GORILLA FOREST CAMP

Kisoro district, Southwestern Uganda

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This property comes highly recommended by the Director's of Pearl of Africa Tours and Travel.

Gorilla Forest Camp is a permanent luxury tented camp nestled in the mist-swathed rainforests of the mountainside inside of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The exclusive location – the sole property within the park’s boundaries - is an ideal base for gorilla tracking, primate viewing and birding excursions in the park. 

Bwindi is situated on Uganda’s extreme western border, very close to the geographical heart of Africa where the confluence of the Rift Valley and the Great Lakes have created an eco-system that perhaps defines the very essence of the continent. Fittingly, Bwindi is one of the most biologically diverse areas on Earth, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. 

Gorilla Forest Camp has been designed to blend seamlessly into this most atmospheric of environments, carefully-appointed towards the misty valleys and looming, forest-clad mountains that protect this fragile eco-system.

Accommodation is in eight double tents, raised on wooden platforms, each with en-suite facilities and hot and cold running water, WC, basin and unusually –a bathtub- looking out onto the forest. Each tent has a spacious wooden verandah where guests can relax, enjoy a private meal and absorb the exotic mystery of the surrounding rainforest that provided the inspiration for the animation of Disney’s The Jungle Book.

The property offers a bar and dining cottage overlooking the rain forest, as well as a raised natural platform for open air dining. At night, a traditional African campfire is lit from where a lecture might be given by a visiting primatologist, gorilla briefings are given by Park Rangers or guests simply admire the myriad brilliance of Bwindi’s crystal clear mountain sky.