Compare 3 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking Safari by Kagera Safaris vs 3 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking Adventure by Valiant Safaris
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| Duration | 3 days | 3 days |
| Price From | $ 1,632 | $ 2,145 |
| Price Per Day | $ 544 | $ 715 |
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| Trip Style | Private guided tour | Private guided tour |
| Lodging Level | Standard | Premium |
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| Flights & Transport | Ground transport included | Airfare included |
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1 Breakfast, 2 Lunches and 2 Dinners |
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This tour will take you to the south western part of Uganda for an experience with the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable national park. Bwindi impenetrable national park is a UNESCO World heritage covering an area of 321km2 and is home to over 300 mountain gorillas |
On this 3 Day Uganda Gorilla Safari (Fly-in Express) trip, you’ll be transfered to Entebbe Airport for your local chartered flight from Entebbe to Kisoro at about 7:30 am. At Kihihi Airport in Kisoro, a trusted driver in a 4×4 safari truck/van will transfer you to your gorilla forest lodge where you’ll check in and settle in, take in the fresh forest air and green sights and maybe choose to take a walk around the African villages and communities of the natives that inhabit the surroundings of the park. |
Day 1: Travel to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
After an early breakfast, we start journey to the home of the endangered mountain gorillas – Bwindi impenetrable national park. The drive to Bwindi though far is through Uganda communities giving a glimpse in the everyday lives of Ugandans, roadside fruit markets. Lunch will be enroute arriving later in the evening straight to your lodge for overnight ready for an adventurous day tomorrow. Haven Lodge
Day 2: Uganda Ultimate Gorilla trekking Experience
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
The highlight of your safari is the mountain gorilla experience in the jungles of Uganda. Bwindi impenetrable forest is true to its name thick and you often have to get off the maintained tracks. After breakfast, the driver guide will transfer you to the briefing point to receive instructions on how to conduct yourself while in the forest and when you locate the gorillas. Flash photography is prohibited and so is prolonged eye contact with gorillas because it is a sign of challenging them. The trek takes anything from minutes to hours in search of the gorillas depending on where they nested the previous night – travel prepared to trek for long hours.
Haven Lodge
Day 3: Transfer to Entebbe
After an exciting experience with gorillas in the wild, you are ready to start journey back to Kampala/Entebbe by road. Alternatively, you can choose to fly back, we hope you take home only good memories of your experience in Uganda.
Day 1: Local Flight, Entebbe to Kihihi – Bwindi Impenetrable NP
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
In time at Entebbe airport by 07:30, your flight to Kihihi airstrip in Kisoro will set off. Look out the window, for Uganda is one of the most beutiful country in the world seen from above. You’ll definately catch sight of the beautiful Rwenzori mountain ranges, tea plantations, numerous lakes and rivers and the magnificent Virunga Volcano moutains just before you land in Kisoro.
In Kisoro, you’ll be picked and driven through Kisoro town up-to your lodge just outside the Bwindi Impenetrable NP. Check-in, have lunch and relax or take a walk around the African villages around the park, your choice.
uganda gorilla trekking safari Jungle adventure
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking Safari Adventure in Bwindi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner + Drinking Water
Today is your Uganda Gorilla Trekking Safari D-day. Wake early morning and have you breakfast, get your packed lunch and get to the trailhead before 7:30 AM.
Gorilla trekking starts at 08:00 after a briefing at the park headquarters, you will hike through the dense steep forest searching for the gorillas depending on where they were seen making nests the previous evening.
The gorilla trekking can last 2-7 hours depending on how soon you find the gorillas, this is influenced by the location they stayed overnight. Trekking can be a tasking adventure, but coming to a facial closeup with these close relatives to human is a reward worthy to earn.
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is located in southwestern Uganda edge at the edge of the great east African Rift Valley. It is a home to over 400 species of mountain gorillas about half of the world’s population. Many of these are habituated in families that are daily visited by tourists. The forest is also a home to over 350 species of birds and 400 flora species.
Aerial Bwindi View Gorilla tour Uganda
Day 3: Fly Kihihi to Entebbe
Meals: Breakfast
The last day of your safari starts with a drive to Kihihi Airstrip, where you will board a return light weight flight to Entebbe, on the flight from Kihihi to Entebbe you will be able to see several stunning scenery from above. Upon arriving Entebbe international airport check in for your onward flight back home.
We believe you have enjoyed your holiday in the most hospitable country, the Pearl of Africa!
