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Just like Rwanda, Uganda is also know for Mountain Gorilla Tourism although it is also a great destination for other activities like Wildlife Safaris, Mountain Hiking among other things. The fact that Uganda is a home to some of the fascinating great Apes on planet earth makes it a Gorilla safari Destination.
Uganda Travel Guide has put together a number of safari packages collected from various safari companies with competitive prices
But before that here is some Knowledge about Mountain Gorillas in Uganda
Where as the total number of mountain gorillas in the world is estimated to be about 880 individuals, Uganda’s Bwindi impenetrable forest national park boasts of more than a half. Bwindi in east Africa was and has been the main place of seeing these giant apes during Rwanda’s troubled years but these days Parc National des Volcanoes is also drawing visitors in numbers again. Abacus African Vacations a local tour operator has also started taking a good number of visitors to the bordering Congo for other families of gorillas.
Mgahinga National park of Uganda has one family of habituated gorillas but they regularly cross the boader to Rwanda and back so seek recent information on tracking these gorillas from your tour operator. So gorilla trekking in mgahinga National Park are made on very short notice between one month to the tracking date. No tour operator can confirm availability of the tour unless its very close to the tracking date.
. If you intend to do gorilla tracking in Mgahinga National park, seek information from Uganda wild life Authority or get in touch with a local tour operator for the update.
A minimum of three days are required to take a gorilla tour; he first day is of driving and the second day is the day of tracking the gorillas and the third day is for driving again back to Kampala or Entebbe. The Uganda tour operators listed here can give you better tour itineraries for visiting these surviving mountain gorillas.
