5 DAYS UGANDA BIRDING SAFARI
5 DAYS UGANDA BIRDING SAFARI
- Uganda
At Only $1925 per Adult
Duration
5 Days
TourType
Daily Tour
Beginning From
1 person
Languages
English
- Overview
This 5 days trip takes you birding through Entebbe, Mabamba Wetlands and lake Mburo national Park. The trip starts with birding in entebbe’s UWEC, the botanical gardens and along the Lake Victoria shores. The next day visit mabamba wetlands, the best place to see rare shoebill storks in Uganda which is also an important birding area with a good population of other birds. The trip ends with a 3 days birding in lake Mburo national Park, home to 313 bird species. Bird through wetlands, lake, Savannah, rolling hills, acacia trees
- Included & Excluded
- Fees for the English professional safari driver guide
- 4×4 safari van/ 4×4 Safari land cruiser with functional A/C
- Park entry fees/ Gorilla and Chimpanzee trekking permit fees
- Fees for suggested enroute lunches where applicable.
- Full board accommodation at mentioned properties
- Boat cruise fees where applicable
- International and domestic flight fees
- Porters for the trail and habituations
- Visa fees
- Laundry services
- Items of personal nature
- Gratuities and tips
- List Item
- Itinerary
5 Days 4 Night
Take breakfast then go birding to the Uganda Wildlife Education Center formerly known as the Zoo. This has attracted over 170 bird species. These include 10 species of weavers such as Northern masked, baglafecht, Grosbeak, Golden backed, Black necked and many others. 5 species of flycatchers, Red bellied, crested shrike flycatcher, swamp flycatcher, lead colored and many others. Also encounter raptors such as shikra, African hobby, Gobar Goshawk, African fish eagle and many more. Have lunch, relax and evening birding in the botanical gardens.
Return for dinner and overnight
Have an early breakfast and drive to mabamba wetlands the place with the biggest population of shoebills recorded on a single day. Most of the birding is done canoeing. Other species to be seen may include Squacco heron, long toed plover, purple heron, African water rail, pigmy goose, Goliath heron, yellow billed dark, white faced whisting duck, swamp moorhen, black crake, African Jacana among others. Later return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Take breakfast and transfer to lake Mburo national Park. The park is situated in the western part of the country. Briefly stop at the equator for illustrations and photography. Proceed to lake Mburo, birding to the entrance of nshara gate. We expect to see the following; Bare faced go away bird, Crested Francolin, Spotted wood dove, Green wood hoopoe, African grey hornbill, Greater Blue eared starling, Northern black tie. Lilac breasted Roller, brown parrot and many more. Have lunch and and embark on a late afternoon game drive which may expose you to black bellied Bustard, Temnick's courser, African wattled lapwing and flappet Lark. Also look out for mammals like zebras, giraffes, warthogs, Impalas and buffaloes.
Have an early breakfast, embark on a nature walk encountering several bird species of Wetland and Savannah. Return for lunch and later take an afternoon boat cruise to see pied kingfisher, African fin-foot, papyrus gonolek, Lesser and Greater swamp warbler.
Return for dinner and overnight.
We move on an early morning game drive to get exposed to acquatic habitats around the lake. Species we expect to see include; White winged warbler, African water rail, African darter, spur winged lapwings, blue headed coucal and a lot more. Return for breakfast and embark on the road to Kampala. Stop for lunch at the equator and later proceed to Entebbe for your flight back home.
- Tours Location
- Uganda
- Tours Location
- Uganda
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