How to Plan a Luxury Gorilla Safari

Have you ever thought about taking luxury gorilla trekking tours? If you are an affluent traveler and you feel like getting out of the usual gorilla trekking safaris, then a luxury safari is the only exceptional way for you realize your dreams in Africa.

This denotes encountering all that that the real world has in offer in African wilderness but with a complement of comfort. It comes in lush amenities like classic accommodation and lodging units, luxurious tour vehicles especially the extended land cruiser and highly customized and personalized service. You can also decide to fly up to your destination of choice and the travel pace is more flexible. It is all about reducing environmental effects and making getting around part of the exceptional adventure. By spending more, visitors are equally treated to more included meals, more leader led activities as well as experience the local encounters and at the end, benefits the local communities and offering the most thrilling experience to the visitors.

Luxury gorilla trips come with astonishing Uganda safari destinations including the gorilla trekking sites of Bwindi Forest National Park and Mgahinga National Park in the Southwestern part of the country as well as wildlife safari destinations such as the untapped Kidepo Valley National Park, Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Mburo National Park and not to leave out sport fishing safari destinations like Lake Victoria and the mighty River Nile, cultural heritage safaris to the ancient sites of Uganda. In Rwanda, gorilla trekking is best done in Volcanoes National Park. Your luxury gorilla safari also offers you opportunity to explore Nyungwe Forest National Park in the South where 13 primate species are inhabited, 300 bird species including the rare Rwenzori Turaco. As you head towards the East, Akagera National Park is another birders paradise and best spot for big game safaris in Rwanda. In the west, there is Lake Kivu the deep blue water and white sand beaches that offer amazing relaxing and chilling moments in life.

Visitors who partake this kind safari have higher chance of a relaxed pace that permits them to experience fully the purpose of their long waited holiday. There is no need to worry about long distant drives; there are scheduled flights that have simplified movement of travelers from Entebbe International Airport and Kajjansi Airstrip which takes you up to Kisoro where you will easily connect to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga National Park. But if you want to catch a glimpse of Uganda’s naturalness then you can drive up to the park where gorilla trekking is conducted.

Whereas most travelers book gorilla trekking safaris to Uganda, a few of them book for luxury gorilla trekking tours in Uganda, given the fact that the budget looks relatively higher for them to certain extent and basing on the fact that  gorilla permits are obtainable at $450 per visitor for foreign non residents, $400 for foreign residents and shs.150000 for East African residents in the wet/low season especially in the months of April, May and November while during the peak season the permits are sold at $600 per tourists for foreign non residents, $500 for foreign residents and shs.250000 for East African residents. In Rwanda, gorilla trekking permits cost $1500 per tourist. This however makes the cost of the trip to be a little high as compared t0 other types of safaris such as wildlife safaris in Uganda or Rwanda If you have ever been in Uganda for a budget gorilla trekking trip, we encourage you to also check out with our most rewarding luxury gorilla trekking tours for an entire new unique encounters right from exceptional lodging facilities, meals, safari cars and several services that will repay you with a life time experiences.

Luxury gorilla trekking safaris are more exceptional than the usual packages in that for a luxury setting, travelers have higher chances of participating in two gorilla treks or even as more as three gorilla treks within Uganda, Rwanda or Uganda and Rwanda combined. This is advantageous in that if the first trek of your luxury gorilla trekking is not that well especially when it comes to viewing rare species and given the fact that you only sight them in Bwindi or Mgahinga National Park when you are in Uganda, the rest of the days of your luxury safaris won’t hurt you as you will have a high opportunity to sight several gorillas.

Climate can also another hindering factor and remember it is challenging trekking these apes during the wet season since most of them hind in the forest. This kind of obstacles can make you sight a few individuals but with luxury gorilla trekking safaris which has two gorilla treks, there is no need to be scared about this because the following trek will compensate the previous days. If you need to enjoy Uganda gorilla trekking in a luxury set up, then book any of our luxury gorilla trekking tours now.

In conclusion, luxury gorilla trekking safaris in Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo offer visitors opportunity to explore more on the critically endangered mountain gorillas in a more comfortable manner. This is best done in the dry/high season that falls in the months of June, July, August, September and December to February.