Accommodation: Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro in Suite Room
Day 12 and 13: In Kisoro
Travellers rest will be the home-base for the coming days in the South West of Uganda.
Here everybody can do individually ( or in a group) activities.
With local organizations and the National Park we have developed a number of very interesting activities:
1. Gorilla Tracking in Nkuringo (1 day)
(If tracking from Kisoro it can also be on day 12 or 13 depending on the availability of the permits)
From Travellers Rest in Kisoro it is one hour by car to Nkuringo South of Bwindi and and 35 minutes to Mgahinga (it is closed now because the Gorillas crossed to Congo and not returned yet)
2. Gorilla tracking in Rwanda , if you are going for the 2nd Gorilla trek in Rwanda you will be staying a nights there on day 2 after trekking in Uganda. And after you will cross back to Kisoro (1 day)
3. Climbing Muhavura Volcano (± 8 hrs; distance 12km; height 4127m; elevation gain 1700m; price 30$ pp)
4. Climbing Gahinga Volcano (± 6 hrs; distance 8km; height 3474m; elevation gain 1100m; price 30$ pp)
5. Sabinyo Gorge (± 4 hrs; distance 6km, no elevation gain)
6. Climbing the Sabinyo volcano (Sabinyo has three peaks, you can climb all three in the same walk, you need to be fit!! ± 8 hrs; distance 14 km; height 3669m, elevation gain 1300 m; price 30$ pp)
7. In Magahinga to the viewpoint and Garama Cave (pygmy cave) (± 4 hrs; distance 1 and 4 km)
8. Bird walk in Magahinga (start at 10 AM, it can take up to 4-5 PM)
9. Several bicycle rides on mountain bikes. From 25km to 50km. The hills can be steep and tough!
10. Cultural village walk (with a local guide walking through the land of the Bafumbira tribe)
11. Walk to Lake Mutanda. Visit Python island and go canoeing on this beautiful lake.
12. Or just sit and relax or read a book in the garden of Travellers Rest!!
Accommodation: Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro in a suite Room
Day 14: To Lake Bunyonyi
After breakfast we will drive to Lake Bunyonyi beautiful surrounded by the hills of Western Uganda. For people who like to walk, the last 14 km is a stunning beautiful walk along the lakeshore and above on the hills.
Lake Bunyonyi is famous for birds, otters and delicious crayfish. We will stay the rest of the day here, it is possible to swim and try a canoe. Seated on the veranda more then 300 birds species can be seen (bring your binoculars)
Driving time: ± 3,5 hours
Accommodation: Camping/Tent/Rooms on Bushara Island or Overland Camp.
Luxury Tour: Tented Camp on Bushara Island
Day 15: To Lake Mburo
Early morning departure to Lake Mburo. This is a small but nice park, the only park in Uganda with impalas and zebras. We will make an evening game-viewing drive.
Driving time: ± 5,5 hours
Accommodation: Camping/Huts toilet/shower shared
Luxury Tour: Mantana tented camp
Day 16: To Kampala
Early morning we will make a game drive. After a late breakfast the last part of the journey will bring us back to Kampala.
We will bring you to a guesthouse, campsite or hotel. If you continue your holiday somewhere else or back home; we bring you to Entebbe airport for an onwards flight.
Driving time: ± 5,5 hours
NB Tours are camping or simple accommodation! Luxury Tours have the best accommodation available. This trip can also go to Bwindi and Rwanda (but for Rwanda the prices goes a bit high

