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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 […]

Today yet again I answer another common question that most of our client always ask. Straight away let me say that there is no specific regulation on when one can book a gorilla permit but […]

First thing I want to say here is; that gorillas are wild animals and all wild animals pose some danger to humans if you don’t give them their space or if they threatened. Similarly gorillas […]

Gorillas are the largest living primates in the world. They are predominantly herbivorous and ground dwelling animals. They are closely related to human being sharing 95 – 99% of the their DNA with homosapiens. Gorillas […]

In Uganda/ Rwanda/Congo there are two types of seasons; the rain season and the dry season. The rain season is the months of march,April and may. June July and August are dry months. September October […]