Where to Stay on Gorilla Safaris

Gorilla trekking tours has turned into a dominant activity in Uganda, Rwanda and the DR.Congo due to their uniqueness, many visitors book permits to trek with a view of watching and taking photos and also enjoying the largest ape .

But besides tracking, visitors are always eager to sleep in conducive environments on their gorilla safaris, this depends on one’s budget or financial stability. Lodges range from budget, mid-range and luxury lodges. Some visitors prefer camping and this can also be arranging on prior request with Nature Adventure Africa Safaris Limited.

No any other place in Africa exhibit this in terms of luxury lodges accommodation than Uganda, the quality of its hotels and lodges as attracted many visitors to travel around the parks for a great experience in their lives while on holidays and research.

In Bwindi impenetrable national park Gorilla Forest Camp, though being a tented camp within the park, it ranks among the best luxury lodges with exceptional customer care services,  this has turned into a stress taking away camp most especially to the visitors who have spent a day in the forest trekking.

Gorilla safari Lodge is another luxury lodge at Bwindi though caters for all visitors depending on their pockets including those requiring mid-range and budget services, well stocked with both local and international foods with a focus of boosting or being on top of the rival lodges in issues regarding quality and comfortable accommodation, hot and cold running water with flush toilets, solar lights with cozy fire place.

This has got camping areas as an added facility with camp fire and lounge plus a bar and restaurant to the visitors who buzzes with as low as $300 USD luxury rooms. This is the best lodge for the visitors who wish to track the groups in the Rushaga sector. Chameleon Hill Lodge is another best lodge that can’t be left untapped due to its high stunning surrounding environment suitable for the visitors.

Many visitors here enjoy after trek pausing at Lake Mutanda, where one can watch the surrounding islands. The design of the lodge gives a reason to the visitors as to why they should stay here in preparation and after the every activity performed.

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Kisoro is sometimes referred to as a twin sister to Bwindi impenetrable due to them being the only parks with the endangered mountain gorillas with silver backs hence adding beauty to the visitors trekking with golden monkeys which are only found here. Visitors here can sleep at Mount Gahinga lodge which is a perfect lodge for a day’s activity including hiking and bird watching plus the volcanic cones around it, Its rustic charm is inspired by traditional design and building techniques some of which are thatched with papyrus.

The lodge is characterized with stone guest Banda’s with papyrus roofs (3 doubles, 3 twins); Fireplaces for the visitors after a day’s activities, luxury shower rooms, Private verandas, Wi – Fi and charging stations available in the main lodge building, for technology based visitors.

Mountain Gorilla Watching: All You Need to Know

The mountain gorillas are known as gorilla beringei beringei and are noted to be the descendants of the ancestral monkeys which are known to have lived in Africa and Arabia at the beginning of the Oligocene epoch about 34 – 24 million years ago.

Despite the poor record of their evolutionary history, it is believed that the primate group which evolved into gorillas separated from the common ancestor along with the chimpanzees and humans about nine (9) million years ago and the initial relative of mountain gorillas is known as Proconsul Africanus.

The mountain gorillas are known to have separated from the Eastern lowland gorillas about 400,000 years ago while the two are believed to have separated from the western lowland gorillas about 2 million years ago.

Mountain gorilla treks in Uganda are an unforgettable life-time memory experience. Gorilla trekking in Uganda is an amazing captivating search involving long walks following gorilla trails in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park majorly or Mgahinga National Park.

Travel to Africa and Tour Mountain in Uganda deep in the heart of Africa’s most spectacular rain forests. A mountain gorilla trek trip in Bwindi can take anything from 15 minutes to 8 hours, depending on where the Uganda Gorillas are located. At the end of each Gorilla search in Uganda`s thick forested mountains, you will stay for only one hour photographing, admiring, learning and interacting with these great mountains Gorillas or apes.

Uganda gorilla safaris require one to have gorilla permits that are bought in advance to allow one track gorillas because only a maximum of Eight people are allowed to search each gorilla group in Bwindi, and Mgahinga. Uganda has 12 mountain gorilla groups open to tourists and one spends only one hour observing these beautiful mountain Gorillas and taking photos.

Mountain Gorilla trekking Safari in Congo Virunga National Park-Positioned to the Central of Africa, DR. Congo Gorilla Safaris & Tours/ Mount Nyiragongo Volcano Climbing Hiking Safari Tour Trips are among the most authentic African safari adventures that tourists can ever undertake majorly because of her less exploited virgin wilderness.

Democratic Republic of Congo has passed through a series of naming including Belgian Congo from 1908 to 1960 and Zaire from 1971 to 1997. DR. Congo borders a range of African countries including Central African Republic and South Sudan in the north, Republic of the Congo to the North West, Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola to the south west, Zambia to the south, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to the east providing for East Africa combined safaris.

DR Congo Gorilla safari tour trip offers Mountain Gorilla tracking in Virunga National Park Congo Africa. It is a rewarding primate Congo Gorilla Tour Safari package designed to enable you explore the critically endangered Mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo at your own pace.

The gorillas in Congo have been less explored compared to the rest in the region and thus the tour offers an authentic touch of these ancient species in their intact wilderness.

Self Drive Tours Operators in Uganda

Uganda has got a number of tour operators located in the different areas and this inspired me to make research about them before my journey to Uganda for a self drive tour.  As I was surfing on the different website, there I got 4×4 Car Hire Uganda one of the best tour companies in Uganda. Jackie being an exceptional tour consultant, she advised us on how we were to travel while on a self drive in Uganda.

we had to tour three main national parks of Murchison Falls, Kidepo valley national park and the Mountain Elgon National park. In our engagement with the company, we were advised to book the permits, reserve hotels from the three parks, how to access a self drive vehicle and even how to access a visa on arrival. Due to their trustworthiness and even the esteem they have towards clients, we sent them money to do all those described requirements on our behalf such that by the time we arrived to Uganda every necessity was cleared and for real this smoothened our journeys.

We were eight people so this was the same company which hired us a 4×4 Safari Land Cruiser which had a an open roof top which enabled some of my colleagues to take photos of the different animals and primates in the game parks we went to. This was hired to us at $200 USD per day. On arrival to Uganda at Entebbe airport we were given our car after signing an agreement and our booking receipt copies and permits as we had agreed with them and we proceeded to our destinations.

Our self drive tours in Uganda takes you to Uganda National parks and they start from Entebbe airport to Murchison Falls national park which is located in the north west of Kampala which approximately took us 5hours on the way to the park. But adjacent to the park is the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where the endangered rhinos are taken care of, since we reached in at midday to the park, we first went for our lunch at Paraa Safari Lodge which is in the heart of the park.

At exactly 2pm, we were already at the park headquarters for a launch trip on river Nile, this activity was charged us at $30 USD per person, this gave us a stunning view of the different wild animals and a frontal view of the falls down the streams, on the boat, we also go an added advantage of watching birds such as grey heron, Widow birds, Marabou stork, secretary birds and the Cuckoos as they were on the river line sides.

This activity lasted for 3hours as we were enjoying beers and sodas at the boat. We went back the hotel where we slept and early in the morning after tea, we embarked on our second activity of game driving charged at $20 with most of the experienced rangers from the park, during this we observed and took photos of buffaloes, leopards, lions, elephants, reedbucks, warthogs and herds of kobs as they were enjoying their habitat in search for food and also exercising their bodies.