7 Days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Overview of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

The 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks or 7 days Semuliki & Kibale National Park bird watching tour Uganda is a fully bird watching trip to Mabamba wetland, Semuliki National Park and Kibale forest national Park. All through your exclusive 7 days birding tour in Uganda, a knowledgeable and professional driver guide will take you through the Uganda safari offering all needed help on spotting the beautiful bird species. With over 1,050 bird species noted to be in the country, anticipate to have a long bird list ticked by the end of this tour.

Day 1 on arrival at Entebbe international airport, you meet your knowledgeable Uganda birding safaris driver guide who ensures your transfer to a hotel or lodge in Entebbe for a meal and refreshment. In the evening you are driven to Entebbe Botanical Gardens for bird watching in the (this is possible when it’s an early arrival). The next morning, you are driven to Semuliki national park arriving in the evening. For the next 2 days, you do birding in Semuliki national park then after be transferred to Kibale forest national park. You are transferred to Kibale forest national park where you go for bird watching at the adjacent Bigodi wetland before departure the next day at Entebbe international airport.

Highlights of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Day 1: On early arrival at Entebbe international airport, a Uganda birding safari guide welcomes you transfers you to hotel and go for bird watching at Entebbe Botanical gardens in the evening.

Day 2: After breakfast, you are transferred to Semuliki National Park in south western Uganda with a stop at the equator line.

Day 3: After breakfast, you get into the park for a whole day bird watching tour in Semuliki National park.

Day 4: Taking the Kirumiya trail, you go for a whole day birding safari in Semuliki National Park.

Day 5: After breakfast, you go birding towards Kibale forest national park.

Day 6: After breakfast you go bird watching in Kibale forest national park and Bigodi wetland.

Day 7: Early morning after breakfast your driver guide picks you up for a drive back to Entebbe international airport for departure. Birding in Uganda

Day by day detailed itinerary of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Day 1 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Arriving at Entebbe international airport (it must be an early/morning arrival) a knowledgeable uganda birding safari guide picks you up for a drive to a booked hotel or lodge in Entebbe. After check in and refreshment, you go for a short bird watching tour Uganda to Entebbe Botanical Gardens in the evening for a representation of the bird species in Uganda then after return to your lodge in the evening. Here you sight species like the Pink-backed Pelican, Malachite Kingfisher, Yellow-billed Stork, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater, Yellow White-eye, Purple-banded Sunbird, African Jacana, Lesser Jacana and many more. Accommodation options: Protea Hotel (Luxury), 2 Friends Beach Hotel/Boma Hotel (Mid-range)

Day 2 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

After breakfast, using a 4x4 safari vehicle your driver guide transfers you on a road drive to Semuliki national park for birding. The almost 8 hours’ drive includes a stop at the equator line in Kayabwe about 80km from Kampala. Semuliki national park is the best birding destination in Uganda and popularly described as “The True Birders Haven” hosting over 400 bird species surrounded with beautiful Borassus savannah and extensive grass lands that host bird species. Arriving in the evening, you check in, have dinner and rest at an accommodation in Semuliki National Park.

Day 3 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

After early morning breakfast at your hotel, along with your packed lunch, you embark on a whole day birding safari tour along the Kirumiya trail of Semliki national park. Here you expect to spot species like African Piculet, Nkulengu Rail, Fire-crested Alethe, Lyre-tailed, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Yellow-throated Nicator, Long-tailed Hawk, Capuchin Babbler, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Black-collard Lovebird, Leaf-love, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Red-billed Helmet-Shrike among many more. In the evening after a moment on a Uganda bird watching safari, you are returned to your lodging facility for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 4 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Another day for Semuliki national park, you start the drive to the park early morning after breakfast. On this day, you continue to look out for some other bird species including the some of the continent’s most spectacular and sought-after birds. Some of which include the White-throated Swallow, Long-tailed Hawk, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Red-throated Alethe, Congo Serpent Eagle, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill, the Nkulengu Rail among others. The birding safari in Uganda on this day ends with a drive back to your lodging facility for dinner and an overnight.

Day 5 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

You continue with the birding tour in Uganda with a drive to Kibale forest national park. This is more of a birding drive than the usual road drive. The slow drive with your birding safari guide offers you an opportunity to sight several bird species along the way. Arriving in the evening, you check in, and spend the night at a booked accommodation in Kibale forest national park. Accommodation options include: Crater Safari Lodge (Luxury), Kibale Forest Camp (Mid-range)

Day 6 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Early morning after breakfast, the day begins with an early morning breakfast then after get into the forest in search of the forest bird species especially the Green-breasted Pitta. You are returned to the lodge for lunch and later on go bird watching at Bigodi wetland adjacent to Kibale forest national park. With more than 200 bird species in the swamp, the Great Blue Turaco, Yellow-billed Barbet, White-spotted Flufftail, Lesser Honeyguide, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Western Nicator, White-tailed Ant-thrush, Dark-capped and White-winged Warbler are among the many sightings. You return to your lodging facility for the last night on your birding tour in Uganda. Accommodation options include: Crater Safari Lodge (Luxury), Kibale Forest Camp (Mid-range)

Day 7 of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

You have breakfast which is the last for your trip then start the drive to Entebbe international airport for a departure flight. This amazing road trip past the different landscapes with beautiful sightings marks the end of your 7 days birding tour in Uganda with a drop off for departure at Entebbe international airport.

End of the 7 days Uganda birding safari Semuliki and kibale National Parks

Kibale forest national park is not only home to bird species but the best chimp trekking location in the world therefore a popular destination for Uganda wildlife safari tourists who would love to track primates. Alongside chimpanzee tracking, many tourists join their Uganda safaris with Uganda gorilla trekking safari tours to Bwindi impenetrable national park or gorilla safari Uganda to Mgahinga gorilla national park.  

If its about birding in Africa, there’s only a single destination with about 50% of the continents bird species with specialized bird watchers so there’s no need to look further.

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