Location:Ruhija This family has 14members led by dominant silverback Ndahura. The family is named after bitukura river along which it foliages. The family has 4 silverbacks (adult male gorillas); the retired alpha silverback karamuzi, rukumu […]
Location: Ruhija This is a family of 12 members led by dominant silverback Mukiza. Its a splinter group from kyagurilo gorilla family led by rukina. The fights between mukiza,the successor of rukina and rukara the […]
Location: BuhomaThis is a new gorilla family with 7 members led by dominant silverback Katwe. It was officially opened for tourism on 20 August 2018 in the northern sector of Bwindi Buhoma. The family has […]
Location: RuhijaThis family has 9 members led by dominant silver back Rukara. Originally habituated as a research family by the German Max Planck institute of evolotion anthropology; the family was big with 21 members led […]
Location: Buhoma This family has 15 members with one silverbacks. Kabukonjo is the current leader of this family helped by his young brother to co lead the family. Kabukonjo took over the leadership of the […]
Location:Buhoma sector This family has 17 members led by silverback makara as the dominant and sole leader of the family. The family was habituated in 1997 and named habinyanja (H group) meaning a swampy area, […]
Location: Buhoma sector This is the oldest habituated gorilla family and the first to be opened for tourism in the whole of bwindi impenetrable national park with 11 members. The family was habituated between 1991 […]
Bwindi forest is one of Uganda’s biggest forest conservation area covering an area of 325 km². It also one of Africa’s oldest forest dating back to before the Pleistocene ice age thus making it over […]
Volcanoes national park (PARC national des volcans) lies in the northwestern part of Rwanda and borders Virunga national park in Congo DR, and Mgahinga gorilla national park in Uganda. The park is a haven for […]
ON THE WAY TO THE GORILLAS 1. always wash your hands before you head out to the gorillas 2. A maximum number of 8 visitors may visit a group of habituated gorillas in a day. […]
The minimum age for one track gorillas is 16. There is no maximum age only your fitness is required. You must be fit enough to be able to hike the mountain terrain which sometimes gets […]
Before you book any lodge in bwindi,its important that you first get a gorilla permit. This is because bwindi is massive forest and as such has four tracking sectors some of which are distant away […]