Gorilla safari advice to Bwindi before booking- Fact that gorilla trekking is one of the most expensive safari activities in Africa, one needs to carefully plan very well to get what he/she wants from the gorilla trekking safari. You will need to do a thorough search and know which right tour operator tour can use for your Bwindi Gorilla trek safari. Understand the best time to visit the park, how best to book the gorilla trekking safari to Bwindi, compare the various services given to them by various tour operators, how to access Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park whether by air or by road and which region of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park would you like to trek.

Our safari advice our visitors for Bwindi Gorilla trek to an advanced search concerning mountain gorillas or mountain gorilla trekking is;  know that Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is located in the Southwestern part of Uganda and is bounded by districts of Kisoro, Kanungu, and Rubanda. Therefore you should know that by coming to Uganda for mountain gorillas in Bwindi, you will, have to drive or fly to southwestern Uganda for gorilla trekking. You can as well clearly visit google maps and try to establish the actual location of Uganda and then further look at the location of Bwindi Forest within Uganda. Bwindi is one of the best destinations for gorilla trekking with the highest number of habituated gorilla families.

Bwindi gorilla safari advice on the actual day of gorilla trekking activity

The moment you are conversant with the location where Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park is located now you should go ahead and try to search the gorilla trekking as an activity.  About gorilla trekking activity you should be able to find the price of the gorilla trekking permits in Uganda (the cost of Bwindi Gorilla permits is $700 per trek per person and USD1500 for gorilla habituation experience permit.

The Bwindi gorilla habituation experience permit will allow seeing mountain gorillas under habituation for four hours. Still, you should be able to know how many habituated gorilla families that are available for gorilla trekking and then the region of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park where gorilla trekking is carried out. If you do this search, you will be able to find that Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park has got about 19 habituated gorilla families that are available for gorilla trekking and 2 gorilla families that are reserved for gorilla habituation experience.

You will also learn that Bwindi Impenetrable forest National park is dived into 4 regions where gorilla trekking is carried out and these include the Buhoma gorilla trekking sector in the Northern region, Ruhija gorilla trekking sector in the eastern direction Rushaga and Nkuringo located in the southern sector of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Once you know the number of the gorilla families and then where they are located, the next thing for you to know is how best you can be accessed Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

Bwindi impenetrable forest National park can be accessed by either road or air transport. The park can easily be accessed by flying to Kigali International airport and then link to Bwindi impenetrable forest National park on the road and it will take you only 4-5 hours to drive from Kigali airport to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Also, you can fly to Entebbe International Airport and then take a road trip to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for about 8-9 hours but with interesting stopovers and seeing the beautiful scenarios throughout the whole trip.

Knowing you’re en-route interested is also advice we give to our client for the Bwindi Gorilla trekking trip. In case you’re interested in driving long hours while being entertained by a lot of several and beautiful destinations on your way to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park then we advise you to fly to Entebbe international airport and then drive you any region of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. you will be able to see the so-called royal drums makers and other craftsmen, women and young men, make a stopover at the equator line at Kayabwe, you should also not miss the Bahima driving their Ankole long-horned cattle, still, you will get a chance to spot zebras, and impalas occupying the community or grazing land in lake Mburo National Park.  The journey will also continue for you to cross to other cities of Masaka and Mbarara and pass through Kabale and see the hills of Kisoro, where you will appreciate the beauty and the nature of Uganda and the reason why it is called the pearl of Africa.

In case you would; like to arrive in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in a shorter time,   we advise that you fly to Kigali international airport in Rwanda and then connect to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. There are a lot of international airlines that fly to Kigali International Airport and it will take only about 6 hours to reach Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park through Kigali airport via Cyanika and Katuna border. This time using this route will help you to save time by reducing the distance traveled as wells visiting different countries. Also, we give the Bwindi advice to the visitors who are interested in taking the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience to obtain the East African Tourist Visa that allows one to visit Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda. You can get this Visa from any of the countries online or you can get it on the arrival at the airport.  The East African Tourist Visa costs USD100 and you will be able to move from one country to another as long as it is valid.

Still for the visitors who can afford also can fly to Bwindi impenetrable Forest National park from Entebbe International Airport by the use of the chartered or scheduled flights that are available daily at Entebbe International Airport or Kajjansi Airfield. The daily scheduled flights operate from Entebbe international airport to Kisoro or Kihihi airstrips and Kasese airstrip for the visitors interested in combining the gorilla safari with game viewing. Flights from Entebbe to Bwindi national park will last for about 2 hours and then your 2 hours’ drive to the respective gorilla trekking regions from airstrips. For visitors planning to visit the Bwindi gorilla trekking sectors in the southern part of the park should use the Kisoro airstrip while those for the Northern part of the park should try the Kihihi airstrip.

We also advise our visitors regarding where they are going to stay in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park, you should book accommodation that is closer to the gorilla trekking sector where you’re going to trek the gorillas from. This means that the accommodation facility /lodge is booked depending on the sector that you have decided to trek gorillas from. Once you know all this information, the next thing is to contact Africa adventure vacations and it provides or it guides with the next course of action. Please contact Africa Adventure Vacations for more information about the gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.