4 Days Gorilla Trekking tour in Uganda

4 Days Double Gorilla Trekking Tour in Uganda – 2 Gorilla Treks

The four-day Bwindi gorilla trekking will include a double trekking experience. A trip will allow you to trek the gorillas twice to encounter two different gorilla families and probably make friends with some. The same trip takes you to the Batwa people (pygmies), the keepers of the forest; an endangered group of people in Uganda.

4 Day Uganda Gorilla Safari Highlights

Day 1: Travel to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park

Day 2: 1st Gorilla trekking and Batwa community tour

Day 3: 2^nd Gorilla trekking experience, drive to Lake Bunyonyi

Day 4: Travel back to Kampala or Kigali and departure

Day-By-Day Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi National Park

Be picked up by our experienced driver-guide from the hotel in Entebbe or Kampala. Have a simple briefing about all the trip movements, and start the journey to Bwindi. It is a 9-10 hours journey that furnishes you with stunning views of the Kigezi highlands, Virunga ranges and very beautiful scenery. You will have a stopover at the Equator for photographs and to experience the water experiment that shows how water swirls in different directions in the opposite hemispheres. Lunch in Mbarara town, arrival will be in the evening for dinner and overnight in preparation for the next big day, dinner and overnigth at Buhoma community Rest Camp, Broadbill Forest Camp or Rushaga Gorilla Camp among others.

Day 2: First Gorilla trek, & Batwa community tour in the Evening

Have a very early breakfast at 7 am, and head to the park offices to have a simple briefing from the local guide. Here be divided into groups of eight trekkers that are allowed to visit a single gorilla family per day. Enter into the forest and start the hunt for these beautiful creatures. Hike up through the thick forest in slippery trails just to have an encounter with the endangered apes. Spend one magical hour with the forest giants, watching them play from one tree branch to the other, feeding and basically carrying on their daily lives.

In the evening, have a cultural encounter with the Batwa pygmies of the forest, experience how they used to hunt and gather food in the ancient days before they were shifted out of the forest and enjoy the traditional performances. Tasting the local cuisines is a guarantee except if you don’t want. All meals and overnight as on DAY 1.

Day 3: Second Gorilla Trekking Experience

On this day you will still wake up very early, have breakfast and go for the 2^nd gorilla trekking experience. It will be the same procedure except that this time you will track a different gorilla family, an experience that only a few tourists have been able to have. In the afternoon you will head back to the lodge for lunch and relaxation and drive to the beautiful lake Bunyonyi in Kabale (2hrs), dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Travel back to Kampala and departure

Early morning after breakfast, followed by canoe ride to visit the beautiful Islands on Lake Bunyonyi, later check out of the lodge and start travelling back to Kampala or straight to Entebbe International Airport to fly back to your home country. Alternatively, we can simply drive to Kigali in Rwanda for your onward flight. The journey is only 3-4hrs through Katuna border.