Gorilla Trekking Uganda Tour
5 Days Uganda Gorilla and Chimpanzee Trekking Tour
$2580-3000 USD
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Safari summary
This 5 Day Gorillas & Chimpanzee Trekking Safari will take you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Kibale National Park. This is a great opportunity to combine Gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (home to half of the world’s endangered mountain gorillas) with Chimpanzee trekking or Habituation experience in Kibale National Park. Kibale National Park has been declared as one of the best places in the world to view habituated wild Chimpanzees. This is an all-inclusive tour that will start and end in Kampala/Entebbe and includes return airport transfers. This 5 Day Gorillas & Chimpanzee Trekking Safari can as well be customized to best match your interests and place of pick up as well as your budget.
About this tour
| Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
| Main focus | Primate trekking | |
| Activity level | Strenuous activity | |
| Best months | All months | |
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Fine details
Safari highlights
- Cultural visits—orphanages, markets, schools
- Hiking | trekking
- Primate trekking
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Airport transfers
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Alcoholic beverages
- Internal flights
- International flights
- Premium alcoholic beverages
- Spa treatments
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Drive Kampala/Entebbe to Bwindi
Bwindi Impenetrable
On this day your driver-guide to start your 5 Day Gorillas and Chimpanzee Trekking Safari will pick you from your hotel in Kampala/Entebbe or from Entebbe Airport and start the drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, this drive is long but worth it you will enjoy amazing sceneries and meet up with the local communities along the way. You will have a stop at the Equator for photographs, lunch en-route, and other optional multiple stops depending on your request and time.
Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge
Gorilla tracking in Bwindi
Bwindi Impenetrable
After breakfast at the lodge, you will drive to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides who will allocate you a gorilla family group you will trek that day. Once you have your group confirmed 8 people, the 2 ranger guides will lead you into the thick impenetrable forest to start your search for the endangered rare species of Mountain Gorillas. The gorilla search always continues from the place where they were last seen the previous day.
Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge
Transfer to Kibale National Park
Kibale
Today you will drive to Kibale National Park with a stopover for lunch en-route on your way to the National Park. On influx, you will have a nature walk through the Bigodi Swamp awesome sightseeing of the resident monkeys and birds. Kibale Forest National park is home to 13 species of primates and over 335 bird species making it a popular destination for birders and primates lovers
Chimpanzee guest house or Turaco Treetops Lodge
Chimpanzee Tracking
Kibale
Subsequently, you will have an early breakfast with that you will be guided to Kanyanchu head offices for a briefing about the track that you will be carrying out in a couple of hours. From there you will start the Chimpanzee tracking but that is not the only species you will be seeing today, you will be able to see 12 other different primate species like vervet monkeys, gray-cheeked mangabeys and baboons.
Chimpanzee guest house or Turaco Treetops Lodge
Departure back to Kampala/Entebbe
In the early morning after breakfast, drive back to Kampala/Entebbe to end the tour. End of the 5 Day Gorillas and Chimpanzee Trekking Safari
Optional Hotel in Entebbe or Kampala
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