A season-by-season guide.
Gorilla trekking in Uganda is best during the dry seasons, roughly June to September and December to February, when trails in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are easier to navigate.
Bwindi has four trekking sectors, each with its own access town, terrain character and gorilla families, and the sector you choose shapes your whole day fa...
Read the guide →Kibale Forest holds one of East Africa's densest primate populations and the region's best habituated chimpanzee communities — treks are typically shorter...
Read the guide →Uganda's gorilla permit costs $800; Rwanda's costs $1,500 — nearly double for the same hour with the gorillas. Here's the honest cost breakdown.
Read the guide →Uganda's permit is $800 per person for foreign non-residents in high season, dropping to $600 in the discounted low-season months of April, May and Novembe...
Read the guide →More fit than most people expect, less fit than the word 'trekking' implies to a serious hiker. Treks range from a comfortable 30-45 minutes to a genuinely...
Read the guide →Permits are sold by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (or Rwanda Development Board across the border) in a fixed daily allocation per gorilla family — typicall...
Read the guide →Your day starts early — a 6:30-7am briefing at the park headquarters, where rangers assign trekking groups (maximum eight visitors per gorilla family) base...
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