4 days -
The kilimanjaro wilderness tour
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price from
$880
per adult
min person:
1
days: 4
Includes
- Transportation in a Tour Van/Landcruiser
- Service of an English-speaking tour guide/Driver
- All activities mentioned in the itinerary
- Park admissions
- Accommodation on full board
- Entrance fees to all destinations as per the program
- Transfers to and from Airport/Kampala
- Free WIFI for the entire trip
Excludes
- All activities not mentioned in the program
- Phone call bills
- Tips
- International transfers
- Visas to Uganda
- Gratitude to tour guides
- Personal insurance
- Personal effects of any nature
- Hotel fees before and after the safari
Itinerary
Day: 1
Zziwa (ziwa) rhino sanctuary and guru guru caves
Your safari adventure starts after an early breakfast at around 7 am with a 3 hour drive to ziwa rhino sanctuary. You will be guided through the only rhino ranch in uganda and you will also enjoy other wildlife such as elephants and monkeys. Following your visit, you will head to kabalega resort for lunch before hitting the road again for an additional 4 hour journey to the guru guru caves. This is a historical site where the british colonialists sought to impose their rule on the acholi people who retaliated, sparking the famous lamogi rebellion. But the historical import aside, the location is picturesque, offering a great opportunity to sight monkeys which can be seen on trees along with a variety of birds. From guru guru, you will drive for 1 hour and arrive to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay
Day: 2
Aruu falls, kitgum market and transfer to kidepo valley national park
Following your early morning breakfast at the hotel, you will embark on your journey to kidepo valley national park through the plains of paider and kitgum. Being the land of nomadic pastoralists, one can always have a glance at the large herds of cattle and small huts (manyattas) which make up these people""s homesteads. You will have stopovers at aruu falls campsite to view the breathtaking falls located 5 kms off gulu-kitgum road, and then head to kitgum market to experience the northern uganda market life. Following the stop, there will be an approximately 3 hours"" drive to kidepo. You will reach in the afternoon, which is early enough to check in and enable you have a late lunch, relax and after have a guided village walk in karenga to check out the famous manyattas (karamajong homestead settings). You will be invited here to a cultural performance before heading back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at your lodge.
Day: 3
Game drive in kidepo valley national park and transfer to kumi district
Rising to the sounds of mother nature you will have an early morning breakfast and head for a 3 hour morning game drive in africa""s true wilderness along the kanangorok hot springs which also has variety of wildlife of buffalos and giraffes and on a lucky day you may also spot lions, cheetahs and leopards as well. Thereafter, you will have a longer 4 hours"" drive to have lunch at sipi restaurant, and then a 1 and 1/2-hours"" hike on the soroti rock with a lovely view of soroti and its surrounding. This will be followed by an additional 1 hour drive. You will arrive at kumi hotel at about 6pm, then have your dinner, rest and overnight stay.
Day: 4
Nyero rock paintings, source of the nile and departure
After breakfast you will embark on an hour""s drive to nyero for the rock paintings exploration. The nyero rock is an early iron age stone site and the paintings depict animals, canoes and concentric circles. This type of rock art is part of a tradition often depicted in red pigment which matches the late stone age hunter-gatherers culture attributed to batwa pygmies. You will start your journey back to kampala via jinja town, which is a 3 hours"" drive from kumi, to experience the source of the nile where you will have a lunch break after relaxing on the nile river on a 3 hour boat cruise that gives you exceptional breathtaking views of the surrounding islands with plenty of wildlife such as lizards, african kingfish, eagles and herons. You can visit the spot which john speke claimed as the source of the nile and visit the souvenir shop selling art and crafts. You will thereafter head back to kampala, reaching in the evening. You can head back to the hotel or airport for your flight
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