3 Days Bwindi Gorilla Trekking Safari – Uganda
3 DAYS BWINDI GORILLA TREKKING SAFARI- UGANDA
3 Days Bwindi Gorilla Trekking safari: 3 Days Bwindi Gorilla Trekking safari is a 3 days amazing safari package offering an opportunity to visit the most visited destination in Uganda the pearl of Africa, Bwindi impenetrable national park for a gorilla trekking safari. This packages includes 3 days and 2 night’s excursion in the wilderness of Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Highlights of the 3 Days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari
- Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park
- Day 2: Mountain gorilla trekking experience
- Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable national park
Kampala- Bwindi impenetrable national park: On day 1 of 3 days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari, you will be picked by your safari driver from your hotel either in Kampala or Entebbe, who will meet and greet you and then introduce to you this 3 days fascinating adventure to the habitat of mountain gorillas as you embark on a journey to Bwindi impenetrable national park. On your way you will have a stopover at the equator landmark for pictures and another stopover in Mbarara city for lunch, after which you will continue with your journey to Bwindi impenetrable national park.
Bwindi impenetrable national park is a world’s recognized heritage site famous for habiting the biggest population of the endangered mountain gorillas in the world making it the best destination for gorilla trekking as well as gorilla habituation experience in the entire world. Well, upon your arrival in Bwindi impenetrable national park, you will check into your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight at your lodge awaiting the next day’s adventurous activity of Gorilla trekking safari in the wilderness of Bwindi.
Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 2: Mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable national park
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi: On day 2 of 3 days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari, you are to engage in mountain gorilla trekking experience thus arise early in the morning for breakfast and after morning breakfast you will be transferred to the park headquarters for a mountain gorilla trekking briefing session in which guidelines to follow on this experience will be read to you by a ranger. Later you will be grouped into a maximum group of 8 persons per gorilla family and set off on a hike into the wilderness of Bwindi impenetrable forest searching for the endangered mountain gorilla in their natural habitats. Ensure that you carry with you a packed lunch box, some snacks and enough drinking water.
Gorilla trekking exercise of looking for these mountain gorilla takes approximately 2-7 hours or even more depending on the movement of the gorilla family you are trekking. When you find the mountain gorillas you will be allowed to stay for only 1 hour in presence of mountain gorillas while taking pictures as long as your flashlight is off and enjoying sights of the gorillas. Then you will head back to the park’s headquarters where you will be awarded gorilla trekking certificates and then return to your lodge, in the evening you will have dinner and stay overnight sleep. There is however, an optional Batwa experience that is usually enjoyed in the evening after gorilla trekking.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala
Bwindi to Kampala: On the 3rd day which is the final day of your 3 days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari after early morning breakfast you will checkout of your lodge and set off on a drive back to Kampala. On your way you will have a stopover in Mbarara for lunch then proceed to Kampala arriving in the afternoon, you will be dropped either at your residence hotel or at Entebbe international airport for your departure flight.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch
End of the safari
Inclusions on 3 days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari
- Uganda Gorilla trekking permits
- 2 nights’ accommodation as per itinerary
- 4X4 safari vehicle
- Fuels
- Full time English speaking driver/ guide
- All meals as indicated
- Airport pickup and transfer
- Bottled mineral water for drinking while on safari
Exclusions on 3 days Bwindi Gorilla trekking safari
- Tips and gratuity
- Visa fees
- Air tickets
- All expenses of personal nature spending on things like laundry, phone calls, beer, among others.
