3 Days Gorilla Flying safari for the Elderly

Overview

This is the perfect safari, for those who do not want to spend along time driving the long journey from Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable forest. The 3 days gorilla flying safari, offers you an opportunity to fly from Kampala to Bwindi and back and allows you to have enough time near Bwindi to participate in other activities, like walks to water falls, community visits and so much more.

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: Fly to Bwindi for Gorilla tracking

At 6am, you will be picked up from your hotel in Entebbe to transfer to the airport or airstrip. Boat you’re your flight to Bwindi at 7am and then arrive Bwindi at 8am, or 8:30am depending on the weather. You Bwindi guide will be waiting at the airstrip to transfer you to your hotel. The drive from the airstrip to the hotel is 1 hour. Bwindi being hilly the nearest airstrip is one hour drive from the hotels. Arrive in the mid-morning hours and then check into your hotel, enjoy your hotel and relax, later in the afternoon, you can decide to go visit the Batwa community.

Overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp, Clouds Lodge or Mahogany springs Hotel.

Day 2: Gorilla Tracking Day

Start the day with breakfast, before you transfer to the briefing point at 7am. You will be allocated the gorilla group to trek and then later transfer to the starting point after briefing. Through the meandering routes of the forest, you will start the search for the gorillas and once you meet them you will be allowed to spend 1 hour following them and taking pictures. Later after the trek, return to the start point and proceed to your hotel.

If you need to be carried or helped through the forest this service is available to ensure that every one even the elderly meet the gorillas in the wilderness.

Day 3: Fly Back to Kampala.

Have an early morning breakfast, and then drive to transfer to the airstrip to catch your flight back to Kampala. Kindly note that most flights depart at 9:30am, and therefore, if you have an onward flight from Entebbe , it should depart any-time after noon.