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uganda
gorilla trekking adventure
Trek twice into Bwindi for mountain gorillas, then track chimpanzees in Kyambura Gorge and Kibale Forest.
- Group Departure
- From $7,851 pp
- 7 guests
- 10 days
trip highlights
- Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge sits about 300 metres from the trekking briefing point in the southern Nkuringo sector of Bwindi, where four habituated gorilla families live.
- At Moon's Camp guests drive restored Series Land Rovers themselves across the Lolldaiga Hills, where walking, night drives and off-road driving are all permitted.
- Eagle View Camp overlooks a waterhole and salt lick on Maasai-owned Naboisho, a conservancy known for a high density of lions.
- Diani Beach shelters a lagoon held calm by a fringing reef, with boats out to the outer reef and steady trade winds for kitesurfing.
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From Bwindi to Diani Beach
The route opens in Entebbe, ten minutes from the airport and Lake Victoria, then climbs to the Nkuringo sector of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest for the gorillas. It crosses into Kenya at Nairobi before three highland and coastal regions: the Lolldaiga Hills in Laikipia, the Mara Naboisho Conservancy, and Diani Beach on the Indian Ocean.
You travel by short flights and road, with two gateway stays bracketing the wildlife. Days move from steep forest treks to self-drive game viewing, night drives and walks on private conservancy land, then to reef snorkelling and flat-water sailing on the coast. The accommodation ranges from garden hotels and a Cape Dutch guesthouse to tented camps on private conservancies and an oceanfront resort.
Daily Itinerary Breakdown
Entebbe by Lake Victoria
No.5 Boutique Hotel sits in a quiet, leafy Entebbe suburb, ten minutes by road from the international airport and close to Lake Victoria. Fifteen rooms gather around a central courtyard planted with palms and a swimming pool, and meals run through the day in an airy dining room or on a balcony above the pool. It is built for the first night of a Uganda safari, when the flight schedule matters more than game viewing and rest counts for everything.
- Accommodation at No.5 Boutique Hotel
Nkuringo and the Gorillas of Bwindi
Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge stands on Nteko Ridge at roughly 2,160 metres, in the southern Nkuringo sector of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where four habituated gorilla families live. The trekking briefing point is about 300 metres from the door, so most days begin with a short walk rather than a long pre-dawn drive. The terrain drops steeply into the forest and climbs back out, among the more demanding in Bwindi. Volcanic stone and timber cottages each have a veranda and fireplace, and the ridge looks across the Kashasha River Valley toward the Virunga Volcanoes.
- Accommodation at Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge
Nairobi at the City Edge
Karen Gables is a privately owned Cape Dutch guesthouse in Nairobi's Karen suburb, set back from the road in gardens that fall to a quiet stream. Seven rooms sit behind whitewashed gables, and meals are cooked to order in the panelled dining room or on the terrace. The Giraffe Centre and the Sheldrick elephant orphanage lie roughly fifteen minutes away, and Nairobi National Park is close enough for a morning game drive before the onward flight.
- Accommodation at Karen Gables
Lolldaiga Hills and Self-Drive Country
Moon's Camp sits on the southern slopes of the Lolldaiga Hills, a private conservancy of some 49,000 acres in the Laikipia Highlands, with a view from a waterhole to the snow on Mount Kenya. There is no game-drive timetable: guests are handed the keys to restored Series Land Rovers and drive themselves, or ride out with head guide James Ntopai, a Samburu tracker. Because Lolldaiga is a private conservancy, walking, night drives and off-road driving are all permitted. Leopards are unusually dense here, and lion, elephant, buffalo and reticulated giraffe range through the valleys.
- Accommodation at Moon's Camp
Naboisho Conservancy Above the Plains
Eagle View Camp holds an escarpment above the Mara Naboisho Conservancy, on some 50,000 acres of Maasai-owned land north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. A waterhole and salt lick sit directly below the nine hillside tents, drawing elephants, giraffes, zebras and antelope within sight of the decks. Naboisho is known for a high density of lions, and vehicle numbers across the conservancy stay low. Night drives, guided walks and off-road tracking are all permitted here.
- Accommodation at Eagle View Camp
Diani Beach and the Fringing Reef
Waterlovers Beach Resort holds ten keys on the central stretch of Diani Beach, built into coastal forest that was never cleared for it, with colobus monkeys moving through the canopy above the suites. White sand runs down to a lagoon held calm by a fringing reef about five hundred metres offshore. Boats carry snorkellers out to the outer reef, kitesurfers and windsurfers launch off the sand, and Tides Restaurant cooks Mediterranean food by the pool. This is the ocean chapter that follows weeks inland.
- Accommodation at Waterlovers Beach Resort
Ed Charles, BBC Producer
Fitzroy are true specialists in accessing the wilderness. They know where to go and importantly, when to go there. Highly recommended.
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01 of 16
uganda & kenya
gorillas, riding and laikipia rhino
Fourteen nights across Uganda and Kenya, from Bwindi and Mgahinga gorillas to rhino country in the Laikipia Highlands.
- Private Safari
- From $36,900 pp
- 2 guests
- 14 nights
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uganda
gorilla & chimp safari
Trek for gorillas across Bwindi's remote ridges and track chimps in Kibale, home to Africa's highest chimpanzee density.
- Private Safari
- From $11,326 pp
- 2 guests
- 9 days
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