Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 
Bwindi National park is situated along the Democratic Republic of Congo border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the western Great Rift Valley. The park comprises of 331 square kilometers of jungle forests and contains both montane and lowland forest.
Bwindi National Park is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site and this is because of its habitat to the Rare Mountain Gorilla species.
Location; The Park is located in South Western Uganda, on the edge of the western rift valley, shared by Rukungiri, Kabale and Kisoro Districts.
Size; The park covers an area of 331 square kilometers
Tourism activities and attractions
The park is well known for the Gorilla tracking as the major tourism activity.
Gorilla tracking
This is the major tourism activity in the park. There are four major gorilla groups in the park that are tracked on the daily basis and include the following.
- The Mubare group with 16 gorillas and 1 silverback
- The Habinyanja group which has about 23 gorillas with 2silver backs.
- The Rushegura group with 9gorillas and 1 silver back
- The latest of all the gorilla groups in Bwindi impenetrable National park is the Nkuringo group which has about 20gorillas and 2silver backs.
Gorilla tracking permits only a limited number of tourists to track different groups of the gorillas per day and that is 8 people are allowed to track a group of gorillas. There fore this means that each group of the gorillas can be tracked by only 8 people per day.
The gorilla permits are sold at the UWA headquarters in Kampala. Gorilla tracking briefings start at exactly 8:00 am in the morning and it is provided by the UWA officials and the Gorilla trackers directors. There fore this means that the tourists should sleep within the park or around the park so as to be able o track the gorillas. The activity can take long depending on the current location of the gorillas with in the forest. However it can take 2-7 hours in the forest depending where the Gorillas were left the last day so tourists are encouraged to move with their packed lunch
Tourists are encouraged to ensure physical fitness, Carry jungle boots and rain jackets because the park is often wet, rain gears, sunscreens, insect repellants and this is because the weather in the forest is unpredictable.
A gorilla permit is at $500 and it should be booked in advance of at least 3monhs before the traveling date.
Accommodation Facilities
- Bwindi view bandas
- Buhoma community bandas
- Gorilla resort
- Gorilla forest camp
- Engangi lodge Bwindi
- Volcanoes Bwindi Camp
- Buhoma Homestead
- BwindiTravellersMotelButogota
- Nkuringo Gorilla Campsite
- Lake Kitandara camp site
