For trackers, Uganda offers an ultimate comfort away from home through participating in numerous tourism activities in the country. The most paramount activities for trackers include gorilla tracking and Chimpanzee tracking. Gorilla tracking in Uganda is carried out in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National park. For lovers of chimpanzee tracking, the activity is carried out in Kibale forest National Park. Within this park, there are habituated groups of gorillas for viewing
The best season for trackers ultimate comfort Away from home
For trackers, this Easter Season should be considered as the best time to leave your home and come and enjoy comfort away from your home. As you plan ahead of to go along with your family or a group, or with your children or only you and the wife Easter season is the best time to get away from home.
The activities to participate in this season
Gorilla tracking
For experienced travelers in Uganda, the unique activity you can best participate in is gorilla tracking. This activity is carried out in the Republic of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic republic of Congo. In Uganda the activity of Gorilla tracking is carried out in Bwindi Impentrable national park and Mgahinga gorilla National park. These are purely mountain gorillas.
In case you wish to see the low land Gorillas, you are recommended to visit Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the north of the Congo near the border with Gabon. This park is one of Africa’s oldest national parks, covering over 1,360 million hectares of pristine rain forest. It is an integral part of the Congo Basin ecosystem.
To simply track the Mountain gorillas of Uganda this season, you will visit Bwindi Impenetrable National park. This park has been considered as one the Africa’s richest forest. A part from the mountain gorillas, it has got other many attractions including; 350 bird species, 200 trees, over 300 butterflies, 50 reptiles and over 100 mammals and hundreds of primates including the rare black and white colobus and blue monkeys. These will make you participate in wildlife viewing, nature walk and photography. Do not leave behind your camera because you will need to take some photographs during the tracking expeditions.
The cost of Gorilla Tracking
During this Easter season, the activity is quiet expensive this calls for your preparedness, You will have to be well prepared since the demand is a bit high. You will have to obtain a gorilla permit t of $ 600 which is approximately 2.1 million for the foreign residents. The Uganda residents need to obtain a gorilla tracking permit at Ugandan shillings 250,000 for an hour tracking. All these permits are offered by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. After you have paid this fee, it will include; fee for guiding and fee for entering the park.
Where to stay
There are many hotels, lodges and Guest houses within the country to offers you the best accommodation. These are found all over the country with the best ones being in Kampala and in Uganda’s national parks. Within Kampala, you can opt to spend a night at Serena hotel and Sheraton among others. In the national parks, there many of these hotels and these include; Chobe hotel in Murchison falls, the Lodge Bella Vista in Kabarole, The Kipling Lodge The Paraa Safari Lodge in Murchison falls, Kyaninga Lodge in Kibale, the Mweya Safari Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National park ,the Primate Lodge Kibale The Rain-forest Lodge The Arcadia Lodges in Lake Mburo and lake Bunyonyi.
