Shoebill Safaris offers 17 days of unique trips to Uganda. Tours can be designed for trekking in the mountains, gorilla tracking safaris, game drives, relaxation or excitement, travelling alone, with a friend or partner or as a group. Here are some highlights:

Murchison Falls National Park
The park is endowed with several attractions including over 76 mammal species with four members of the big five, the lion, the leopards, the elephants, and the Buffaloes. Other species include bushbucks, Uganda kob, waterbucks and warthogs, giraffes, Jackson’s hartebeest, hyenas, hippos, crocodiles, baboons and monkeys.

Kibale National Park
Kibale is home to a remarkable 13 primate species. Kibale’s major attraction is the opportunity to track habituated chimps. Enjoy guided forest walks, one popular trail leads to a beautiful waterfall and others focus on birding, butterflies and monkey viewing.

Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park offers a vast diversity of wildlife and a multitude of truly spectacular landscapes. Leopards and tree-climbing lions are also very common here. All these can be seen on a game drive through the park and at a boat trip on Kazinga Chanal.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
With 18 habituated Gorilla groups Bwindi forest is home for over 500 individuals making half of the world’s surviving mountain Gorillas. You can have a close eye to eye contact with these human-like giants in their natural habitat. The varied habitats of Uganda’s oldest forest mean it is the ideal habitat for a variety of birds, with 350 species recorded, including 23 endemics

Homestay Tours
Join their homestay tours. Visit a typical home in Uganda and learn the culture and ways of living of the local people. There are various activities such as milking cows, churning milk to get butter, gardening, grinding millet to get flour, preparing and cooking food using firewood, making banana juice and a lot more. Join the local women in basketry, weaving mats, table clothes and various crafts. Enjoy the local folk songs and stories as you work with the women. There is local cultural entertainment in the evenings to relax after a long day of work. You can also volunteer at a nearby primary school and hospital.

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