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20 Days Birding safari and wildlife tour

20 Days Birding safari and wildlife allows tour Uganda and enjoys bird watching in all major birding destinations in Uganda in details Standing with 1057 bird species, Uganda features 11% of the word’s bird species and 50% of Africa’s bird count 20 days Uganda birding safari takes you to Mabira virgin forest with 312 species, ziwa Rhino sanctuary with 250 bird species, Budongo forest with over 360 bird species including the endemic yellow tooted flycatcher and Illadopsis Puvelli’s, Murchison falls national park with 451 species of birds with the sight of the rare shoe bile stork, kibale national park with 375 species of birds with the endemic kibale ground Trush, Bigodi wetland sanctuary with 138 species of birds including the famous great blue Turacco, queen Elizabeth national park with over 600 species of birds making the habitant with many bird species in east Africa and second in Africa, Bwindi forest national park with 360 species of birds including the endemic red faced barbet, Entebbe botanical garden, Lutembe bay and the famous Mabamba swamp. It is an adventure birding encounter for all seasoned world birders.

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Overview

DAY 1: PICK UP FROM PLACE OF ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSFER TO MABIRA

DAY 2: FULL-DAY BIRDING IN MABIRA FOREST

DAY 3: TRANSFERS TO BUDONGO FOREST ENROUTE TRACK BIRDING AT ZIWA SANCTUARY RHINO

DAY 4: FULL-DAY BIRDING IN BUDONGO FOREST RESERVE BUSINGIRO AREA

DAY 5: HALF DAY AT KANIGO PABIDI AND TRANSFER TO MURCHISON FALLS AND VISIT TOP OF FALLS

DAY 6: BIRDING ALONG THE NILE (BOAT CRUISE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE FALLS

DAY 7 BIRDING IN THE UGANDA SAVANNAH LANDSCAPES OF MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK

DAY 8 BIRDING IN UGANDA, KABONGO FOREST TRANSFER TO HOIMA

DAY 9: TRANSFER TO KIBALE FROM HOIMA

DAY 10: BIRDING WATCHING IN KIBALE FOREST AND ADJACENT BIGODI WETLAND SANCTUARY

DAY 11: TRANSFER TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK AND BIRD IN THE MWEYA PENINSULA

DAY 12: BIRDING IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

DAY 13: TRANSFER TO BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK

DAY 14: BIRDING IN BUHOMA SECTOR

DAY 15 UNDER TAKE GORILLA TREKKING IN BWINDI

DAY 16: BIRDING IN RUHINJA

DAY 17 TRANSFER TO LAKE MBURO NATIONAL

DAY 18 BIRDING ALONG THE WAY IN LAKE MBURO NATIONAL AND WAY TO KAMPALA

DAY 19 BIRDING ALONG ENTEBBE BOTANICAL GARDEN AND LUTEMBE BAY WETLAND

DAY 20 BIRDING IN MAMBAMBA

DEPARTURE DAY

Itinerary

Day 1
PICK UP FROM PLACE OF ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSFER TO MABIRA
Wake up early in the morning with served breakfast then meet the safari guide that will take you through Kampala city and Mukono town passing via Nambole national stadium and Namanve industry area and then driving through sugar cane plantation for sugar with the scenic views and Mabira forests with the cool conditions. The forest is ranked as one of the most ornithological sites in Uganda with 300 species like hornbill, great blue Turaco, African pita, sunbirds, and African grey parrot, Mabira forest is one of the two places in east Africa where tit hylia has been recorded and the rare bird is seen here regularly. You will have a picnic lunch in the forest, you settle for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.
Day 2
FULL DAY BIRDING IN MABIRA FOREST

Wake up early in the morning, take breakfast, and meet your driver guide who will take you to the briefing point you will immediately start your birding

in the Mabira forest where you will have a chance to meet a good number of species of birding nice experience birding in the forest, you can bird in different ways like identifying a bird by sound earrings or using binoculars to up in the long trees and also by identifying different shelters of birds and you will able also to see birds like great blue Turacco, sunbirds, hornbills, African pita, different prey birds.

