Overview

Your safari begins in Entebbe, Uganda with an overnight stay at No.5 Boutique Hotel, nestled in the leafy suburbs of Entebbe.

Next day in a 4×4 safari vehicle, your driver guide takes you through the southwestern part of Uganda with a brief stop at Igongo Cultural Center before proceeding on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for your primate adventure.

Embark on a morning trek to see the Gorilla Mountains, visit of the Batwa community and return to enjoy the facilities at the Camp The Next Day.

Your tour ends back in Entebbe.

Trip Highlights

Bwindi National Park.
Ingogo Cultural Centre.
Gorilla Trekking.
Community interaction, including the local Batwa Pygmies.
Specially customized sedan chairs with support and harness allows less able guests to be carried into the rainforest to track the gorillas in their natural habitat.
Visit the established philanthropy project at Bwindi Community.

Day 1 :

Entebbe / Kampala

Met on arrival by our Uganda ground representative who will give you a short brief on your upcoming safari and transferred to No.5 Boutique Hotel for check-in and either lunch or dinner depending on your arrival time. Spend the rest of the time in leisure by the pool or treat yourself to the spa (extra charge). Meals: Breakfast, lunch or dinner. Overnight at No.5 Boutique Hotel.

Day 2 :

Entebbe / Kampala – Bwindi impenetrable National Park

After breakfast, check-out and your driver guide will drive you from the Hotel to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in south western Uganda, a 9hr 16 min (287mi) drive. On the way, a stop for lunch at Igongo Cultural Center before proceeding through savannah forests, tropical rain forests and the terraced hills of Kigezi, known as the Switzerland of East Africa. The Kigezi region is home to the Bwindi National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site famous for gorilla trekking. Arrive at Buhoma entrance gate at Bwindi by late afternoon. Check-in at Gorilla Forest Camp, located in an unrivalled seclusion and space in the ancient rainforest in one of Africa’s most remarkable landscapes and freshen=up for dinner. Meals: lunch, dinner and overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp.

Day 3 :

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After an early morning breakfast, your driver guide gets the earlier organized pack lunch boxes and drives you to the park offices at the Head Quarters. The park warden or head ranger will brief you with other visitors going on the Gorilla Trekking on the does and don’ts before the trek. Bwindi currently has ten habituated gorilla families, each family is visited by a maximum of eight tourists per day. It is possible you will join other people on the trek which takes between 1-7 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas. You will be allowed one hour with the gorillas in utmost silence before returning back to the park HQ, where you will be driven back to the Camp to relax before the evening community walk to the Batwa community. Here you will have a chance to interact and spend an hour spent with the Batwa, see them demonstrate their skills in hunting and gathering, music performance, and learn their migration history. It is said the first records of the Batwa date back 4,000 years ago in Egypt and are described as short statured people living near the “mountains of the Moon” extolling their abilities as dancers. Return to the Camp for dinner. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp.

Day 4 :

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Entebbe

After breakfast at the camp, check-out and begin your journey back to Entebbe with a stop for lunch enroute, at the Equator Line to take photographs, craft, and boutique shopping before proceeding to Entebbe for your outbound flight.