Gorilla Trekking Tour

Gorilla trekking tour in Uganda or Rwanda requires you to have a gorilla trekking card. This can only be bought from Uganda Wildlife Authority or work through a Uganda based agent. While preparing for your gorilla tracking safari, you must know that fitness is very vital as mountain gorillas keep roaming through the forest in search of food and other day today facilities. For these reasons, you may have to trek up and down the slopes of the ridges and other highlands to meet them at

While trekking to see the gorillas, you may met other exciting primates like the black and white colobus, grey checked mangabey, red tailed monkeys, olive baboons, variety of birds like African green broadbill, white-bellied robin chat, brown-necked parrot, frazer’s eagle owl plus several others and  Natural trees that are in plenty. 

If you have ample time in Africa, you may connect your gorilla trekking tour with a wildlife safari to queen Elizabeth National park which is at times called the biosphere reserve of Uganda. In case you track gorillas in Buhoma side of Bwindi forest. The drive from this sector to Queen Elizabeth is about 4 to 5 hours going through Ishasha sector of the park. Enjoy a game drive where you may have the chance of seeing the tree climbing lions , buffalos, elephants, water bucks, bush bucks, antelopes to mention but a few. From this park, you may have the chance of viewing the Rwenzori ranges and there snow capped peak

A game drive early in the morning is rewarding as you get to see the early risers as they get out of there overnight hiding to meet the day. Drive through the crater area where you will enjoy the incredible view of dry and wet craters. Varying vegetation zones that range from forest to semi arid vegetation. The park has the Kazinga channel where a number of animals quench there thirst and cool off the day’s heat. Schools of Hippos and crocodiles swim in the water, herd of buffaloes, elephants, water bucks, all congregate at the shores. A number of birds like the Egyptian geese, cattle egrets, African fish eagle, greater and lesser flamingos to mention but a few all flock the shores.