3 days gorilla trekking in bwindi national park

Day 1: To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After Breakfast, you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Your guide will make stopovers at the Equator for photograph and lunch in Mbarara town. You will then drive past banana plantations, Farms and beautiful hills of Kigezi for your overnight

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest

Accommodation: Gorilla Valley Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Buhoma Community Bandas

Meals: Lunch & Dinner (Breakfast Not Included)

Drinks: Drinking Water

Day 2: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi National Park

After your early morning breakfast, your guide will drive you to the Park headquarters for briefing and joining others for gorilla trekking. You will start your trek which can take from 30 minutes to 7 hours depending on the location of mountain gorillas on that particular day. Once you have found them, you will be around one hour of observation and photography before returning back to the park headquarters for certificate.

Things needed for Gorilla Trek:  

Waterproof hiking boots, light rain-jacket, daypack, 2 liters of water, some like to have gardening gloves to pull themselves up on vines and branches, long-trousers such as jeans, long-sleeved shirt to protect skin from getting scratched, hat – wide brimmed is best, sunglasses, insect repellent mostly against flies. Dressing right will keep you from getting burned by nettles, scratched by thorns or branches.

A porter’s services are provided in order to free you to enjoy the experience instead of lugging your daypack on the trail.

You will find Bwindi Impenetrable Forest an amazing experience, the flora and fauna, the other primates, mammals, birds, butterflies all become part of the experience of the trek.

The tracking (gorilla trekking) can involve some rigorous climbing and hiking but then you are face to face with these powerful yet gentle Mountain Gorillas, observing them just a few meters from you watching the group, mothers with a baby, the gorillas doing their daily routine and you are there.  The level of difficulty depends on the group that you are tracking.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest

Accommodation: Gorilla Valley Lodge/Bakiga Lodge/Buhoma Community Bandas

Meals: All Meals Included

Drinks: Drinking Water

Day 3: Drive to Entebbe Airport

After your breakfast, you will be driven to Entebbe for your post tour accommodation or you may choose to fly out of Uganda today. You will use the same route enabling you to have a second stop over at the Equator.

Main Destination: Entebbe

Accommodation: End of Tour, No accommodation

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Drinks: Mineral Water

End of Tour

•Additional accommodation can be arranged for extra cost

•You’ll be dropped off at the airport (or hotel)