What To Do On Kampala City Tour And Gorilla Trekking Safari In Uganda

Including Kampala city tour to your gorilla trekking safari in Uganda is like adding cherry on top of an ice cake. Kampala city is the capital of Uganda and the country’s business center.

Despite its congestion, lots of amazing places and activities in Kampala make your holiday experience in Africa unforgettable.

5 Day gorilla Trekking And Kampala City Tour in Uganda

Day 1: Road Trip To Bwindi Forest Park

An early morning breakfast would be a good idea before starting your gorilla trekking trip journey. The driver guide will pick you up from your overnight hotel and drive you to the countryside.

On the way, you may make a stop at the Mpambire drum village where local drums are sculptured, a stop at the equator or Lwera swamp would be a great deal. However all these stops are optional and dependent on time availability

Traverse meandering ragged roads, rivers, hills and so much more before arriving Bwindi Forest area late evening.

Dinner and overnight accommodation: Mahogany Springs Lodge/ Gorilla Forest Camp/ Bwindi View Bandas

Day 2 Gorilla Trekking In Bwindi Forest

Enjoy early morning breakfast and head to the ranger station with your gorilla trekking gears in the bag. Join other trekkers for a short a lecture about how to behave while searching for the huge giant primates.

As you move have a look around to identify some other amazing primates like black and white colobus, vervet monkeys, red tailed monkeys, olive baboons and so much more. Thousands of birds flock the forest to enjoy the fruits, build nests all day long.

When you are getting closer to the mountain gorillas, some murmuring sounds emerge from the close by thickets. Follow the instructions from the ranger guide as he needs to first figure out the mood of the gorillas.

Do not just force your way to there feeding area without getting instructions from the guide. This may make the gorillas to feel ambushed and send them into hiding.

Gorilla trekking families are habituated to be in the presence of humans for just one hour. Exhaust all you need to do photographing, studying the gorilla behaviors and return to the lodge.

Day 3 Drive To Kampala

The gorilla trekking experience may be tiring at times, but it is a holiday experience worth saving and spending money on.

Drive to Kampala and relax in your hotel. Most hotel in the city are on bed and breakfast basis so keep some funds for meals like dinner and super in case it is excluded from your package.

Accommodation: Serena Hotel/ Hotel African/ Hotel Triangle

Day 4 Kampala City Tour after gorilla trekking in Bwindi Forest

How can you leave Uganda without visiting the heart of the country. Kampala is the capital of Uganda with interesting points to visit like the Mengo Kabaka’s palace, the Kasubi tombs, the Uganda Martyr’s shrine where a number of Christians were bound into wood and burnt alive.

More places to visit include Bahai temple, Kabaka’s lake, Makerere University the oldest university in the country and so much more.

 Day 5 Departure Flight In Entebbe

After gorilla trekking in Uganda and a day in Kampala the capital of Uganda, drive to Entebbe Airport to catch up with your flight back home.

Gorilla Trekking rules in Uganda

Volunteer to stay behind in case you have any infectious illness that may be transmitted to the gorillas. They are very vulnerable primates that can easily catch human infections. They have about 98% human genes which brings them close to humans.

Wear a mask and carry a hand sanitizer as the covid 19 disease is not yet under control. Primates easily catch human infections so you need to do some SOPs.

Littering the forest distorts nature yet the gorillas feed on vegetation to survive. Try to carry all the rubbish back to a dust bins.