4 Days Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari

4 Days Uganda Gorilla & Wildlife Safari

Itinerary Overview

This four-day journey isn’t just a safari—it’s a story. One that begins on the open savannas of Queen Elizabeth National Park, where elephants roam beneath the Rwenzori Mountains and lions nap in fig trees. Then, it turns inward—into the tangled, breathing forest of Bwindi, where mountain gorillas live hidden from the world. And just when you think the wild has shown you all its cards, you arrive at Lake Bunyonyi, where silence floats between the islands and reflection comes easy.

Summary Itinerary

• Day 1: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park – Evening Game Drive
• Day 2: Morning Game Drive & Kazinga Boat Safari – Transfer to Bwindi
• Day 3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi – Afternoon Drive to Lake Bunyonyi
• Day 4: Canoe or Nature Walk – Return to Kigali or Entebbe

Day 1: Into the Savannah – Queen Elizabeth National Park

Depart Kampala and drive leaving the city and unrolls into open country. Fields of banana and tea give way to grasslands dotted with acacia. By afternoon, the heat has thickened and the Rwenzori Mountains rise like ghosts in the distance.

You arrive at Queen Elizabeth National Park—one of Uganda’s most iconic wildlife havens. After a quick check-in and refresh, your first game drive begins. As the sun softens into amber, herds of buffalo appear against the golden horizon. Warthogs trot nervously. You may catch lions stretched across fig branches or a lone elephant dusting himself in red soil.

Back at the lodge, dinner is warm and starlight brighter than you remembered.

Accommodation in Queen Elizabeth:

• Budget: Pumba Safari Cottages
• Standard: Buffalo Safari Lodge / Engiri Game Lodge
• Luxury: Elephant Plains Lodge

Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Lions, Hippos & The Journey to Bwindi

Wake early and start the day with an incredible morning drive in the Kashenyi plains. The plains come alive at dawn. You’ll head out as the predators begin their morning hunt. Look out for leopard prints in the dust and listen for the whoop of hyenas in the distance.

Later in the day, you’ll board a boat and glide down the Kazinga Channel, where hippos grunt beside bathing elephants and crocodiles lurk near the shoreline. Birdlife explodes in color here—kingfishers, fish eagles, and open-billed storks.

After lunch, the landscape changes as you head to Bwindi. Arriving early evening, you reach the edge of the forest. The gorillas are close now.

Accommodation in Bwindi:

• Budget: Rafiki Safari Lodge / Ride 4 a Woman
• Standard: Buhoma Gorilla Camp / Ichumbi Safari Lodge
• Luxury: Mahogany Springs

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Gorilla Trekking – Then Unwind at Lake Bunyonyi

This is the heart of your journey. You’ll rise early, boots laced, breath held. After a ranger briefing, you disappear into the forest, each step a drumbeat toward something unforgettable.

The trek is not as hard as you may think but not so easy too. The path winds, climbs, and vanishes. But when the trackers stop and point—a hush falls. You see them. A family of gorillas, resting, feeding, playing. One looks up. And you’re seen. Not just looked at—seen.

That hour with them passes like a dream. But it changes something.

After the trek, you’ll drive to Lake Bunyonyi. The mood softens. The air is lighter. By sunset, you’re gazing across a lake sprinkled with islands, the past few days settling inside you like stones at the bottom of the water—quiet, steady, grounding.

Accommodation at Lake Bunyonyi: (customizable per request)

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 4: Drift, Reflect & Depart

The morning is yours. You can paddle across the lake in a dugout canoe or stretch your legs along the hillsides as you depart Lake Bunyonyi. Take your final photos, you’ll begin the journey back—whether to Kigali or Entebbe. But you won’t be the same person who arrived.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

In Just Four Days, You’ve Been in the Presence of Lions, Elephants, and Giants.

You’ve tasted wild air. You’ve met eyes with a creature that shares 98% of your DNA. You’ve stood on savanna, trekked through jungle, and floated over a lake of stories.

Now the question is: when will you return?