The Pearl of Africa

Kampala/Queen Elizabeth National Park/Murchison Falls/Entebbe

Departure: Daily
Duration: 8 Days

Uganda is referred to as "The Pearl of Africa". The landlocked country boasts shimmering lakes and lofty mountains, mysterious forests and game parks teeming with birds and increasing concentrations of all kinds of wildlife as Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of the outstanding treasures of Uganda in the western area of the Great Rift Valley. The famous Kigezi tree-climbing lion is found here. Game drives and a launch trip along the Kazinga Channel are a memorable method of discovering a vast array of Ugandan wildlife.

Then there is the Murchison Falls National Park, the largest game park in Uganda and home to the awe-inspiring Murchison Falls, where the River Nile hurls itself in appalling convulsions through a narrow crevice and then plunges 130 feet in one breathtaking leap. The park, with its variety of vegetation ranging from riparian forests and swamp lands to broad savannah, provides the opportunity of seeing some of the greatest concentrations of game in - The Pearl of Africa.
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"Gentle Giants" Gorilla Tracking

Kampala/Bwindi

Departure: Daily
Duration: 5 Days

A stay in the Kampala Sheraton Hotel follows your arrival in Uganda, situated close to the city with easy access to the city centre and renowned for its high standards of quality and service. (This relaxing day will be needed for the exertion that Gorilla tracking will extol on your bodies, for which a high standard of physical fitness is essential.)

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is reached through a long drive, and is home to over half the world's population of Mountain gorillas. Uganda’s newest national park offers dramatic scenery and is incredibly dense, criss-crossed by animal tracks that allow access to tourists. Although the tracking exercise is very strenuous, the experience of viewing the gorillas in their natural habitat will be long savoured (although a maximum of 45 minutes is permitted to view these gentle creatures). Other primates are also abundant, including blue monkeys, red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys and the great blue turacos are there for the bird watchers among you to marvel over.

Overnight stays will be spent in Buhoma homestead, which is just 300 metres from the forest edge, clean and authentically African.   Back to Top