BWINDI VS VOLCANOES GORILLA TREKKING

BWINDI VS VOLCANOES GORILLA TREKKING

Photography is a walk over in the volcanoes national park than Bwindi due to bamboo forest in this park and with the other party it converges the thick tropical rain forest creating poor visibility especially during the wet season making trekking as well very difficult .Volcanoes suited in the mighty Rwanda is a better option when it comes to accessibility that is to say it takes two to three hours to reach the park from kigali the capital city if your are traveling by road transport and this simplicity swamps tourists in Rwanda unlike Uganda where tourists used to avoid visiting Bwindi due to the long period of time spent in the bush searching for the gorillas plus that used when coming to the park from Kampala city or Entebbe international airport summing up nine to ten hours using road transport but now air transport is recommended landing to kisoro within few minutes then proceed by road transport to the park . Your tour operator can also arrange tours to Bwindi via Kigali which consumes around four to five hours drive and once you land in Kigali you can use the East African visa which allows you to visit both countries at a time enabling you to save some money.

Trekking gorillas in Uganda is affordable compared to that of Rwanda making even the tour operators of Rwanda to market Bwindi to most of their customers but nevertheless whatever you choose they still hold quite a good number of the gorillas who depend on the forest or bamboo vegetation for survival. You can not feel the gorilla land at a maximum minus having a comfortable sleep in the midrange , luxury and humble lodges most suited in Uganda as Rwanda hosts expensive suitable for visitors on a luxury budget and they are as well known for hosting luxury services a factor that has made it to be ranked amongst the best in Africa and some of these lodges sums up Bisate lodge and singita kwitonda lodge to mention but a few .When it comes to experience attained at the end of the trek there is no big difference as both the volcanoes and Bwindi host the endangered mountain gorillas enabling tourists to trek throughout the year though they have to watch out on the prolonged rain months that may sometimes hinder this activity due to the boggy slippery grounds.

Make gorilla trekking personal by visiting Bwindi or the volcanoes national park.

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