Day 1: Kampala – Drive to Lake Bunyonyi

Day 2: Explore Lake Bunyonyi (Community Tour and Boat Ride)

Day 3: Lake Bunyonyi – Drive to Kampala

Day 1: Kampala – Drive to Lake Bunyonyi

After breakfast at your hotel in Kampala, our safari driver guide will meet you for the start of your safari to Lake Bunyonyi via Mbarara to Kabale South Western Uganda. This will be an interesting 6-hour drive through three different types of vegetation.

The first two hours will take you through typical tropical countryside with large swamps, Mpanga Forest, and the Equator where you can make a brief stop-over and stride the northern and southern hemisphere! Thereafter, you will drive through the flat savannah country where you are likely to observe the famous long-horned Ankole cows.

We shall make a lunch stop at Mbarara before continuing through the impressive hilly country of Kabale, popularly known as “the Switzerland of Uganda”, and arrive at Lake Bunyonyi, one of the deepest lakes in the world, late afternoon.  

You can spend the afternoon on the lake in a dugout canoe, or bird watching and relaxing in the evening by the lakeside. In the evening Kasiime Back Packers, at your request, can entertain you with traditional dancers as you warm up over a camp fire. A good restaurant and bar, hot showers in self-contained tents.

Overnight at Kasiime Back Packers or Bunyonyi Safari Resort or Bunyonyi Overland Resort

Day 2: Explore Lake Bunyonyi (Community Tour and Boat Ride)

After breakfast, visit the distinctive Batwa and Abaheesi (black smiths) societies or to the Bukora Cave. Have lunch at the resort and enjoy the afternoon on a boat ride, canoeing or go for a cycling tour around the area.

You also have the option of visiting the Orugano rain Forest which has diverse plants and animals or spend some time interacting with the Batwa (pygmies) community who inhabit parts of the forest and its surrounding areas. Birders will treat themselves with well over 300 bird species recorded. Like Otters, pied kingfishers, swallows among others.

Alternative a full-day canoe trek on Bunyonyi will introduce you to the major islands and their rich history, but also to a traditional healer and a craft maker who live on a peninsula with most complete views of the 25-kilometres long lake. There will be some little energetic hiking but also great time spent in traditional dugout canoes.

Overnight at Kasiime Back Packers or Bunyonyi Safari Resort or Bunyonyi Overland Resort

Day 3: Lake Bunyonyi – Drive to Kampala

After breakfast, start your trek to Kampala stopping in Masaka for lunch. Then proceed with your journey to Kampala arriving late afternoon.

INCLUDES

• Gorilla permit
• Accommodation
• All meals
• Chimpanzee permit
• Transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle
• Guides & Park fees

EXCLUDES

• International flight ticket
• Tourist Insurance
• Beverages