10-Day Honeymoon Special Vacation in Uganda

Upon arrival, you will be welcomed and transferred to your guest house at papyrus where you will relax, have a refreshment and then prepare for an evening guided nature walk in botanical gardens. Then, at 5:30 pm, proceed to the dock for a sunset boat trip on Lake Victoria with a stop at the Equator line. Get back to the lodge for dinner and over night.

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Papyrus guest house.

Start your honeymoon special vacation with an early morning breakfast before traveling by road to Eastern Uganda via Mabira Forest. Stop there for a nature stroll in the forest before continuing to Jinja Town for your adventure picnic lunch. After lunch, head for a boat ride to the source of the Nile as it bursts out of Lake Victoria on its journey to the Mediterranean Sea. You will then visit the Ghandi Statue and hear about the history of this renowned, hardworking town. Following the boat ride, you will meet your guide and proceed to the lodge for your overnight.

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Wild waters lodge.

Enjoy your early morning breakfast and meet your other fellow rafters. You will have a briefing before receiving your life jackets and helmets, and you will then leave for the rafting’s starting site. As you raft down the rumbling Nile, experience grade 5 White Water Rafting, provided by the rafting business. Enjoy your lunch and get back to the lodge for a relaxation.

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Papyrus guest house.
Protea hotel.

Enjoy a leisurely morning at the Wild Waters retreat till mid-morning, then go to Entebbe via the Kayunga District, through the suburbs of Kampala, and so forth.
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Protea hotel.

Enjoy your tea and transfer from Entebbe to kibale to begin the second journey of the Honeymoon Special Vacation. You will travel an hour outside Kibale Forest on a local chartered flight from Entebbe to Kasese airfield. You will be picked up by the driver and transported to Kibale Forest National Park.

The hub for activities in and around Kibale Forest National Park is this bustling town. One of Uganda’s most diverse tropical forest tracts, 70 animal species, and 13 primate species can all be found in the national park.

Take a nature walk through Bigodi Swamp in the afternoon if you’re still in the honeymoon walking mood after you check into your lodge and see some unusual local animals before you unwind.
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Primate lodge.

Here’s your chance to tackle the first jungle task of your Honeymoon Special Vacation: locate the animated chimpanzee troop and follow their daily natural routines. Will you accept it? It’s incredibly exciting and exhilarating, and every second is well worth it.

Have you tea and get to the park headquarters where you will have a briefing on the rules and regulations of chimpanzee habituation. Proceed into the jungle where you will spend the entire day with chimpanzees following them. Other animal species, including the Red Colobus, Black and White Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey, and L’Hoest’s Monkey among others, as well as various bird species, can be seen while tracking. Drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

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Primate lodge.

You fly across the stunning plains, mountain ranges, and emerald tops of the rainforest in western Uganda during this portion of the honeymoon special holiday. A scene you will remember forever. After a leisurely breakfast, you depart for Kasese Airstrip to catch a locally chartered flight to Kisoro, which will take you across central Uganda and give you a view of the majestic chain of the Virunga Volcanoes as well as the country’s beautiful landscape of mountains, hills, and terraced agricultural land.

meeting with the vehicle and our walking safari guide upon arrival for an introduction to the day’s extremely exciting activities, which will be tailored to the clients’ preferences. To get to Lake Mutanda Sheba’s Camp, you can either drive 30 minutes or walk for about 90 minutes over 4 miles. After that, you “settle” in a dugout canoe for two to three hours of leisurely cruising across the lake while taking in the stunning scenery.

Following a meal at a restaurant by the lake, continue on foot for another 9 km which is about 2/3 hours to Rubuguri, where you will reunite with your vehicle and continue for a further 10 kilometers to the Lodge in Nkuringo (approximately 1 hour). Naturally, you have the option to be picked up by a car at the lake and then travel all the way up to the Lodge. Guest choice!

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Nkuringo Bwindi lodge.

Enjoy your morning breakfast and get the park headquarters for a briefing on the rules and regulations of trekking gorillas. You will enter into the jungle and start searching for these primates with your packed lunch, once you come across these primates, you will be given ample time to stay with these gorillas as you have fun and taking photos. Drive back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight.

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Nkuringo Bwindi lodge.

Why then, you wonder, a second gorilla tour experience? It is, after all, your honeymoon special holiday. In general, we want you to always remember your time spent in the African forest. You get to leave the camera behind, pack up your nervousness, and lock it away in the lodge’s closed back during your second gorilla tracking adventure. You could catch something you didn’t the first time, and you will get to have yourself a gorilla encounter.

A second jungle area, Rushaga, located some 23 kilometers from Nkuringo, will be visited for the second gorilla tour experience.
You will drive 23 kilometers from Nkuringo to Rushaga at 06.45 in order to meet your gorilla tracking guide and receive an activity briefing. The drive to Rushaga at sunrise is especially beautiful since the volcanoes stand watch on the Southern horizon like sentinels. The sun rising in front of you breaks against the primary forest as you move past the Rushaga village. It is necessary to pause for a picture.

You will likely need to travel a few kilometers from the Rushaga visitors’ center to the trailhead, where you will start your gorilla tracking activities. Because every day in the forest is distinct from the one before it, your time there cannot be planned.

Transfer to the Buniga Forest Trail Walk, an educational initiative organized by USAID and the neighborhood Batwa people. When Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park was made a gorilla-only UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, the Batwa tribe was compelled to leave their home there. They had been living as roving hunter-gatherers in the forest for eons, in harmony with the local flora and animals. A major obstacle has been the transition to new towns with a drastically different way of life. They now make a living by telling stories about their former existence in the forest and their rich history while trying to survive as best they can.

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Nkuringo Bwindi gorilla lodge.

Enjoy your breakfast and then transfer to Kisoro Airstrip to catch your flight to Entebbe which arrives around 11:30 am. This will mark the end of your 10-day honey moon.

End of tour.