Have you run out of ideas of where you going to spend your vacation? Come to Uganda to take a gorilla tour. A gorilla tour is one of a kind trip, an expedition that not everyone has ever taken before. Many people who have visited the gorillas have been left speechless but with a smiley face.
A gorilla tour Uganda is more than watching wildlife in the zoo. At a gorilla safari one encounters the gorillas in the mist and other wildlife in their natural environment. There is nothing like captivity of animals like the animals caged in the zoos. Here the gorillas are at their utmost best of life that is in the jungle moving up and down without any restrictions.
Come for a gorilla tour in Uganda and Rwanda, you never going to regret the experience you will have. A gorilla tour leads to travelling to the southwestern part of Uganda by the car hire safari vehicle Uganda or a charter plane to watch the mountain gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable national park or Mgahinga national park and then cross to volcanoes national park in rwanda to watch the gorillas.
This tour displays a lot of attractions like a stopover at the equator which is the midpoint of earth or the globe. There are great physical features like the escarpments and the ranges graced with unique vegetation cover and on some occasion some exotic animals like the monkeys, elephants, and zebras are seen at terraces of the forest along the roads.
But the real excitement is got in the Bwindi impenetrable national park or Mgahinga national park where the gorillas exist. Bwindi has ten groups of habituated gorillas and Mgahinga has one. Habituated gorillas are the gorilla families that can be seen by the visitors in the park. But one cannot see all the families in the park; she/he must track one family at a time. If one would wish to track any other family, he/she is required to pay for another gorilla permit and that would be another day.
There is also an option of trekking the gorillas in both uganda and Rwanda as the visitor can get into uganda travel to Bwindi national park for the first session then cross over to Rwanda at the Virunga ranges to do the same activities. the cross border gorilla trekking is very adventure and a very captivating experience as you feel the rhythm of both Uganda and Rwanda safari experiences at ago.
Gorilla tracking is a very challenging activity where one has to hike through the hilly jungles of the park to find the gorillas. It takes 2-8 hours to find a certain family of gorillas. The trackers are supposed to spend one hour with the gorillas as they observe them do their activities and also take some photos of the gorillas.
Although gorilla trekking is a challenging activity it is worth every penny one spends on it because it is fun, adventurous and miraculous as these gorillas have similar social characters with human beings in the way they lead their lives.
Gorilla tours are a life time experience and many people who have tracked the gorilla in their natural environment have had ever lasting memories about them. These people have convinced their families and friends to take on gorilla tours in Uganda.