3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari
per person
Our 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari will lead you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park that provides you the eye to eye encounters with the gorillas in the thick jungles of the wonderful Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. It is only in Bwindi Impenetrable forest National Park where visitors can go and stay a long time with mountain gorillas on African wildness. Usually, before the visitors are taken to see the endangered mountain gorillas, they are first habituated, and after they are open for gorilla trekking. This indicates that our 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari will make you engage in the gorilla habituation process and you enjoy what the researchers and guides do engage in while training the mountain gorillas before they make it open for tourists. Our 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari will start and end in Kampala or Entebbe International Airport
What to count on 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari
- Pickup and drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park from Kampala/Entebbe
- A visit and tour to the Uganda equator landmark at Kayabwe
- Gorilla habituation safari
- The offerings of the multilingual guided guide in a position to talk in English or French for the whilst drive
Day 1: Start your 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari with pick up from Entebbe-Equator in Kayabwe then to Bwindi Forest National Park
Yes, today morning we shall start our journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park with a pickup for your residence in Kampala or at Entebbe international airport regarding where you will have stayed the previous night. Our safari drive will come in a 4×4 safari van and gives to a brief introduction before you embark on the journey. After, you will board the van and have a seat at your comfortable seat, and set off for the journey. The journey is so interesting with the wonderful sighting of the roadside events, enjoy the several local markets of people selling all food staffs, crafts alongside the road and your first stopover will be at the equator where you will dine for breakfast in case you left your hotel without food breakfast, tour the equator monument, do some shopping of the crafts at the equators and later you will continue the journey as you pass through several Ankole cattle farms with Ankole long-horned cattle and later you will make your lunch stop at Igongo cultural center in Mbarara city where you will have lunch and the tours of the Museum depicting the culture of the Ankole people from where they were and how everything has changed significantly. After lunch, you will proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park with beautiful scenes of the Kigezi terraced hills and other wonderful scenic views. Later you will arrive and check into your booked lodge to be served dinner and have the overnight stay.
Accommodation /lodging options: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge (Luxury), Rushaga Gorilla Camp (midrange), and Rushaga Haven Lodge (budget)
Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 2: Bwindi Gorilla Habituation experience and drive back to the lodge
You need to remember that the gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park is done and conducted in the southern sector of Rushaga. Therefore, today’s activity will start with the morning breakfast of a warm or hot cup of tea with good accompaniments. After breakfast, our safari drive will be exactly waiting for you outside the hotel and you will get into the car and be driven to where you will receive the gorilla habituation instructions. Normally this is done at the headquarters. It is good to receive instructions as it will help you to learn more about how you will handle yourself while searching the mountain gorillas in the forest. You will be told how you should walk while in the wild and what you will do after seeing the gorillas. After the briefing, you will be led by researchers and guides to the forest, while looking for the semi-habituated mountain gorilla families, you will be may encounter other wildlife species such as birds, small butterflies, and unique tree species which will be explained to you by the professional ranger.
Once you see the gorillas you will spend 4 hours with them. Remember that, you will see the gorillas that are being habituated and thus they are not yet fully used to the people and thus you will get a chance to participate in the activities that researchers do to make gorillas get used to the people such as the naming of the gorillas, calling them, collecting samples and others. After four hours you will return to the park headquarters where you started the activity and then earn yourself the gorilla habituation certificate and you will be driven back to your lodge for the overnight stay.
Accommodation /lodging options: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge (Luxury), Rushaga Gorilla Camp (midrange), and Rushaga Haven Lodge (standard)
Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 3: Have breakfast in the morning and return to Kampala or Entebbe International Airport
By today we hope that you enjoyed the gorilla trekking experience to your maximum and now, you will wake up and have breakfast as usual, and thereafter, you will check out of your hotel room with your belongings, join your safari drive guide in the vehicle and start your journey back to Kampala or Entebbe international airport with the en-route meals at Igongo Cultural Museum before you return your continue and proceed with your journey to Entebbe international airport for your flight back home. This will mark the end of your 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari
Rushaga Gorilla Lodge (Luxury), Rushaga Gorilla Camp (midrange), and Rushaga Haven Lodge (standard)
Meal Plan; Breakfast and Lunch
In the morning unhurriedly, you will wake up and have breakfast and after breakfast, you pack your belongings and then drive back to Kigali International Airport to catch your departing flight and this marks the final moments of your 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari
3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari includes
- Transport for 3 days in a well-modified safari vehicle (4WD, air-conditioned, pop up roof) Safari Land-cruiser / Safari van
- Gorilla trekking permit
- Professional English speaking driver-guide for 3days
- Fuel for 3 days
- Pick up and drop off
- Accommodation on full board accommodation for 2 night
- All en-route meals
- Bottled mineral water
This 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Habituation safari excludes;
- Domestic and international flights but they can be arranged on request
- Tips
- The cost of the gorilla permits
- Entry Visa
- Souvenir and gifts
- Alcoholic and soft drinks (Sodas, beers, wines, special juice and coffee orders)
- Travel insurance
- Accommodation before or after the tour in Kampala / Entebbe but can be arranged on request
- Laundry / Phone and other personal expenditures note mentioned in the itinerary