Mountain Gorilla tracking practicalities
Mountain Gorilla Tracking Practicalities:
Seven Safari Considerations for Rewarding Mountain Gorilla Tracking Experience on Your Safaris to Uganda. Mountain gorilla tracking is considering iconic and the greatest of the wildlife trails on the travelers bucket list and a must visit. Every tourist coming to meet face to face with the Silverback would ofcourse expect the best of this lifetime trip. After all what it took you to put everything together for your African safari, now it’s time for your Mountain Gorilla tracking. But how can you expect the best experience into the forest on your Mountain Gorilla Tracking day? This has remained a puzzle to many tourists and for years the Mountain Gorilla tracking trails have seen some of the struggling tourists who thought everything were perfectly arranged only to be dismayed on their day into the forest. You can’t cheat this day, something must be done very right.
Of course we do understand that safari planning goes beyond international travels, lodgings and all other ground aspects of your safari. In this Blog article, you will learn something new as you listen to what our travel consultants have reviewed after all the years of more than a decade handcrafting safari itineraries to help different tourists experience apersonal safari touch into the Africa’s safari magic. Therefore in here we address this article to reveal to tourists seven major considerations to put into account for the best Mountain Gorilla tracking day.
Recommended Advance safari bookings: For every safari goer, advance booking must be key however when it comes to mountain gorilla tracking things are totally different. With the current rising numbers of tourists into the safari destinations after the Covid-19 frustrations, there is need for booking your safari quite earlier in advance. This gives your safari booking tour operator ample time to design the best of your route plan with ease while putting much emphasis on sensitive activities like time expected on your Mountain Gorilla tracking trail. You will understand that an epic Mountain Gorilla tracking experience cannot just be about you and the trail, there must be an order of supplemental aspects of your trip incorporated into the itinerary to make sure that your Mountain gorillas encounter is the best. The earlier you book your safari, the better it will give your safari operator much attention to put everything together while considering to utilize best options available for your Mountain Gorilla tracking day.
Only book your Mountain Gorilla tracking safari through Informative and professional safari operators: Your safari to Mountain Gorillas is carried in the wild places into remote corners of the country. Therefore to expect the best of your mountain gorilla tracking experience, the communication you receive from your safari agent right from the time of your first inquiry up to the last email in your inbox before you get on to pack those adventure bags is very vital. Tourists need to understand that expecting the best of the Mountain Gorilla trails involves a lot of dos and donts and as atourist you must be very well prepared in advance. Your safari operator must be able to introduce you to all the aspects and norms of this day’s requirements, the dressing code of the day, Basic essentials required while putting in place all best logistical support you need.
Mountain Gorilla Tracking Permit: Every tourist looking forward to spend time with Mountain Gorillas must buy a permit. This permits is booked in advance and secured through wildlife Authorities. Please note that wildlife Authorities releases 8 permits per day for each Mountain Gorilla family visiting, these permits are booked on the first come first served basis. Tourists must book their Mountain Gorillas tracking permits in advance usually we do recommend 6 months ahead mostly during the high season months to escape the booking congestions and last minute surprises.
Duration of the safari itinerary: Most of the tourists have been missing the privilege that comes with their Mountain Gorilla tracking permit because of just being tied to short stays. At 700$ do you know that your Mountain Gorilla tracking permit guarantees you to do any other forest activity like nature walks inside the forest within the 24 hours time scale? For some reasons most of tourists can get done with gorilla tracking faster while others take longer, Mountain Gorilla tracking is a whole day activity but this doesn’t mean the fact of tracking the Mountain Gorillas for the whole day. Depending on your duration of the stay in the region and time from the tracking, you are free to take a guided forest walk to the waterfalls, do a birding walk with your ranger or just walk into the forest and chill without additional payments within the 24 hours scale.
Your choice of accommodation: As we highlighted above, the best mountain gorilla tracking experience is a combination of multiple safari aspects beyond the forest trails. While there are multiple choices of accommodation in categories of Luxury, medium and budget ranges into each safari destination, you will believe me that not all the accommodations are located closer or within the mountain Gorilla territory or closer to the National park. As a tourist coming into the mountain gorilla highlands, you will find staying at a nice hotel rewarding for your adequate relaxation while allowing your body to recharge for the next day’s energy needed for tracking the Mountain Gorillas. In addition to the choice of your accommodation, the shorter distance of your facility to the park offices means you won’t need to drive many hours the next morning to meet your ranger guide for the Mountain Gorilla tacking which commences at exactly 8:30AM local time. Staying at anice facility gives you access to other benefits like good food which will spice up your gorilla encounter mood, imagine waking up the following day with a running stomach because of food poisoning you got from the previous meal hence losing the chance to meet the gorillas and the 700$ permit is non-refundable.
Pre and Post-gorilla tracking day memories: Tourists coming to track the Mountain Gorilla will find it quite helpful for them to arrive at their accommodation aday before the activity. Arriving at your hotel just aday before getting into the forest to meet the Silverback will give you ample time to enjoy aset of endless safari Gorillastic rhythms. On top of the enough relaxation needed while you arrive earlier at your lodge, you can take part in thrilling community interactions around your lodge and discover the local neighborhood. What about being entertained in the awe of the evening with acutural welcoming Gala?All these are part of your Mountain Gorilla tracking experience. At the saying goes, a good beginning marks a good ending. You will still need to book another day for additional post-Gorilla trek moments,your Mountain Gorilla tracking cannot be complete by just hitting the trail and come face to face with the silverbacks olone. Your day after the Mountain Gorilla tracking brings you closer into the friendliness of the locals who kept these wildlife creatures for you. You will get time to immerse yourself into their cultural explorations, serene and beautiful village interactions and explore the rich organic foods.
Photography: For some reasons we have been seeing tourists who did everything possible and got into the Mountain Gorilla tracking trails only to be surprised with their ability and attention to wildlife photography. Here I don’t expect every tourists to be avivid experienced wildlife photographer, we are considering the fact that you are in the wild and your safari encounter to the Mountain Gorillas is nothing other than those moments captured on the camera. Presently with more of the Global population taking advantage of the cell phone technology, tourists must be reminded that your Mountain Gorilla encounter is taking place into natural forested covers where having a good lens camera is key. To some scenarios tourists with only cell-phones finds it hard while taking memories of shy wildlife where agood zooming camera is in need like animals hiding between rocks and thickets etc. For memorable trips, an album of photos is amust and to have the best of your photos experience a handy lens camera will always offer you the best.
All these Mountain Gorilla Tracking practicalities as described in here together are number one considerations for your Epic experience into the mountain Gorilla lands and should you put them into your safari account to the Mountain Gorillas, you will never regret that you did. Only your safari will be rewardingly memorable. With more than ten years of safari operations, these practicalities are part of our major topics considered in our tourist pre-departure safari briefings while we help each individual tourists for the best of his or her Mountain Gorilla tracking experience.
We hope that as atourist you have enjoyed reading through this article and that you will find it helpful for your safari experience. Feel free to share and don’t hesitate to ask anything our team about safaris to Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and D.R.Congo.
Karibu……..!!!
