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Offered by - Orogu Tours and Travel (U) Limited
Tour Features
Experience Ugandans in their everyday errands and ice it up with plenty of wildlife and scenic landscapes. You will have rich culture engagements where you will have opportunities of cooking the tribal delicacies, participate in tribal dances, and purchase or make crafts. These experiences will have, several waters falls, Hot springs boat cruises, and game drives that will bring you close to Rhinos, Lions, Hippos, Buffaloes, Elephants and several bird species thrown in to spice up your Amazing wildlife and cultural tour.
| Mid-Range tour | This mid-range tour includes comfortable lodges and tented camps. |
| Can be customized | You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour. |
| Shared tour | This tour will be shared with other travelers. |
| Solo travel available | Solo travelers can book this tour. |
| Can start any day | If availability permits, this tour can start on any day. |
| No minimum age | There is no minimum age for this tour. |
| Transportation | This tour uses: Pop-up roof 4x4, Roof minivan, Walking, Boat. |
Route & Activities
Uganda
Activities Included
Accommodation & Meals
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
| Day | Accommodation | Meals |
| 1 | Viavia Guest house No images available | Breakfast Included |
| 2 | River Camp No images available | All Meals Included |
| 3 | River Camp No images available | All Meals Included |
| 4 | Sipi Falls Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 5 | Sipi falls lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 6 | Karatunga Karamoja Safari Camp No images available | All Meals Included |
| 7-8 | Adere Safari Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 9 | Pakuba Safari Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 10 | Pakuba Safari Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 11 | Amuka Safari Lodge No images available | All Meals Included |
| 12 | Mid-Range Accommodation No images available | All Meals Included |
Arrival (See Getting There for more details)
- A transfer from the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
- Day 1 - ArrivalMeet and greet with our tourist guide at Entebbe international airport who will help you through the seamless travel formalities and after transfer you to your hotel for an overnight stay.
Main Destination: Entebbe
Accommodation: Viavia Guest house
Meals & Drinks: Breakfast Included
- Day 2 - Entebbe - Mabamba Swamp – JinjaDepart Viavia guest house and head over to Mabamba Swamp in the morning to search for the prehistoric Shoebill Stork. After a wonderful excursion at mabamba you will have lunch and then head to Jinja. The adventure capital of Uganda. Arriving in the evening in time for dinner and relaxation.
Accommodation: River Camp
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 3 - Quad Biking or Raftingtogether with your guide, you will stop at various viewpoints and points of interest. For the more adventurous we have a trail ride down the steep banks to the water's edge below the Bujagali Dam. Along the routes that we choose to give you the best possible safari, there are great photo opportunities. You have the opportunity for brief stops in some of the small villages and trading centers for a chance to meet the people living in the area. For Adrenaline lovers, after breakfast you will go for white water rafting this is our most popular adventure activity in Jinja and for good reason. With eight major rapids, including two grade 5 rapids, this is easily one of the most fun stretches of river that you’ll ever raft. Why? Because of its profile and its high volume, The Nile is a safe river to raft on and this means our guides can accommodate everyone's wishes, from those wanting to go as hard as possible, to those wanting to avoid swimming. Have a barbeque at the Nile before returning to your lodge.
Accommodation: River Camp
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 4 - Jinja - Sipi FallsArise early in the morning for a sumptuous breakfast before heading northeast to sipi falls. Make a stopover in Mbale for hot lunch before proceeding to the foothills of Mount Elgon with a spectacular landscape with impossibly green Micro scale coffee plantation and banana grooves. Arriving late in the evening. Dinner and overnight at the lodge
Accommodation: Sipi Falls Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 5 - Hiking, Nature walk, coffee tour.The hike to the Falls starts from behind Sipi River Lodge. You’ll pass through a clearing and cross a small stream before you get an early sighting of the falls. But don’t stop there — instead, follow the path after the footbridge to climb up to the falls. The path starts tame, then gets steeper with a set of stairs, then turns into a sloppy, muddy, slippery mess as you finish the climb to the top of the waterfall. Wear good hiking boots and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you come to the cave behind the waterfall. The reward is a gorgeous view of the Mount Elgon Region. Continue up the trail to reach the Upper Falls. It flattens out considerably and becomes less treacherous. You’ll reach the waterfall after 15-20 minutes. This waterfall is the least impressive of the three — it’s less of a cascade, more like a river tumbling down over some rocks. It’s still a very pretty spot and you can wade into the water to cool off.
Accommodation: Sipi falls lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 6 - Sipi Falls - MorotoDepart Sipi for Moroto after breakfast this journey will take you through a very remote area with a scenic reserve of Pian Upe via Nakapripirit and later arrive in Moroto. Check in and relax after a long and bumpy ride (African massage).
Accommodation: Karatunga Karamoja Safari Camp
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 7 - Moroto – Kidepo Valley National ParkAfter breakfast we start the drive to Kidepo Valley National Park in a landscape of vast plains and semi-arid savannah framed by jagged mountains and wooded hills, Kidepo is one of the wildest and most spectacular reserves in Africa. The landscape throughout the park is studded with small hills, rocky outcrops and inselbergs from which one can obtain stunning views in all directions enjoy panoramic views of the Narus River Valley and photographic opportunities of wildlife from all corners. An evening game drive along the Narus River Valley for game viewing and photography of elephants, herds of buffaloes, jackals, Jackson’s Hartebeest, klipspringer and possibly Lions.
