5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari
This 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari leads you to a home famously known and commonly visited because it is considered as the birder’s paradise with over 450 bird species and hosts a diversity of wildlife. It is also known as the most beautiful game park with charming landscape and unique and abundant wildlife among others.
Detailed itinerary for 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Gulu via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary,
Depending on your location, our driver guide will pick you up from the hotel, brief you about the safari and then embark the journey to Kidepo Valley National Park. On the way you will have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for Rhino trekking where after you will have en-route lunch then continue to Gulu town arriving late afternoon. Dinner and overnight stay at Acaki lodge
Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Kidepo valley national park-afternoon game drive
On the second day of the 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari, enjoy your breakfast, check out of the hotel and meet up with your driver guide to proceed the journey to Kidepo valley national park. Upon arrival in the park you will check into the lodge for lunch and then after lunch go for an afternoon game drive in Narus valley home to diversity of wildlife species.
During the game drive you will be able to adventure animals such as buffaloes, elephants, zebras, giraffes, waterbucks, bushbucks, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, oribi, elands, warthogs many more which gather around the valley to drink water during the dry season, view carnivores such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas if you are lucky and different bird species. After the game drive you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Apoka safari lodge-luxury
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Morning game drive and cultural tour
On the third day of your 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari, you will have breakfast and meet up with your driver guide to go for another morning game drive which offers you an opportunity to view animals that you have missed during the previous game drive experience. During the game drive you will visit Kanangorok hot spring, where you will have rewardable views of the mountains, animals, birds, interact with different people who come to pay homage, offer sacrifices and seek blessings among others. After the game drive you will drive to the lodge for lunch.
After lunch, you will go for cultural tour around the park where you will visit the Karamojong people in their community. The Karamojong are fierce warrior pastoralists living at the borders of southern Sudan and Kenya. During the cultural tour go visit Karamojong instruments such as spears, knives, beads, bows, the Manyatta homesteads, learn about their culture where men marry as many wives as they can as long as they can pay the dowry., view half naked people decorated in tribal markings, listen to old stories, be entertained through cultural songs, dances, music among others. After the cultural tour you will drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay as above.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Morning game drive and transfer to Gulu
After an early breakfast, your safari driver guide will pick you up from the lodge to go for another game drive in the park where you will be able to watch animals missed on the previous day. After the game drive, get back to the lodge for lunch where after you will check out and meet up with your driver guide to travel to Gulu for dinner and overnight stay at Churchill hotel Gulu.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Departure to Kampala
After a relaxed breakfast on the last day of the 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari, you will check out of the hotel and meet up with your driver guide to transfer back to Kampala. On the way you will have en-route lunch. After lunch, proceed on a drive to Kampala arriving in the evening and be dropped at your hotel or at any place of convenience.
End of the 5 Days Kidepo Valley Wildlife Holiday Safari.
Price includes
- Park entrance fees/ game drives
- Karamojong cultural tour
- Rhino tracking fees
- Full-time English-speaking driver guide
- Accommodation as indicated in the itinerary
- All meals at the lodge(breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Pick up and drop off in Kampala/ Entebbe
- 4WD safari vehicle and fuel
- Bottled drinking water
Price excludes
- Air flight tickets and visas
- Optional activities not included on the itinerary
- Life insurance
- Tipping
- Personal expenses like buying souvenirs, crafts, drinks, laundry services, among others.
