One hour with a habituated mountain gorilla family, a few metres away, after a walk through steep forest that can take one hour or six. Permits are limited and go months ahead.
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Each of these is somewhere we run gorilla Trekking, with its own page.
Rwanda
Five volcanoes on the Rwandan side of the Virungas, and the forest Dian Fossey worked in for eighteen years. Gorilla trekking here is shorter and better organised than almost anywhere — Kigali is two and a half hours away by road, which means you can land, trek and fly home inside three days.
Uganda
Bwindi holds roughly half the mountain gorillas left on earth. You walk into thick, steep, ancient forest with a ranger and a tracker, sometimes for an hour and sometimes for six, and then spend one hour with a habituated family at a few metres' distance. People who have done every safari there is still describe it as the best hour of their lives.
Uganda
The smallest park in Uganda, where three volcanoes meet the Rwandan and Congolese borders. It has a gorilla family of its own and, more unusually, golden monkeys — and the Batwa trail here is led by the forest people who lived in it before it was a park.
Prices are per person. Any of these can be adjusted to give the activity more time.
3 Days
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10 DAYS
Gorilla tracking typically takes place in the dense forests of Uganda. The most famous locations are Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Chimpanzee tracking is often done in Kibale National Park in Uganda, but also in other locations like Kyambura Gorge and Budongo Forest.
Say so when you get in touch and we will build the route around it, rather than squeezing it in on an afternoon when the light is wrong.
