How many days is the 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari?

The 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari is 11 days and 10 nights, operating year-round from Uganda.

How much does the 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari cost?

The 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari is priced on request depending on your group size, dates, and accommodation preferences. Contact Orika Africa Tours for a free tailor-made quote: hi@orikaafrica.com or +256 707 916 185.

What is included in the 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari?

The 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari in Uganda includes all accommodation, meals, park fees, private safari vehicle with an experienced guide-driver, and 24/7 support from Orika Africa Tours. Uganda's UTB-licensed Tour Operator & DMC. We welcome solo travellers, couples, families, and larger groups.

Is the 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari suitable for first-time safari visitors?

Yes. Orika Africa Tours designs every itinerary from scratch around your group's fitness, interests, and budget. The 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari is available as a private safari, no shared vehicles, no fixed groups, ever.

What is the best time to go on the 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari in Uganda?

The 11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari in Uganda runs year-round. The dry seasons (June to August and December to February) offer the best conditions for game drives and trekking. Contact Orika Africa Tours for month-by-month advice.

11 Days Classic Uganda Wildlife Safari

11 days is the classic Uganda safari, a loop from Entebbe that gathers the country's defining experiences into one unhurried journey. It opens with a traditional welcome at Kampala's Ndere Cultural Centre, then heads north to Murchison Falls for on-foot rhino tracking at Ziwa, a sunrise game drive across the northern plains and a private cruise to the foot of the falls. From there it turns through the forests and savannahs of the west: chimpanzee tracking in Kibale, Big Five game drives and a Kazinga Channel cruise in Queen Elizabeth, the tree-climbing lions of Ishasha, and the journey's centrepiece, an unhurried hour with a mountain gorilla family in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

The closing days slow the pace, with Ankole farm culture and a walking safari at Lake Mburo and a final morning on the Mabamba wetlands, paddling a local canoe in search of the prehistoric shoebill stork. For the timing that suits you best, see our guide to gorilla trekking, and for the parks in more depth, browse the Uganda destination guide.

Want gorillas front and centre? The 12 Days Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari keeps the focus on Bwindi and the primates, while the 16 Days Uganda to Rwanda Gorilla Safari carries a similar route across the border to the Virunga volcanoes.

Trip Highlights

Mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest
On-foot white rhino tracking at Ziwa
Murchison Falls game drive and a private cruise to the foot of the falls
Queen Elizabeth game drives and the Kazinga Channel cruise
Tree-climbing lions of the Ishasha sector
Ndere cultural evening, Batwa and Ankole experiences
Walking safari in Lake Mburo and shoebill tracking at Mabamba

Day-by-Day Itinerary

On arrival at Entebbe International Airport you are met by our concierge team, assisted through immigration and introduced to your private driver-guide before the short transfer to Kampala. The evening begins your safari in style at the Ndere Cultural Centre, where music, dance and storytelling from across Uganda unfold over a spread of authentic local cuisine, a warm introduction to the spirit of the country.

After an early breakfast you head north to Murchison Falls, Uganda's largest national park, breaking the drive at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a guided walking safari to track the country's only wild rhinos on foot. Continuing into the park, you pause at the Top of the Falls, where the entire Nile is forced through a narrow gorge in a display of raw power, before an evening game drive as the wildlife stirs and the light turns golden.

A sunrise game drive across the northern plains brings encounters with lion, elephant, buffalo, Rothschild's giraffe and herds of antelope, followed by a scenic bush breakfast at the hippo pool with the Blue Mountains of the DRC on the horizon. In the afternoon a private launch carries you upstream to the foot of the falls, passing hippo, basking crocodiles and a procession of waterbirds, before a relaxed evening back at the lodge above the Nile.

After breakfast you visit the nearby Mubaku community to see local development and conservation projects at work, then set out on the scenic drive south to Fort Portal through rolling hills and banana plantations. Arriving near Kibale, you take a guided walk through the community-run Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, rich in birds and monkeys, and a cultural stroll through Bigodi village for a glimpse of everyday rural life.

You set off into Kibale Forest, the primate capital of East Africa, to track a habituated chimpanzee community, watching them feed, groom and move through the canopy with expert guides. After lunch you drive south to Queen Elizabeth National Park beneath the snow-capped Rwenzori, the fabled Mountains of the Moon, arriving in time for an evening game drive in the cooling light.

An early morning game drive across the Kasenyi plains seeks out lion, elephant and the park's vast kob herds in the fresh light of dawn. In the afternoon you board a boat on the Kazinga Channel, a natural waterway linking Lakes Edward and George that gathers extraordinary numbers of hippo, buffalo and birdlife along its shores.

Travelling south, you game-drive through the remote Ishasha sector in search of its famous tree-climbing lions, often found draped along the boughs of fig trees above the plains. The landscape then rises into the mist-cloaked highlands of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site sheltering a significant share of the world's mountain gorillas, where you settle into your lodge on the forest edge.

Today is the heart of the journey. After a briefing at the park headquarters you follow expert trackers into the dense forest in search of a habituated gorilla family, spending a treasured hour in their presence as a silverback holds court and juveniles tumble nearby. In the afternoon you visit a Batwa community to learn about the traditions of these forest hunter-gatherers, the original people of Bwindi.

After breakfast you drive through the terraced Kigezi Highlands to Lake Mburo, a compact and uncrowded park set among the lands of the cattle-keeping Ankole. At your farm lodge the afternoon is given to cultural activities, with the option of an evening game drive among zebra, impala and eland, and the day closes Ugandan style with traditional performances and storytelling around the fire.

A guided walking safari or cycling tour at Lake Mburo lets you experience the bush on foot, reading tracks and approaching plains game quietly alongside a ranger. Afterwards you begin the drive back towards Entebbe, pausing at the Equator for photographs and local crafts, with the rest of the day at leisure beside Lake Victoria.

An early start brings you to the Mabamba wetlands, where you glide out by local canoe in search of the prehistoric shoebill stork and the many aquatic birds of the papyrus channels. Depending on your flight, a final locally inspired meal in town rounds off the journey before your transfer to Entebbe International Airport, with a late-evening departure recommended.