Main Destination: Kidepo Valley National Park
Accommodation: Adere Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 8 - Kidepo Valley National ParkRise and shine to an early morning breakfast thereafter go for a morning game drive to Kanangorok hot spring The Beauty of Kidepo valley National Park goes beyond big game. The spectacular Kanangorok hot spring is one of the natural features that you may anot afford to miss. The word “Kanangorok” means “ Aplace with black stones” in the local Karamojong dialect. It’s the only hot spring in the Karamoja Region. While Kanangrok hot spring was naturally formed, it is surrounded by traditional/ cultural stories attributed to spirits of ancestors being annoyed. To pacify the angry spirits and seek for pardon they offered sacrifices to the local community living around kidepo valley national park there for to them the existence of the hot spring was a way of ritualism. In the afternoon have a cultural experience that will bring into contact with Karamjong peoples at Karenna and Kapedo. Meet the local elders and have an opportunity to interact with them and participate in some activities. They will show you the kraals, the grinding stones They will show you their customs and cultures, their ways of life as nomads and their beliefs about cattle, dressing, jewelry, hunting materials and many more interesting items and stories.
Main Destination: Kidepo Valley National Park
Accommodation: Adere Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 9 - Murchison Falls National ParkDepart Kidepo for Murchison Falls National Park via Gulu with a lunch stop over, Uganda’s biggest town in the North. Continue through the flat scenic landscape with local villages and enjoy the Ugandan countryside. Arrive in the lodge in the evening for an overnight stay.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 10 - Game Drive and Boat CruiseArise very early in the morning at have breakfast at depart a around 5:30am for your game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Expect to see elephants, lions, cape buffalos, Roth child’s giraffes, hartebeests, waterbucks, oribis, bushbucks, kobs, hyenas etc and if you are lucky, the leopard. Return to the lodge at 12:00pm for lunch. After lunch, go for a boat cruise that starts at 2:00pm upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just few of meters from the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’, marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath herons, Egyptian geese, pelican bee-eaters, kingfishers, hornbills, cormorants and the rare shoebill storks. Later, return to your lodge and relax in the evening. Dinner and overnight.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 11 - Murchison / Ziwa Rhino SanctuaryAfter a sumptuous breakfast we have our last game drive out of the park towards the top of the falls and hopefully we expect to see some last sights of what this rich animal kingdom has to offer. We will visit to the top of the falls. While at the top, you will have a fantastic sight of the Nile River. Here the Nile, the longest river in the world, is forced through a narrow gap in the rock (only 7 meters wide), before ferociously plunging down into a frothing pool 43m below. After a memorable picture moment. You will depart the park and proceed to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you will have an opportunity to track the Rhinos on foot. This sanctuary was established to breed and restore Rhino populations in Uganda's protected areas in a later stage.
Accommodation: Amuka Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
- Day 12 - Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary / Entebbe.Arise early in the morning have breakfast and start you r day with the Rhino tracking experience. Enter the territory of the southern white rhinos on foot. Well-trained rangers will guide you through the bush to where the rhinos are on the day of your visit. You will have the opportunity to watch these endangered, magnificent creatures in their natural habitat. As these rhinos are free to move around on 7 000 hectares of land, it is often necessary to drive to the areas where the rhinos are, before taking the bush trek. This activity will take you about one and a half to two and a half hours depending on where the Rhinos were last seen. Depart for Entebbe in the afternoon and the driver guide will drop you at your place of abode or at the airport for your next flight.
Main Destination: Entebbe
Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included
End of tour (See Getting There for more details)
- Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
- A transfer back to the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
Excludes
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Rates Per Person
Jan 1, 1970 - Jan 1, 1970
*n/a = not available. This tour is unavailable for solo travelers.
Includes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)
- All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
Excludes
- International flights (from/to the client's home country)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips: tipping guideline of $6 per person per day for the guide and crew
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Entebbe and ends in Entebbe, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Getting There
From outside East Africa, Uganda can be easily accessed either by road or Air and mostly by Air to Entebbe International Airport (EBB). Water transport can also be used to travel in and around our destinations especially the ferry crossing from the Southern part of Murchison Falls National Park to the Northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. Flights to Uganda are cheapest during the rainy seasons from March to May and October to November. The best wildlife viewing months are June to September and December to February, when flights are likely to be more expensive.
This tour starts in Entebbe and ends in Entebbe, Uganda
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Travel Requirements
- All foreign visitors need a passport that is valid for at least six months
- Passports must have a clean and a full visa page for endorsement.
- When arriving from a yellow-fever-infected country in Africa or the Americas a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required.
- Citizens of most countries require a visa. A list of countries that don't need a visa is available.
- Visas are best obtained in advance through an official online visa-application portal (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/), but they can also be obtained through your local Tanzania Embassy or High Commission.
- Visas can also be obtained on arrival but this is a lengthy process that can take one to two hours.
- Tourist visas are available for Uganda only, or East Africa (which covers entry to Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda) for the same cost.
Offered By
Orogu Tours and Travel (U) Limited
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
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