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Private tourOnly your group will participate
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Overview
This 3-day Bwindi Gorilla Trekking Tour takes you to the misty Bwindi Impenetrable Forest home to more than half the World’s population of remaining Mountain Gorillas. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest offers a unique birding opportunity, cultural experiences, and a scenic allure of stunning hills and lush vegetation inhabited by a wide variety of primates.
Bwindi Gorilla trekking is the most enchanting experience in this forest that will leave you with memories of a lifetime. You will visit a community of the Batwa people who used to live in the Bwindi forest before it was gazetted as a national park and be mesmerized by the stories of how they used to live in this forest as gatherers, hunters warriors, and herbalists.
What's included
Equator experiment
Lunch
Dinner
Gorilla trekking Permits
Breakfast
Community visit
Alcoholic beverages
What to expect
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Bwindi impenetrable Forest National Park
Green Equator Masaka Rd
2h · Admission ticket included
At 6:00 am our driver guide will pick you up from your Hotel in Kampala and head South West for an 8-9 hour drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. You will have a stopover at the Equator where you will have an opportunity to stand in 2 hemispheres at the same time and take some photos. The guide will perform the water test experiment to show how the water drains differently in the northern, and southern hemispheres as against the Equator. Continue to Mbarara Town where you will enjoy your lunch stop.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
6h
continue with your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the best place in Uganda to track mountain gorillas. The park protects around 40% of the world’s mountain gorilla population and has several habituated groups. The forest is also a bird watcher's paradise with 350 species recorded, including many Albertine Rift endemics. Bwindi is a pristine rainforest on the edge of the Albertine Rift Valley. The terrain is a string of ridges and valleys covered in very dense, impenetrable forests. Bwindi has one of the most diverse floras in East Africa and it harbours 10 tree species that don’t occur anywhere else in the country. On arrival at the Park continue to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking adventure
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
6h
You will have an early breakfast at the lodge, the driver guide will drive you to the Park Headquarters for a briefing at bout 8:00 am about the rules of Gorilla tracking. After the briefing, Along with your trekking gear, drinking water and packed lunch, the driver will drop you off at the starting point to trek the gorillas together with the ranger guides in the thick jungle. This activity may take between 2 -8 hours searching for the gorillas depending on their movement. The jungle is very lively with rich forest sounds. You will have one hour to stay with the Gorillas once sited.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
3h
after your Lunch, Take an evening community walk among the Bwindi indigenous natives, the Batwa people who used to live in the Bwindi forest before it was gazetted as a National Park, and learn about their life and culture as a forest people. You will have dinner and overnight at your previous lodge.
Day 3: Drive back to Kampala
Kampala
9h
You will depart your Lodge in Bwindi impenetrable Forest after breakfast and travel back to Kampala with a stopover for lunch en route. You will arrive in Kampala in the late afternoon and transfer to your hotel. End of Gorilla trekking Tour
Meeting and pickup
Meeting point
At the Tourism information Office, Gaddafi National Mosque
End point
At the Tourism information Office, Gaddafi National Mosque
Pickup details
We pick up travelers from the agreed places the traveler wants us to get them
Additional information
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
