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Popular for its Uganda gorilla trips to bwindiand Gorilla Trekking in Uganda is Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. It is also a top spot for any birder on a Safari to Uganda the Pearl of Africa and has some of the best montane forest birding in Africa.

Among the many opportunities are no less than twenty-three of Uganda’s 24 Albertine Rift endemics, including amazing, internationally vulnerable species as the African Green Broadbill and Shelley’s Crimson wing. Roughly half of the Mountain Gorillas in the world live in Bwindi National Park, one of the few sites in Africa to have thrived across the last Ice Age.

Although its exceptional Gorilla tracking is what makes Bwindi Impenetrable National Park most famous, it also offers sanctuary to elephant, chimpanzee, monkey, many small antelope and bird species. Booking a Uganda safaris without Gorilla trekking in Uganda’s Bwindi National park would mean you have lost a chance to view these rare and vulnerable Gorillas in their native environment with Monumental Expeditions and Safaris.

The fact that Bwindi National park is so ancient and that its slopes span a wide altitudinal range of 1447m above sea level supports variation in biodiversity by allowing habitats ranging from lowland forest to Afromontane vegetations.

Located on the border between Congo and Rwanda in southwest Uganda, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park Covering around 33.7 sq km, the park is home to the Mountain Gorillas, man’s closest cousin, who wander the entire forest in quest of food and water.

Attracting visitors from all across the globe, this National park is one of the few sites in the world where the threatened Mountain Gorillas dwell. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is clearly among Uganda’s most popular tourist destinations as it hosts rare and threatened primates.

The key behind Gorilla trekking in Uganda is that Mgahinga Gorilla National Park has a dense rain forest with a great range of tree species; Gorillas are known to be vegetarians. Someone may ask why Gorilla trekking in Uganda should be done in Mgahinga Gorilla National park and not other areas.

The National Park has adequate food for them, hence some even move from Congo and Rwanda to this area. Though not in great numbers, Gorillas in Mgahinga National park are readily observed in their native habitats, which makes Gorilla Trekking in Uganda simpler than in other National parks.

One may visit Bwindi Impenetrable National Park by vehicle from Kampala or by air from Entebbe Airport or Kajjansi Airstrip.
From Entebbe, there are planned flights to Kihihi, near Buhoma, the northern section of Bwindi national park, and also to Kisoro, between Rushaga and Nkuringo, the southern section of Bwindi. While Kihihi leaves Entebbe morning and afternoon, flights to Kisoro only leave in the morning. Charter flights from Kajjansi Airstrip may also reach either Kisoro or Kihihi.

Kampala-Kabale-Kanungu-Buhoma follows a tarmac route till Kabale for around 414km spending roughly 6-8 hours and then connects on a murram road via Kanungu and Kanyantorogo for roughly 120km, the northern side of Bwindi.

About 95km on a murram road and may take 3-4 hours, Kampala-Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma follows the identical path as the previous first choice minus the portion on Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma.

Along with the preceding paths to Kabale, Kampala-Kabale-Nkuringo also follows the same path on a steep murram road to Nkuringo from Kabale, around 105km over 4-5 hours travel. Some tourists choose to stay a night at Kisoro, around eighty kilometers from Kabale, then go to Nkuringo for gorilla tracking in the morning.

Considered the fastest and most direct of all the routes from Kampala, Kampala-Ntungamo-Rukungiri-Kihihi-Buhoma follows a tarmac road to Rukungiri for 390km followed by murram roads to Buhoma for roughly 82km.

This time, it can also be reached by road from Kigali Rwanda to Kabale and link to Bwindi, with a quicker travel of 4-5 hours, compared to the one from Entebbe/Kampala which takes 9-10 hours.See one of Monumental Expeditions and Safaris safari consultants at office for more information about Gorilla traekking in Uganda.