Gorilla Tracking

Mountain Gorillas are the big attraction of Bwindi and Mgahinga. They are very special animals- rare, gentle, like us yet so different. Tracking gorillas is unique experience – it leads you into a strange land to meet unusual creatures on their own terms. This can be humbling and thrilling at the same time.

Gorilla Tracking is an intense experience that can take all the day. The guide leads you through the gorilla’s world, explaining aspects of ecology and behavior along the way. In this section, we provide some basic facts about gorillas, relevant to both Bwindi and Mgahinga. In both parks, specific groups of Gorillas have been habituated to people. The composition of any group changes as individuals are born.. die  or transfer, so your guide will be able to give you up to date details. Groups are named after the area in which they usually range. Your Guide will tell you which group you will visit.

We must stress that, while you have very good chance of seeing gorillas, success is not guaranteed! They They are wild creatures with no fixed routine, and finding them requires the skill and experience of a tracker and guides as well as luck!

The guides and trackers have helped to habituate the Gorilla groups and know there intimately. They will take you to the area where they left the Gorillas the day before. Before leaving they will be able to suggest how long the hike might take. While walking, please ask  Your your guides to slow down if they are going too fast and if you need a rest. Feel free to stop and look at birds or flower etc., the guide will ensure that you do not get left behind.

Watch out for safari ants on and if you step in them get covered,the only solution is to strip!the actual trail you will follow will depends on where the trackers left the group and what signs they fine to indicate where the group has gone. They are looking for crushed vegetation,broken plants that the gorillas might eat and fresh dung. If you find the place where the group slept, you will see the gorilla's nest which they make fresh night.

When you find the gorillas, there is no guarantee that you will be able to photograph them. They are often range in broken forests where vegetation is dense patient and eventually they will come into view.

What to bring?

Gorilla tracking can be a long and strenuous walk, so go prepared.

·         Wear shoes with good traction, suitable for steep muddy slopes.

·         Carry rain gear, sunscreen and a hat, as the weather is unpredictable.

·         Carry water and food.

·         Carry binoculars - you'll see much more! You can them at the park office.

·         When taking photos, remember that your subjects are black animals in dim light and the flashes are not allowed.

·         Departure is at 8.30 am. If you are late you lose your place. There are usually many people in line for stand-by place.

Good Manners for Gorilla Watchers:

·         Keep your voice down or be quiet. You will see and hear more if you do.

·         Do not point or wave your arms – this is seen as a threat. Move slowly.

·         If approached by a gorilla, back away slowly to keep 5 m separated.

·      Do not use a flash – this could frighten the Gorillas and bother other visitors

The True Source of The Nile

The mystique Nile River has long held an almost magnetic attraction to those with curious souls and Adventurous hearts. Not merely a powerful water body(and the world's longest River), the Nile is a thunderous matriarch, having given birth to mankind's oldest and most advanced civilization. Even today, the Nile's sheer force provides the foundations of trade, as well as the generation of power, for those who live on it's  shires and beyond. But there has always been something more..
Perhaps born out of mankind's inquisitiveness in relation to that of our own origins, discovering the source of the mighty River captivated the imaginations of scientistists, geographers and exploerers as far back as the second century A.D. When Alexandrian Astronomer Ptolemy hypothesized that it was watare flowing down the Uganda's snow-covered Mountains of the Moon (known today as Rwenzoris) via the two great lakes that filled the Nile's expansive banks. Ptolemy wasn't far off the mark, but it would be over 1500 years later before these suspicions  would begin to receive confirmation.

Enter British explorers John Hanning Speke, who discovered and correctly determined that Lake Victoria was the Nile's true source, describing it in his journal as being "Most beautiful...the very perfection of the kind of the kind of effect aimed at in a highly kept park; with a magnificiate stream from 600 to 700 yards wide. dotted with islets and rocks, the former occupied with fisherman's huts, the latter by sterns and crocodile basking in the sun... the waters which men carry all the way from Egypt to Mecca...I no longer feel any doubt that the lake my feet gave birth to that River Nile."

Though Speke was not enough of a geographer to gather the requisite evidence to prove his intuition correct, it would be scientic and Missionary Dr. David Livingstone and his unexpected doppelgager. American Journalist Henery Morton Stanely, that would brave Africa's interior in the interest of finding once and for all the spot which, as described by explorer James Bruce, "baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns for the course of three thousand years..."

Even though the Source was discovered to be at the Lake Victoria there are a number of people who still claim that it is not true, they associate with Akagera's source. This was discard since a Akagera is just a tributary not the main River. This leaves the True source being the Lake Victoria

The place has now been a major attraction and is fully accessible by tourists, There is a boat cruise to the place where where Speke make to be the Starting point or The World's longest River whose water take 90 Days to reach the Mouth in The Mediterranean sea in Egypt. The is a number of Rapids where White water Rafting is down. It is an experience that can never be felt on any other river in the world