Day 1: Entebbe. Meet and greet with our tourist guide at Entebbe international airport who will help you through the seamless travel formalities and after transfer you to your hotel for an overnight stay.
Day 2: Entebbe – Mabamba Swamp – Jinja. Depart Papyrus guest house and head over to Mabamba Swamp in the morning to search for the prehistoric Shoebill Stork. After a wonderful excursion at mabamba you will have lunch and then head to Jinja. The adventure capital of Uganda. Arriving in the evening in time for dinner and relaxation.
Day 3: Jinja. Breakfast, depart the lodge and head for quad biking. Start times every day between 8.15am and 4.45pm. We tailor our safaris to suit each group. Easy trails make up the start of the trip and then there are options of more challenging and technical sections if suitable or your focus is more on sightseeing and cultural aspects. Follow the Nile downstream from Bujagali Falls and then away from the riverbanks, through farmland, forest, and small villages in rural Uganda.Together with your guide, you will stop at various viewpoints and points of interest. For the more adventurous we have a trail ride down the steep banks to the waters
edge below the Bujagali Dam. Along the routes that we choose to give you the best possible safari, there are great photo opportunities. You have the opportunity for brief stops in some of the small villages and trading centers for a chance to meet the people living in the area. Your guide(s) carry bottled water and money to buy cold drinks at one of the Trading Centers that you will ride through. Return to the hotel for lunch. After you have relaxed and digested head to out
for a boat cruise on Lake Victoria to the starting point of the longest River in the World and
internationally unique attraction.
Return to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.
Optional Activity full day rafting.
For Adrenaline lovers, after breakfast you will go for white water rafting this is our most
popular adventure activity in Jinja and for good reason. With eight major rapids, including
two grade 5 rapids, this is easily one of the most fun stretches of river that you’ll ever raft.
Why? Because of its profile and its high volume, The Nile is a safe river to raft on and this
means our guides can accommodate everyone’s wishes, from those wanting to go as hard as
possible, to those wanting to avoid swimming. Have a barbeque at the Nile before returning
to your lodge.
Day 4. Jinja – Sipi falls. Arise early in the morning for a sumptuous breakfast before heading northeast to sipi falls. Make a stopover in Mbale for hot lunch before proceeding to the foothills of Mount Elgon with a spectacular landscape with impossibly green Micro scale coffee plantation and banana grooves. Arriving late in the evening. Dinner and overnight at the lodge
Day 5 : Hiking, Nature walk, coffee tour.
After an early morning breakfast, your guide will brief you before starting the hike The
famous waterfall in Sipi Falls is actually three different falls — Upper, Middle and Lower.
The hike to the Falls starts from behind Sipi River Lodge. You’ll pass through a clearing and
cross a small stream before you get an early sighting of the falls. But don’t stop there —
instead, follow the path after the footbridge to climb up to the falls. The path starts tame,
then gets steeper with a set of stairs, then turns into a sloppy, muddy, slippery mess as you
finish the climb to the top of the waterfall. Wear good hiking boots and clothes you don’t
mind getting dirty.
You’ll know you’ve arrived when you come to the cave behind the waterfall. The reward is a
gorgeous view of the Mount Elgon Region. Continue up the trail to reach the Upper Falls. It
flattens out considerably and becomes less treacherous. You’ll reach the waterfall after 15-
20 minutes. This waterfall is the least impressive of the three — it’s less of a cascade, more
like a river tumbling down over some rocks. It’s still a very pretty spot and you can wade
into the water to cool off.
Day 6: Sipi Falls – Moroto
Depart Sipi for Moroto after breakfast this journey will take you through a very remote area
with a scenic reserve of Pian Upe via Nakapripirit and later arrive in Moroto. Check in and
relax after a long and bumpy ride (African massage).
