We hope your flight is scheduled for an early morning landing in Uganda. Your safari will start from Entebbe Airport or Kigali. You will be picked up by your professional driver-guide who will brief you about your tour and then depart for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda and harbors over 300 of them, all the more reason why it should be your safari destination. The drive will take you to southwest Uganda by road. You will cross the Equator and stop in Mbarara for lunch. Drive through savannah grasslands to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It is a scenic drive through the Kigezi Highlands (commonly referred to as “the Switzerland of Uganda”) and banana plantations to the gorilla sanctuary. You will arrive in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and check in at your accommodation. You can relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the next day as well as the Batwa Cultural trail..

Accommodation Options; Mahogany springs/Chameleon Hill/Silver back lodge/Buhoma lodge(Luxury), Gorilla Mist Camp/Bakiga Lodge/Ichumbi Gorilla Safari Lodge(Midrange), Ruhija Gorilla friends camp/Rushaga Gorilla Camp(Budget)

After an early breakfast and a packed lunch, you will walk to the park headquarters for a briefing by the park rangers after which we will head out to track the mystical creatures. The beauty of this rainforest is spectacular! The area offers a dramatic, steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails, allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence.

Enjoy your packed lunch and return to the lodge to freshen up. You will then head out for the Batwa trail experience and enjoy cultural dances and local interaction before you proceed to Lake Bunyonyi.

Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of 2,200 to 2,478m, but it’s the 29 islands of various shapes and sizes scattered across the water that make it most magical. You could admire them all day.

Accommodation Options; Heritage Lodge Habuharo (Mid Range)

After an early breakfast, you can choose to do a community walk, a canoe ride, a boat ride, a bicycle ride, bird watching, cray fishing, or any other activity in Lake Bunyonyi (additional cost payable at the accommodation).

After your activity, the team will set out on a drive to Kampala. You will be dropped off at the airport or your hotel in Kampala. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you bid goodbye to your team.

Bwindi is among Uganda’s most exciting national parks and a place you can’t leave out while on a Uganda safari. It is famously known as a home to a big number of Mountain gorillas basing on the world remaining population. About 750 gorillas are remaining and half of this number has its home in Bwindi. Also other primates such as chimpanzees are found here though rarely seen. This is the same story with other animal species like the forest elephants, antelopes among others. The park is located in Southwestern Uganda just near the escarpment of the Western rift Valley

The word “Bwindi” means “darkness” and when you get the opportunity of walking through this forest you have will get to know why its called such a name. The forest is gifted with a stream of water which is a beautiful place, and also waterfalls are found as you trek through impenetrable forest. Trekking doesn’t require any skills but physical fitness is always required as there are a lot of steep mountains to climb p and about looking for these gentle giants. Above all there is nothing as adventurous and thrilling as going for gorilla trekking!

Also tourists will have other species to see in the park apart from the gorillas such as different bird species (over 350 found in the park), tree species, butterflies, frogs species among other things. The Gorilla trekking permit goes for $600 per person and if one is interested in Gorilla habituation each permit goes for $1500 per person. Tracking Gorillas in the mighty Bwindi is a dream come true for various tourists.

The Birds in Bwindi

About 350 bird species are found here but only 23 species are Albertine rift endemic species and also about 14 other species are not recorded in other parks and Uganda as a whole. Different birds that can be found here include; Collared Apalis, the Handsome Francolin, African Broadbill, Cinnamon Chested Bee Eater and the Western Green Tinkerbird.

The Climate & Weather for Gorilla Trekking in Uganda
The Parks altitude varies as it ranges from 1,190m-2,607m above sea level. Though, about 60% of the park is at an altitude of over 2000m above sea level. The total annual rainfall received ranges between 1,400mm and 1,900mm. Note that more rain is received in the months; March and April.