Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park lies in Southwestern Uganda, famous for Gorilla Trekking Tours. Gorilla trekking tours in Uganda allocated to Bwindi include Gorilla trekking and Gorilla habituations. Bwindi harbours 26 Gorilla families available for visitors to track. Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi National Park only amount to 600 individuals, making half of the remaining mountain Gorillas in the world reside in Bwindi alone. This home of the rare Mountain gorillas sits on an area of sq km 327 of tangled vegetation. Draped over a deeply fleshy fissured landscape of steep slippery valleys, this forest park was gazette in 1942 as a forest reserve. In 1992, it was recognized as Bwindi impenetrable National park and in 1994 it was named a world heritage site. Bwindi means impenetrable and this double meaning is apt for Bwindi is all but impenetrable. The park is well known for Gorilla trekking safaris and is conducted in the northern part of Bwindi in Buhoma and Ruhija and then the southern part with Rushaga and Nkuringo.

Altitude
Bwindi National Park strands at an altitude range between 1440m and 2600m above sea level. The annual average temperature ranges from 7 degrees centigrade and 20 degrees centigrade. It receives rain at any time of the day, but between March and May and September to November there are more serious rains

Accessibility
This park is located in the southwestern part of Uganda. From Kampala, you take a long drive of about 7 to 8 hours. There are several routes one can take to get to the park: like Queen Elizabeth National Park Kihihi-Buhoma. This route passes via the southern Ishasha sector, giving you a chance to search for the renowned tree-climbing lions.

Fauna and flora
Bwindi forest has luxuriant tress with creeping plants on their stems. It is a pre-historical forest which survived the ice age period. In case you are to find the statistics of the forest that existed in the ice age you may fail to get even 5 in the entire Africa but at least start with Bwindi forest. This forest is home to primates like baboons, monkeys, black and white Colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys and mountain gorillas. This is also a prime destination for birders. This area is a habitat to endangered Albertine rift endemics, which are not easily found in any other part of Uganda. Fanatic bird watchers have this as there haven

• 1 Day Bwindi Gorilla Trek
• 2 Days Bwindi Gorilla Tour
• 3 Days Rushaga Gorilla Trekking
• 6 Days Uganda Gorillas and Wildlife
  
• 11 Days Rwanda and Uganda Combined Safari