4 Days Gorilla Trekking and Lake Bunyonyi Safari
Another yet exciting 4 days gorilla trekking and lakeBunyonyi safari to Bwindi impenetrable national park for gorillas and lake Bunyonyi known as the lake with tiny little birds. Trek down a habituated gorilla family in the jungles of Bwindi with an opportunity of having a selfie with the gorillas and after your gorilla trek drive down to Lake Bunyonyi Africa’s second deepest lake with a thousand islands, relax and have a chance to swim in this Bilhazia free lake and then call off your safari.
Highlights of the 4 days gorilla trekking and lake Bunyonyi Uganda safari
- Drive through the little Switzerland of Africa
- Exciting encounter with mountain gorilla in the gorilla kingdom of Bwindi
- Canoeing on Africa’s second deepest lake
- Meet and greet with gorillas
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National park
Our driver picks you early morning at your place of stay after breakfast, and briefs you about this trip before you start your drive southwards. Drive via the Kampala MasakaMbarara highway and have a stop at Igongo cultural center in Mbarara for a yummy lunch. This route rewards you with a beautiful country side of green, expect to see zebras and impalas while driving past Lake Mburo national park and the long horned cattle of Ankole. Continue your driver after lunch and reach Bwindi in the evening. Check in your lodge, relax, dine out and have a stay.
Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 2: Gorilla trekking Safari day
This is the day you have been waking for your entire life. Wake up to a hearty breakfast early morning, get onto your safari vehicle to the park headquarters for a briefing at 8am. Here you will be briefed about the gorilla trekking rules, get allocated to a gorilla family you’re going to trek and head out to the forest with an experience UWA guide. On finding your family, sped an hour with them, see them interact, juveniles playing and see the much love between the family. After the one hour come back from the trek which can last for over a quarter of your day.
Get back to your lodge and relax off your evening
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 3: Drive to Lake Bunyonyi and canoe on the Lake with a thousand Islands
After your breakfast, drive to lakeBunyonyi where you will canoe on this lake with a thousand islands, visit punishment island where girls who got pregnant before marriage would be thrown to starve to death because of what they had done. Have lunch in the afternoon and choose to swim in this Bilharzia free lake.
Call off your day with a delicious diner in the evening, sleep and have an overnight stay.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 4: Transfer back to Kampala
After your breakfast drive back to Kampala and have a drop off to your place of choice or the airport to catch your flight back home. You will have stop at the equator for a pictorial moment, lunch and later continue to Kampala arriving in the evening.
Safari Inclusions
- 3 nights’ accommodation on full board basis
- All meals as per the itinerary
- Gorilla permit
- Lake Bunyonyi canoeing
- 4WD safari vehicle for the whole trip
- Services of an English speaking driver/guide. A guide of any language can be arranged for you on request
- All government taxes and fees
- Bottiled water
Safari Exclusions
- All personal interests of any kind
- International flights and Visas
- Laundry