Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is located in the southern part of Uganda and it’s a unique park of its own due to the hard to find elsewhere but can only seen here endangered mountain gorillas within its four sectors, this park contain an approximate of 350 gorillas well named per each group for easy identification and also basing on some other factors that can be explained from the park or the documents found at the park headquarters.
The Bwindi gorilla trekking tours can satisfy any visitor who wishes to have an experiential tour to the pearl of Africa due to their way of looks and being the largest primates, in its four sectors, the Rushaga sector has got the largest number of gorilla groups including the Nshongi and Mishaya among others, in Ruhija sector the Bitukula gorilla group is common. In Nkuringo sector there is Nkuringo group and in Buhoma sector is the Rushegura, Habinyanja and the Mubare gorilla group which is the first gorilla group to be tracked from this park.
From this information, i paid for three gorilla permits at $1800 USD through Nature Adventure which was our premiering local tour company that led us into the activity and we were to do just a single track but people with money can do a double tracking by paying twice for the ticket, we were to spend three days in Uganda and therefore the amount we sent to Moses was to cater for all our needs except some personal needs.
Our first day, we were picked early in the morning and we were taken to Bwindi impenetrable national park in Kabale, this took us 8hours on the way though we had an en-route lunch from Mbarara a town on the way to the western Uganda. We rested from the Rushaga since this is where e were to track form, we slept at Gorilla Valley Lodge which best suited our needed and our pockets according to the budget we had moved with.
On the second day we were taken to the park for guidance as we proceeded to track the Nshongi gorilla group. This took us 5hours under the guidance of the park rangers who also provided us security at the moment. This was the best experience on our side as we had naked eyes on them. These had longer hair and shorter arms than their lowland cousins and the troupe was led by one dominant silver back which was the adult male, often called a silver back because of the swath of silver hair that adorns his otherwise dark fur.
Troops also include several other young males, some females, and their offspring we spent 1hour enjoying the physical appearance of these gorillas as we compared them with the Lowland gorillas we have ever tracked in DR.Congo, this was an amazing experience. In the evening we went back to the lodge for lunch and supper plus an overnight as we thought of going back to Kampala. On the third day we left the park for Kampala for our departure but at least we had some memorable devises as we took some photos.
