Scheduled Group Tours in Uganda

Scheduled Group Tours in Uganda

Scheduled group tours in Uganda are carefully organized safaris with specific departure dates and tours. With scheduled group tours, visitors are provided with complete highlights of what they should know when in a destination. This also includes visiting the National Park, safari activities, and highlights. These are set in advance with all essential services needed by the clients.

The beauty of scheduled group tours in Uganda is that the priority is always placed on exploring the country’s iconic attractions. This provides a cost-effective alternative to exploring various sites in a single trip.

Native Africa Tours is the best company in Uganda for booking scheduled tours. At Native Africa Tours, our scheduled group tours vary in size but can range from 10 to 30 people per tour. All our scheduled group tours are ideal for tourists who share travel desires or preferences. They are suitable for visitors on a budget travel.

What are scheduled group tours?

Scheduled group tours are also most popular as set departure group tours. These organized travel experiences involve departing on a specific, non-negotiable date. With scheduled group tours, travel can be by a bus or a similar option with an experienced driver guide present to accompany you. The key intention here is to visit iconic attractions to encounter diversity from various destinations cost-effectively.

Best places to visit for scheduled group tours in Uganda

Join our scheduled group tours in Uganda to explore some of the leading destinations in East Africa, including National Parks and Game Reserves. Top places to visit in Uganda on a scheduled group tour;

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park offers iconic scheduled gorilla tours in Uganda. Located in Southwestern Uganda, Bwindi is a special place where you can encounter a group of mountain gorillas. Scheduled gorilla tours to Bwindi involve exploring some of the habituated families of mountain gorillas.

Bwindi holds up to 24 habituated gorilla families distributed across the four central regions. These trekking regions are Ruhija, Buhoma, Nkuringo, and Rushaga. Scheduled gorilla tours to Bwindi involve departing from Entebbe International Airport to Kihihi or Kisoro Airstrip. Scheduled flights to Bwindi save a lot of time, unlike if you used road travel, where you can spend between 8 and 9 hours.

The scheduled departure tour to Bwindi by road involves spending between 8 and 9 hours. The beauty of road travel in Uganda from Kampala or Entebbe to Bwindi is that you have much to explore, including the equator crossing.

At Bwindi National Park, expect to visit gorilla groups such as Mukiza, Nshongi gorilla group, Bitukura, Kyaguriro, Nkuringo gorilla family, Busingye, Rushegura, Habinyanja, Mubare, Oruzogo, Mishaya, Katwe, Christmas, Kutu, and more.

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

Mgahinga National Park is a special destination on a scheduled group tour in Uganda. At Mgahinga, you can explore mountain gorillas, golden monkeys, Virunga volcanoes, and birds.

Visitors can track gorillas and golden monkeys in Mgahinga. Birding tours in Mgahinga offer an incredible chance for you to spot a diversity of birds. Mgahinga birds include Kivu ground thrush, Banded Prinia, Chubb’s cisticola, Doherty bush shrikes, yellow-crowned canary, wing snapping cisticola, grassland pipit, yellow-throated long claws, stone chat, speckled sunbirds, speckled mousebirds, grey-capped warblers, and others.

Adventure seekers can begin their expeditions at Virunga volcanoes in Mgahinga, including Mount Muhabura, Mount Sabyinyo, and Gahinga Volcano.

Kibale National Park

Kibale National Park is in western Uganda and East Africa’s leading destination for abundant primates. Over 13 primate species live peacefully in the jungle of Kibale, including 1500 chimpanzees. Kibale is, so far, the leading destination to visit and experience an exhilarating chimpanzee trekking adventure. In addition to chimps, expect to encounter other primates. These include bush babies, vervet monkeys, olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys, l’hoest monkeys, red colobus monkeys, pottos, and black and white colobus monkeys.

Over 375 bird species also make Kibale an excellent birding destination. These include the Albertine rift endemic species and resident forest species. The different birds in Kibale include the Abyssinian ground thrush, great blue turacos, Cameroon Sombre greenbul, African black-headed oriole, collared apalis, African green-breasted pittas, African dusky flycatchers, blue-shouldered robin-chat, papyrus gonoleks, African pied wagtail, blue-breasted kingfishers, brown-chested alethe, dusky crimson wing, and papyrus canary, and more.

A 3-day tour can be enough to explore Kibale through chimpanzee trekking. This park also offers a chimpanzee habituation experience. Kibale scheduled tours can be enjoyed in combination with the Bigodi Wetland.

Murchison Falls National Park

For visitors interested in exploring Uganda’s Big game, a visit to Murchison Falls National Park should be a must. Located in the Northwestern end of Uganda, Murchison Falls National Park is the largest of all the parks in the pearl of Africa, with a land area coverage of 3840 sq. km. Murchison Falls National Park holds a rich diversity of wildlife species. These include leopards, lions, African elephants, cape buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, and many antelope families. The main antelopes to expect to encounter in Murchison include oribis, Uganda Kobs, Jackson hartebeest, waterbucks, and more.

Bird species –various birds live in the different habitats in Murchison Falls National Park. A total of 451 bird species exist in Murchison Falls National Park alone, including the shoebill storks, Abyssinian ground thrush, African jacanas, African fish eagle, Abyssinian ground hornbills, Eastern grey plantain-eaters, black-billed barbets, African quail finch, goliath heron, and Denham’s bustard.

Murchison Falls National Park is also home to birds such as Malachite kingfishers, black-headed gonoleks, silver birds, squacco herons, red-headed lovebirds, osprey, swamp flycatchers, red-winged grey warblers, piapiac, white-browed sparrow weavers, and white-crested turacos.

Queen Elizabeth National Park scheduled group tours

Schedule group tours to Queen Elizabeth National Park to explore attractions, including tree-climbing lions. The 1978 sq. km park shelters mongooses, hyenas, leopards, lions, elephants, buffalo, waterbucks, bushbucks, and warthogs.

Birds –over 620 species of birds live in Queen Elizabeth Park. On a birding tour, expect to spot here include the pelicans, shoebill stork, Ross’s turacos, crowned hornbills, dark-capped yellow warblers, sulfur-breasted bush shrikes, fawn-breasted waxbill, black-headed batis, and black and white casqued hornbill.

Exciting activities in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kasese include game drives, boat cruises, nature walks, chimpanzee tracking, birding, and lion tracking.

The best way to do scheduled group tours in Uganda

Join our scheduled group tours: At Native Africa Tours, we offer a range of scheduled group safaris. Our tours are expertly designed and available for short trips and long holidays. Pick from our 3-day gorilla tours to explore gorillas in Bwindi or Mgahinga. You can also book long-scheduled group tours that extend up to 10 days or even 30 days.

Book your scheduled group tour with the local expert. Contact our team to plan and book your scheduled gorilla tour, wildlife safari, chimpanzee tracking trip, or mountaineering adventure.

Why join scheduled group tours in Uganda

Join our group tours to enjoy shared costs. Explore Uganda at the most affordable rate. The beauty of getting together is to cut costs and travel pocket-friendly for everyone. Joining our scheduled group tours means you save on shared costs for transportation, lodges/accommodation, tour guide services, and more.