Travel Logistics & FAQs

Every guide who has worked at Bwindi for years accumulates moments that fall outside the…

In the standard briefing before every gorilla trek in Uganda, visitors are told: the gorillas…

The process of habituating a wild mountain gorilla group to human presence takes two years…

In the thirty-plus years since gorilla trekking in Uganda began at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,…

The relationship between mountain gorillas and the humans who protect them is, under normal circumstances,…

The moment of leadership transition in a mountain gorilla group -- when a new silverback…

In every healthy gorilla group, the dominant silverback's authority rests on a combination of physical…

Habituated gorilla families in Bwindi are monitored daily by UWA tracker teams -- rangers trained…

The dominant silverback of a mountain gorilla group is not simply its largest member —…

Physical confrontation between silverback mountain gorillas is genuinely rare — the elaborate system of chest-beating,…

Leopards are the primary natural predator of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and…

In gorilla society, territory is not a casual matter. The boundaries between habituated groups in…

I have become, since returning from gorilla trekking in Uganda, mildly evangelical about it. Not…

I am going to make an ambitious claim and then try to justify it. The…

My husband and I have been together for sixteen years. We travel well together --…

I almost did not go. The permit was booked, the flights were booked, the lodge…

I want to do the maths clearly because I think vagueness about cost does a…

People ask me about gorilla trekking in Uganda and they eventually ask the same question:…

I am not someone who is comfortable with smallness. My professional life has been oriented,…

I have one photograph from gorilla trekking in Uganda that I have printed and framed…

My son is fourteen. He has the particular quality of attention that fourteen-year-olds deploy when…

I booked gorilla trekking in Uganda six months after a relationship ended in which I…

This is not a story I tell as a recommendation. Most people who go gorilla…

I turned 40 in Bwindi Forest surrounded by mountain gorillas. Not on the actual day…