Arrive at Entebbe International Airport, and our driver will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe. You can engage in optional activities around Entebbe if you arrive early in the day. You can go searching for the incredible shoebill or take a speedboat to Ngamba Island for an introduction the Jane Goodal's Chimpanzees. A walk in the UWEC Zoo, Botanical Gardens or visiting the local markets would be an exciting experience.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Low Season: Papyrus Guest House
• High Season: Papyrus Guest House

The hotel will transfer you to the airport to catch your scheduled 1-hour flight from Entebbe International Airport to Kisoro Airport outside Bwindi in the south. The flight is approximately one hour. A Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge driver will pick you up from Kisoro and transfer you to the lodge. You can take a 2-3-hour dug-out canoe excursion on Lake Mutanda, if you choose, before you check-in at the lodge. Check-i at the lodge and enjoy the outstanding views for the rest of the evening. You will have a four-course dinner in the grand lounge between 7-8 pm.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Low Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
• High Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge

You'll be up early and have your breakfast before 7:30. Pick up your pack at the lodge, and your driver will have you at the visitor centre, half a mile from the lodge, within 10 minutes. The warden will brief you about the excursion at the visitor centre and assign you and six other tourists a gorilla family, two armed rangers, and an expert guide. Make sure you carry a copy of your passport along; it's used to verify your trekking permit. You could spend about 30 minutes to five hours tracking the gorilla family in the woods. Once you find the great apes, you will spend an hour (or four hours for a habituation permit) watching, observing and photographing the giant apes. Your local tracker will be guiding you on how to interact with the gorillas while furnishing you with relevant information during your experience. After your encounter, your guide will lead you out of the jungle and find a favourable spot to have lunch.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Low Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
• High Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge

Day five a lais·sez-faire afair. Take on some activities around the lodge, like canoeing, hiking, or walking through the local villages. Some guests chose to go for another adventure experience with the gorillas. A second gorilla trek is much more relaxed and will be experiential than the first one, where everything is unexpected and overwhelming. You can also walk in the Buniga pocket forest, where the aboriginal Batwa people showcase their old cultures on a one-to-two-hour trail. The forest is about a 10-minute walk from the lodge, and the Batwa guides guide it. Some chose to stay back at the lodge and immerse themselves in the hotel's ambience with expansive views of the entire Virunga Volcanos mountain chain and the wooded rugged rift valley landscape.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Low Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
• High Season: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge