Experience Africa, unfiltered
Experience Africa, unfiltered
Last updated: 24 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The gorilla trekking fitness level required is moderate — you need to be able to walk for three to four hours on uneven ground, with some steep sections, at altitudes between 1,500 and […]
Last updated: 24 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: Gorilla trekking for seniors over 60 is entirely achievable — but the honest answer is that fitness matters far more than age. UWA sets no upper age limit, and travellers in their 60s, […]
Last updated: 24 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The minimum age for gorilla trekking in Uganda is 15 years, set by the Uganda Wildlife Authority and enforced at the point of permit booking and again at the morning briefing. There is […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Nyakagezi gorilla family is the only habituated mountain gorilla family in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda’s smallest national park, in the far south-west of the country. It is known for two things: […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Bushaho gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It is one of the sector’s more recently habituated families — a group that […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Kutu gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It split from Kahungye, one of the sector’s two parent families, and is one […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Busingye gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It split from Kahungye, one of the sector’s two parent families, and is known […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Mishaya gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It was the first family to split from Nshongi, separating in 2010 under the […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Bweza gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It split from Nshongi, the sector’s founding family, in the early 2010s, and was […]
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Rates and availability are set by UWA and subject to change — confirm before booking. Short answer: The Kahungye gorilla family is one of the habituated groups in the Rushaga sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Opened to tourism in 2011 — two years after Nshongi, the sector’s founding family […]