Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park; A Home of Mountain Gorillas.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is located in South Western Uganda. It is best known for Mountain Gorilla trekking experience though there are other activities you can participate in. It is the best park in Uganda where you can go for gorilla trekking. Most tourists have preferred to trek the mountain gorillas in this park. This park has got both the habituated gorilla families which offer gorilla habituation experience and other family groups which offer the normal gorilla trekking experience within the park.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest consists of 331 square kilometers with a thick rain forest which is found in the Bakiga Land. The native people of this forest are the Bakiga people who speak lukiga language and the Batwa people who still occupy some part in the forest. Gorilla trekking in this forest however is very well worth the efforts considered with very beautiful nature and possibilities of seeing the mountain gorillas being at 98 percent when you are in the wilderness.  This activity will offer you a very unique opportunity to meet the endangered mountain gorillas in their natural habitat in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This activity is very adventurous as you will experience a wonderful trek through the forest and finally spend a magical hour with these endangered apes.

When you are in Bwindi Impenetrable National park, you can opt to go for a guided forest walk by a professional guide. You will be very well led by a professional s guide through the forest. You will be walking with a stick which will be offered to you at the lodge or by the guide during the time of briefing. During this walk, you will see a number of bird species and butterflies. After trekking, you will visit the Batwa people. Here, you will come to know about their traditional life. Remember these people stay in Bwindi forest and they purely earn their living from what the forest offers them. You will also come to learn about the culture of the Batwa people and their life style.

 During the morning hours, Bwindi is cold. The same coldness is also experienced at night, meaning that Bwindi is cold during morning hours and cold at night. The annual temperatures range from 7°C to 20°C. This therefore calls for warm clothings to be put on since the forest reserves up to 2390 mm of rain every year. Usually, this is centered during the two seasons the park experiences. These are the wet seasons of March to May where short rains are experienced and during the months of September to November where the rains are very heavy.

In Bwindi Impenetrable national park, you will participate in Gorilla trekking activity. This is the most paramount activity within this park. You will also participate in Nature walks within the Forest. This will offer you a great experience as you will see a number of bird species and butterflies within the forest. The birding experience will make you participate in photography which is one the tourism activities tourists prefer doing during their safaris.

To readily access this park, you will be driven a distance of 9 hours from Uganda’s capital city Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park where you will participate in this lifetime activity. You can also take an alternative shuttle from Entebbe where Uganda’s International Airport is found. This will take you about one and half hours to arrive at Bwindi Impenetrable forest.

After Bwindi, you can decide to visit the savannah park of Queen Elizabeth National Park passing through the Ishasha area. At this point, you will see the tree climbing lions. This park also offers you numerous activities including; game drives which will give you a good opportunity to view a number of animals including the tree lions, elephants and buffaloes. You will also participate in boat cruise along the Kazinga channel. You will also sight a number of bird species as you are driven by the captain