Source of the Mighty Nile
The source of the Nile, alluded to hazily in the ancient writings of Ptolemy, stood as one of the great geographical mysteries of the Victorian Age. The desire to uncover this geographic Holy Grail inspired the epic journeys of exploration undertaken by Livingstone, Stanley, Burton and Speke. And it was the latter, John Hanning Speke, on a pioneering 1862-3 expedition around Lake Victoria, who first controversially suggested that a small waterfall flowing northward out of the lake might be the legendary spring- a theory whose accuracy was confirmed more than ten years later by Stanley.
Flunked today by the city of Jinja, the waterfall described by Speke now lies submerged beneath the Owen Falls Dam, Uganda’s main source of hydro-electric power.Still, a visit to the source of the Nile remains a moving and wondrous experience, no less so to those who have seen the same river as it flows past the ancient Egyptian temples of Luxor some 6,000km downstream.
Closer to home, the Nile down river from Jinja offers some superb white water rafting and game fishing. Its crowning glory, however, is Murchison Falls, where the world’s longest river funnels through a narrow fissure in the Rift Escarpment to erupt out of the other side in a crashing 43 metres plume of white water. The river below the falls is no less spectacular in its own way, with its profuse birdlife, thousands of hippos, and outsized, gape-mouthed crocodiles.

Lakes &Ssese Islands
Roughly one-quarter of Uganda’s surface area consists of wetlands, ranging from vast inland seas to the mysterious marshly expanse of Lake Kyoga, formed by the Nile as it drains into a shallow sump at the very centre of the country. The northwestern third of Lake Victoria , the world’s second largest fresh water body , falls within Uganda’s boundaries, while the impressively scenic Lakes Albert and Edward extend for 150km and 80km respectively along the Albertine Rift Valley floor bordering the Congo.
Renowned for its water birds and dense population of otters, mountain-ringed Lake Bunyonyi is one of Uganda’s most rapidly developing wetland destinations, its steep-sided shores and small islands dotted with rustic hotels and campsites. Another rising attraction is the cluster of 200 crater lakes that extend northward form Queen Elizabeth National Park to Fort Portal, reaching its scenic peak in the vicinity of Kibale Forest, where several forest-fringed lakes have been developed as community –based ecotourism projects. The jewel in lake Victoria’s crown is the Ssese Archipelago, whose 84 islands-some large and dotted with local fishing villages, others small and uninhabited-are all well watered and lushly forested. Mainlanders traditionally revere Ssese as the island of the Gods, and one specific island called Bubembe is regarded to be the home to Mukasa, the spirit presiding over Lake Victoria. The Ssese islands make for an ideal retreat after a long safari, and they also offer superb opportunities for bird watching and for hooking heavyweight Nile perch.

Bird watching
Traditional to the east African savannah and western rain forests, Uganda is Africa’s most complete bird watching destination, with more than 1000 species recorded within an area comparable to that of Great Britain.
Specialist bird tours through western Uganda routinely notch up an incredible tally of 400 species within two weeks, while enthusiastic amateurs might reasonably hope to aim for 300 species within the same time. For dedicated ornithologists, Uganda’s prime attraction is the presence of more than 100 West African forest species at the most easterly-and most accessible –extent of their range. this alluring list of forest specialists include the psychedelic great blue Turaco and the raucous black-and white casqued hornbill, as well as the gem-like Green broadbill and 23 other species endemic to the Albertine Rift. Uganda is the best place to see what many rate as the most sought after African bird: the Shoebill, a massive prehistoric-looking swamp dweller notable for its heavy clog-shaped bill.
Birdlife is prolific throughout Uganda, but key sites should be included in any ornithological itinerary. In the West , these include Bwindi National Park for Albertine Rift endemics , Queen Elizabeth National Park for the peerless checklist for 600 species, Semliki National Park for Congo Basin endemics , Mabamba swamp near Entebbe for Shoebill , the community- run guided trail through Bigodi Wetland near Kibale Forest for Great Blue Turaco and other colourful forest birds, and Murchison Falls National Park for Savannah specialists such as Abyssinian Ground Hornbill , Red-Throated Bee-Eater and Denham’s Bustard. A key birding location in eastern Uganda is Lake Bisina, a stronghold for the endemics Fox’s weaver as well as papyrus-dwellers such as Shoebill and Papyrus Gonolek.