For guests wanting a life-changing experience, the Mountain Gorilla Trekking experience offers a visit with Ugandas Virunga’s mountain gorillas. Mountain gorillas are highly intelligent, good-natured, and fascinating to observe, with the silverback’s powerful presence being awe-inspiring and calm with the title, “gentle giant”. People are equally struck by the tenderness and care that mothers show their young. And then, of course, there are the juveniles who spend most of every waking hour at play and never cease to make visitors smile.
All treks are led by park rangers and usually depart from Bukima patrol post. Treks usually require 1-2 hours of hiking in each direction, depending on where the mountain gorillas spent the previous night and the difficulty of the terrain. To safeguard the health of Virunga’s gorillas, visitors will be required to wear surgical masks (provided) when in the presence of gorillas.