ACTIVITIES FROM NKURINGO GORILLA CAMP & HAMMERKOP BUNKHOUSE

Activities at Nkuringo

Nkuringo has much to offer visitors that come to this remote corner of Uganda. You will have opportunity to:

enjoy the amazing vista's of the gallery forests of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and volcanoes of the Virunga
visit Batwa pygmies
experience a guided village walk
walk with trained guides for bird spotting activities along forest trails and in the nearby pocket forest. Download the Nkuringo Pocket Forest Bird List (Adobe PDF 62KB)
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Bird List (Adobe PDF 120KB)
undertake a guided multi-day trek to/from Kisoro via Lake Mutanda
walk through Bwindi Forest to the park head quarters at Buhoma
track the Nkuringo Gorilla family (assuming you have a tracking permit).
track the Nshongi Gorilla family at Rushaga (assuming you have a permit).

To visit the Nkuringo or Nshongi group of Mountain Gorillas you must first obtain a tracking permit from the Uganda Wildlife Authority in Kampala.

Members of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators are able to purchase permits up to 2 years from the month of tracking. Nkuringo Gorilla Camp helps many of our visitors to obtain permits for either the Nkuringo or Nshongi groups on the south side of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest where availability exists. Please contact us should you require this service.

More Gorilla groups are being habituated in Bwindi despite the serious concerns of many experts http://www.berggorilla.org/. This will bring the total number of habituated groups there to 6. The Nshongi group with 34 animals opened for visitors in April 2009. Uganda's 7th group currently being habituated is known as Bikingi also to be found on the south side of the forest some 10km from Nkuringo is know to have 24 animals.

View this amazing video of the Nkuringo group

The Nkuringo Village Community Walk

Local guides from Nkuringo Community motivated by the success of the 'Village Walk' at Buhoma in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest have now developed a community village walk for visitors to Nkuringo. This guided walk provides visitors to Nkuringo as an additional activity to gorilla tracking.

The duration of the walk is 3 to 4 hours and starts at Nkuringo Gorilla Campsite.

Highlights include:

Nkuringo Hill View point known as 'Top of the World' - Experience a 360° view of Bwindi, the Virunga and far into the Dr Congo
Be introduced to local trees and birds
School visit - Be welcomed at our primary school
Observe sorghum beer being produced
Visit a homestead to sample some local foods
See the local Blacksmith at work
Visit the Women's craft centre
Enjoy dances performed by the a youth group