4 Days Bwindi Gorilla Habituation and Trekking Safari

4 Days Bwindi Gorilla Habituation and Trekking Safari

4 Days Bwindi Gorilla Habituation and Trekking Safari starts in Entebbe/Kampala, Uganda. The Gorilla Habituation Experience in Uganda takes you for a wonderful 4-hour encounter with mountain gorillas. Mountain gorilla encounters have become a popular wildlife attraction on African safaris.

Tourists from all corners of the world travel to Africa every year with the sole purpose of seeing mountain gorillas. These giant primates can only be found in East and Central Africa.

In contrast, gorilla trekking offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend one hour with the incredible mountain gorillas, while gorilla habituation lasts four hours. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home for gorilla trekking in Uganda.

Outside of their natural habitat, mountain gorillas cannot thrive and therefore cannot be kept in zoos. They only inhabit Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), two remote rainforest jungles in east and central Africa. These nations fiercely guard the last few enormous apes like a king’s fortress from the Middle Ages.

Safari Highlights

Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park

Day 2: Gorilla habituation experience

Day 3: Gorilla trekking experience

Day 4: Transfer back to Entebbe and Departure

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park

Depending on your location in Kampala/Entebbe, you will be picked up to transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park located in the western part of Uganda, approximately 540km from Kampala by road. You will have a stopover at the equator for photography and the experiment and another stopover in Mbarara town for lunch. Proceed to Bwindi, arriving in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay at Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge for Luxury/Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge for mid-range/Gorilla Valley Lodge for budget

Day 2: Gorilla habituation experience

Enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for a briefing by the ranger guides and later head into the forest for your trek. Gorilla habituation in Bwindi involves visiting a semi-habituated gorilla family that is under the process of habituation. This activity takes a whole day and you are granted 4 hours to stay with the gorillas. After the habituation experience, meet your guide and drive back to your lodge to rest. Dinner and overnight at Lodge as above

Day 3: Gorilla trekking experience

Enjoy an early morning breakfast, then transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch for a briefing by the ranger guides before heading into the forest for your trek. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi takes 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas.

These primates roam the park freely, and there is no way to tell where they will be on a particular day. On finding them, you will be allowed 1 hour to view and take photos of these gentle primates, enjoy your lunch packs and meet your driver/guide and transfer back to your lodge.

The time after trekking can be spent on a village tour or lazing off at the lodge as you savor the memories of your gorilla trek in Bwindi and prepare for the next day. Dinner and overnight at lodge as above

Day 4: Transfer back to Entebbe and Departure

You will enjoy breakfast and transfer back to Kampala with a stopover in Mbarara town for lunch. Proceed to Kampala/Entebbe, arriving in the late afternoon. You will be dropped off at the hotel in either Kampala or Entebbe, as you advise, or at Entebbe airport for your onward flight back home.

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