Over 3 days this safari works through Bwindi, using the comfortable, well-positioned lodges most travellers choose. 2 nights on safari, priced on request.
Entebbe/Kampala - Bwindi
About this safari
The route opens in Bwindi — half the world's mountain gorillas, in genuinely impenetrable forest — and works through 0 further destinations over 3 days. It stays within Uganda; the final proposal will confirm transfer times and the balance between travel and game viewing. Accommodation is at the mid-range standard: comfortable tented camps and established safari lodges. The balance most travellers settle on — proper beds, en-suite bathrooms and well-run lodges in good positions, without the premium that the top end of the market commands. Like every safari in this catalogue, it is priced on request rather than sold at a published rate, because park fees, permits, group size and contracted accommodation all change the figure.
Day by day
Written out in full before you book, so you can see exactly how the days are paced and where each night is spent.
Day 1
Entebbe is the working gateway for this route. Citrus will set out the actual meeting and transfer arrangements in writing. Today's journey ends at one of the most biologically rich forests in Africa. The roads through the highlands are winding and slow, but the country they cross is spectacular — terraced hills, crater lakes and distant views towards the Virunga volcanoes — and the arrival at the forest edge, with the canopy rising in front of you, justifies the hours it took. Buhoma, the village at the northern edge of the park, has built a good deal of its livelihood around the forest, and the community projects there are open to visitors — a craft workshop, a tea stall, a small school. It is worth an hour, and it makes the economics of gorilla conservation considerably more concrete than a briefing can. This outline assumes a comfortable safari stay near the route. The named property remains a suggestion until quoted.
Overnight: Bwindi
Day 2
The day begins early at the park headquarters with a briefing, group allocation and the option of hiring a porter — worth taking, both for the help and because it puts money directly into the local community. Trackers set out at dawn to locate the family you are assigned, and the walk that follows can take several hours, through steep, wet, tangled forest at altitude. When you reach them, you are permitted exactly one hour. Gorillas feeding, grooming and dozing a few metres away, with a silverback watching on with complete indifference, is not an experience that photographs adequately — trackers work to locate the families each morning, but no wildlife encounter can be promised. Time in Bwindi outside the trek itself is worth having. Forest walks follow the Munyaga river to a series of waterfalls, birding trails work the Mubwindi swamp for Albertine Rift specials, and the community walks in Buhoma give a clear picture of how villages living against the forest boundary relate to it. The altitude keeps the air cool and the evenings genuinely cold. The suggested standard is mid-range. Citrus will confirm the property and contracted services in writing before booking.
Overnight: Bwindi
Day 3
The Batwa lived as hunter-gatherers in these forests for millennia before conservation legislation excluded them in 1991. The Batwa experience is led by community members themselves and covers forest skills, medicinal plants, fire-making, hunting techniques and traditional song, alongside an honest account of what displacement has cost them. It is not a performance for visitors so much as a record being kept, and it puts the gorilla trek into a much fuller context. The final road section is planned towards Entebbe. Citrus will confirm the exact end point and time.
Safari ends
Where you stay
Accommodation below is the suggested standard for this package, taken from the Citrus catalogue. Where an entry describes a standard rather than a named property, we confirm the exact camp or lodge with your quotation. Named properties are suggestions and are substituted with comparable alternatives if they are unavailable for your dates.
Source catalogue listing
Engagi Lodge
This is reproduced exactly from the catalogue. The written quotation will allocate nights and confirm each available property before booking.
These are planning examples, not confirmed inclusions for this package. Your written quotation will confirm exactly what is included.
The quotation will identify every separate cost before you confirm.
Where this safari goes
Before you ask
The catalogue sets the route and travel standard, but it does not publish a fixed price or a contracted inclusion list. Citrus will prepare a written quotation for your dates, party and rooming, showing the exact transfers, activities, accommodation, meals, fees and permits before you confirm.
No. It is suggested accommodation from the source catalogue. Availability and any proposed alternative are confirmed in the written quotation before a booking is made.
Do not assume so. Permit availability and whether each permit is included or quoted separately must be stated in the written quotation.
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