Gorilla tracking in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is the most astonishing tourist activity in the park. This is full of exhilarating rewarding memory where the only place you will be left breathless for a while.
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Basing on its luxuriant beautiful gorillas, the Nyakagezi gorilla group is the only family tracked as well habituated in this park. The family consist of nine members; two silverback, three adult females, two juveniles and two infants.
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is one of the only two national parks in Uganda that are habitant for over half of the world’s imperial mountain gorillas. This makes Uganda a top tour and safari destination in the world especially for tourist who are interested in gorilla habituation and tracking and this is mile stone where you will not be in hurry to forget. This is the most breathtaking activity that can take a full day in the park, during this tour.
It’s an experience that doesn’t come cheap because it is physically demanding – although the day starts with the park guide explaining the various options if you’re to became fatigued. Such precautions include hiring a team of porters to transport you through the jungle on a stretcher. Gorilla tracking in Mgahinga is enormously rewarding to observe the majestic mountain gorillas in their own environment as you are led by a guide through the gorilla’s empire. The guide shall explain all about gorillas, their ecology movements and general behavior while listening to the pitched sound of birds in the forest.
The guides and park rangers are well informed about the gorillas and the park at large. This is the place you feel free with them as well you ask question concerning gorillas. Gorilla tracking in Mgahinga requires when you are physically okay since its quite challenging such as moving in the forest, valleys and the steep slopes, Remember Mgahinga is generally cold but it is the perfect habitat for mountain gorillas and is the only park in Uganda where mountain gorillas co-exist with golden monkeys.
The Memorable Gorilla tracking experience in Mgahinga
What a chance to trek golden monkeys and mountain gorillas in the same place. Trekking the impressive Afromontane forest in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is where the happiness begins. At the first moment, a visitor sees the unique-impressing mountain gorilla in a very challenging to explain experience, unless you took a gorilla safari.
Consequently, finding them requires luck and the experienced guides who know gorillas intimately since they habituate them, they will hence take you to the area where they saw them last. Indeed, Gorilla trekking starts from Ntebeko Entrance gate at 8:00am in the morning daily and a maximum of 8 individuals are allowed to trek a specific family or group. The length of tracking could be 2 hours, 4 hours or a day since it is dependent on the location of the mountain gorillas.
Mountain gorillas are critically endangered, and the African Wildlife Foundation estimates that there are less than 900 mountain gorillas remaining in the wild. These small populations of gorillas reside in four national parks spanning three countries: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda, Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, and Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This is an elated rewarding experience as well as longest and most strenuous activity, because you move through the forests, which unleashes a thick cloud of chilling vapor as you hear the pitched sound of birds. Watch the playful golden monkeys and other animals, which provides a memorable and rewarding experience in your life time.
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