Gorilla Double Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is Uganda’s National Park located in the southwestern part of Uganda, in Kanungu District near Kanungu town. This Park covers an area size of 331 square kilometers and is part of the larger Bwindi Impenetrable forest which extends into the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The park was established in 1991 and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 due to its significance for gorilla conservation.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is renowned for its rich Biodiversity, and population of mountain gorillas that are over 459 meaning it hosts almost half of the world’s remaining population of mountain gorillas including several habituated groups that can be tracked. However, besides the gorillas, this park is home to other primates species over 120 such as Chimpanzees, elephants, Lhotse’s monkeys, Red-tailed monkeys, blue monkeys, white and Black colobus monkeys and more.350 Bird Species such as the African Green Broadbill, Grauer’ss rush warbler, Shelley’s Crimsoning, Black bee-eater, Rwenzori Turaco, African Emerald cuckoo and more. A diverse range of plant species includes Giant stinging nettle, Orchids, Bamboo, Hagenah, African olive, Giant lobelias are other much more that aren’t mentioned. The park also hosts over 200 butterflies’ rugged terrain and dense vegetation earned it the name “IMPENETRABLE “emphasizing its challenging yet fascinating nature.
Gorilla Double Trekking in Bwindi: Gorilla trekking is usually referred to the hiking into the tropical rainforests in search of the mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. And this means that during gorilla double trekking a trekker is to carry out trekking two times. Here visitors visit gorilla families two times in their natural habitat in Bwindi which is an unquestionable home of the mountain gorillas in Africa.
while gorilla double trekking in Bwindi visitors are able to trek back to back a gorilla family twice in a day which means visitors can trek either trek more than one Gorilla family in the same sector or even trek different Gorilla families in different sectors all possible. Double Gorilla trekking is offers a chance to experience different Gorilla Families and in Different sectors, you may prefer or even trekking a gorilla family more than once which doesn’t happen with normal gorilla trekking. Gorilla double trekking gives trekkers an opportunity to spend more time with the gorillas offering a chance to associate with these Magnificent rare primates, social behaviors and habits, and physical appearances. Those who will have double trekked the same gorilla family will be able to actually be able to differentiate and be familiar with that group. Basically, double gorilla trekking involves trekking mountain gorillas or gorilla families for two days since it allows visitors to trek two gorilla groups per day. Double gorilla trekking is such an interesting activity but Gorilla trek but regardless it’s so rewarding and worth the cost.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has trails through which trekkers will pass through. These trails are points from which trekkers start their journey leading them to the tourist attractions, connecting them to other points and back to where they started. Here are some of the trails to us while on double gorilla trekking; the River Munyaga trekking trail, The Waterfall trekking trails, River Ivy trail, Birding trails, the Bamboo trail, Habinyanja trail, River Ruizi trail, Kashasha River trail, Buniga Forest trail, Suma waterfall trail among others.
Double trekking in Bwindi National Park offers unmatched experiences to visitors and its just an amazing activity to spend a day with these majestic species, Bwindi is a must go to destination for tourists who are interested in Mount gorillas while they are on a Uganda safari tour.
Double gorilla trekking permits.
Just like the normal gorilla trekking, even in the double gorilla trekking Permits are required before you embark on Double Gorilla trekking journey. All visitors aren’t allowed to trek without Permits from Uganda Wildlife Authority which is an institution that manages all Uganda’s National Parks and only on in charge of providing All kinds of Gorilla Permits in the Country. Meaning all tourists who are into trekking Gorillas have an Obligation to purchase their Gorilla trekking permits months before the day of Trekking without fail to allow them to be able to carry on with this activity. Trekkers should note that Double Gorilla trekking Permits are costed differently from the usual Permits. a normal gorilla trekking permit costs 800 dollars for Non-residents,700 US dollars to foreign residents, and 300,000 Ugandan shillings to East African citizens so it means the gorilla double trekking permits will cost 1400 dollars to foreign residents, 600,000 Ugandan shillings to East African Citizens and 1600 dollars to non-residents. These double gorilla trekking permits can be acquired through your trusted Explore Rwanda Tours operators or from the Offices of the Uganda Wildlife Authority and booking should be in advance or earlier (3 months to) before the trekking day since the permits are very limited. There are no limitations on the number of permits on can purchase since the Uganda Wildlife Authority allows one to purchase as many trekking permits as possible depending on the availability of spot. And each permit allows you to trek one group per day.
