Where To Stay during Gorilla Tracking Safari In Uganda

Accommodation is readily available for your stay during a gorilla trekking experience however this is very much dependent on your budget. Super Luxury facilities are available  and majority have full board basis, luxury accommodations are also available but with full board meal basis and specious well aerated rooms, Midrange accommodation during gorilla tracking are also available and majority offer full board meal plan and budget facilities are also available however majority have shared facilities but well kept.CONTACT US

Gorilla Trekking Safari

7 Day Gorilla Trekking And Wildlife safari Itinerary with accommodation

Day 1: Drive To Bwindi forest National park

Rise up early in the morning for breakfast and your guide driver will pick you from your overnight hotel and take you to Bwindi forest National Park. This road trip is about 8 to 9 hours but very scenic. Make a stopover at the equator for picturesque experience as you stand on both sides of the earth at the same time. Perform the water experiment and carry on passing through the rolling green covered hills of Kigezi.

Arrive in the evening ready for dinner and overnight at

Accommodation: Clouds lodge/ Gorilla Forest Camp/ Engage Lodge/Ruhija Gorilla Lodge/ Bwindi View Bandas

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking

Rise up early in the morning for breakfast and head to the ranger station for briefing. Learn how you must behave to succeed in your gorilla trekking safari experience. You must be free of any communicable disease like a cold because the gorillas are susceptible to human illnesses like this.

In the company of an armed ranger guide, start trekking to find the mountain gorillas. They are well versed with all corners of the forest so you will follow the trail where they were seen the previous day. Avoid making noise while trekking because the mountain gorillas are agitated and scared of noise.

Other primates like enchanting monkeys, olive baboons, black and white  colobus, vervet monkeys, grey cheecked mangabey to mention but a few. Birding is awesome here. You do not have to look for the birds there show is readily available for you to watch there day drama of building nests, pecking the wood and picking fruits from different trees.

Finally when you get to spot the gorillas, you may hear them murmur as if warning each others of your presence. Even if ones of them move close to touching your camera, you just need to relax and avoid touching it because these are wild animals whose mood swings are uncontrollable. Photographs which you will remind you of the moments with the mountain gorillas and after an hour return to the lodge and relax.

Day 3 Drive to Queen Elizabeth National park

This is drive may go through Ishasha sector the home of the renowned tree climbing lions but going through this side of the pack depends on the condition of the bridge over Ishasha river. During this game drive, you may have the chance of meeting herds of buffaloes, elephants, lions, warthogs and so much more.  Check in to your lodge waiting for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Mweya Safari Lodge/ Jacana lodge/ Ishasha Wilderness Lodge/ Simba safari Lodge

Day 4: Game Drive And Launch Cruise

Get up early in the morning for game drive in the Northern crater lakes area of the park. You may have the chance of meeting the early risers get out of there night hide outs, to day hangout places. Carry on to the pavilion where you will take photographs of the incredible crater lakes display.

You may have the chance of seeing animals like the lions, elephants, buffaloes, bush bucks, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and numerous birds are residents of this park.

Having enjoyed the great views of the park, carry on to the pier to enjoy a launch cruise on the Kazinga Channel. The banks of this channel are so dramatic always decorated with animals that quench there thirst from its waters. This is home to countless birds that are residents of this park and flock the channel banks regularly. Hippos and crocodiles are very many in this channel and the vegetation around is so spectacular. Return to your lodge and relax

Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura Gorge

Rise up early and get ready to meet human closest cousins in the animals kingdom. This hike to Kyambura gorge to meet the chimpanzees is very interesting. You may get to meet them at the bottom of the gorge. So interesting to be close to these great apes whose life is very dependent on foliage and to some extreme moments they get to feed on the monkeys incase there is limited resources to feed on in the forest. Return to the lodge and relax

Day 6: Drive back to the airport

Having enjoyed your time in the wilderness and experiencing the service of the lodges, return to Entebbe Airport to catch up with the flight back home.

Pros And Cons Of Gorilla trekking

Volunteer to stay behind in case you have a communicable disease because mountain gorillas area highly susceptible to human disease which may cause them to die.

Mountain gorillas fear lightening so you need to carry a flashless camera to take pictures.

Feeding the mountain gorillas is forbidden because they are wild animals that need to search for there own food.

When you dump anything in the forest, you spoil nature yet mountain gorillas entirely depend on foliage   for survival.

While you trek to see the mountain gorillas, do not forget to stay quiet or speak with a low tone so that you do not scare the mountain gorillas. They get frighten by noise.

Do stand at a distance of about 7 meters from the mountain gorillas when in there presence.

 In case the gorilla gets close to your camera, it is best not to touch them so that they do not get to transfer any contagious disease to you from the wild or you transmitting any communicable disease. It is the best way to conserve the mountain gorillas.