Overview
Amplify your happiness with a 2 days double gorilla trekking in Uganda, particularly in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Explore two distinct habituated gorilla families in their natural habitat for an hour each. Moreover, each adventure is done in a different gorilla sector of the park, Rushaga and Ruhija. This is made possible due to the healthy population of mountain gorillas in the forest. Actually, 459 individual gorillas live inside Bwindi. Another key activity tailored for this trip includes a canoe ride on Lake Bunyonyi. The safari must begin in Kampala, or in nearby Entebbe.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi National Park
Regardless of being at Entebbe International Airport or accommodation in Entebbe or Kampala, we pick you up. Transfer to Rushaga sector, situated in the southwest 477 kilometers on the road from Kampala. Do not pass by the Equator monument at Kayabwe, where to photograph yourself on both the north and south hemisphere. Near you, experiments to prove that you are stepping on grounds situated along the equator can be performed for you. Continue on your original journey to reach Bwindi, but also stop for enroute lunch. Check in at a lodge adjacent to the forest and get dinner prepared but still very hot. Overnight stay is at the lodge.
Day 2: Gorilla Trek in Rushaga and Transfer to Ruhija
Your life is about to get exciting when you experience a gorilla trek. Get you breakfast and take it. Pack lunch and check out of the lodge. Move towards the Rushaga trailhead for a perfect time to attend a briefing. The park’s warden ensures that you learn the most important tips of gorilla trekking. Once you get to know the habituated gorilla to trek, start the search for them on foot. An experienced ranger guide leads the way to reveal the various trails to the gorillas.
The search ends when you find them, already foraging or doing other things. Every behavior of theirs can be observed at a distance and within an hour. Head back to where the trek started for debriefing. Enter the car to transfer to the Ruhija sector, which is 68.4 kilometers from Rushaga. Your pre-booked lodge there is where you check in and spend the night after moments of dinner.
Day 3: Gorilla Trek in Ruhija Sector and Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Just like your gorilla trek in day two, start your third day with breakfast before you check out. Head out to the Ruhija sector trailhead. On this day, you track a habituated gorilla family in this sector. Once again, you first attend a session organized by the park rangers to hear about proper gorilla trekking tips. Once you start the trek, the ranger guides help you identify the movements of a new habituated gorilla family. As you learn some tracking skills, find the gorillas spend 1 hour near them.
Go for your lunch and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi, some 92.3 kilometers away from the Ruhija sector. Check in at your booked lodge near the calm waters of Uganda’s deepest lake. Watch a lot of birds, because the name of the lake implies a place with numerous bird species. Dinner is prepared very well and offered in the evening hours. Now you can look forward to spend the night here.
Day 4: Canoe Ride and Departure to Kampala to end tour
Breakfast is available for you in the morning before you check out of your lodge. Enjoy a trip on Lake Bunyonyi in a canoe. Remarkably, 29 islands exist on the lake. Learn a lot of stories about them. The local guide also takes you to see the smallest of the islands. This is known as Akampene, or infamously, Punishment Island. Depart to Kampala with lunch offered enroute. End the 4 days double gorilla trekking in Uganda with drop off anywhere in Kampala or Entebbe.
