Gorilla Trekking Package Key Components

Gorilla Trekking Package Key Components

When preparing Gorilla tracking packages in Uganda or Rwanda there are some key items that must not miss. Several traveller wish to book personal gorilla trips which is a cost effective venture but a number of them end up disappointed. As a professional ground handling company, we organise all this for you, make it affordable and choose the best service providers that will make your trip comfortable according to your budget. You send us your preferences and we package or advise you. Whether packaging a Luxury Gorilla tour, Midrange or budget gorilla Safari, the below a must to be included.

Gorilla trekking permit

This is the key to a fully booked gorilla tracking safari in Uganda or Rwanda. It is like the pivot on which all booking for gorilla trekking rotate. The gorilla permit in Uganda is currently sold at $600 and in Rwanda at $1500 however, these are highly competed for because of there scarcity. Only 8 Gorilla permits are sold for each day in each family. Uganda has 10 gorilla families and Rwanda also has 10 gorilla families open for tourism but these are not enough to carter for millions of travellers who wish to take part in Gorilla trekking. Some tourists get to the extent of double tracking because of the excitement they get after meeting the gorillas the first time. This leaves no option to other people interested in the activity too.

A professional gorilla tracking guide

Since majority of travellers are not familiar with the way to get to the gorillas, they need a guide with great information about the way. A knowledgeable gorilla tracking guide makes your trip very interesting and rewarding. Although he may track gorillas with you because gorilla trekking is organised by the Uganda Wildlife Authority who have their own ranger guides, a nice guide is a complement to your Trip. The guides provides you with more information about the gorilla trekking activity and the relevant items necessary for your gorilla trip, as you drive to and from the park, he highlight some interesting spots that a picturesque.

Safari Vehicle

A safari vehicle assists you get to Bwindi Impenetrable National park easily. The way is quite bumpy and a times slippery especially during the severe rainy seasons. A 4X4wheel safari vehicle is most appropriate. This is however booked in advance because these vehicles are normally hired by several travellers especially during the peak season that is to say June to December.

Even if you book a flying Gorilla safari, you need transfers to the lodge where you are going to spend your nights.

Book an air ticket

When you book a fly-in gorilla trekking safari, you must remember to book a seat and an air ticket in advance. Uganda has scheduled and non- scheduled fly –in gorilla trekking trips that land in Kihihi and Kayonza airstrips. The scheduled flights are highly competed for and cheaper. You need to do prior booking to secure your seat. Even the charter flights require prior booking because a few companies provide this service in Uganda.

Accommodation during Gorilla trekking Tour

Booking accommodation prior to your gorilla tracking holiday is one of the wise decision. This is because you need to stay at the park atleast one night before the tracking date. Bwindi National park is about 550km from Kampala and about 590 km from Entebbe Airport. This is quite along journey which you cannot travel in just one day or night and arrive ready for tracking gorillas at 8:00am. For this reason, you need to book accommodation for your gorilla trekking trip.

Bwindi National park is divided into two sectors that is to say the southern and the Northern sector and these are fur apart from each other. You need to book accommodation close to the gorilla trekking group you are booked to. This reduces on the distance you need to travel for briefing and the time you have to rise up on the day of tracking gorillas.

Activities

The most renowned activity in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is gorilla trekking but however at times you may see the gorillas in just 2 hours and get back to the lodge. The entire day, you may get bored and so you need to know optional activities that can be done. In Bwindi National park, you may visit the Batwa community which is composed of some of the survivors of the 1991 Bwindi eviction. The forest was there sole provider then and at the moment they are landless or squatters on other people’s land. Visiting them is another way of supporting them. Forest walk from Nkuringo to Buhoma is also rewarding as you go through the forest from the northern park to the southern part and at times you may meet the gorillas and enjoy there presence for the second time.

You may decide to extend your tour to Queen Elizabeth National park which is Uganda’s biosphere reserve. In this park, you may take park in activities like game drives, launch cruising, chimpanzee tracking, visit the ancient Katwe salty lake and several other. A number of animals are residents of this park like the tree climbing lions in Ishasha sector, Leopards, herds of elephants, buffaloes, water bucks, bush bucks, hyenas, view the scenic wet and dry crater lakes to mention but a few.

Kibale National park is another optional Park you may visit after your gorilla trekking holiday. The drive from Bwindi National Park to Kibale National park is about 5-6 hours in a distance of about 300km on a normal day. However this is a not advisable to drive on the same day of tracking because you need to have booked accommodation prior to your decision. Chimpanzee tracking is the commonest activity in this park. There are high chances of seeing chimpanzees in this park than any other in Uganda.