzee Guest House, Kibale Forest Camp

Day (8)BIRDING AND SWAMP WALK

Whole day birding on kibale-forest looking for the Green Breasted Pitta and many other birds then later do Bigodi swamp walk for many more 13 primates and other many birds like Blue Shouldered Robin-Chat, Vanga Flycatcher, Yellow Billed Barbet,

Day (9)TRANSFER TO MURCHSION FALLS NATIONAL PARK

Whole day transfer to Murchision falls national park,a journey that takes a long time but very rewarding with many birds along the way where we see birds like Stripped Kingfisher, Black Bellied Bustard, Woodland Kingfisher, Bronze Mankin.

Overnight is at Pakuba Safari Lodge, Murchsion River Lodge, Red Chilli Campsite

Day (10)EARLY MORNING GAME DRIVE

Early morning game drive as we do a bird watching, in search of many more savannah species seeing many birds like the Silverbird, Red Fronted Weaver, White Chinned Prinia, Brown Chested Snake-Eagle, Short Tailed Eagle then late head back to the hotel for lunch after lunch we  then do an afternoon boat cruise on River Nile to the bottom of the falls for many bird species and a lot of wildlife on the river banks.

Day (11)DELTA CRUISE AND TRANSFER TO MASINDI

Early morning cruise to the Delta point for the shoebill sighting and other water birds like the Purple Heron, Goliath Heron, then Transfer to Budongo forest via the top of the falls as we do bird

watching then later check in at Masindi Hotel, Kabalega Resort Hotel for an overnight.

Day (12) .BIRDING ROYAL MILE

Early morning birding in royal mile,in search for the Budongo 5 and many other birds like the Dwarf Kingfisher, Rufous Crowned Eramomela,Cestnut Capped Flycatcher, Choclate Backed Kingfisher, Sabines Spinetail, Cassins Hawk Eagle then later stop over in Masindi for lunch before transferring back to Kampala.