3 Day Gorilla Habituation Experience Safari
Duration
Overview
This 3 Day safari takes you to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for the gorilla habituation experience. This experience is quite different from the gorilla trek as it offers you more time to spend with the gorillas in Bwindi. The journey can start in Uganda or Rwanda depending on where your hotel for pickup will be located. Prepare to learn more about the mountain gorillas, their feeding habits and spend more time (up to 4 hours) watching them.
Included/Excluded
- Gorilla Habituation Experience Permit
- Safari car and fuel
- English speaking tour and driver guide
- Drinking water in the car
- Meals as mentioned above
- Accommodation for 2 nights in Bwindi NP
- Optional Activities
- International Flights
- Insurance
- Tips and Laundry services
- Visa fees
- Other personal expenses
Tour Plan
The safari starts with pick up from your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe. You then start the journey to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park located in south western Uganda. The drive to Bwindi is scenic as you have views of beautiful scenery, kigezi highlands and landscape of Uganda. You will have a stopover for lunch and short breaks to stretch along the way after which you continue with your journey. You will also stop over at the Equator monument along the way where you can take photos.
You will transfer to your lodge where you check in and spend the night.
Journey time: 8 hours
Meal Plan: Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation
Luxury – Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Mid – range – Lake Mulehe Safari Lodge
Budget – Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge
You will have an early breakfast at the lodge before heading out into the forest this morning. After breakfast your driver guide will transfer you to the starting point, here you meet the park rangers, trackers and researchers who will accompany you on the gorilla habituation experience and also take you through briefing and guidelines on how to behave while on the habituation experience. Depending on where the gorillas have nested the previous night you will then start out in search of them, once you locate them you will spend 4 hours with the gorillas, watching them, taking photos, learning about the gorillas, the process that researchers go through to habituate them and their feeding habits. Only 4 tourists are allowed to do the gorilla habituation experience as opposed to 8 individuals for the gorilla trek so you will have enough time with the gorillas and you will be a small number visiting them. After spending time with the gorillas you will start the trek back to the starting point and retire to the lodge as you end your day.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today you check out of the lodge and travel back to Kampala. On arrival the driver guide will drop you off at the hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or at the airport for your flight back.
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Lunch
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