Gorilla Tour Booking Safaris

This Uganda safari tour takes you gorilla tracking (trekking) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, giving you chance to see over 10 primates including, black and white colobus, red tailed monkeys, etc. Bwindi Impenetrable NP is a natural world heritage site. Hikers will love it, with the gorilla excursion as a high point of your safari! We then move to Lake Bunyonyi and explore its mystical appearance and end up with Wildlife at Lake Mburo.

Day 1: Briefing on the safari, transfer to Bwindi impenetrable Forest, southwestern Uganda for your gorilla trek. 
Meet and greet with our local guide over breakfast, and then after drive heading to southwestern Uganda. En route, there is a local community popular for making local drums and crafts and a fruit market. Stopover, admire and buy yourself souvenirs. Proceed to the Equator line taken as one beautiful scenery in Africa - the pathway of the sun and take photographs.
Pass by mountains, tropical rainforest and bamboo forest during the nine hour journey.
Accommodation options available (all on full board basis) 
Up-market: Buhoma Lodge/ Mahogany Lodge
Moderate: Engagi Lodge/ Silverback Lodge / Gorilla Safari Lodge/ Lake Kitandara Camp
Low Budget: Travellers Rest Hotel, or Ruhija Gorilla Friends Camp or Buhoma Community Campground
 (Driving time to Bwindi N. Park is ± 9hrs on both surfaced and rough non-surfaced roads)


Day 2:  Gorilla trekking (Bwindi Impenetrable NP), Tracking the Mountain Gorillas and other primates
Today enjoy surely. After breakfast, proceed for the morning briefing before enjoying the highlight of the trip- Gorilla trekking, which may last the entire day. We trek through the rainforest and bamboo covered slopes, accompanied by a guide and trackers, in search of a mountain gorilla family. The walking can sometimes be tough and long, but when you catch a glimpse of the magnificent silverback, any discomforts will be quickly forgotten. When sighted, visitors will be guided to within 6 metres from the gorillas, sit around them for a whole hour while gazing into their big round eyes.
 Gorilla trekking is unpredictable. It's difficult to foresee how many hours you will hike. The gorilla excursion can take from 2 up to 8 hours. Expect to walk along distance in steep and muddy conditions, sometimes with rain overhead, before you encounter any gorillas. A good physical condition is recommended. For conservation purposes, time spent with the gorillas is limited to one hour. A ranger will brief you on how to behave with the gorillas.

 While most of today's forests are no more than 12,000 years old, Bwindi's vegetation has been weaving itself into tangles over at least 25,000 years, in the process accumulating a lengthy species list. This includes 310 species of butterfly, 51 reptiles, 200 trees, 88 moths and an exceptional 120 types of mammal including 10 primates. The latter includes chimpanzee, L'Hoest's, red tailed and blue monkey, black and white colobus, baboon, and Bwindi's most famous resident, the mountain gorilla. Bwindi is a prime destination for birdwatchers. Its 350 species include seven which are IUCN red data listed and 90% of all Albertine rift endemics, species which are difficult or impossible to see in any other part of East Africa.
Accommodation options available (all on full board basis) 
Up-market: Buhoma Lodge/ Mahogany Lodge
Moderate: Engagi Lodge/ Silverback Lodge / Gorilla Safari Lodge/ Lake Kitandara Camp
Low Budget: Travellers Rest Hotel, or Ruhija Gorilla Friends Camp or Buhoma Community Campground


Day 3: Bwindi – Lake Bunyonyi:
You can go for an optional guided nature walk in Bwindi after breakfast then head to Lake Bunyonyi. But this should depend on whether you should use the village trial or one of the five trails. After lunch break, we depart for Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is another major tourist stopover that is undeniably amazing. It is the 2nd deepest lake in Africa, it contains lots of the tasty crayfish, so get set for a culinary delight. Bunyonyi is a local word that means “many small birds” in direct translation. It a must stop for committed birders and besides that its serpentine shape and numerous Islands other highlights one must look out for. Check in at your preferred Lake Bunyonyi lodging. There are many things to do here; you can do a canoe ride, check out several islands like Bwama Island good for birders or you could take a nature walk along shore on one of the islands helping you to appreciate a variety of small birds or simply relax. Well deserved after a day of gorilla tracking the day before, dinner at your lodging.
Overnight Accommodation options available (all on full board basis) 
Moderate: arcadia lodge
Low Budget: Bunyonyi safari cam


Day 4: Lake Bunyonyi
Wake up to relaxed adventures from Lake Bunyonyi, sounds of birds in the air, fresh breeze by the serene lake and the like. After breakfast, take nature walk, canoe ride or bicycle ride around the lake that was named after its many migrant and resident birds such as the rare shoebill stork, malachite kingfishers, bee-eaters, little sunbirds and several Albertine rift endemics. Sail across the lake to its spectacular islands and retire to the comfort of your lodge. For overnight Accommodation options available (all on full board basis)
Moderate: arcadia lodge
Low Budget: Bunyonyi safari camp


Day 5: Lake Bunyonyi-Lake Mburo National Park
We drive east to Mbarara, now one of Uganda’s major towns, but formerly capital of Ankole kingdom for over 400 years until disbanded by independence in 1962. In the days before modern Uganda came into being, the area had a series of fiercely independent tribal states. The once nomadic Bahima people, part of Bantu-speaking Ankole kingdom, are renowned for the particular bond they forge with their unique, long-horned Ankole cattle. These hardy cattle respond to their individual names when called by their male herder; he in turn lives in close harmony with them. From here you continue to Lake Mburo, a small but picturesque national park renowned for its herds of antelope and one of the only two Ugandan parks home to Buchell’s zebra. The park is also especially good for acacia-associated bird. Accommodation options available (all on full board basis)

Accommodation options available (all on full board basis) 
Up-market: Mihingo Lodge / Mantana Tented Camp/ Archadia Cottages
Moderate: Lake Mburo Safari Lodge/ Rakobo Rock
Low Budget: Rwonyo Campsite


Day 6: Game drive & Boat ride
Have breakfast or an early morning cup of coffee, take morning game drive looking for several wildlife species like the Zebras, Elands, Impalas, lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants, water and bush bucks, warthogs, bush pigs, Uganda Kobs and other types of antelopes. This experience takes 3-4 hours, after return to the lodge for the refreshment and lunch. Thereafter in the afternoon take the unforgettable sun set boat cruise along the Lake Mburo and while on cruise expect the clear view and panoramic photographs of wildlife and birds along the shores of the channel. Thereafter return to the lodge for dinner and overnight Accommodation options available (all on full board basis)

Accommodation options available (all on full board basis) 
Up-market: Mihingo Lodge / Mantana Tented Camp/ Archadia Cottages
Moderate: Lake Mburo Safari Lodge/ Rakobo Rock
Low Budget: Rwonyo Campsite


Day 7: Foot Safari-Kampala                                                                                                                    Have an early cup of coffee and after with the park guide enter into the forest for foot safari to experience the primates, plants and birds and this foot safari is much informative from different tourism products in the forest. Lunch and after transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe international airport for your return flight back home. Meal plan: BB-End of services