Gorilla Trekking In Bwindi forest National park 6 Days

Gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park for 6 days gives you a chance of visiting the chimpanzees too in Kibale National park. These are both thick forest with a number of other attractive primates like the vervet monkeys, black and white colobus, grey checked mangabey, red tailed monkeys, rich avian life, variety of natural tree species and several others.

Day 1: Drive for Gorilla trekking safari in Bwindi Forest National Park.

Enjoy a drive from where you spent your night to Bwindi forest. The drive may be long but very scenic as you drive through the rolling hills of Kigezi. Meandering rivers rotate the valley of the surrounding highlands. Beautiful forest cover also keeps you mesmerized about how wonderfully it is arranged. This drive is about 8 to 10 hours excluding stopovers. Arrive in the evening ready for dinner and overnight at your reserved lodge.

Day 2: Gorilla trekking

Early in the morning, you head to the ranger station with your water, packed lunch and other energy bites. After briefing with the company of your ranger guide, trek into the forest to search for the mountain gorillas. They are quite mobile so finding them differs in timing that is to say 2hours to 8 hours of searching. Gorillas are huge primates with a black coat that covers there entire body. They have brown eyes that are sunken into the eye ball.  When you get to see them, you have just an hour with them taking there photographs, watching them play and interact with each other freely. You are forbidden to touch or feed them to avoid direct contact with them. Return to your lodge .

Day 4 drive to Kibale forest National park

Having accomplished your gorilla trekking in Bwindi National park, drive to Kibale forest National Park the home of the closet relatives of man. The drive may take about 5 to 6 hours but very scenic as you may get the chance of seeing the iced top of the Rwenzori rangers. Get there and relax.

Day 5 Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale National park

Rise up early in the morning for breakfast and head to the ranger station for briefing. You will be instructed on how to behave while in the presence of the chimpanzees.  They are the closet cousin of humans and have about 97% human genetic composition. They live in families under the leadership of the alpha male who is voted democratically by members of the community. They communicate by hitting the stems of trees. In the cold conditions, they normally hide up in the tree branches.  They will notice your presence before you do see them and start alerting each other as while hooting. Watch they moves and activities and return to the lodge to relax. You may opt to go for a walk to Bigodi wetland where you may have a chance of seeing the shoe bill and other interesting birds. This wetland is rich with primates too. 

Day 6 Return home.

Having enjoyed your gorilla trekking safari and chimpanzee trek, drive back home to catch up with your home bound flight.