Gorilla Habituation Safaris

Mountain gorilla habituation experience safari in Uganda

Kisoro tours Uganda Ltd offers Mountain gorilla habituation experience safari in Uganda, gorilla habituation is the latest addition to activity to normal gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Kisoro tours Uganda organizes both gorilla habituation and gorilla trekking in Bwindi forest, our tours to Bwindi forest for mountain gorilla habituation experience range from 2 days to any number of days you wish to spend on gorilla habituation experience or normal gorilla trekking. For more information about our Uganda gorilla habituation experience contact us we are at your disposal for any other advice you may need to book your Uganda gorilla safari

As soon as you contact us we will book your Uganda gorilla habituation permits or the normal gorilla trekking permits, gorilla habituation is only done in the Rushaga sector located on the southern part of Bwindi impenetrable forest national park, and permits are limited to a few numbers of people so the first thing we do is to check permit availability before confirming you gorilla habituation safari. You can either fly or drive from Entebbe/Kampala to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park, for example, if you choose to drive it takes you about 9 to 10 hours’ drive while if fly takes only about 45 minutes, for other details about Uganda gorilla habituation safaris please contact Kisoro tours Uganda.

Uganda gorilla habituation experience permits cost $1500 per person which gives up to four hours with a group of the mountain gorilla family that is under habituation processes. The number of habituation permits issued per day is limited to 4 permits for each family and take note that children under 15 years of age are not allowed to go for either habituation or trekking. Kisoro tours Uganda we have been organizing gorilla habituation experiences in Uganda for 15 years so please take advantage of our experience in organizing both gorilla habituation and normal gorilla trekking safaris.

Uganda’s gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park was introduced a few years back by the Uganda Wildlife authority to give tourists and other visitors to get involved in the gorilla habituation process. The gorilla habituation adventure gives tourists a different experience from normal gorilla trekking. Uganda is home to more than half of mountain gorillas whereby over 500 gorillas live in the Bwindi forest.

Bwindi impenetrable forest national park has 4 gorilla trekking sectors and gorilla habituation is only done in a sector called Rushaga sector, this activity involves training wild gorilla groups to get used to human beings’ presence in their natural habitat. This habituation process involves daily visiting the mountain gorilla family that is under habituation by experienced park rangers and professional researchers but now they add 4 tourists daily to enjoy and observe a particular gorilla family until a time this gorillas family learns to tolerate the presence of humans in their natural habitat before its open for normal tourism.

Tourists and other visitors coming for the Uganda gorilla habituation experience must be at the Rushaga sector at 7:00 am for a briefing about the whole habituation process and also take you through major safety procedures to follow while in the Bwindi impenetrable forest to ensure that you get successful gorilla habituation experience in Uganda.

After the briefing, enter the forest and start to follow the mountain gorilla family that is undergoing the habituation process, this activity is almost a full day activity because once you have found that particular gorilla family you are allowed to spend four hours interacting with the gorillas, in order to enjoy this activity you must have a good level of physical fitness because the time you spend hiking up and down in the impenetrable forest before reaching the mountain gorillas it makes Uganda mountain gorilla habituation experience amazing and more enjoyable compared to the traditional mountain gorilla trekking whereby tourists are only allowed to only one hour with gorillas.

Uganda gorilla habituation permit costs $1500 per person and you spend 4 hours with gorillas while gorilla trekking permits cost $700 each habituation permits or gorilla trekking permits can be booked through Kisoro tours Uganda ltd or directly from Uganda Wildlife Authority head offices. It is always a nice book early enough in advance because as I said habituation permits are limited to 4 per day.