This 4 days double gorilla trekking in Bwindi is a well-designed and rewarding safari which will take you to two different gorilla families of Bwindi impenetrable national park located in the southern part of Uganda.
This safari
will not only take you for gorilla trekking but also for a community walk where
you will be passing through different Batwa homesteads and getting involved in
their cultural performances such as music, dance, drama art and craft which
will give you an opportunity to buy some of their souvenirs. Later head on a
drive back to Kampala stopping at the equator for photos and then Kampala from
where you will drive to the airport in Entebbe and fly back home.
Detailed
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival
at the airport and transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park
Meet your
experienced driver-guide together with our company representative who will
brief you about this double gorilla trek in Bwindi national park. Immediately
head southwestern Uganda where Bwindi impenetrable national park – the home of
half of the remaining gorillas of the world is located. On your way to this
park, you will pass through big cattle farms of the Banyankole people, tea
plantations, banana plantations and terraced lands.
Have a
stopover in Mbarara city for your lunch and then proceed with your drive
checking in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stays.
Day 2:
Gorilla trekking and community walk
This is the
day when you will have an insight into the mountain gorillas for the first
time. Wake up early in the morning to buy yourself time for breakfast at the
lodge and immediately after breakfast, pick up your packed lunch and enough
drinking water and head to the park headquarters for briefing and finalizing
your documents. The briefing will be short mainly containing the rules and
regulations to follow while trekking these giant animals.
After your
armed ranger guide will lead you to the forest for a 1-8 hour gorilla trekking
experience. Since these animals tend to move high in the mountains, you are
also likely to climb the mountains searching for these primates and as soon as
you reach them, an additional hour will be given to you visualizing them and
taking photos as they are acting differently to your visit.
Return to your
lodging facility for a short relaxation and then in the evening embark on a
journey for a community walk passing through several Batwa homesteads and
getting some entertainment from them in form of songs, dance, and drama and
optionally buying some of their crafts as souvenirs and then retreat to your
lodge for dinner.
Day 3: Second
gorilla trekking in Bwindi
On your
second gorilla trek, you will follow the same procedures as you did the
previous day but on reaching the forest after the short briefing, you will trek
a different gorilla group, not the one which you trekked the previous day. You
will take photos and videos of the gorillas playing with their young ones and
from their head for a trekking certificate at the main office and drive back to
the lodge and relax while viewing the forest and beautiful landscapes of
Kigezi.
Day 4
Transfer to Kampala and fly back home
Being your
fourth day and last day of your 4 days of double gorilla trekking in Bwindi,
enjoy your breakfast after which drive to Kampala have a stopover at the
equator in Kayabwe for a short photographic moment and after continue to
Kampala and be dropped at the hotel or directly at the airport and fly back
home.