3 Days Gorilla Habituation Safari

3 Days Gorilla Habituation Safari : Looking for a chance to spend more time with the giant mountain gorillas? Our 3 Days Gorilla Habituation Tour is the ultimate answer to your travel need. It is the best short safari and adventure worth every investment involved. The trip takes you to the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest national park where the experience takes place.

Tour highlights

Gorilla habituation experience
Batwa cultural encounter
The equator experience and photo moment
Scenic trip with beautiful views of western Uganda’s rolling hills, vast plains and greenery plantations of matooke and tea

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: Transfer from Kampala to Bwindi

Day starts with breakfast at the lodge or residence in Kampala or Entebbe, meet the driver for a briefing and then set off. First stopover will be at the equator crossing to learn about the water experience and have a photo moment while pausing at the equator monument. Proceed with the approximately 10 hours journey driving through Mbarara town, Kabale and arriving at Bwindi in the evening.

Enroute lunch

Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Day 2: Gorilla habituation and Batwa cultural encounter

Ensure to rise up early, have breakfast, pack all the requirements for the trek and thereafter transfer to the park headquarters. You will meet the team you are joining and go through the briefing. Hit the trails and get on the search for the gorillas. In this case, you are looking for them from where they could have spent their night to get to start their day with them. Once they are spotted, we get on the countdown of the four hours. It is a thrilling experience of seeing how these creatures go about their daily life starting early morning.

There is a lot to learn from the researchers and ranger guides during the 4 hours with the mountain gorillas. Chances of sighting other residents of the forest such as monkeys, other mammals and various bird spices. At the end of the activity, you will return to the park headquarters and be awarded a trekking certificate that shows you have participated in conservation of these endangered primates.

Drive back to the lodge, freshen up and relax

Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Day 3: Return to Kampala

You will rise up and have breakfast, then check out of the lodge and embark on the return journey to Kampala. Another chance to enjoy the views of the countryside and perhaps some sights you could have missed like the activities of the locals.

Arrival in Kampala or Entebbe in the evening

End of tour

The tour package includes;