Day 1: Airport arrival

The Avens Travel World guide will receive you on arrival at the airport and transfers you to your overnight accommodation around Entebbe for relaxation.

Overnight: Karibu Guest House.

Day 2: Tour at Mukuuba Landing site and Rolex tryout

Prepare for an exciting day in one of our communities. After breakfast at the hotel, you prepare to visit Mukuuba landing site off Kawuku. You’ll take on an adventurous bike tour along the African dirt marram surface of about 6kms to the site (or’ for those not able to bike, you be transferred by the safari car to the community/site). Here you’ll participate in various activities such as community walks, participate in board games, visit neighboring islands on a canoe etc.

Today you also have a 1-hour Rolex tryout where you witness the recipe in preparing this popular delicious street food.

Overnight: Nyange Resort & Marina

Day 3: Travel to Jinja

Have breakfast then travel to Eastern Uganda, you’ll stay in Jinja for overnight. You’ll enjoy a tubing experience on the mighty River Nile from mid-morning. In the evening, enjoy a cruise to the source where the Nile starts its long journey to the Mediterranean – which makes it the world’s longest river. En-route you have a shot visit to some roadside markets and nyamachoma stalls, where you will see activities which’ve sustained livelihoods and these visits are one way of supporting them.

Optional: Adventure aficionado can participate in half-day White water rafting on the Nile and various grades of rapids are available depending on skills

Overnight: Kingfisher Resort.

Day 4-5: To Kapchorwa – Hike Sipi Falls & Coffee tour

Today after breakfast, travel further east of Uganda. Enjoy the scenery through the countryside. Check-in at the hotel on arrival at Sipi Falls, have a lunch break then go for an adventurous hike of the Sipi Falls. On a sunny day you will enjoy the beautiful golden eye of the earth go to rest.

Other activities which await include a coffee tour – you’ll witness the story of coffee from farm to cup and you will be able to make and taste your own coffee. So during this experience the guide takes you through the coffee farming and making process. Meet some communities around Sipi, take-in some breathtaking views of the region-relaxation at the lodge.

Overnight: Sipi River lodge

Day 6-7: To Moroto- Karamoja Region | Cultural Experience

Breakfast at the lodge: Bid-farewell to Sipi and continue Northeast to Moroto in the greater Karamoja region. The beautiful scenery of this part of the country is something to admire. Check-in at the accommodation where dinner and overnight will be.

In the late afternoon you do an introductory tour where you briefly visit a local community.

In Moroto, you participate in adventurous walks –hikes around Mt. Moroto, visit indigenous inhabitants of Karamoja region; the Tepeth on a cultural tour. Their traditional African lifestyle is something to marvel. Immerse in village walk – have a pure treat and feel of these hunter-gatherers agro-pastoralist tribe.

Options available: Night camping with the Karamajong Nomad warriors, and this gives you a firsthand feel of some of Africa’s last surviving untouched cultures. Learn how to herd the cows, bringing them back to Kraal at day end, milk them and much more.

Overnight: Karamoja Safari camp

Day 8: Visit Nakapelimoru Village – Kidepo Valley

Leave for Kotido after breakfast, here visit Nakapelimoru village, whose traditional and cultural heritage is a story for the future. This village of the Jie clan/people is known to be East Africa’s largest traditional village.

Later continue to Kidepo Valley National Park where you arrive in the evening hours at your safari lodge. Lunch is en-route or packed from the camp.

Overnight: Kidepo Savanna lodge.

Day 9: Wildlife Safari in Kidepo Valley 

Kidepo Valley national park is one of Uganda’s wildest protected areas – looking pristine – where visitors enjoy raw action of wildlife – large numbers of animals like buffalos can be seen in a single herd…, and brooding scenery so prepare for the thrill.  Leave the lodge early for a morning wildlife viewing session. You’ll enjoy a picnic breakfast. It’s a full day of wildlife viewing in the park searching for the African game like Lions, Buffalos, Elephants, Giraffes, Jackals, Cheetahs, Ostriches and much more.

You’ll visit some community of the Kjongs around the park so they unveil to you a traditional performance.

Overnight: Kidepo Savanna lodge.

Day 10: Game viewing around Apoka, proceed to Gulu

Start by 7:30am for early wildlife viewi for a walking safari with ranger guide, this walk gets you up-close to wildlife, where the feel of creeping through the African wilderness is rivalled by no other, the walk through the savannas as you encounter prints of wildlife like Elephants is emotional.

Later have your lunch packs and leave Kidepo to Gulu town where you’ll have overnight.

Overnight: Boma hotel

Day 11: Nakasongola- Rhino tracking then to Kampala or Airport          

Leave for Nakasongola arriving Ziwa Rhino sanctuary in the mid-morning hours. Here you go for a Rhino tracking session through the wilds of Ziwa on foot. The place is the only natural sanctuary for these members of the African Big Five in Uganda.

Have lunch and afterwards continue to Kampala or Entebbe airport where you arrive in the evening to check-in for your flight back home.