This experience is only found and done in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga gorilla national park which are located in the south-western part of Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley. The mist covered hillsides are sheltered within one of the oldest rainforests in the world. These parks “impenetrable and Mgahinga” also protects ahalf of the world's total population of Gorillas approximately 350 mountain gorillas. They also inhabit different bird specis, butterflies, animals and plant species.
For ornithologists, these parks hold over 600 species of birds and they contain 90% of the Albertine Rift endemics, hardily seen in any other part of the East Africa but atleast 100 bird species can be seen a day. You can visit Buhoma, and Ruhija to see species like the African green broad bill (psedocalptomena graveri), dwarf honey guide (indicator pumilio), kivu ground thrush (zoothera a Tanganjicak), Lagdeen's bush shrike ( Mahacanotus legdeni), Chaplin's flycatcher (Musticapa lend), Oberhandar's ground thrush, yellow eyed flycatcher, montane double-collared sunbird (Nectarinia ludoviencis), and dusky twinspot.
However gorilla tracking in these parks can be acompaneed with other activities like the Primate warching, Nature walks and village walks, mountain Bike Rides, Community Hspital visits, Batwa or Pygmy experience, and community volunteering.
Accommodation in the area is availabable with different range. These are located in and outside the parks. The all have Single rooms, double rooms, twin and farmily rooms and cottages and are built and designed using lacal materials such as sisal ropes, forest vines and many others with bathrooms (with hot water showers) and good veranda for viewing the spectacular scenery that surrounds the lodges.
Therefore, it is a place that one will never forget once you visit this small piece of the “Pearl of Africa”.
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