8-Day Uganda Big Five Encounters

Tour Overview

Experience Uganda’s remarkable wildlife on this immersive eight-day safari focused on classic Big Five encounters. Journey through savannah parks, river landscapes, and lush reserves while enjoying expert guides, comfortable lodges.

Included in the Cost

  • Professional English-speaking safari guide
  • All trekking and entrance permits for all activities
  • Pick and Drop Services
  • All Activities listed in itinerary
  • Accommodation in lodges or safari camps
  • All meals as per the itinerary
  • Transportation in a comfortable 4x4 safari vehicle

Excluded in the Cost

  • International flights to and from Uganda
  • Travel insurance
  • Tips and gratuities for guides and lodge staff
  • Personal items and beverages outside the meal plan

Tour Plan

Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe

Arrive at Entebbe International Airport where your professional safari guide welcomes you and transfers you to a comfortable hotel near Lake Victoria, offering relaxation, briefing about the adventure, and rest.


Day 2: Rhino Tracking & Transfer to Murchison Falls

After breakfast travel north to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for guided walking rhino tracking, learning conservation efforts, then continue to Murchison Falls National Park, arriving evening for dinner and overnight stay.


Day 3: Murchison Falls Game Drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise

Begin early with a sunrise game drive across Murchison’s northern savannah, spotting elephants, lions, buffalo, giraffes, and antelopes, later take on an afternoon boat cruise.


Day 4: Morning Game drive and drive to the top of the falls

Get on the morning game drive in the park, where you will witness the early grazers. Among the wildlife you expect to encounter include Giraffes, big five like elephants, buffaloes, lions, and leopards as well as other wild residents. Over night at the lodge in Murchison Falls


Day 5: Scenic Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Depart Murchison Falls early, driving southwest through scenic countryside, tea plantations, and crater lakes near Fort Portal, arriving Queen Elizabeth National Park in evening, with chances to spot elephants buffalo.


Day 6: Game Drives & Kazinga Channel Boat Cruise

Spend the day exploring Queen Elizabeth National Park with morning game drives across Kasenyi plains for lions, elephants, buffalo, and antelopes, followed by an afternoon Kazinga Channel boat cruise sightings.


Day 7: Ishasha Tree-Climbing Lions & Transfer to Lake Mburo

Travel to Ishasha sector famous for tree-climbing lions, enjoying a game drive searching fig trees for resting predators, alongside elephants, buffalo, and topi, before continuing toward Lake Mburo region park.


Day 8: Lake Mburo Walking Safari & Return to Entebbe

Start with a guided walking safari in Lake Mburo National Park, encountering zebras, giraffes, eland, and buffalo on foot, then drive back to Entebbe, stopping at Equator crossing for photos.

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