3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip

Our 3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip is an incredible short safari to Uganda that takes you deep into Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for an extended encounter with the endangered mountain gorillas. During this adventure, you will spend up to four unforgettable hours observing and participating in the process of habituating these gentle giants to get used to human presence. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park shelters nearly half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas and offers a remarkable 99% chance of seeing them in their natural habitat, making this trip a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife experience.

Itinerary Summary

Day 1: Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi

Day 2: Gorilla Habituation Experience in Bwindi National Park

Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe to end the trip.

Tour Itinerary

Prices

COST PER PERSON SHARING

Persons	Date	Price per person
1 Person	Any date	USD2500.00
2 Persons	Any date	USD2000.00
3 Persons	Any date	USD1970.00
4 Persons	Any date	USD1950.00
5 Persons	Any date	USD1945.00
6 Persons	Any date	USD1940.00

Single room Supplement is USD100.00 per person willing to stay alone in a single room

Includes & Excludes

Included

All transportation as scheduled
4 Hour Gorilla Habituation Permit of $1500.00 Per Person Per Trek
All park entrance fee, crater service and concession fee
Meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner as indicated above
Four wheel transportation for safari with pop up roof ideal for game view
English speaking driver guide
Complementary bottled water while doing game drive
All activities as per above proposal

Excluded

Uganda visas
Meals, transport, and lodging outside the regular itinerary
Alcoholic beverages and bottled drinks
Any items of personal nature
International vaccinations
Insurance

Tour Map

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Travel Days

DAY 01: Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

On this day you driver guide for your trip will pick you from your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or from 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.

Drive time: 8-9 hours drive

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 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 always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day. Upon reaching the area where these famous species are, you will only be allowed to interact with them for four hours and you should always keep maximum silence while with these Gorillas. You are allowed to take photographs and so on. In the evening, you may go for community walks in the nearby Batwa community, where you will be entertained and given tales of their unique culture.

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 determined by 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. The trek is guided by advanced trackers who monitor the mountain gorilla movements all day in the forest with this they will know where they nested for the last night and that’s where you start from 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 retrieve back to the starting point to pick 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

Early morning breakfast, after you will start your journey back to Kampala/Entebbe with stopovers for photography in some of the areas with tourist’s attractions, you will arrive in Kampala/Entebbe in the late afternoon, and you will be transferred to your hotel for dinner and overnight or to the airport for your departure.

End of the 3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip