4 Days Gorilla Trekking & Lake Mburo

Trip Overview

Day 1: Meet & Greet at the airport. Transfer to your hotel for an overnight in Kampala.

Day 2: Leave Kampala for Bwindi Imepnetrable Forest. Have a stop at the Equator for photography and Lake Mburo National Park for a brief game viewing

Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. After the hike, you can take a local community tour or a nature walk to see birds, other primates and orchids.

Day 4: Drive back to Kampala reaching in the late afternoon

Trip Itinerary

Day 1- Arrival to Kampala
On arrival at the airport, you will be met with our safari guide who will warmly welcome you and take you to the hotel in Kampala. You will a city tour if at all you arrive early.

Day 2-Lake Mburo Tour
Early in the morning, depart by road to Lake Mburo National Park (approx. 3-4 hours). You will stopover at the Equator for photos then continue to Lake Mburo National Park. This park is famous for the impalas after which Kampala was named. After checking in, you will take a nature walk to the nearby Salt Lick wooden platform, an observation point where you will get to see at least four different species of animals at any one point while they lick the salty soil. Return to the camp for breakfast, and later go for a game view drive, which offers excellent views including the triangular peaks of the Virunga volcanoes of Rwanda, other lakes in the park and animals like the impalas, zebras and buffalos. After here head for Bwindi Park on the way you will check out the Virunga volcanoes and Congo, Lake Bunyonyi. Finally you reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home to the mountain gorillas! Sleep in Gorilla Resort or Buhoma homestead.

Day 3: Gorilla tracking safari
Get up early for a heavy breakfast to energize you which is needed for gorilla tracking. Before 8:00 am report to the ranger station for a brief talk; you will then be led through the bush pushing your way through the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track the gorillas. (This trek can take from half an hour to 5 hours - a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes) Sit in the forest among the gorillas, listening to them grumble to each other, and marvel at the sheer size of the dominant male; the silverback. It is an extraordinary feeling sitting in the dense rainforest knowing you are with a few of the last remaining mountain gorillas. It's amazing to think there are only about 650 of these beautiful creatures left!
If you have the energy this afternoon, take a guided walk on the Munyanja River trail, which is an ideal short walk. This trail leads to three delightful crystal clear waterfalls, and there is a profusion of tree ferns, epiphytic ferns, orchids and Bwindi's colorful array of butterflies. Here you may also see birds and primates from the forest edge.

Day 4-Drive Back to Kampala
After a morning breakfast, we will drive back to Kampala stopping en-route for lunch arriving in the early evening. On arrival in Kampala, your safari guide will transfer you to your hotel. If you have energy, your guide will take around the African Craft market where you can buy Souvenirs for your self. Later the guide will take you to the airport for your flight back home.

Dates & Prices for the Trip

There are no departure dates currently available for the rest of this season. Enquire for 2012 Departure Dates or for a private safari option.

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