You will have lunch in the forest and then after lunch, you will continue with birding in the forest up to Griffin Falls.
Day 3
TRANSFERS TO BUDONGO FOREST ENROUTE TRACK BIRDING AT ZIWA SACTUARY RHINO

In the morning after early breakfast, drive northwest to Budongo forest reserve within Masindi town. This route offers you impressive views of the flat landscape of central Uganda before making a stop at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to view white rhinos and birds, The savannah thickets also feature counts of birds over 250 species of birds, and expert guides will enable you to spot a range of birds including broad-billed, blue spotted dove, booted eagle, Abyssinia ground hornbill, African blue flycatcher. Have lunch at the sanctuary and transfer to Masindi and Budongo forest in the evening
Day 4
FULL DAY BIRDING IN BUDONGO FOREST RESERVE BUSINGIRO AREA
After breakfast at exactly 06:30 am, you will start your full day birding in Uganda in the forest starting with the royal mile area of the forest. This royal mile is referred to as the country’s premier forest birding locality home and a number of species such as western black-headed oriole and purple-headed starling bandes, snake eagle, crowned and African pied hornbill and bat howl seen at dust, white tingled hornbill, yellow-billed barbets, the chocolate baked blue Breasted and Africa dwarf kingfisher and the green bulls. You will have a picnic lunch in the forest and retreat in the evening to your lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight.
Day 5
HALF DAY AT KANIGO PABIDI AND TRANSFER TO MURCHISION FALLS AND VISIT TOP OF FALLS
After breakfast, you will transfer to the Kanigo Pabidi sector of the forest for more birding. This area also offers you the chance to see chimpanzees on your way to Murchison Falls national park. In this forest, you will see rare birds like green-breasted pita, African wood, African scops, and owls. You will drive towards the top of the falls where the Nile projects its beauty. Here the Nile is transformed into the explosive foam of thunderous wide water funnels sharped through a narrow cliff in the rift valley escarpments offering the most inspiring sights of its kind in East Africa, Here you will have a chance of viewing birds like pets fishing owls, chestnut crowned, and red-winged grew warble and then connect to the lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight.
Day 6
BIRDING ALONG THE NILE (BOAT CRUISE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE FALLS
Wake up early in the morning with served breakfast prepared for early morning birding along the Nile with the boat cruise where you will have a chance to view a lot of fish-eating birds like Egyptian geese, goliath heron, pied kingfisher African Bart weavers, African skimmer and return to the lodge for lunch and then afternoon boat ride at the delta area of the sunset with possibilities of viewing the rare shoebill and other bird species seen.
Day 7
BIRDING IN THE UGANDAS SAVANNAH LAND SCAPES OF MURCHISION FALLS NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast you will be transferred to the northern game viewing circuit traversing the whistling thorn acacia where you have possibilities of encountering birds like speckle fronted weaker, proceed across the airstrip and go through the Victoria Nile track that leads down the edge of the Victoria Nile delta on the reaching the Nile, check out the edges of the papyrus for the resident shoe bile stork, blue belled bee-eater, and swamp flycatcher and then after head towards the Albert Nile to see the white billed barbet and black scimitar bill get back to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight.
Day 8
BIRDING IN UGANDA, KABONGO FOREST TRANSFER TO HOIMA
Kabongo forest spreads over 4km2 of the landscape and offers impressive bird views most especially the forest birds and walk offers you impressive views of primates including the black and white Columbus monkeys, baboon among, the river Warungo also presents impressive encounters, retire from the activity and embark on the transfer to Hoima driving along the scenic Albert rift valley escapements with magical views Accommodation: Kontiko hotel Hoima
Day 9
TRANSFER TO KIBALE FROM HOIMA
After breakfast we will depart Hoima heading towards kibale forest national park passing via Kyenjojo and fort portal town rest in the shadow of the tabled mountain of the moon and famous for having many tea plantations, from this lovely town we will continue to kibale national park while passing to the region of crate lakes. Here you will explore some small lakes before heading to kibale forest national park or primates
Day 10
BIRDING WATCHING IN KIBALE FOREST AND ADJACENT BIGODI WETLAND SANCTUARY
After breakfast continues with your birding tour in Uganda by having guided birding in the Kanyachu areas where you will look out for birds like a grey parrot, the African Goshock, the masked Apalis, the majestic crowned eagle, etc. You will have a picnic lunch in the forest and afternoon head to Bigodi swamp wetland sanctuary through Magombe swamp where you will see birds like brown-headed Tachangra, papyrus Gonolek, mosque swallow and papyrus canary settle relax, and overnight
Day 11
TRANSFER TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK AND BIRD IN THE MWEYA PENINSULA

