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Overview
Detailed itinerary.
Overview
This 3 days Gorilla Trekking safari trip is one of the interesting safari tours that one can have in Uganda. Customized to the traveler’s interests; The trip will take you through mountain Gorilla trekking experience in the hilly forests of Bwindi Impenetrable forest.
Enjoy an amazing walk through the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and spend a memorable one hour with the Gorillas. After the trekking, you will be transferred to the famous lake Bunyonyi, an area where one can relax after the gorilla trekking adventure.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was gazetted in 1991 and declared a UNESCO natural world heritage site in 1994. The Mubare gorilla group was the first to become available for trekking in Uganda in April 1993. Nine groups are now habituated for trekking. And one for research spread over a series of steep ridges and valleys. Bwindi is the source of the five major rivers which flow into Lake Edward.
Detailed itinerary.
Day 1: Transfer from Kampala to Bwindi NP.
After an early breakfast, you will meet your driver guide and start off early drive and for your gorilla trekking adventure. The journey is likely to take about 8-10 hours characterized with stopovers, toilet breaks and photo shoot.
Especially as you approach the Kigezi highlands of Kabale or Kisoro region. Lunch will be en-route depending on your driver guide’s decision. You will arrive in the evening ready for relaxation and a dinner at night.
Day 2: Gorilla trekking and bird watching.
You will have an early full and heavy breakfast around 7:00am in the morning before your driver guide transfers you to the park briefing area. Where you will be handed over to the ranger guide for briefing and after you will enter into the forest in search for the gorillas. Besides gorillas, this impenetrable forest is full of birds with over 350 species recorded. Including 23 endemics such as the short-tailed warbler, Shelly’s crimson wing easy to sport are the African emerald cuckoo, red headed blue bill.
Also, to see are the butterflies and plant species, forest elephants’ duikers. And so many monkey’s species such as blue monkey, colobus etc. Enjoy the walk through the forest and spend one hour around with the gorillas. After the trekking, you will be transferred to the famous Lake Bunyonyi; An area where one can relax after the gorilla activity, to try and cut the time tomorrow for the journey back to Kampala or Entebbe
Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe.
On this day we look forward to transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe after breakfast at our overnight lodge. We shall have lunch at Mbarara town, the biggest town in western Uganda. Mbarara is also called the land of milk with its trademark of the long-horned cattle. Arrival in Kampala or Entebbe will be late evening or for a late-night flight back to your motherland. As the saying goes, ‘east or west home is best’.
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Uganda Tourism Board
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Uganda Wildlife Authority
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The Buhoma Gorilla Camp
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The Bwindi Kids Charity
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What our customers Say ?
Headspun2023-07-16Unforgettable Rwanda Emerald tailored our 5 day trip to Rwanda to all our many and frequently changing requests without any fuss. Chris, our driver/guide for the duration, could not have been more helpful and professional
Nic2022-10-25Amazing holidays! Great holidays! Even my special wishes were included into the planning although time was short. Our guide and driver City Tyson Magezi was caring and responsible. We traveled for four weeks and stayed in different accommodations from hut to tent to amazing hotels.
Susanne2022-08-19Just amazing It felt so safe and comfortable and exciting to travel with emerald. Our guide was so caring, so experienced and always friendly and an a great mood. He showed us so many animals included lions and leopards. That was just amazing . We saw wonderful landscapes like waterfalls and had contact to people . No Uganda or Eastern Africa without emerald . I m deep in love with Uganda and will come back as soon as possible.
Jose Murta2022-05-13Memorable Family Trip in Uganda Fantastic Trip that exceeded our expectations! Travelled to Uganda with wife and 2 children (9 and 10y old) for 7 days. Since the start (at planning stage) got a great support from Bob (company owner) and Edmund (our guide) via WhatsApp. They tailored a program to our needs including the unforgettable mountain gorillas hike, general hikes to waterfalls, safari including boat trip to see hipos!! Edmund, our guide, always super polite and the kids enjoyed him a lot! All our hotels, meals included in the package so no hassle on this….we just paid for drinks! The only regret I have is not staying one extra day in the Mburo National Park to explore a bit more ;) Memorable trip with so much nature and a super-humble people that made the experience even more enjoyable!! Super recommend!! The whole family just feeling we need to get back to explore more ;)Dwayne B2022-05-13Great Experience With Emerald!! It was an amazing experience! My guides Lucky and Hillary made me feel as if I was family and took care of everything I needed. They were very knowledgeable as we trekked to gorillas in Bwindi and a ride a wildlife safari through Queen Elizabeth. I learned so much from them about the animals, the terrain and the surrounding people. They we also incredibly helpful in helping me find activities around Buhoma, where I stayed, all of which were great. By the time I left I knew I had made friends who I will continue to stay in touch with. Can’t wait to come back with my family!
Dávid B2022-05-12Feeding python - 9 lions on a tree - leopard vs. lion We saw all animals and extremely special situations in a short period of time, good organization and friendly guide Paul with lots of knowledge.
Rachmurta2022-05-10Unforgettable trip! We spent one week in Uganda travelling by the guidance of Gorilla Experience safari. The whole experience were definitely above our expectations. Edmand was a friendly, polite and kind guide the whole time!
Vit Siv2022-04-22Ultimately Unique Experience of Uganda! It was unbelievable unique experience, one in a life time. Everything right from arrival to minor ditals was taken care of, too service! Itinerary was compiled/tailor to our wishes and needs as well as to include as much activities as possible. Tyson was our guide. He is an amazing guide, but even better person. He did an incredible job to put this all together, and make it all happen. We managed to do everything we wanted and even more. Definitely a trip to remember!!
Emmanuel OKalany2022-01-08A rewarding experience for a family visit to queen Elizabeth National Park My family and I had an excellent guided tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The itinerary planning provided was good and the costing of items was realistic. The care and hospitality of the team was excellent. They were also flexible to make time adjustments brought about because of traveling with children
Gordon Y2021-06-23Trip to Kaiso Tonya Game Reserve The guide/driver was too keen to find out my interests. That way, we always had something to talk abouts. Thank you
