4 Days trek gorillas twice.
Your journey to Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable national park, the foremost refuge for mountain Gorillas, is made possible by this exclusive Double Gorilla trekking safari. Among the 21 fully habituated gorilla families of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, you will be able to trek two different families from either different sectors or one sector in this safari. In addition to the chimps, you will be able to see birds like African harrier hawk, cinnamon-chested bee-eater, crowned hornbill among others.
Highlights.
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National park.
Day 2: First gorilla trekking.
Day 3: Second gorilla trekking.
Day 4: Departure.
Detailed itinerary.
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National park.
Depending on your location, either at the lodge or Entebbe International airport, meet up with our driver guide or set off to Bwindi Impenetrable national park with a lunch enroute. This will take you between 7-8 hours with views of beautiful rolling hills along the way. Upon arrival, check in at the booked lodge for dinner and rest for a night.
Accommodation options: 4 Gorillas Lodge/ Ichumbi Lodge/ Engagi Lodge/ Buhoma Havens lodge.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 2: 1st Gorilla Trekking and community walk.
Have breakfast very early in the morning and then proceed to the park headquarters for briefing and registration. You will them be given a gorilla family to trek and then proceed to the jungle with the lead of ranger guides. This will take you about 2- 8 hours to find the gorillas with an hour for photography once you find them. After this experience, you will transfer to the starting point to get your certificates and then to the lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you will embark on a community walk to the Batwa where you will be exposed to their past lives through stories. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 3: 2nd Gorilla Trekking experience.
Following your breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for briefing just like the previous day. However, you will trek a different gorilla family this time around. Having accomplished the experience, you will transfer back to the lodge for lunch and relax and you await for dinner.
Day 4: Transfer back to Entebbe.
Enjoy a morning breakfast at your pace and later check out of the lodge to meet the driver for a transfer back to Entebbe with enroute lunch in Mbarara.
Includes.
- 2 gorilla trekking permits.
- English-speaking driver guide.
- Accommodation on full board
- Ground transportation.
- All activities included in the itinerary.
Excludes.
- Tipping
- Personal insurance.
- Personal nature expense like laundry