3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Safari
3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Safari
Overview:
Our 3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation safari is a short safari to Uganda that will take you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park to spend more time with the endangered mountain gorillas. On this safari, you will have a chance of spending 4 hours with the mountain gorillas while getting them used to human presence. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is home to half of the remaining mountain gorillas in their natural habitat it is approximately 459 gorilla individuals in Bwindi and your visit to this park gives you 99% of seeing the mountain gorillas.
Safari Highlights:
Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi
Gorilla tracking and community walk
Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe to end the trip.
Safari in detail:
DAY 01: Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
On your first day 1, Safari Vacations and travel services driver/guide for your trip will pick you up from your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or Entebbe Airport and start the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, this drive is long but worth it you will enjoy amazing sceneries 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.
Lodging: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/Rushaga Gorilla Camp
DAY 02: Gorilla Habituation Experience and Community Visit
After breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides who will allocate you a gorilla family group you will trek that day. In a group of 4 tourists, researchers, and ranger guides you will set off into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search continues from where their last spot was the previous day.
Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, allow you to interact with them for four hours and you should always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. allowing you to take photographs and so on. In the evening, you may go for community walks in the nearby Batwa community, where you will get entertainment and hear the tales of their unique culture.
About the habituation
Gorilla habituation involves hiking/walking through Bwindi Forest in search of the mountain gorillas, this can sometimes be strenuous depending on the trek that day which is normally by determination of weather and the movement of the gorillas in the forest but given the fact it is very well-organized activity you have 99% chances of seeing the gorillas on your trek.
With the guidance of advanced trackers who monitor the mountain gorilla movements all day in the forest, they will know where they nested for the last night and that’s where you start looking for them. The 2 ranger guides will lead you all through the trek clearing trails, creating new trails, and sharing with you information about the mountain gorillas and Bwindi Forest. After the trek, you will return to the starting point to pick up your certificates as a sign of successful tracking of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Lodging: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge/Rushaga Gorilla Camp
DAY 03: Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe to end your 3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip
After early morning breakfast, you will start your journey back to Kampala/Entebbe with stopovers for photography in some of the areas with tourist attractions, you will arrive in Kampala/Entebbe in the late afternoon, and you will proceed with a transfer to your hotel for dinner and overnight or to the airport for your departure. And that will mark the end of the 3-Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip
Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a Local tour operator based in Uganda with its head offices in Entebbe. Moreover, Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a business for a Ugandan native, we specialize in life-changing experiences and sustainable tours and holidays to all East African countries. We are members of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators and are registered by the Uganda Tourism Board. We have a good and long working relationship with Uganda Wildlife Authority making it easy to book your gorilla permits and gorilla trekking safari. Safari Vacations and Travel Services is high in reviews on Trip Advisor as well.
