GORILLA SAFARIS IN UGANDA
BWINDI GORILLA SAFARI
Gorilla tracking:
Tourism to Bwindi focuses on gorilla tracking at the two locations, which are Buhoma and Nkuringo. In the jungles of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, lives half the world's population of highly endangered Mountain Gorillas. There are 3 gorilla groups that can be tracked at Bwindi, such as: the 'H' group called Habinyanja with 23 gorillas and 2 silver backs, the 'R' group called the Rushegura with 10 gorillas and 1 silverback, the 'M' group called Mubare with 16 gorillas and 1 silverback, and the Nkuringo group with 19 gorillas and 2 silverbacks. The gorilla tracking excursions leave from Buhoma in the morning. This activity can be very challenging therefore one is advised to be physically fit.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi impenetrable forests is a "Home to the rare Mountain gorillas" it is a five hour drive through villages, towns, highlands, and grazing lands southwest.. The scenic drive takes you through the area famed to be the "Switzerland of Africa", with a stop at the equator for photography and an informative talk as well as lunch en route in Mbarara.
Bwindi Gorilla Trekking
Early morning, have break fast and after gather at the Uganda wild life authority Bwindi headquarters for registering, get walking sticks and group up for pre-trek briefing. 8:00 am we start the gorilla trek which takes us between half and hour to up to whole day through a steeply forested landscape which has incredible dense under growth "an experience of penetrating the impenetrable".
The experience of tracking and finding these great primates is very, exciting; there are 9 other primate species including chimpanzee, blue monkey, black and white colobus monkey, plus 300 bird species and 200 species of butter flies.
Kibale Forest National Park
Head to Fortportal via Mubende from Kampala. You will have lunch enroute.
PARC NATIONAL DES VOLCANS
The park is located in the far northwest of Rwanda, bordering Mgahinga National Park and Virunga National Park. It is a home of the rare mountain gorillas and the rich mosaic of montane ecosystems, which embrace evergreen and bamboo forest, open grassland, swamp and heath.
Vegetation varies considerably due to the large altitudinal range within the park. Because the park is on 4,500m altitude, this enables an exhilarating trek through the cultivated foothills of the Virungas, offering stirring views in all directions.
Then, abruptly, the trail enters the national park, immersing trekkers in the mysterious intimacy of the rainforest, alive with the calls of colorful birds and chattering of the rare golden monkey, and littered with fresh spoor of the mountains' elusive populations of buffalo and elephant.
