Day-by-day itinerary

What the operator has planned, day by day, across 3 days.

1. Day 1

   Kampala To Queen Elizabeth National Park

   You have breakfast at the hotel and the guide collects you at 7:30 am, runs through the plan and starts the six-hour drive west. There are short stops at the equator for photographs and in Mbarara town at the Agip Motel for lunch. The road then carries on past open grassland, Ankole long-horned cattle, tea plantations, the Rift Valley Escarpment and patches of woodland. You reach the park in the late afternoon and take a game drive on the way to the lodge, with dinner and overnight there.

2. Day 2

   Morning Game Drive And An Afternoon Boat Safari

   A cup of coffee or tea starts the day before a game drive on several of the park tracks, the Kasenyi trail among them. Waterbucks, Uganda kobs, elephants, buffaloes, lions, warthogs and a good spread of birds are the usual sightings, after which you return for breakfast and lunch at the lodge. The afternoon is given to a two-hour boat safari along the Kazinga Channel, which links Lake George and Lake Edward. Hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, warthogs, elephants and kobs are seen from the water, with malachite kingfishers and pink backed pelicans on the banks and in the trees. Dinner and overnight follow.

3. Day 3

   Departure To Kampala

   After a full breakfast you check out of the lodge, with the option of a primate walk in the park before you go. Lunch is taken on the road, and there is a stop at the Mpambire drum centre to watch drums being made and buy souvenirs. You carry on to Kampala and are dropped at your hotel in the evening.