After break transfer to Mweya and drive for 3 hours (157km2) and have lunch at the peninsula taking birding includes species like Diaderick, cuckoo, African morning dove, ruptured, red Chested sun bird, swamp fly Cather, grey-headed kingfisher pygmy kingfisher, Nubain wood peaked, blue nested mouse bird, then after transfer to Katwe sanctuary in the evening at lake munyanyange for the evening birding where you will meet seasonal flamingos.
Day 12
BIRDING IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
Wake up early morning with breakfast prepared for the whole day birding in Queen Elizabeth the habitant with the highest number of bird species like glossy And sacred ibis and common sepaclo heron, in the Kikorongo area, the Kasenyi tracking passing through the plauindsin large number of stork in seasons as well as raptures or birders. These include a martial eagle and a brown-snaked eagle. You will break for lunch. Boat cruise after lunch along the Kazinga channel and you will have a chance of meeting both residents’ birds and nonresidents’ birds along the Kazinga channel.
Day 13
TRANSFER TO BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast at exactly 06:30 am drive through the Ishasha sector towards Buhoma Bwindi national park. Ishasha sector is commonly known for the unique climbing lions which might also be spotted along the way, the sector is also rich birders' heaven and you can spot different birds.
Day 14
BIRDING IN BUHOMA SECTOR
You will wake up early in the morning like 06:30 with served breakfast and packed lunch to go birding in Buhoma sector and have a chance to meet different bird species like slender-billed sterling, white-billed robin chats, chested bee-eater, and black and white shirker, etc and then afternoon your will bird along the main track as you slope down to the lodge
Day 15
UNDER TAKE GORILLA TREKKING IN BWINDI
Have breakfast and a packed lunch to meet your guide who will drive you to the briefing point at Buhoma visitation center and meet the ranger guide who will give you tips about the gentle apes of Bwindi. It will take two-three hours to four hours to trek and be allowed only one hour to be with silver back and the gentle apes
Day 16
BIRDING IN RUHINJA
Wake up early in the morning and driver to Ruhija sector where you will be welcomed by the ranger guides who will take you for birding and have chance to see birds like African shrive flycatcher, grey throated barbet and many others.
Day 17
TRANSFER TO LAKE MBURO NATIONAL
You will wake up early morning with served breakfast and start your journey at exactly 06:30 am to Lake Mburo national park and the drive takes around 4 hours to 5 hours. You will have a lunch stopover in Mbarara at the buffalo resort hotel along the bypass way of Mbarara and then proceed to the lake for afternoon and evening birding in the park where you will species like long-tailed starling, black-billed busted, cattle egrets, and many more
Day 18
BIRDING ALONG THE WAY IN LAKE MBURO NATIONAL AND WAY TO KAMPALA
You will take the lakeside track and Kigambira loop towards Kampala and have chances of meeting birds like green caped Eremomela, austral migrant, black cuckoo, etc. then after embarking on our journey back to Kampala crossing the Ugandan equator line at kayebwe.
Day 19
BIRDING ALONG ENTEBBE BOTANICAL GARDEN AND LUTEMBE BAY WETLAND
Early in the morning like at 06:30 am after breakfast drive to the botanical garden and have a chance of exploring birds like red chested sunbird, golden based weaver, and black weaver mention but and then after lunch embark on birding at Lutembe bay wetland which consists of birds like white-winged terns, broad-billed sandpipers great Knut and many more.
Day 20
BIRDING IN MAMBAMBA
Wake up early in the morning at exactly 06:30 am and drive to the Nakiwongo landing site in Entebbe where you will cross with the ferry and then continue with the drive to the Mambaba swamp which takes around 30 minutes to the swamp. You will be able to see the rare shoe bile stork, redcap, white-winged warbler, papyrus Gonolek, etc.
Day 21
DEPARTURE DAY
You will have a relaxed breakfast and check out of the lodge depending on your departure/flight time. You will be picked up and transferred at Entebbe airport or declared border post for departure

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Cost Info

Price includes

Gorilla permit
Transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle
Accommodation as specified in the
Full board accommodation with meals (19 nights).
A Guide/Driver with excellent English-speaking skills
Transport in a standard tour van with a pop-up roof for clear views of the park animals
Fuel for the entire trip
Boat cruise at the Kazinga Channel
A game drive
Guide and ranger fees
Lunch and drinking water while traveling to and from the park
Park Entrance fees
Airport transfer
Government taxes
itinerary
Lunch
Bottled drinking water
An experienced English-speaking tour driver/guide
Park entry fees
Park ranger and guiding
Fuel

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The package excludes expenses of a personal nature like alcoholic drinks, cigars, laundry, personal insurance, Visas, air tickets, porter fees, and tips for the Guides/Rangers.

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