4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Trekking
This 4 Day Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Trekking Safari will take you on a tour of ‘gold and silver’ in one trip to Uganda. Take an African scenery 9 hrs drive in one of the most attractive places on the mainland dubbed the “Switzerland of Africa”, rolling hills and valleys showing off scenic landscaped like in an enthralling dream.
Highlights
- You’ll be visiting Uganda and exiting through Kigali
- Main destinations’ include: Entebbe, Bwindi Impenetrable NP, Mgahinga NP and Kigali Capital.
- Main activities include: Gorilla Tracking, Golden Monkey Tracking, Lake Mutanda Canoe
- No kids under the age of 15 are allowed on this trip
- You’ll be staying in modern forest camps
- Trip starts any time and can be customized
Trip Overview
This 4 Day Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Trekking Safari will take you on a tour of ‘gold and silver’ in one trip to Uganda. Take an African scenery 9 hrs drive in one of the most attractive places on the mainland dubbed the “Switzerland of Africa”, rolling hills and valleys showing off scenic landscaped like in an enthralling dream.
Your 9 hrs drive in the west will lead you into the mountain gorilla jungle, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where you’ll track the intangible creatures and spend an hour in their company. Then head over into Mgahinga trails to track the golden monkey, another rare primate, and then exit in Kigali Rwanda’s capital.
Trip Summery
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking
Day 3: Golden monkey Tracking
Day 4: Transfer to Kigali international Airport
Detailed Itinerary
Arrival
After arrival at Entebbe Airport and visa processed, your chosen 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Trekking guide and driver will pick you and transfer you to your booked lodge in Entebbe or Kampala. Accommodation on arrival can be arranged at a cost.
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
With an early morning, you will board on your Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Tracking Tour, heading south-West to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will stop over at the Equator for some photo shoots and Mbarara where you will take your lunch and visit the Igongo cultural center.
After lunch you will go for a museum tour where you will get an intuition into cultures of people in western Uganda then advance to Bwindi impenetrable forest as you relax the rest of the evening preparing for a electrifying experience of Mountain Gorilla Tracking the next day.
Accommodation:
- Luxury: Chameleon Hill
- Mid-range: Mutanda Lake Resort
- Budget: Bwindi Backpackers
Day 2: Gorilla tracking
With an early breakfast and a packed lunch, head out for the Gorilla Safari and Golden Monkey Trekking at the park headquarters in Nkuringo for a briefing just before you head to the jungle to encounter the gentle giants: the rare mountain gorilla. For most people this is the complete highlight of their Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Tracking safari.
Tracking is a fascination and remarkable experience which more than repays the efforts needed to reach Bwindi or Mgahinga and to trek through the forest. Gorilla tracking can be stimulating and needs one to be rationally fit before task to undertaking into the activity.
Once the gorillas are situated, you will spend one whole hour with them and then later return to the starting point for pick up.
Accommodation:
- Luxury: Chameleon Hill
- Mid-range: Mutanda Lake Resort
- Budget: Bwindi Backpackers
Day 3: Golden monkey tracking
After breakfast, you will drive to Mgahinga national park for the golden monkey tracking. This Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Tracking Safari offers a rare chance to track these exclusive monkeys in the dense bamboo forests on the Gahinga trail.
Accommodation:
- Luxury: Chameleon Hill
- Mid-range: Mutanda Lake Resort
- Budget: Bwindi Backpackers
Day 4: Transfer to Kigali international Airport
After breakfast, your Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Tracking safari driver will take you across the border into Rwanda, and drive upto Kigali city. This is a shorter 4-hours route as compared to heading back to Entebbe for 9 hrs. You’ll catch your flight back home at Kigali International airport.
End of Tour
The 4 Days Uganda Gorillas & Golden Monkey Trekking ends here. Any accommodation needed after end of trip will cost you an extra amount.
Accommodation
- Luxury: Chameleon Hill
- Mid-range: Mutanda Lake Resort
- Budget: Bwindi Backpackers
What is Included
- Meals as shown in itinerary + bottled drinking water
- Entry fees, Ranger fees and Permits
- Activities and excursions mentioned in the program
- Transfers between destinations
- Transport in private 4WD safari vehicle (with fuel)
- English speaking driver/ guide
- Accommodation as mentioned in the itinerary
What is excluded
- International flight
- Meals and drinks not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tips
- Items of personal nature
- Laundry service
- Visa (USD $50)
- Optional activities in Jinja
Price — US $1745 per person (For two people)
The price increases if you opt to travel as a solo traveler. Also, the price payable per person reduces from the stated amount when the tour is booked by more than two people.
Start date | 1 Pax | 2 Pax | 3 Pax | 4 Px | 5 Pax | 6 Pax |
Any date | $2230 | $1745 | $1585 | $1510 | $1460 | $1425 |
Single room Supplement is USD 45.00 per person willing to stay alone in a single room.
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