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3 Days Gorilla Tracking experience - Bwindi Forest

Package Details
Destination: Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Duration: 3 days
Price: $1276.93
Details & Booking at viator.com
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Offered by: Viator
This 3 Days Uganda Gorilla Safari takes you to the gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for a unique experience as you can face to face with a Gorilla. take selfies, see how they feed, nest and play.

Itinerary

Day 1: Depart kampala to Bwindi

Stop At: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
enjoy the magnificent views of lake bunyonyi, you can participate yourself in a village walk to the Batwa people, where you will discover the hidden cultures in them. Feel and taste the local dishes, see how they live in their day to day life.

You can relax and can go for some optional activities like Bird Watching, Swimming, boat safari, canoeing.
Duration: 8 hours

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at Crater Bay cottages

Day 2: Gorilla tracking - Bwindi Impenetrable forest

Stop At: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Western Region
Come face to face with the Mountain Gorillas. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest favors both mountain gorillas and some chimpanzees one of the only forest in Africa which posses these creatures. It also hosts five other species of primate, 100 mammals, around 78 butterflies and 360 bird species.

In the early morning after your breakfast, your driver will transfer you to the starting point of your tracking group or UWA headquarters to be briefed at (7.45am or 8.30am), then you will start the tracking. The gorillas that you track are very friendly to people, though still there are same groups which are shy, sharp and stubborn as human beings. Your experienced ranger will help you to spot out their presence. You will be going through the bush, as are push your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas. Once you find the gorillas, you will spend with them up to one hour which is given time.

Note: (This trek can take from half an hour to 5 hours depending on the area you track and group– a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes).
Duration: 5 hours

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Crater Bay Cottages

Day 3: Drive back and drop off to Kampala or Entebbe

Stop At: Uganda Equator, Masaka Road, Kayabwe Uganda
In the morning after breakfast, you will then drive back to Kampala or entebbe with a stopover at the Equator for equator Experience, photo shoot moments and buying souvenirs. You will then be taken to your guesthouse, lodge or hotel of your choice in Kampala or be dropped to the airport to catch your flight back to your home country.
Duration: 2 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.