Transport

Car (open roof, 4WD) Pick-up and drop-off

Others

Gorilla tracking day Park entrance fees Bottled water Gorilla Permit (USD $700 per person)

Guide

English-speaking driver/guide

Meals

Accommodation

5 Nights in Comfortable Accommodation 2N in Entebbe 3N in Kisoro

Not included:

Optional

Other activities and services are not included.

Flights

Flights are not included.

Others

Drinks Porters Personal expenses Tips for the guides Optional activities in Kisoro Payments: Airport departure tax Meals (Lunch and Dinner) - approx USD $25 each per person per day COVID-19 PCR Test ($65 per person)

Insurance

Insurance is not included.

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Day 1 Day 1: Entebbe, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Entebbe, Uganda

Duration: 6 Days
Departure Time: 06:00, 07:00, 08:00, 09:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00

Arrival in Entebbe

Today, you will be picked by our driver/guide and transferred to your hotel for overnight. You will receive a briefing about the tour and all the information you need to know for the next day.
Day 2 Day 2: Entebbe - Kisoro, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Entebbe - Kisoro, Uganda

Transfer to Kisoro (B)

In the early morning, we will pick you from your hotel in Entebbe at 7:00 am, and then we leave for the South West of Uganda. The first part takes us through central Uganda. In Kabale we will have lunch, before continuing for the last part of the trip. On the last hill, the landscape unfolds beneath us, in the vast plane of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, the Virunga volcanoes dominate the view. Down is Kisoro, where we will stay in the famous Travellers Rest Hotel just outside Kisoro. This is a unique and one of the oldest hotels in Uganda that offers a cozy stay for the tourists, who come to see the endangered mountain gorillas. Built in 1955 by Walter Baumgartel, the so-called father of gorilla tourism, it quickly became a meeting place for people interested in the mountain gorillas. It was entirely renovated in 1999, but the charm of the somewhat colonial style still remains up to today.
Day 3 Day 3: Kisoro, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Kisoro, Uganda

Gorilla tracking (B)

This is the day of Gorilla tracking, from Travellers Rest in Kisoro it is 1 hour 20 minutes by car to Nkuringo group or Rushaga area, home of Nshongi, Mishaya, Kahungye, and Bweza groups in south Bwindi. And 40 minutes to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Once there, you will first receive a briefing at 7:45am, and at 8.30am you will start the tracking. Once you have found the gorillas, you will be able to spend up to one hour with them! All visitors are expected to be back to the starting point by 7:00 PM. The walks can take 3 to 9 hours, depending on where you find the gorillas. It is a real hike and being physically fit is recommended.

Driving time: ± 1.5 hours’ x 2 (to and from)
Day 4 Day 4: Kisoro, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Kisoro, Uganda

Activities in Kisoro (B)

Today, everybody can do individually or group activities. With local organizations and the National Park, we have developed a number of very interesting activities from which you can choose to take part in:

1. 2nd Gorilla tracking is possible in Mgahinga NP. ($700 per person)

2. Gorilla Habituation Experience is also possible ($1,500 per person)

3. Climbing Muhavura Volcano (± 8 hrs; distance 12km; height 4127m; elevation gain 1700m) ($80 per person)

4. Climbing Gahinga Volcano (± 6 hrs; distance 8km; height 3474m; elevation gain 1100m) topped by a swamp-filled crater and giant lobelia. Lucky climbers may spot golden monkeys on their way through the bamboo forest. ($80 per person)

5. Climbing the Sabinyo volcano (Sabinyo has three peaks, you can climb all three in the same walk, you need to be fit! ± 8 hrs; distance 14 km; height 3669m, elevation gain 1300m) ($80 per person)

6. Sabinyo Gorge (± 4 hrs; distance 6km, no elevation gain)- ($70 per person)

7. The Mgahinga Platform viewing Experience (± 1 hr) (USD $10 per person) and Garama cave is the same as Batwa Trail and it costs USD $80 per person

8. Bird walk in Mgahinga (starts at 10 AM, it can take up to 4-5 PM) (USD $30 per person)

9. Several bicycle rides on mountain bikes. From 25km to 50km. The hills can be steep and tough!

10. Cultural village walk (with a local guide walking through the land of the Bufumbira tribe) (USD $20 per person)

11. Walk to Lake Mutanda and go canoeing on this beautiful lake. (USD $20 per person)

12. Golden Monkey Habituation Experience at ($140 per person) or tracking ($100 per person) in Mgahinga.

13. Or just sit and relax or read a book in the garden of Travellers Rest!

14. Special is the Batwa Trail: ($80 per person) It starts at the base of Mt Muhavura at 8.00 am and finishes by 3-4 pm. You’ll need walking shoes, hat, and raingear, and a packed lunch with sufficient drinks.

The Batwa Trail runs across the lower slopes of the Muhavura and Gahinga volcanoes in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. The forest is home to a variety of wildlife, but the Batwa Trail is far from being a conventional nature walk. With the help of Batwa guides, you’ll see the forest as a larder, pharmacy, builder’s yard, tool kit and, above all, a home. Along the trail, you’ll fire a bow and arrow, check hives for wild honey, help repair a Batwa shelter, harvest plants for medicine and food, light a fire without a match, listen to legends and learn about Batwa traditions. The highlight of the trail is a descent into the Garama cave, a 200m-long lava tube beneath Mt. Gahinga.
Day 5 Day 5: Kisoro - Entebbe, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Kisoro - Entebbe, Uganda

Transfer back to Entebbe via Kampala

After breakfast, the last part of the journey will bring us back to Kampala, driving through one of the most scenic routes in western Uganda passing through an extensive bamboo forest, as well as the "Kanaba gap", where a clear view of the volcanoes in Uganda can be seen, as we drive down through the beautiful views of Lake Bunyonyi being the deepest Lake in Uganda. It’s not surprising that the road is the favorite for both tourists and Locals. We will stop in Mbarara for lunch, and after Masaka town we will stop at the Equator for a Tea/Coffee break and buying souvenirs. We will then bring you back to your hotel in Entebbe for overnight.

You will do a PCR test this day, and you will receive your result by email after 6 hours.

Driving time: ± 9 hours
Day 6 Day 6: Entebbe, Uganda
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Entebbe, Uganda

Transfer back to Entebbe

If departing in the morning, the hotel has a shuttle that will bring you to the airport; but if departing in the evening, there are many activities, you still can do in Kampala and Entebbe.

Optional: - Kampala City tour (USD $120 for vehicle including driver and fuel)

Entebbe Tour: - Ngamba Island for the orphaned chimps (USD $88 per person), and it can be combined with Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (the former Zoo)

Botanical Gardens at USD $10 p.p

Mabamba swamp tour - $80 p.p

6 days tour

Gorillas & Volcanoes Safari 6D/5N

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Itinerary of your trip Gorillas & Volcanoes Safari 6D/5N

Day 1: Entebbe, Uganda

Day 2: Entebbe - Kisoro, Uganda

Day 3: Kisoro, Uganda

Day 4: Kisoro, Uganda

Day 5: Kisoro - Entebbe, Uganda

Day 6: Entebbe, Uganda

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