Bwindi Gorilla Tracking

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park is located in Uganda in the South Western Uganda on the edge of the Albertine Rift and it’s shared by three different districts namely Kisoro, Kanungu and Kabale districts. The distance from Kampala to Bwindi park headquarters is approximately 534km and takes 10 hours drive. And it’s bordered by Democratic Republic of Congo in the west.

The altitude of Bwindi is about 1,190m to 2,607m. While the highest point occurs in Rwamunyonyi hill on its eastern edge, the lowest occurs in the northernmost tip of the park. And it’s a tropical kind of climate having 2 rainfall peaks which start from March to May and then from September to November. The range of the annual mean temperature is from 7-15°C as the minimum to 20-28°C as maximum.

BWINDI GORILLAS

Gorilla is a major tourist attraction in Bwindi. The forest Park is a home of 326 gorillas, which is almost a half of the world’s population of mountain Gorillas. And it’s believed to be the true African jungle and covers 33,000 hectares. Gorilla tracking in Bwindi can be laborious, therefore ensure physical fitness. Bring jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet. There are two gorilla groups are now available to be visited on daily basis. Mubare group (16gorillas; 1 silverback) was opened for tourism in 1993, where as the habinyanja group (23 gorillas; 2 silverback was ready in July1998).

BWINDI BIRDS

Bwindi is the bird watchers haven; it boasts 348 species of birds and contains 90% of the albertine rift endemics, difficult or impossible to see in any other part of East Africa, and 7 red data book species. An experienced bird watcher can identify up to 100 species in a day.

Several rare birds are short-tailed including warbler Hemitasia neumanni, white-bellied robin chat Cossypher roberti, Fraser’s eagle owl Bubo poensis, white-bellied robin chat Cossypher roberti, Grauer’s warbler Graueria vittata, yellow-eyed black flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiaca, montane double-collared sunbird Nectarinia ludovicenis and dusky twinspot Clytospiza cinereoinacea.

Visit Ruhija and Buhoma for this dream. Indicate your interest to the receptionist so that appropriate early morning departure can be arranged.

INHABITANTS

The Batwa pygmies who were hunter-gatherers are believed to be the original inhabitants of the forest. And the other neighbouring people are the Bakiga, Barwanda and the Bafumbira and their population ranges from 350 people per square kilometer.