14 DAYS WESTERN UGANDA BIRDING SAFARI
Day 1: Airport pickup
Our company driver will meet you on arrival at Entebbe airport and transfer you to Golf course hotel/Cassia lodge/The lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Kampala - Mabamba
After breakfast you will set off for Mabamba Wetland. This is the nearest site for the Shoebill, Lesser Jacana, Blue Swallow, Black-Shouldered Nightjar, Afep Pigeon, Blue Breasted Bee-Eater, Papyrus Gonolek, and White Winged Warbler. Spend the whole day birding in this wetland and the surrounding areas, have a picnic and then drive to Hotel Brovad in Masaka for dinner and overnight
Day 3: Masaka - Lake Mburo
Early in the morning after breakfast, depart by road to Lake Mburo National Park. On arrival you will go a game drive where you will be able to see big herds of zebra, impala, eland and other ungulates. Bird viewing opportunities are excellent - for birders. Dinner and overnight at Mantana tented camp/ Rwonyo rest camp.
Day 4: Lake Mburo National park.
Early morning wake up for bird watching while on a game drive & get a chance to see species like the Brown Chested Plover, Red Faced Barbet, Southern Ground Hornbill, Papyrus Yellow Warbler, Yellow Billed Oxpecker, African Fin foot, Black Collard Barbet etc. Have an afternoon boat trip on Lake Mburo where you may sight the shoe bill and other aquatic species. Dinner and overnight at Mantana tented camp/ Rwonyo rest camp.
Day 5: Lake Mburo to Bwindi
You will have breakfast and then drive to Bwindi with occasional birding enroute. Best known for its Mountain Gorillas, the Montane Forest also attracts spectacular birds. There are 23 of the 24 Albertine Rift endemics including the African Green Broadbill, Bar Tailed Trogon and other beautiful forest species. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Mist Camp/Ruhija guest house
Day 6: birding in Buhoma
Today after breakfast you will go birding in the Ruhija area. Possible sightings may be the Shelley’s Crimson wing, Mountain Illadopsis, Grauer’s Warbler, White-starred Robin, Dusky and Dusky Tit, Mountain Buzzard, Handsome Francolin, Augur Buzzard, Grey Cuckoo Shrike, Chestnut Throated Ayres’s and Cassin’s Hawk Eagle, Red-throated Alethe, Mountain Masked, Collard, and Black -Throated Apalis, Stripe Breasted Tit, Red Faced Woodland Warbler, and many other birds. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Resort/Lake Kitandara Camp/Buhoma community bandas
Day 7: Bwindi - Queen Elizabeth.
After breakfast, you will drive through the Ishasha Sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Go for the game drive in the open savannah on the edge of the Albertine Rift Valley. You will search for the typical tree climbing lions found only in this part of the country. In the afternoon proceed to Mweya Safari Lodge/Hippo hill camp/Simba safari camp for dinner and overnight
Day 8: birding on the Mweya peninsular
Whole day in Queen Elizabeth National Park bird watching while on a game drive both in the morning and in the afternoon returning to the lodge for lunch and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge/Hippo hill camp/Simba safari camp
Day 9: Kasenyi tracks and Kazinga channel
Today you will go for an early morning game drive along Kasenyi where you may be able to see lions, elephants, Cape buffalo, warthogs, leopard, spotted hyena, mongoose, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, topi and a lot of small animals and birds. Return to the lodge for breakfast. After lunch, go for a boat cruise for the best navigation of the Kazinga Channel, a good opportunity for birding, as you will see many water birds, cormorants, Three-banded Plover, pelicans, Herring Gull, eagles, Lesser Black Backed Gull, African Skimmer, Striated Heron, Wood and Common Sandpiper, African Spoonbill, Water Thick-knee, Marsh, Green, Gray-headed Gull, Plain Martin, Lesser Swamp-Warbler and many other birds as well as crocodiles, hippos, elephants, buffaloes. Dinner and overnight at the lodge
Day 10: Queen Elizabeth - Kibale.
Have a morning game drive and later head for Kibale Forest National Park. Kibale Forest is a large protected block of rainforest, which has the highest number of primates in Africa such as Chimpanzees, Grey Cheeked Mangabey, Red Tailed monkey and Red Colobus. Dinner and overnight at the Primate lodge/Primate cottages/Chimpanzee guest house
Day 11: Kibale National park
In the morning you will go for chimp tracking and in the afternoon visit Bigodi Swamp eco-tourism site looking for African and Green-breasted Pitas and swamp species. Dinner and overnight at the Primate lodge/Primate cottages/Chimpanzee guest house
Day 12: Kibale -Kampala
After breakfast drive to Kampala via Mubende. Dinner and overnight the lodge/hotel
