3 Days Gorilla Trekking And Batwa Experience

Pure Africa Tour guide will pick you up from your hotel/Residence and after set off to Bwindi. You will journey through terraced hill of northern Rwanda to arrive to Cyanika broader. You will cross to Uganda and proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National park for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation Options:

Budget: Buhoma Community Rest Camp, bwindi forest lodge, gorilla valley lodge, Ride 4 a woman

Middle-range: Buhoma community haven lodge, Silverback lodge, Gorilla Mist Camp, Rushaga gorilla camp, Lake Mutanda Resort, Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge.

Luxury: Chameleon Hill, Silver back lodge, Buhoma lodge

High-end: Sanctuary Forest Camp, Ruhija Safari Logde, Cloud Mountain Gorilla Lodge Mahogany springs Lodge

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park lies in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley. Its mist-covered hillsides are blanketed by one of Uganda’s oldest and most biologically diverse rain forests, which dates back over 25,000 years and contains almost 400 species of plants. More famously, this “impenetrable forest” also protects an estimated 459 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population, including several habituated groups, which can be tracked. The forest also provides shelter to a further 120 mammals, around 350 species of birds including 23 Albertine Rift endemics.

You will be in a tropical forest, it can rain anytime.  We encourage you to carry a rain jacket, waterproof hiking boots, gardening gloves for protection against stinging plants.  Wear Long trousers and long sleeved sweaters or shirts. Don’t forget the camera

Start the day with an early morning breakfast before driving to the briefing point at 7am.  The Ugandan Wildlife Authority ranger guide will share about the code of conduct in the park. You will then be allocated a gorilla family to trek after which you will start off gorilla trekking these gentle giants as directed by the rangers. The hike can sometimes be tough and anywhere from 1 hour to 8 hours depending on where the gorillas will be on a specific. But when meet them; your journey will be well worth the effort.  You get to hear the gorillas communicating with one another, watch them play, feed, jump from different tree branch to another, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant called Silverback. You are allowed an hour with the gorillas watching them from six meters before returning to the base station.

Later, return back to the lodge and in the evening you may choose to relax at the lodge or a nature walk around the lodge.

Accommodation Options:

Budget:

Middle-range:  Lake Mutanda Resort, Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge.

Luxury: Mount Mgahinga Lodge

Batwa pygmies of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are a fascinating group of people with unique traditions. They are a hunter-gatherer tribe that has lived side-by-side with the wildlife of this ancient park for thousands of years. Hike in the forest with the batwa and see how to lived and hunted, you will learn about fire making, honey harvest and burial rituals and more. Along the trail, you will also learn about different plant and their medicinal properties. Exit the forest, have lunch in Musanze before proceeding to Kigali.