Best Luxury Gorilla Trekking Safaris 2024 / 2025
Luxury gorilla trekking safaris offer a great level of comfort while on gorilla safaris. During your safaris across East Africa with us, you will travel around by light aircraft especially grand caravan planes. On the other hand, road transfers will be done in either open or closed 4×4 safari vans or land cruisers depending on your preference. You may refer to each specific itinerary for extra info.
All cars in our fleet have been customized for off-road adventures. For instance, each has a pop-up roof that enables one to view wildlife and have photography with ease during game drives. Each car has five to seven cushioned passenger seats. We don’t usually fill them to capacity. This ensures that each guest onboard gets a window seat and has enough legroom.
What types of accommodation will we stay at during the safari?
Most of the hotels and luxury gorilla safari lodges where our clients stay are situated in the heart of wildlife regions. This ensures that one enjoys the serenity and solitude of the parks, especially in the evening when tourists others have left the park. Thanks to their eco-friendly architectural designs, these spacious lodges combine comfort with immersion in nature.
Each cottage or private room is fully-fledged, boasting full beds and crisp clean bedding, an en suite bathroom, and a hot water shower.
Are Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania a family-friendly getaway?
Tourism is the biggest foreign exchange earner of all countries in East Africa except for Burundi. To this effect, while general security is the priority of all the Governments leading these countries, the safety of tourists is given much more attention.
This explains why they all have an arm of police particularly dedicated to tourists. This is one of the things why we are happy to recommend Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania to families with both teens and younger children.
Will there be WiFi during your luxury gorilla safaris?
Internet access is available at all the accommodations we use in the region. Comparatively, why the signal at the permanent lodges is great, that in budget camps is spotty and sometimes not available at all.
Accordingly, we shall improvise you with a router during your luxury gorilla trekking safaris with us to ensure a consistent connection. While the usage of cell phones is permitted, we ask that travelers refrain from using them on any group activities to avoid disturbing the animals.
What equipment should I bring when coming to Africa?
The most essential items that you can’t forget on the packing list are your phone and power bank, camera, binoculars, and spare memory cards as well as a flashlight.
Luxury with culture
Quite often, tourists get so mesmerized by the Karimojong and natives that they snap away at every given opportunity. While some are okay with it, others think of it as extremely rude.
By politely asking locals/people, they were more than happy to pose. At times, they would ask for money, in which case a dollar can do. However, in most cases, they are more than delighted to pose for a photo, and don’t ask for money!
How much of a cultural difference should I expect?
While you visit East Africa on a luxury gorilla trekking safari, be prepared to see people who have very little in terms of material possessions in comparison with the Western world.
Despite what you will see, you will notice that people are genuinely friendly, happy, and welcoming.
How can I contribute to the economy and conservation programs?
As you visit the national parks, you will be charged a lenient fee, a considerable fraction of which goes to the Government and the remaining to locals around the parks.
Also, by choosing to stay at a lodge inside the park, you indirectly provide employment opportunities for locals living around the park. This provides them an alternative source of livelihood and therefore no need to carry on with vices like poaching.
AMREF Flying Doctors medevac insurance
Your expedition in Uganda is undoubtedly full of wow moments, a rewarding journey in the wilderness that you may have been anticipating and planning for years.
Logically you don’t want to imagine that anything can go wrong, but in very few instances it does. That is why we always recommend our clients register for travel insurance.
In case the need arises for urgent medical assistance during your safari in Uganda, the insurance will help in ensuring that your medical care is well arranged and fully covered.
In partnership with AMREF Flying Doctors, our company offers you the opportunity to register for the medevac insurance Tourist Evacuation Scheme. This emergency medical insurance cover offers you access to emergency air evacuation, whenever it’s required and wherever you are, with all emergency evacuation costs completely covered.
The cost for the insurance is minimal – only USD $15 per person for your entire safari (max. 30 days), whether you are traveling in Uganda, Rwanda, or any other East African country.
If you have been registered for the Tourist Evacuation Scheme but do not require any evacuation, after all, your money will automatically fund the AMREF Outreach Program and Charity Evacuation Flights.
