Luxury Uganda gorilla safaris from Kigali-Rwanda- Bwindi impenetrable National Park – With Gorilla permits
Luxury Uganda Gorilla safaris starting from Kigali-Rwanda takes you to trek Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks of Uganda through Kigali-Rwanda. Save USD800 on each Uganda Gorilla tracking permit, whereby currently a Rwanda Gorilla permit cost USD1500 per person and book a Uganda Gorilla permit which costs only USD700 per person per trek.
Great Adventure Safaris organizes Luxury Uganda Gorilla Safaris from Kigali-Rwanda. Luxury Uganda Gorilla Safaris via Kigali are now popular and offers safe Gorilla tracking safaris in both Gorilla National Parks of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks.
Safari Overview
Enjoy our Luxury Uganda Gorilla safaris via Kigali-Rwanda the Land of a Thousand Hills on a 5 day Gorilla trip on this East Africa Safari that is a once in a lifetime experience. This 5 Luxury Uganda Gorilla safari via Kigali-Rwanda itinerary is short, sweet and packed with African jungle experiences only you can measure. The focus of this trip is a visit to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and track the endangered mountain Gorillas, then spend an hour in their presence watching them go on their daily chores that reflect human like cultures. Logistically this itinerary requires a morning or early afternoon arrival flight into Rwanda as on day 1 you have a guided tour around Kigali city and a visit to the Genocide memorial center before driving down to the forests of Bwindi National Park.
Safari Highlights
- Discover Kigali, Rwanda’s capital’s myriad cultures, people and sites
- Drive to Bwindi forest and view Uganda-Rwanda’s beautiful countryside
- Mountain Gorilla tracking in Bwindi National Park
- Optional Gorilla tracking or visit the Batwa and the Bakiga community
Know before you go
- You will be visiting Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
- The tour is limited to a maximum of 4 travelers per vehicle, and 30% deposit on confirmation.
Day One: Arrive at Kigali International Airport
Arrive at Kigali International Airport where your private Great Adventure Safaris guide and driver will pick you and your party to your accommodation in Kigali. In case you arrive early in the day, your guide will take you on a Kigali city excursion.
Day Two: Transfer to Bwindi National Park–Batwa community Walk
Start your second day of your Luxury Uganda Gorilla Adventure via Kigali after an early breakfast and take a country road trip and cross to Uganda through Katuna or Chanika boarder down to Bwindi National Park where the mountain Gorilla flourishes. In case you didn’t have an opportunity to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial, this can be done in the morning before we head into the countryside.
Arrive in the afternoon and check into your forest lodge time permitting, we proceed for a village visit which is a great place to get a cultural insight into Uganda’s Batwa and Bakiga people.
Day Three: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Forest National Park.
With Early Morning Breakfast and parked lunch, we set off to Bwindi Forest National Park trailhead for your Gorilla tracking briefing, a cultural dancing performed for you. This is the day you get deep into the Luxury Uganda Gorilla Adventure highlight and rewrite your memories about the African jungle.
Before setting out for your Gorilla trek, you will need to be closed in long trousers, long-sleeved shirt, light rain-jacket, hat with wide brim, gardening gloves to pull yourself up on branches, hiking boots with good traction and that are worn in. The Gorilla trek itself is between 3 and 5 hours or longer. It is well worth it and the experience of a lifetime for you.
Day Four: Optional Second Gorilla Tracking Experience
Experience is a crafty thing; psychologists say that experiencing an activity more than once is more memorable than a single event. This Luxury Uganda Gorilla Safari via Kigali-Rwanda gives you a chance to explore that claim and take on the Gorilla jungle for the second time. You can leave the camera and any other distracting thing back at the lodge for the second time Gorilla tracking and get deep into the jungle feel.
After an early breakfast, we again proceed to the park headquarters trailhead where you shall again be briefed about the dos and don’ts while tracking these gentle creatures for the second time. Each day is a new day in the wild and today we shall be tracking a different Gorilla group remember each family behaviour differ from the other so this is another special moment. In the afternoon, relax at the lodge
Day Five: Transfer to Kigali Airport for international outbound flight
After breakfast, check out from the lodge at leisure and be transferred to Kigali International Airport to check in for your international flight.
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