Gorilla trekking Safari In Africa

Gorilla trekking being one of the unique upcoming experiences in Africa can only be done in 3 countries that is to say Uganda, Rwanda and D.R. Congo. In the entire world, mountain gorillas are only about 800 still surviving in the Virunga Volcanic area. How to book an African gorilla trekking experience is the first question CONTACT US

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How To book a mountain gorilla trekking tour

Booking for gorilla trekking experience is quite easy especially if you read about the entire experience. Send an inquiry about any package of your choice that is to say 3 day gorilla trekking, 4 day, 6 day to mention but a few. You will be provided with details of the permits available for that day and after transferring your funds, you will be confirmed that your permit has been secured and the area under which it has been booked. You also need to identify the package type you wish your gorilla trekking tour to be graded that is to say luxury, midrange or budget.

Book accommodation for your gorilla trekking safari

Having booked your gorilla trekking permit, you have to immediately book accommodation to spend your nights while you trek to see the gorillas. Different accommodations are available for you to choose from ranging from luxury, midrange and Budget. To book this accommodation, you need to know where your gorilla permit was booked because there is the northern sector and the southern sector. They are all fur apart from each other therefore requiring you to drive for a long time to the briefing station.

Gorilla trek Safari

In Rwanda, gorilla trekking accommodation also ranges from luxury, midrange to budget accommodation. You start your gorilla trekking safari with briefing from the ranger guide. Hire a porter to carry your belonging and finally escorted by the armed ranger guide proceed into the forest. Trekking gorillas in Rwanda is on uniformly steep slopes. You may find the gorillas on the slopes or the valley. As you come closer to them, you may listen to them grumbling and call out to each other as if to alert themselves. When you are finally with them, enjoy there presence and stay with them for just an hour taking there pictures and watching them do there daily activities.

How to travel for Gorilla trekking

You may either drive to the gorilla trekking parks that is to say in Uganda, the drive from Entebbe to Bwindi forest National Park is about 550km and In Rwanda about 110km from Kigali airport to Volcanoes National Park. 

Uganda has the fly-in gorilla trekking package which is saving tourists the trouble of travelling on the long bumpy road. You have the time to relax and organize your gorilla trekking gears with a cool head. If you wish to book a seat, each day, a flight departs Entebbe early in the morning to Kihihi Airstrip and then In the afternoon the flight departs for the same route. 

Charter flights can also be booked to this airstrip for gorilla trekking. You must be ready to book car hire from the lodge because the Airstrip is about an hour away.