Fun: Gorilla Tracking
Bragging Rights: Standing face to face with the amazing Mountain Gorillas

Overview

You have always wished to trek gorillas but your budget and time have always limited you? This 3 day budget gorilla trekking tour to Bwindi is then perfect for you. You will spend 3 days in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park located in southwestern Uganda and home to half of the endangered mountain gorillas (approximately 400 individuals).. Depending on availability of gorilla permits at the time of confirmation, you may trek gorillas in Buhoma, Ruhija, Rushaga or Nkuringo

Uganda is a land of contrasts. Uganda is alive with these contrasts the massive lumbering yet silent elephant, disappearing like a vapor behind the trees, the chimpanzees crashing about the forest canopy, the lugubrious gorilla, chewing thoughtfully, in the bamboo thicket. There is the Nile, twisting its way north like a shimmering ribbon, through arid semi desert scattered about with rocky kopjes, Snowcapped peaks, tropical, sandy, freshwater beaches and smiling faces everywhere.

Destination

Entebbe – Bwindi
Impenetrable Forest
National Park: Travel Bwindi
Time: 9 hours

Depart your hotel in kampala for your road transfer to Impenetrable Forest National Park. En-route meet and interact with Royal drum makers, stopover at equator and capture photographic memories, you will find that Ugandans are friendly and are so eager to interact with visitors. Continue to Mbarara for Lunch then, will embark on your scenic drive to Bwindi NP.

Accommodation

Lodge: Broadbill Forest Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

Destination

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for a gorilla trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Gorilla Trek. Once this is done, you will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you from half an hour to three quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. On your trek, you are likely to spot other primates, birds and rare tree species. After finding the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend one hour with them before trekking back to the Park headquarter. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures. You will be awarded a certificate for participating in gorilla trekking and thus contributing to the conservation of mountain gorillas.

Accommodation

Lodge: Broadbill Forest Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Destination

Bwindi – Kampala

After your breakfast early morning, you will be driven to Entebbe for your accommodation as you wait for your flight. En-route make glimpse of Uganda’s rural life; watch herdsmen tend to their cattle, and take in the beautiful landscape as it all unfolds before you. A visit to the drum makers one you shouldn’t miss; get to a sneak peek into the process of making the traditional drums.

Accommodation

Lodge: Victoria View Guest House
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch

Inclusions

1. All Meals and accommodation as per the itinerary
2. All ground transportation in a comfortable 4×4 vehicle
3. Park entrance fees
4. Services of a full time English speaking driver/guide
5. Water while on safari
6. All airport pick-ups and drops
7. All activities at stipulated in the itinerary
8. And all government taxes/levies.
Gorilla permit ($600; we book for you)

Exclusions

1. Phone calls and bar bills
2. Personal insurance
3. Air fare
4. All other Services of a personal nature
5. Driver guide’s gratuity
6. No accommodation on day 3 though it can be arranged at an extra cost
7. Activities not mentioned in the itinerary