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Gorillas & Volcanoes Prices
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Starting Date |
Price pp |
Indv.
2-4 pers |
Any date |
$425 |
Indv.
4 pers |
Any date |
$325 |
Luxury
2-4 pers |
Any date |
$599 |
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Luxury Tours have the best accommodation available. |
Uganda is a stunning country slightly smaller than the state of Oregon, its known for its magnificence, variety of color, profusion of brilliant life, plants, birds, insects, reptiles ,and its truly the pearl of Africa, Uganda leaves clients filled awe by its unique terrain and wildlife all this in addition to its friendly and hospitable people.
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Day 1: To Kisoro
In the early morning (7 am) we leave for the South
West of Uganda. The first part takes us through central Uganda.
In Kabale we will have lunch, we then continue for the last
part. The bad road takes us through a beautiful landscape
called the "Switzerland of Africa". We pass mountains,
lakes, hills with cultivated terraces and tropical rainforest
and bamboo forest.
On the last hill the landscape unfolds beneath us, in the
vast plane of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo the Virunga volcanoes
dominate the view. Down is Kisoro where we will stay in the
famous Travellers Rest Hotel.
In the sixties the famous American ‘gorilla-woman’ Dian Fossey visited
Hotel Travellers Rest many, many times to do paperwork, to relax or to meet people.
Fossey said about the hotel: ,,It was my second home."
Travellers Rest, just outside Kisoro, offers a cozy stay for the tourists, who
come to see the endangered mountain gorilla. The hotel, built in a somewhat colonial
style, and entirely renovated in 1999, has a comfortable ambiance.
Driving
time: ± 9
hours
Accommodation: Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro (Suite Room)
Day 2: Gorilla Tracking
The day of Gorilla tracking!
From Travelers Rest in Kisoro it is 1 hour by car to the starting point
in Rwanda and 35 minutes to Mgahinga and 45 minutes to Nkuringo group
in South Bwindi (not yet open).
Accommodation: Travelers Rest Hotel Kisoro
Luxury Tour: Travelers Rest Hotel
Kisoro
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Day 3: To Kampala
Early morning, after breakfast the car will take us back to Kampala.
We will bring you to a guesthouse, campsite or hotel. If you continue your holiday somewhere else or back home; we bring you to Entebbe airport for an onwards flight.
Driving time: ± 9 hours
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Gorillas & Primates
Uganda’s star attraction is the endangered mountain gorilla, the bulkiest of, living primates, and among the most peaceable. Staring into the pensive brown eyes of these giants, who share 95% of their genes with humans, is humbling as it is thrilling; no less so when one realizes that fewer than 700 individuals survive, divided between Bwindi National Park and the Virunga Mountains.
Within Uganda, five habituated gorilla troops –four in Bwindi and one in Mgahinga National Park-can be visited by a total of 30 tourists daily.
Uganda is the home to man’s closest relative, the chimpanzee, a delightful ape whose evocative pant-hoot call is a definitive sound of the African rain forest. Chimpanzee communities have been habituated for tourism at Kibale Forest, Budongo Forest and Queen Elizabeth National Park’s Kyambura Gorge. A community of orphaned chimps, most of which were confiscated from poachers , can be visited on Ngamba Island , which lies on Lake Victoria 45 minutes by motor boat form Entebbe.
Monkeys are exceptionally well represented in Uganda. Indeed, Kibale Forest boasts that greatest primate variety and density in East Africa, with five or six species likely tot be observed over the course of one afternoon walk. Elsewhere, Mgahinga National Park hosts habituated troops of the rare golden monkey. The fossilised 20-million-year-old bones of Morotopithecus, the earliest-known ancestor of modern apes and humans, were unearthed in the 1960s near Moroto in Eastern Uganda, and are now housed in the National Museum in Kampala.
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