This 4 Days Gorilla Trekking & Sabyinyo Volcano Hike offer you a chance to trek the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and also hike Sabyinyo Volcano.
Highlights of 4 Days Gorilla Trekking & Sabyinyo Volcano Hike
- Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Bwindi Forest National Park
- Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 3: Hike Mount Sabyinyo
- Day 4: Kampala – Entebbe
Detailed itinerary of 4 Days Gorilla Trekking & Sabyinyo Volcano Hike
Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Bwindi Forest National Park
You will be picked up by our guide as early as 07:00 am and embark on a journey to Southwestern Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
En-route, have a stopover at the Equator Landmark for pictures and a chance to stand both in Northern and Southern Hemisphere and in Mbarara for lunch. Pass by mountains, tropical rainforests, and bamboo forests. Arrive in the park in the evening, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation options.
Luxury – Chameleon Hill Lodge
Midrange – Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge
Budget – Gorilla Haven Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After breakfast, your drive guide will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing about gorilla trekking. A senior ranger guide will take you through rules and regulations to follow while in the forest and presence of the endangered mountain gorillas.
Enter into the misty forests of Bwindi looking for mountain gorillas in groups of 8 people, the trek takes approximately 30 minutes to 6 hours or more depending on the movement of the gorillas. When the gorillas are sighted, visitors will be guided to within 6 meters from the gorillas, sit around them for a whole hour while gazing into their big round eyes.
After this mind-blowing experience, you will trek back to the park headquarters, meet your guide and head back to your lodge for relaxation or head to the Batwa – Pygmy People for a cultural experience. The Batwa People are the early inhabitants of Bwindi Forest, unfortunately they were evicted from the forest when the area was designated a protected area with aim of protected the endangered mountain gorillas. Here you will be entertained by local dances and drama, demonstration of their high hunting skills and visit the medicine man among others. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Hike Mount Sabyinyo
Today is designated to climbing the Sabyinyo extinct Volcanoes, one of the eight Virunga Volcanoes and consists of 3 peaks.
The hike to Mount Sabyinyo takes you through muddy trails often on wooden ladders with expectations of partial rain and clearing clouds as you get to the beautiful view of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. At this time, the view is at times reduced t 10ft, reach the summit view and from here you will be able to see and stand in all three countries, Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.
The hike sometimes involves walking straight high up the mountain without going around it. The views and challenges of hiking Mt. Sabyinyo make it an amazing experience for adventures.
Climbing Sabyinyo Volcano (Sabyinyo has three peaks, you can climb all three in the same walk, but you need to be fit!! ± 8 hrs, distance 14 km; height 3,669 m, elevation gain 1,300 m). On hiking safety, Mt. Sabyinyo has walking trails and occasionally maintained wooden ladders which make it safer for hikers.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Kampala – Entebbe
After breakfast, return to Kampala with en-route lunch in Mbarara. Your driver guide will drop you off at Entebbe International Airport for your departure flight back home, bringing your safari to an end.
End of 4 Days Gorilla Trekking & Sabyinyo Volcano Hike
Included
- Accommodation for the gorilla trek as indicated on programme (on full board basis)
- 1 gorilla permit per person
- Sightseeing as noted in the trip itinerary
- Park fees
- Entry fees
- Airport transfers
- Ground transportation by private 4WD vehicles
- Additional guides/porters where appropriate
Excluded
- Flight tickets and departure taxes
- Travel documentation (visas)
- Travel and medical insurance
- Optional excursions
- Excess baggage charges
- Tips and gratuities for your guides and accommodation staff
- Laundry
- Beverages other than mineral water in the vehicle and at mealtimes with meals
- Items of a personal nature such as telephone calls, postage fees, and so on