AKIIKI'S 10 DAYS UGANDA BIRDING SAFARI
AKIIKI'S 10 DAYS UGANDA BIRDING SAFARI
- Uganda
At Only $3900 per a Couple
Duration
10 Days
TourType
Daily Tour
Beginning From
1 person
Languages
English
- Overview
This 10 days trip is one of the most interesting for our kin birding clients as most of the locations are
Ecological hot-spots and relatively within the Albertine Rift valley which is not only uganda but Africa’s
richest zone for most endemic birds and other animals.
- 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
10 Days 9 Night
.On arrival, you will be received by our
representative, your driver/ guide who will give you a briefing about your birding safari and then go
birding at mabamba swamp ( depending on the time of your arrival ). The birds to look out for are the
shoebill, Great white and Pink backed pelicans, Grey Crowned Crane, Grey parrots, African and Lesser
Jacana, baglafecht, black headed and Northern masked weaver. We also expect to see African fish Eagle,
swamp flycatcher, African pigmy goose, yellow billed dark, yellow throated Green bull, Great Blue and
Ross's Turraco. We later check in to the services of Airport link Guesthouse.
After breakfast, we drive towards Ziwa Rhino
sanctuary, passing through Luwero with chances of seeing hooded vulture, Black kite, Marabou stork,
White crested helmet shrike, Northern puffback, piapiac and blue eared starling. Also expect the
crowned Hornbill, Meyer's parrot, Abyssinian Roller and Diederic cuckoo. Do Rhino tracking expedition
in Ziwa, later lunch break and in the evening check into the services of Masindi kolping hotel for dinner
and overnight
We will have an early morning breakfast and with our
packed lunch, drive to one of Uganda's birding hot spots. This is historically known to have been a
leisure hunting spot for the traditional king of Bunyoro hence deriving its name. It's a very rewarding
birding area of as we will be birding along the sides of the main trail, inside this tropical rain forest. Here
we expect to encounter specialities that include; yellow crested and brown eared wood pecker, puvel's
illadopsis, African pigmy and chocolate backed kingfisher, Forest Robin, Yellow footed and forest
flycatcher. Also the Yellow-browed camaroptera, Green crombec, Jameson's and Chestnut wattle eye,
Black headed Oriole, Black and White casqued Hornbill among others. We later go back to the hotel for
dinner and overnight.
After the morning breakfast with our packed
lunch, we will check out and start birding towards Murchison falls National Park. This is uganda's largest
conservation area covering 3894 km sq. protecting about 78 mammal species and 450 bird species
within its wide variety of habitats like wetlands, Savannah, woodland, Marsh, acquatic and forest
habitats. Here, we are likely to encounter the ; Bat hawk, little Sparrow hawk, Bruce's green pigeon,
Heuglin's Francolin, Black bellied and Denham's Bustard, white crested Turraco, Blue spotted wood
dove, swallow tailed, Red-throated, and Madagascar bee-eaters, brown crested alethe, rock pranticole,
Marsh Tchagra and many others. We later check in to the services of Red Chilli Hide Away for dinner and
overnight.
After an early breakfast, we start our birding
activity towards the Delta area. Here the big game includes; elephants, buffaloes, kobs, waterbucks,
giraffes, warthogs, Jackson's Hartbeast, Oribis, Patas monkeys, Lions, Leopards among others.We also
expect to encounter bird specialities that include; Denham's Bustard, Abyssinian Ground hornbill,
Sparrow weavers, Black headed lapwing, Foxy cisticola, Black lored and Arrow marked Barbler, Northern
Camine, swallow tailed and Red-throated bee-eaters, Red necked falcon, Martial eagle, Fulvous whisting
duck and many more.We have lunch and go for afternoon boat cruise on the Nile towards the bottom of
the falls. This provides us with yet another but different wildlife viewing from a close range as they come
to cool off on the showers of this mighty river. The cruise takes 3 hours, then come back to the lodge for
dinner and overnight.
After an early breakfast with our packed lunch, we will
transfer to kibale. This drive takes us through Bulisa escarpment along the Albertine rift valley with good
views of lake Albert. It also takes us through hoima, rolling hills of kagadi and beautiful tea plantations of
fort portal. Today we have some bit of driving with less birding along the way. But we might encounter
some species like Rufous Sparrow, foxy cisticola, papyrus gonolek, White winged warbler, Black billed
barbet among others. We arrive at Kibale national Park in early evening and check in to the service of
Turacco tree tops lodge for dinner and overnight.
The day begins early with breakfast to kibale Forest that has
about 335 recorded species. This park is also home to a community of more than 1000 chimpanzees and
about 12 other primates. So, here we include for specialities that include the Green Breasted Pitta, olive
and Afep pigeon, Black bee-eater, yellow rumped tinkerbird plus the African crowned eagle, Fairy
breasted, yellow spotted and yellow billed barbet, Honey guide Greenbull, purple headed and Chestnut
winged starling, Dusky long tailed cuckoo, Red headed Blue bill, Scaly illadopsis, among others. We go
back to the camp, have lunch and later in the afternoon, go for a nature walk/ birding in the Bigodi
Wetland. Here we may have chances for the Buff-spotted and Brown-eared wood pecker, shining blue
kingfisher, papyrus gonolek, Great Blue Turraco, white tailed ant thrush, Green backed twinspot and
white spotted flufftail. We later go back to the lodge for dinner and overnight. Optional chimpanzee
tracking
After breakfast with our packed lunch, we start
birding towards Semuliki National Park which also lays in the Albertine rift valley and it's an Eastern
extension of the great Ituri forest from Eastern Congo. Today we expect to see the Western Bronzenapped pigeon, spot breasted ibis, Northern bearded scrub Robin, orange cheeked waxbill, Grant's
Bluebill, Black bellied seedcracker, white thighed and piping hornbill, shining blue and chocolate backed
kingfisher and yellow throated cuckoo. Check in to service of Bumaga camp for dinner and overnight.
This is basic accomodation
After an early breakfast, with our packed
lunch. We start a whole day birding activity along the kirumya trail. Today we expect to see African
piculet, fire crested alethe, lyre-tailed, spotted and zenker's honeyguide, yellow throated cuckoo, yellow
throated nicator, capuchin Barbler, swamp palm Bulbul,simple Greenbull, Red billed helmet shrike, Pale
fronted negrofinch, Red tailed Bristlebill, Ituri Batis, white throated blue swallow, red thighed Sparrow
hawk among others. We go back to the camp for evening and overnight.
After breakfast, we embark on the road passing through mubende and mityana towns. We arrive at
Entebbe in late afternoon and drive straight to the airport for your flight back home (Depending on the
time of your flight).
- Tours Location
- Uganda
- Tours Location
- Uganda
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