3 Days Gorilla Tracking Safari in Uganda
The 3 Days Gorilla Tracking Safari in Uganda specifically starts from Entebbe or Kampala with pick up by one of our professional driver guides. Our safari gives you an opportunity to surely visit the scenic Lake Bunyonyi and Lake Mutanda. You will definitely mingle with the local people in the community walk. A canoe ride on Lake Bunyonyi enables you enjoy the breathtaking views of rolling hills or sceneric islands.
Trip highlights
Gorilla tracking
Stopover at the Equator
Batwa experience
Breathtaking views of the landscape in southwestern Uganda among others
DETAILED ITINERARY
DAY 1: ARRIVAL
Hopefully, your flight is scheduled for an early morning landing in Uganda. Your safari will start from Entebbe airport or Kigali, where you will be picked up by your professional Driver/Guide .Who will brief you about your tour and then depart for Bwindi Impenetrable national park. The drive without delay will take you southwest Uganda by road, cross the Equator then to Mbarara for Lunch.And through the Savannah grasslands to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
The sceneric drive through Kigezi Highlands commonly referred as “the Switzerland of Uganda”. Running through the banana plantations until you arrive at the gorilla Sanctuary of Bwindi NP. And finally check in for your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the next day .
Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
Accommodation Option:
Luxury | Buhoma Lodge |
Comfort | Gorilla Mist Camp |
Standard | Bakiga Lodge |
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Drinking Water and fruits Throughout
DAY 2: GORILLA TRACKING
After an early breakfast and briefing by a ranger guide, you enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular! The area not only offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and incredibly dense. But also crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. However the time taken along the terrain varies with the movements of these great primates. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of viewing, observing and spending time with these gentle and endangered giants is certainly an exciting experience to be long savored. Eventually return to your lodge.
Having had lunch, thereafter proceed for batwa cultural experience. And we straightaway head to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of (2,200 – 2,478m).But it’s the 29 islands of various shapes and sizes scattered across the water that make it most magical and for this reason you could admire them all day. Finally have dinner and an overnight.
Location: Lake Bunyonyi
Accommodation Option:
Luxury | Bird nest @ Bunyonyi Resort |
Comfort | Arcadia Cottages Bunyonyi |
Standard | Hawk’s Eye Lodge Bunyonyi |
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Drinking Water and fruits Throughout
DAY 3: TRANSFER FROM LAKE BUNYONYI – ENTEBBE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
After breakfast, you can choose to do Community Walk, Canoe Ride, Boat Ride, Bicycle Ride, Bird Watching, Cray Fishing or any other activity in Lake Bunyonyi .By paying additionally at the accommodation. The team will certainly set out on a drive back to Kampala.
You will then be dropped off at the airport or at your hotel in Kampala. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you bid goodbye to your team. Thus the end of this tour.
We hope to see you when you visit and thanks you for specifically choosing Paradise Adventure Vacations! Gorilla Trekking Safari Uganda
Location: Entebbe International Airport
Accommodation Option: No
Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
Drinking Water and fruits throughout
Tour Included:
A 4×4 safari land cruiser/ Minibus with fuel and an English speaking driver guide
Gorilla Trekking Permit
Batwa Community Walk Experience
Fruits and WIFI Throughout
Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
All park entrance fees
Drinking water throughout the safari
Tour Included:
Drinks besides water provided in the safari car
Tips
All personal expenses
What to carry:
A pair of water proof trousers and jacket.
A hat
Insect repellent
A pair of sun glasses
Personal camera
A pair of binoculars