This 3 Days Gorilla Safari Tour to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Gives you an insight to the home to almost half of the world’s remaining population of the mountain gorillas.
You will travel to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park by road and spend a night close to the forest so that you can get acclimatized with the climate. The next day, you will track the mountain gorillas in one of the habituated gorilla groups in Bwindi National Park. This is one of the best trips for those with limited time in the country. This 3 days Uganda Gorilla Tour starts from Kampala / Entebbe Uganda and you can either return to Kampala, Uganda or be dropped off in Kigali Rwanda.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable forest National Park
After breakfast at your Hotel in Kampala, you will set out together with your driver guide from
Nsheka African Adventures and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable forest National Park in South Western Uganda. enroute to the Park, you will have a brief stop over at the Equator for water experiments and also get a chance to stand at a point where the two hemispheres start from. Continue with the journey and have another stopover at Mpambire drum village basically known as drum making village. You will have lunch in Mbarara town. Later after lunch, you will proceed with your Journey to the Park headquarters. Dinner and overnight at
Luxury Accommodation: Gorilla forest Camp / Gorilla resort / Buhoma lodge
Midrange Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Camp / Lake Kitandara camp
Budget Accommodation: Buhoma community Bandas
Meal Plan: HB
Day 2: Gorilla tracking experience
After breakfast at the lodge, you will go to the park headquarters for briefing from the Uganda wildlife Authority ranger guides. After the briefing, the ranger will lead you into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day. Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, you will only be allowed to interact with them for only one hour and you should always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. You are allowed to take photographs and so one. To find the Gorillas, it’s such a tiresome experience since it can take you almost 3-8 hours to find them. However, once you meet these gorillas, you will easily forget the hatches you have gone through to find them and instead save the good memories you will experience with them. After the interaction, you will return late to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay as above.
Meal Plan: FB
Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will drive back to Kampala with your lunch enroute in
Mbarara town. On your way back, you will pass via Kabale commonly known as the Switzerland of Africa because of its hills and beautiful scenery. Reach Kampala late evening and drop off will be at your Hotel in Kampala or Entebbe. End of your Safari.
The above Tour Package includes:
- All ground transportation in a 4×4 wheel drive vehicle and fuel
- An English speaking driver guide
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- All park entrance fees
- Bottled water
- Gorilla permit at $800 per permit
- Airport transfers as per itinerary
- Batwa Community Experience
Essential Things to Pack
- Warm jackets or sweaters can be put on during cold morning.
- Pack enough drinking water, energy drinks and food. Once you’ve set off from the gorilla trekking centres, you have no place to get eats and drinks. Usually your lodge prepares lunch boxes. Gorillas also move frequently in the forest and it can take 30 minutes or more than 8 hours to locate them. We recommend tourists to speak to their guides at the start of the gorilla trek about their trekking capacity and fitness levels. Once you do that, you’ll be allocated to gorilla families that easy to reach and avoid disappointment.
- Hiking boots are very essential over steep mountainous terrain between 2400 to 4500 meters above sea level in Volcanoes National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla Park. In Bwindi mountains have thick vegetation. Boots should cover up your ankle borne; add on long wool stockings and guitars for protection since you go through deep muddy trenches, river and sharp thorny bushes can be harmful without protection.
- Have long trousers/ pants which can dry quickly but most important to protect your legs against thick undergrowth forests with a lot of stinging nettles and thorns. Tuck trousers inside boots to prevent safari ants and leeches from crawling into your trousers.
- Pack long sleeved shirts or sweaters with environmental friendly colors. Searching for gorillas, you maneuver thick canopies characterized by stinging nettles, insects, thorny vines or branches which can cut your arms. T-shirts are also great because of hiking up the mountains heat and warmth can make you sweat. It’s better to have an extra fleece cloth in case of spider webs and usually when you reach gorillas, it can get cold.
- Pack garden gloves to protect your hands. Caterpillars or insects can harm your hands when hiking in the forest. Grab a walking stick, muddy trails will inevitably make you hold against tree branches or grass for support.
- Breathable rain jackets or poncho are very important to have on a gorilla trek to prevent you from getting wet and also protect your camera equipment. Rain is highly unpredictable in the gorilla parks whether it’s a dry season or not.
- Have some insect repellents because there are mosquitoes, wasps and other insects in the jungles. You’ll need to carry it on the gorilla trek so that you keep smearing on your skin or hands to keep insects away.
- Have a first aid kit. You never know what might happen to you while trekking to see gorillas. A small cut, bruise or injury in the middle of the forest can easily be infected, so it’s advisable to have bandages, cotton or wax which can be wrapped around any cut or injury.
- Pack a sun screen in case you’re not comfortable with too much sunlight during the dry season. Likewise, a hut will also protect you from direct sun rays.
You need a camera to photography gorillas, so take extra batteries, lenses and their water proof cover.
