Mountain Gorillas Safari:

The Shortest Route to All Mountain
Gorilla Destinations – Kigali Airport

Mountain Gorilla Destinations:Mountain gorillas are found in the Virunga Mountains in DRC and Rwanda as well as in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Ugand. Mountain gorillas are the bulkiest and most powerful living primates. An average male mountain gorilla can weigh 136 to 230 kilograms (300 to 485 pounds)

Kigali International Airport, Rwanda; is center to all the Virunga Region states (Uganda,
Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo).
It’s the nearest airport to Volcanoes National Park of Rwanda, Bwindi Forest and Mgahinga
National Park of Uganda, Virunga and Kahuzi Beiga /Mt Nyiragongo of Congo.
It takes visitors to both mountain gorilla trekking and habituation Experience destinations
and several other wildlife habitats; Queen Elizabeth and Kibale Forest National Parks of
Uganda.
This benefits visitors with short drives to Volcanoes National Park (2 ;30 hours), Bwindi
Forest National Park (4 hours) , Mgahinga National Park ( 2 hours) . This helps visitors to
save some good sum over Rwanda permits ($1500pp) compared to Bwindi Permits at
$600pp.

Gorilla Safaris Consultants, tailors trips to Uganda starting and ending in Kigali and this in
turn rewards our visitors in various ways;

 It works with several International Airlines such as Qatar, Fly Emirates, Brussels, Air Kenya,
Ethiopian , Turkish and Egypt Air Lines which makes it quite easy when connecting back
home/ to other destination countries.
 Kigali International Airport offers short drives to Bwindi Forest – 4 hours’ drive and Mt
Mgahinga National Park – hours’ drive as compared to the long drive of 8-10 hours between
Kampala and Bwindi Forest National Park.
 By using Kigali route to Uganda, visitors get a chance to enjoy several other tourist activities
like chimpanzee tracking at Kibale Forest NP, Gorilla Habituation Experience and Wildlife
Viewing at Queen Elizabeth National Park.
 It’s very saving to the clients since they can easily trek for the endangered mountain gorillas
from Uganda’s Bwindi and Mgahinga National Parks.
Here they are able to save $900 off the gorilla permit cost for Rwanda’s gorilla
permits$1500pp.
 Clients are also able to save on accommodation facilities, they can easily enjoy luxury
facilities within Uganda’s Bwindi at lower costs (Clouds Mountain Lodge/ Trackers Safari
Lodge/ Gorilla Safari Lodge/ Mt Gahinga Lodge; all at lower costs as compared to Rwanda’s
expensive lodging cost.
 By Using Kigali International Airport to Uganda, clients are able to have combined Uganda
Rwanda safaris ; hence rewarding tourists with natural beauty from two different views.

Accessing Southwestern Uganda from Kigali International Airport is the very best alternative
when planning a gorilla trek, mountain gorilla habituation experience in Bwindi Forest NP,
wildlife viewing at Queen Elizabeth NP and Kibale chimpanzee tracking due to its short
driving distance from Kigali to either of these parks as compared to the long drive between
Kampala and the national parks.
Following the rise in price for Rwanda gorilla permits to $1500pp, trekking through Bwindi is
a much easier and saving option.
Wondering where you can have such tours starting and ending in Kigali / Entebbe via Kigali
Kigali International Airport; your search is over as Gorilla Safaris Consultants has
specialized in organizing such tours.
In addition to this, it’s very much easy to cross between Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya with
the East African Visa.