3-Day Wildlife & Cultural Experience Safaris

3-DAYS SAFARI

Safari’s summary

• Arrival at Entebbe International airport and transfer to Rushaga sector of Bwindi impenetrable national park at the booked Hotel/lodge.
• Gorilla trekking and Baatwa experience
• Transfer from Rushaga to Entebbe to fly back home

Day-1 Arrival at Entebbe airport

Upon arrival at Entebbe international airport, you will be received by our English/Spanish/Dutch/German/French/Chinese speaking Hugo safaris guide/driver who will welcome you to Uganda, the Pearl of Africa and thereafter you will be transferred straight to Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National park where you will have to pass at the Equator in Masaka and continue a distance of close to 500km in an 11-13 hour driver through Masaka city, Lyantonde, Mbarara city then to Ntungamo and end up in Kabale town and afterward head to Rubanda near Kisoro and branch off at Muko road on lake Bunyonyi and head to Rushaga Gorilla trekking sector of Bwindi Impenetrable national park, you shall have a stopover in any of the above towns for lunch and coffee while on the trip. Upon arrival at the hotel, you will check in and relax for next day’s activity. On the way you see the long-horned cattle of Ankore along the between Lyantonde, Mbarra-Ntungamo town.

Day-2 Gorilla tracking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Batwa experience

After having enough relaxation at the hotel, wake up a bit early, have breakfast, and go to the information Centre for Briefing about Gorilla trekking. The Rules and dress codes are similar to the ones of chimpanzees except, here you shall add on No repeating the signs (or mimicking) what the Gorilla has done because you don’t know what that sign may mean to them and can cause danger to yourself or the group.

However, the journey to our next cousins (approximately 96-98% human) is so interesting as we shall enter into the dense tropical/rain forests where you can expect rain at any time and the area is mountainous full of tall and short trees, the area too is home to some forest elephants, antelopes and a variety of birds plus monkeys. The journey may take 2-8 hours (that is going and coming back) including 1 full hour while watching and interacting with our next cousins (beautiful, handsome, gentle giants) under the guidance of armed rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). During this day, we shall go with our packed lunch and 2litres of bottled mineral water, and in the event that there is/are some senior citizen(s), we shall need a porter at an optional cost, after visiting and viewing the endangered mountain Gorillas  of Uganda (approximately 463 in numbers), we shall return to the Gorilla university for Graduation (that is to prove that you have successfully passed all the exams), return to the hotel and relax

Baatwa experience

After having relaxed, we make a visit and follow the trails of the original people/tribe of Uganda who used to live in this forest before 1991-1992/1993 when the park was gazetted and was finally evicted and advised to live with other people in the community but this came at a high cost for them since they were used to free food/meat/fruits/honey and herbal medicine but now have to go to hospitals and pay. This is one of the best experiences one can have in his lifetime and you listen to their stories, of the people who were in the forest, see their houses, how they used to live in hats, caves and under the tree plus the way they used to bury their loved one in case of death and the churches they had in the forest, very wonderful experience.