Best Short Uganda Tours from Kampala

Best Short Uganda Tours from Kampala

Short Uganda tours from Kampala offer a rare opportunity to visitors with a tight schedule to also join the journey to experience Uganda’s diverse attractions. A standard short Uganda tour typically lasts 1-4 days, allowing you to indulge in various experiences that leave lasting memories. With our carefully curated safari packages, you can expect to explore your dream destinations in Uganda – the Pearl of Africa.

Why Choose a Short Tour in Uganda?

Time-effective: Short Uganda tours from Kampala are suitable for all visitors with a tight schedule. They are more time-efficient than long Uganda safaris, thus allowing you to also participate in some of the unique experiences like gorilla trekking.

Budget-friendly: Unlike long safaris, embarking on short tours is a perfect way to save on your vacation. A short Uganda tour often covers fewer amenities like accommodation, transport, and activities. This means you have less to spend on a tour than when you embark on a long trip.

Stress-free planning: Everything can be handled quickly by the tour company/expert without you worrying about any booking challenges. Our expert can put together everything you need for an unforgettable short Uganda tour.

Flexibility in planning: Short Uganda tours are often more direct about what you need to do in a destination. You can book a safari experience that you desire to do, and after you return. If it is gorilla trekking or game drives, you book exactly that, or if you want cultural experiences, the focus can be switched to ensure that you maximise your time in the destination.

Most Popular Short Trips Starting from Kampala

• 3 Days Murchison Falls National Park, a typical wildlife tour package curated to let you immerse yourself in Uganda’s biggest park and explore its abundant wildlife. A short tour to Murchison offers a complete big 5 game experience because en route, you can have a rhino trek in the Ziwa Sanctuary. At Ziwa, you can focus on exploring more about rhinos, and when you continue to Murchison Falls National Park, you get a chance to explore 4 of the Big 5 game.
• 3 Days Queen Elizabeth game tour in Uganda offers an incredible immersion into the plains of Kasenyi for the big game search and Kazinga channel for aquatic species sightings. With our curated 3-Day Uganda tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park, you can exhaustively explore the Kasenyi plains on a game drive and enjoy a boat cruise tour along the Kazinga channel.
• 3 Days gorilla trekking tour whereby you can explore either Bwindi National Park or Mgahinga National Park. Each of these places offers a unique chance for you to meet and explore more about mountain gorillas, the subspecies of the popular Eastern gorilla. A gorilla trekking tour to Bwindi or Mgahinga allows you to visit only the groups that have been opened to the public. A gorilla trekking tour to Bwindi can combine Lake Bunyonyi or a Batwa cultural/community visit. While the Mgahinga National Park gorilla tour can comprise a gorilla trekking and Lake Mutanda, or cultural visits. To get a chance to explore Mgahinga/Bwindi gorilla families, you should have secured a Uganda gorilla permit, each costing US Dollars 800 per visitor.

Other Highly Recommended Short Safaris

• 3 Days Uganda chimpanzee tracking tour in Kibale –A great opportunity to visit Kibale National Park, where you can engage in the guided trek with chimpanzees. Chimp treks begin at Kanyanchu, where you can join the morning or afternoon session. On a chimpanzee trek, you can visit the already habituated community that is open to the public.

• 3-Day Lake Mburo wildlife safari offers a chance for you to explore Lake Mburo National Park wildlife and birds. In Lake Mburo for 3 days, expect to enjoy a game drive, boat cruise, bush walks, and equator crossing photography tour. The popular wildlife to see on a short tour in Lake Mburo National Park includes giraffes, warthogs, buffaloes, impalas, zebras, hippos, leopards, elands, crocodiles, and waterbucks.
• 4 Days Kibale & Bwindi tour, a captivating primate adventure package which covers chimpanzee tracking and gorilla trekking. During the 4-day tour, you can begin your trek with chimpanzees in Kibale and finalise with mountain gorilla trekking.

Experiences You Can Enjoy on a Short Uganda Tour

A myriad of wildlife experiences and other adventures await you. Expect to enjoy guided game drives, and the best places to visit include Lake Mburo, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park, and Murchison Falls National Park. Boat or launch cruise excursions where you can concentrate on exploring the aquatic species of animals.

Chimpanzee trekking –Uganda offers multiple options for you to explore chimpanzees in the wild. The largest concentration of chimpanzees with already habituated communities in Uganda includes Kibale National Park, Kalinzu Forest, Kyambura Gorge, & Budongo Forest.

Mountain gorilla trekking is one of the main highlights of any short Uganda tour. A gorilla trek tour offers a thrilling walk through the jungle for you to meet the mountain gorillas and learn more about their distinct behaviours.

Hiking excursions –Embark on a hike through some of the best trails that introduce you deeper into the jungle while exploring the different animals. Most of the destinations in Uganda offer the best hiking tours on their existing trails. In Bwindi, the ideal hiking trails to explore include the waterfall trail, Ivi River trail, Buhoma-Nkuringo hiking trail, Muzubijiro Loop, Bamboo, Rushura, Munyanga River trails, and Habinyanja trail.

The hiking trails present in Mgahinga include the Batwa trail, Sabyinyo Gorge trail, plus the hiking trails to the Virunga Volcanoes: Mt. Muhabura, Mt. Sabyinyo, and Mt. Gahinga. In Kibale, you can enjoy guided walks along the shorter nature or longer/multiple-day trekking routes. You can also explore the Bigodi wetland swamp, a 2-3 hour walk that takes you via the Bigodi swamp sanctuary.

Top places to go for short Uganda tours from Kampala

The key places to explore on a short Uganda tour include Kampala & Entebbe –perfect for city tours, Ngamba Island chimpanzee sanctuary, Kibale National Park, Mgahinga National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake Mutanda, Sipi Falls, Lake Bunyonyi, Kidepo Valley National Park, Lake Mburo National Park, and more.

When to book short Uganda tours

Uganda enjoys two useful seasons: the dry and wet each is experienced twice a year. The dry season, however, is the most favourable period for enjoying several activities, including chimpanzee treks, gorilla trekking, hiking, and game drives. Two drier seasons are experienced in most of the destinations fall in June, July, August to September –it is during these months when the parks record long dry season. December-February marks the shorter dry season and is ideal for short Uganda safaris.

Short Uganda tours can also be arranged around the wet or off-peak months; March, April, May, or October to November. These are more favourable for you in search of ideal budget-friendly tours.

What is the cost of short Uganda tours?

Short Uganda gorilla safaris from Kampala are more budget-friendly than long safaris. The cost may vary depending on the days and other amenities. If you are planning to go on a short gorilla tour, then expect to spend at US Dollars 3500 or more. This is an estimated amount and can be more depending on the choice of lodges, transportation, and other activities etc.

Conclusion: Short Uganda tours offer an excellent alternative to explore the best of Uganda’s premier destination at an affordable rate. Book with us the best tour packages and embark on an adventure journey to experience the Pearl of Africa.