Experience Gorilla Habituation in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 2023-2024
Gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 2023–2024 is an exciting activity in which wild mountain gorillas are trained to become used to human presence for hiking. Only in the Rushaga region of southern Bwindi impenetrable national park is Gorilla habituation experience carried out. Located in the Kanungu area in southwest Uganda, Bwindi impenetrable national park is among the most frequented gorilla sites. Four sectors—Buhoma sector in the north, Nkuringo sector in the south, Ruhija sector in the East, and Rushaga area in the south—have mountain gorillas famously found in abundance within the national park. In the Rushaga sector, gorilla habituation experience spans two to three years to be complete. Under the habituation process, a team of researchers, gorilla doctors, park guides and rangers keep on visiting and observing the gorillas; once they are confident that the gorillas are ready for trekking, a mock exercise will be conducted whereby scientists and journalists visit the gorilla family. The gorilla troop will be open for public treking once it passes the simulated exercise.
experience with gorilla habituation
Beginning very early in the morning with a training on the rules, policies, and expectations at the park headquarters, Gorilla Habituation Experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park begins. Following the briefing, you will begin a whole day of trekking in the forest under park rangers and an expert park guide. Among other things, you will be able to see other primates, bird species, mammals, many plant and tree species during trekking. Once the gorillas under habituation process are located, you will be let to spend four hours with them in their environment which gives you an opportunity to learn and track their behaviors, habits, watch them carry out daily activities including feeding, nursing young ones, engage in the naming process, take pictures and record videos.
Bwindi impenetrable national park 2023–2024 gorilla habituation permit cost
A gorilla habituation permit in Bwindi impenetrable national park costs 1,500 USD per person for international non residents, 1,000 USD per person for foreign residents and 750,000 USD per person for East African people.
Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with gorillas
Booking a gorilla habituation permit in Bwindi impenetrable national park
contact us for booking with the date, month, and year you intend to participate in the gorilla habituation experience from Bwindi impenetrable national park. Following your contact, we will look for permits available on your preferred dates and, should permits be found, you will be required to deposit money for the permission. Once we get the money, we will get the permission on your behalf and email a scanned copy of the receipt to you as verification.
Ideal time to visit Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for a gorilla habituation experience
Though the best time is during the dry season, also known as the peak season in the months of June to September and December to February, access roads to Rushaga sector and gorilla trekking paths will be dry and passable which makes trekking easy. Gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park can be done all year long.
Because few visitors mean the habituation permits will be readily booked, Gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park can also be conducted in the wet or low season between March and May and October to November.
How one may reach Bwindi impenetrable national park?
Access to Bwindi impenetrable national park, which lies in southwest Uganda, can be via road or by air.
Travelers using road transportation will go from Kampala via Masaka, Mbarara, Kabale, then to Rushaga sector in Bwindi impenetrable national park in roughly eight to nine hours in a safari vehicle.
Travelers will fly to Kigali international airport and then link to Rushaga sector via Cyanika border in Kisoro or Katuna border, access Bwindi impenetrable national park from Kigali Rwanda. About 4 to 5 hours’ journey is involved.
Travelers using road transportation will book planned or charter domestic flights from Entebbe international airport to Kisoro airfield and then link to Rushaga area.
Where in Bwindi impenetrable national park should you stay during your gorilla habituation experience?
Combining chimpanzee trekking or habituation experience in Kibale forest national park with gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi impenetrable national park is an interesting activity.
