3 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking and Lake Bunyonyi Tour
3 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking and Lake Bunyonyi Tour
Tour Overview
This 3-day Uganda gorilla trekking and Lake Bunyonyi tour will start with a transfer from Entebbe Airport to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Your driver will take you to the booked hotel where you will spend the night and do the gorilla trekking on the second day of the tour. After this amazing experience, you will continue to Lake Bunyonyi on this very day. You will get to the booked hotel for an overnight stay. On the third day of this tour, you will have a canoeing experience and thereafter, you will embark on the journey to Entebbe to end the tour.
Travel days
Day 1: pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
On this day, your driver-guide for your trip will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala or Entebbe Airport and then start your Uganda tour with a drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. This drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is long but worth it. You will enjoy amazing scenery and meet up with the local communities. Along the way, you will have a stop at the equator for photographs, lunch en route, and other optional multiple stops depending on your request and time.
Drive time: 8-9hours
Lodging: Gorilla Heights Lodge/Four Gorillas Lodge/Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking Experience and transfer to Bunyonyi
You’ll get up very early for breakfast. Then, you’ll drive to the park headquarters for a briefing. Rangers will allocate your gorilla family group there. They’ll confirm your group at 8 people. After that, 2 ranger guides will lead you into the thick, impenetrable forest. Your search for the endangered mountain gorillas begins here.
The gorilla search team always resumes from the previous day’s last sighting spot. Once you reach the gorillas’ vicinity, you can interact with them for one hour only. Maintain utmost silence throughout the encounter. Photography and similar activities are permitted.
Advanced trackers guide the trek. They monitor gorilla movements all day in the forest. This way, they know where the gorillas nested the previous night. That’s where your search begins. Meanwhile, the 2 ranger guides lead you through the trek. They clear trails, create new paths, and share information about the mountain gorillas and Bwindi Forest along the way.
After the trek, you’ll return to the starting point. There, you’ll pick up your certificate, a sign of successful gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Afterward, you’ll head back to your hotel. There, you’ll have lunch and pack your things. Then, you’ll set off for Bunyonyi.
Lodging: Birdnest Resort/ Bunyonyi Eco Resort/Bunyonyi Overland Resort
Day 3: Canoeing at Lake Bunyonyi and transfer to Kampala
You will get up early enough and have breakfast. You will meet your driver and then start your canoeing experience along Lake Bunyonyi. This will allow you to visit several islands, including the famous Akampene Punishment Island. This famous island is known as a place where unmarried pregnant women were taken as a punishment for conceiving outside wedlock. Also, you will have the chance to see different bird species as you move on. After this experience, you will have to get back to the booked hotel and have lunch. After this, you will pack your things and get ready to leave for Entebbe to end the tour.
