Areas of interest: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Activity: Gorrilla trekking, Photography, Game viewing, Bird watching.

Once described by Winston Churchill as the 'Pearl of Africa', Uganda is a lush and rich country split by numerous waterways. Situated in the southwest of the country, this park covers 331 sq km encompassing one of the last remaining habitats of the mountain gorilla. This is where about 330 individuals of the surviving mountain gorillas in the world live. The park also contains about 20 forest elephants, about 10 species of primate, duikers, bushbucks and the rare giant forest hog, as well as a host of bird and insect species.

Day 1 - Bwindi
Meet and greet at your hotel (0645 hrs). Depart Kampala (0900 hrs) driving west towards the impenetrable forests of the South West corner of Uganda on the borders of Rwanda and Zaire. Lunch en route. Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Community Bandas. This is where the gorilla visits start from and all the accommodation is located. Note that this area is rainforest and it rains a lot, so be prepared.

NB: If you require airport to hotel transfer and booking into a hotel the previous night, please let us know.

Day 2 - Bwindi:
Breakfast: Transfer to staging area: Briefing by head ranger: Begin Gorilla tracking led by rangers: Late or picnic lunch: Dinner and overnight as above.

The time spent with the gorillas is limited to an hour only, and as it is pretty dark in the forest, fast film is recommended for photographs. Please note that children under 15 years of age are not permitted to visit the gorillas, nor is anyone with a cold or other illness as this could endanger the health of the gorillas.

Departure from park headquarters with guides at 8.00 hours to track the rare mountain gorillas. At the time of research, there were three groups of Mountain gorilla in Bwindi: the Mubare group had nine individuals, while the Habinyaja group had split into two groups; group A with 21 gorillas and group B with 9 gorillas. . The terrain in Bwindi is mountainous and heavily forested and on a lucky day it may take one hour to reach them, but four hours or more on an unlucky day. Nonetheless, you need to be in good shape.

Day 3 - Kampala:
Departing early in the morning after breafast, we travel directly back to Kampala arriving before 5.00 p.m. Overnight at a hotel.