A 4 DAY PRIVATE SAFARI
TO KIBALE AND SEMLIKI WILDLIFE RESERVE
Day 1
Your Abacus safari guide will meet you and by road to Kibale
National Park. This drive will take approximately 5 hours
and will give you a good insight on the Ugandan way of life.
Stop in Fort portal town for lunch. Continue to Ndali Lodge/Rwenzori
View Guest house where you will stay prior to your chimpanzee
trekking tomorrow.
After checking in, you will go for a guided walk in Bigodi
Swamp to look for different bird species like the Shining
Blue Kingfisher, Blue Throated Roller and other rare species
and also find the fruiting trees, which attract Narina Trogon,
Pied Hornbill, Yellow Spotted, Hairy Breasted and Yellow-Billed
Barbets.
Overnight at Ndali Lodge/Rwenzori View Guest house/Kanyankyu
Ecological site (FB)
Day 2
After break fast, we shall move into the Forest, for Chimpanzee
trekking. The activity starts at 8.00 am in the morning. An
half day search for chimpanzees and other primates including
phoestes, Red-Colobus, Blues, Red-tailed and grey cheeked
Mangabey swinging through the dense forest and birds, butterflies
and many small insects. The guide will provide detailed explanations
on not only primates, but also on all the forest's fauna and
flora, ensuring that your walk is both informative and enjoyable.
This walk is excellent for viewing bird life and primates
in close quarters.
After this wonderful experience, we will depart for Semliki
Wildlife Reserve; this scenic drive takes approx 6-7 hours
and will take you down the eastern side of Lake Albert. Semliki
reserve is situated in the basin of the Western Rift Valley.
It is one of the most diverse habitats in Africa with wonderful
examples of Riparian forest, gallery rain forest, borassus
palm forest, and short and high grass savannas. Chimps exist
next to elephant, lion and buffalo as well as the usual western
Uganda species. Following dinner we will go on a night drive.
This is the only place in Uganda where you can do a spot lit
night drive. You never know what you may see. Often the big
cats are sighted as well as the diminutive genet and serval
cats. Unusual nocturnal dwellers also show themselves, such
as the white tailed mongoose and slender mongoose, standard
and pennant winged nightjars depending on the time of year.
There are always surprises on the night drives.
Overnight at a luxurious Semliki Safari Lodge (FB).
Day 3
After breakfast climb aboard the vehicle with a packed lunch
for a boat trip on Lake Albert to see the incredible and rare
Shoebill, visually a cross between a dodo and a dinosaur.
The lake is superb. There are sand cliffs where brightly colored
colonies of red-throated bee-eaters dart in and out of their
burrows, there are waterfalls several kilometers up the lake
which provide a great picnic spot, and several fishing villages
along the way, virtually untouched by the ‘western world’.
The drive back to the Lodge through the borassus palm forest
and the acacia savannah reveals different species of raptors
and passerines.
Overnight at a luxurious Semliki Safari Lodge (FB).
Day 3
An early morning game drive will give you a different perspective
on the park and animals in it. Return to the Lodge for a late,
but leisurely breakfast. On leaving Semliki Valley Wildlife
Reserve, you will drive through the attractive green countryside
eventually ascending the Western Rift Valley to Fort Portal.
From here we will continue on to Kampala arriving in the late
afternoon.
End of Uganda safari.
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