4 Days Double Gorilla Trekking in Uganda
The four days Bwindi gorilla trekking will include a double trekking experience. A trip will allow you to trek the gorillas twice to encounter two different gorilla families and probably making friends with some. The same trip takes you to the Batwa pygmies of the forest; an endangered group of people in Uganda. They are simply four days that are worth.
4 Day Uganda Gorilla Safari Highlights
Day 1: Travel to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
Day 2: 1st Gorilla trekking and Batwa community tour
Day 3: 2nd Gorilla trekking experience, drive to Lake Bunyonyi
Day 4: Travel back to Kampala or Kigali and departure
Day-By-Day Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Travel to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
Be picked by our experienced driver-guide from the hotel in Entebbe or Kampala. Have a simple briefing about all the trip movements, and start the journey to Bwindi. It is a nine – ten-hour journey that furnishes you with stunning views of the Kigezi highlands, Virunga ranges and very beautiful scenery. You will have a stopover at the Uganda Equator for photographs and to experience the water experiment that shows how water swirls in the different directions in the opposite hemispheres. Lunch in Mbarara town, arrival will be in the evening for dinner and overnight in preparation for the next big day.
Accommodation Options
LUXURY: Buhoma Lodge, Mahogany Springs, Gorilla Forest Camp or Trackers Safari Lodge
MIDRANGE: The Haven Lodge, Gorilla Mist Camp, Gorilla Resort
BUDGET – Buhoma campsite, Ruhija Community Rest Camp, Broad Bill Forest Camp
Mahogany Springs Lodge Buhoma
Day 2: Gorilla trekking and Batwa community
Have a very early breakfast at 7 am, head to the park offices to have a simple briefing from the local guide. Here be divided into groups of eight trekkers that are allowed to visit a single gorilla family per day. Enter into the forest and start the hunt for these beautiful creatures. Hike up through the thick forest in slippery trails just to have an encounter with the endangered apes. Spend one magical hour with the forest giants, watching them play from one tree branch to the other, feeding and basically carrying on their daily lives.
In the evening, have a cultural encounter with the Batwa pygmies of the forest, experience how they used to hunt and gather food in the ancient days before they were shifted out of the forest and enjoy the traditional performances. Tasting the local cuisines is a guarantee except if you don’t want.
Accommodation Options
LUXURY: Buhoma Lodge, Mahogany Springs, Gorilla Forest Camp or Trackers Safari Lodge
MIDRANGE: The Haven Lodge, Gorilla Mist Camp, Gorilla Resort
BUDGET: Buhoma campsite, Ruhija Community Rest Camp, Broad Bill Forest Camp
Gorilla watching in Bwindi
Day 3: 2nd Gorilla Trekking Experience
On this day you will still wake up very early, have breakfast and go for the 2nd gorilla trekking experience. It will basically be the same procedure except that this time you will track a different gorilla family, an experience that only a few tourists have been able to have. In the afternoon you will head back to the lodge for lunch and relaxation and drive to the beautiful lake Bunyonyi in Kabale (2hrs), dinner and overnight.
Accommodation Options
LUXURY: Bunyonyi Overland Resort
MIDRANGE: Bunyonyi Overland Resort cottages, Bunyonyi Rock Resort, Arcadia Cottages
BUDGET: Bird Nest Resort
Day 4: Travel back to Kampala and departure
Early morning after breakfast, followed by canoe ride to visit the beautiful Islands on Lake Bunyonyi, later check out of the lodge and start travelling back to Kampala or straight to Entebbe international airport to fly back to your home country. Alternatively, we can simply drive to Kigali in Rwanda for your onward flight. The journey is only 3-4hrs through Gatuna boarder.
Price Inclusions
- Two Gorilla permits per person (USD1400)
- Ground Transport in a comfortable 4×4 safari vehicle
- Fuel
- 3 Nights Accommodation on full board
- Enroute Meals and bottled mineral water for refreshment
- Guiding fees
- Bottled mineral water for refreshment
- Services of a professional English speaking driver/guide
Safari Exclusions
- Visas and air tickets
- Souvenirs
- Alcoholic drinks
- Any activity outside the itinerary