Bwindi Backpackers Lodge

Bwindi backpackers is an exclusive accommodation facility hosting travellers tracking mountain gorillas and chimpanzees. The lodge is located near Bwindi national forest park and we provide full service satisfaction while you stay around through your adventure. We provide suitable accommodation for our guests and ensure that our guests are served to their satisfaction in our suites and camps.

This cottage is very spacious with the best views of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Virunga National Park in Congo, Albertine Rift Valley, surrounding communities and many more. It was named after Diana Fossey who did a lot of Research on rare mountain Gorillas. During her research on Mountain Gorillas, she would come and camp exactly where that cottage is built.

40% of the revenue from it is given back to the surrounding communities to support them earn a living and also. The sun raises from this cottage. It is a spot you shouldn’t miss to have the photo from even if you are not sleeping in this cottage. While sleeping in it you get to read free reading materials/books about her great work towards mountain gorillas as well as gorilla movies.

THINGS TO DO

Gorilla Tracking

This land is located 4km to Nkuringo gate . This is the starting point of 3 gorilla groups of which each its 8 persons daily per day x3=24 persons . Its also 12 km to Rushaga gate which has 8 gorilla groups for tracking per day 8×8= 64 tourists plus 1 group for habituation experience for 8 persons. The land is also located only 1.5hrs driver to mgahinga Gorilla National park with 2 gorilla groups meaning 8×2 =16 persons. So in total you can host 24+16+64+16=120. All these people normally require at least 2 nights stay. People who pay $600 to track gorillas may need a high end facility(Hotel)

Gorilla habituation experience

Rushaga Park gate is 12km from the land and it’s the only place you can do gorilla habituation experience in the whole world. This is a very exciting experience with mountain gorillas that are being habituated to accept human presence comfortably.

September 2017. The Batwa Pygmies were evicted from their home lands in the forest in the early 1990s when the National Parks were established, leaving them landless and poor in a society that saw them as a lower class. Today some of them try to make ends meet by hosting trail walks; cultural tours that include examples of where and how they use to live in the forest as well as singing, dancing, and handicrafts for sale. Buhoma, Uganda. Photograph by Jason Houston for USAID

Batwa Forest Experience

The Batwa cultural experience was put in place by the displaced Batwa pygmies to educate their children and to share their amazing heritage and traditions with the world. The Experience takes place outside of the park in an old-growth forest on land that is next to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Park. The Batwa experience begins with a nature-walk, hike through the forest seeing the forest in a new way, through the eyes of the original people of the Forest. Learn how they hunted the small animals they used for food, what things they gathered, how traps and nets were used.

Bird Watching

Bird watching with over 350 species of birds of which many albertine rift endermics Walking safaris from Nkuringo to Buhoma via the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the best birding destinations in Africa. There are 350 bird species have been recorded at Bwindi.