Day 7: Moroto – Kidepo Valley National Park
After breakfast we start the drive to Kidepo Valley National Park in a landscape of vast plains
and semi-arid savannah framed by jagged mountains and wooded hills, Kidepo is one of the
wildest and most spectacular reserves in Africa. The landscape throughout the park is
studded with small hills, rocky outcrops and inselbergs from which one can obtain stunning
views in all directions enjoy panoramic views of the Narus River Valley and photographic
opportunities of wildlife from all corners. An evening game drive along the Narus River
Valley for game viewing and photography of elephants, herds of buffaloes, jackals, Jackson’s
Hartebeest, klipspringer and possibly lions. Overnight and dinner at the lodge.
Day 8 : Kidepo Valley National Park. Rise and shine to an early morning breakfast thereafter go for a morning game drive to Kanangorok hot spring The Beauty of Kidepo valley National Park goes beyond big game.
The spectacular Kanangorok hot spring is one of the natural features that you may anot
afford to miss.
The word “Kanangorok” means “ Aplace with black stones” in the local Karamojong dialect.
It’s the only hot spring in the Karamoja Region. While Kanangrok hot spring was naturally
formed, it is surrounded by traditional/ cultural stories attributed to spirits of ancestors
being annoyed. To pacify the angry spirits and seek for pardon they offered sacrifices to the
local community living around kidepo valley national park there for to them the existence of
the hot spring was a way of ritualism.
In the afternoon have a cultural experience that will bring into contact with Karamjong
peoples at Karenna and Kapedo. Meet the local elders and have an opportunity to interact
with them and participate in some activities. They will show you the kraals, the grinding
stones They will show you their customs and cultures, their ways of life as nomads and their
beliefs about cattle, dressing, jewelry, hunting materials and many more interesting items
and stories.
Day 9: Murchison Falls National Park
Depart Kidepo for Murchison Falls National Park via Gulu with a lunch stop over, Uganda’s
biggest town in the North. Continue through the flat scenic landscape with local villages and
enjoy the Ugandan countryside. Arrive in the lodge in the evening for an overnight stay.
Dinner and overnight at.
Day 10: Game Drive and Boat Cruise.
Arise very early in the morning at have breakfast at depart a around 5:30am for your game
drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an
excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Expect to see elephants,
lions, cape buffalos, Roth child’s giraffes, hartebeests, waterbucks, oribis, bushbucks, kobs,
hyenas etc and if you are lucky, the leopard. Return to the lodge at 12:00pm for lunch.
After lunch, go for a boat cruise that starts at 2:00pm upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the
base of the falls stopping just few of meters from the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’, marvel at the
schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephant, waterbuck
and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath herons, Egyptian
geese, pelican bee-eaters, kingfishers, hornbills, cormorants and the rare shoebill storks.
Later, return to your lodge and relax in the evening. Dinner and overnight.
Day 11: Murchison / Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. After a sumptuous breakfast we have our last game drive out of the park towards the top of the falls and hopefully we expect to see some last sights of what this rich animal kingdom has to offer. We will visit to the top of the falls. While at the top, you will have a fantastic sight of the Nile River. Here the Nile, the longest river in the world, is forced through a narrow gap in the rock (only 7 meters wide), before ferociously plunging down into a frothing pool 43m below. After a memorable picture moment. You will depart the park and proceed to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will have an opportunity to track the Rhinos on foot. This sanctuary was established to breed and restore Rhino populations in Uganda’s protected areas in a later stage.
Day 12: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary / Entebbe.
Arise early in the morning have breakfast and start you r day with the Rhino tracking
experience. Enter the territory of the southern white rhinos on foot. Well-trained rangers
will guide you through the bush to where the rhinos are on the day of your visit. You will
have the opportunity to watch these endangered, magnificent creatures in their natural
habitat. As these rhinos are free to move around on 7 000 hectares of land, it is often
necessary to drive to the areas where the rhinos are, before taking the bush trek. This
activity will take you about one and a half to two and a half hours depending on where the
Rhinos were last seen. Depart for Entebbe in the afternoon and the driver guide will drop
you at your place of abode or at the airport for your next flight.