3 Days Gorilla Trekking safaris in Uganda

This morning your driver guide from Entale African Safaris will pick you up from your lodge for a day-long journey drive from Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Along the drive will have two short stopovers at Kayabwe for photographs at the equator and at Igongo Cultural Center for lunch. Continuing on the journey will reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park by late evening hours. Enter the park through the Ruhija sector and check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight. Accommodation: Bakiga Lodge (dinner and overnight)

This day will take an early morning drive from your lodge to the Ruhija gorilla trekking starting point, it’s important to be in place at least at 7:30am. Packed with all your trekking requirements, clothed in long-sleeved cloth, and jungle boots with a backpack of at least 1 liter of mineral water and a sweeter energizer. The be briefed and get group 8 in each group, and by 8am will roll into the jungle under the lead of an armed ranger to initiate a search for the gorillas. Gorilla trekking can last between 30 minutes to 5 hours, depending on the movement of the assigned habituated gorilla family. After a give walk and search for the giants, encountering them face-to-face, you have an hour in their presence, and at this time you just imagine how close these apes may be to your lost relatives. After the trekking, walk back to the starting point, refresh, and drive back to your lodge for lunch. In the afternoon hours will take a drive to the closest Batwa community for the cultural experience with these pygmy who once co-lived with the gorilla before their forced eviction. Visiting these people simply will experience a narration about these rare people, be entertained with traditional songs and dances of their culture. Afterwards, in the later evening hours, return to your lodge and rest for the long day. Accommodation: Bakiga Lodge (full board)  

This morning enjoy a picnic breakfast, and reluctantly will board for a drive back to Kampala. We will consider stopping for lunch at the Igongo Cultural Center in Mbarara, and we may also take a tour of their museum, which tells the story of the western people of Uganda. Proceed on your drive to Kampala, reaching by evening hours, and drop off at either your hotel/lodge in Kampala/Entebbe or Entebbe International Airport for your next flight back home.