3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip
Our 3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip 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 trip you will have a chance to spend 4 hours with the mountain gorillas while participating in the process of 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.
Day 1: Pick up from Kampala/Entebbe and Transfer to Bwindi
Day 2: Gorilla tracking and community walk
Day 3: Transfer to back to Kampala/Entebbe to end the trip.
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COST PER PERSON SHARING
Persons | Date | Price per person |
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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 USD 45.00 per person willing to stay alone in a single room
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
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