Plate I01
A silverback, at one metre on the forest floor.
Bwindi, 10:00 AM
Bwindi, the impenetrable forest
Preface, on the country that protects half the world's mountain gorillas
Uganda protects roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. An hour with a habituated family at three metres is the most concentrated wildlife encounter on the continent. Four nights. One Entebbe, two Bwindi, one Queen Elizabeth NP. Best between June-August or December-February for the dry-season trekking.
Every journey in Uganda, currently
1 journey in Uganda.
Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Six plates from the studio's last two years. A silverback at one metre, the Bwindi forest at first light, a tree-climbing lion in Queen Elizabeth NP.
Six plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Uganda since 2020. Five years of Bwindi gorilla permits, Queen Elizabeth NP game-drives, and the occasional Rwenzori-and-Bunyonyi second-week additions.
We work with a Kampala-based partner who pre-arranges the gorilla permits (limited to eight visitors per family per day) and a Bwindi lodge team on retainer.
One route is what we currently maintain. The gorilla-and-savanna seven-night is the most-requested; we route Bwindi BEFORE the savanna because the gorilla morning sits as the trip's peak.
5Years of routing Uganda
1Route, none repeated
12 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Kampala (partner), Bwindi (lodge)
Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Two letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Uganda gorilla & savanna, seven nights, July 2024
Two Bwindi nights, two Queen Elizabeth, one Entebbe. The gorilla permit morning at ten AM with a habituated family. The silverback at three metres, the juvenile pulling on his mother's arm. Was the trip and the year. The Queen Elizabeth tree-climbing lion sighting on day five was the bonus.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, once-in-a-lifetime
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Uganda extended, nine nights, January 2024
Same as the classic plus two Lake Bunyonyi and a Rwenzori foothill drive. Bunyonyi was the trip's slow-down. A dug-out canoe at sunset, no engine noise on the lake.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, returning
4.94 / 5Average from 28 returned travellers
18%Travel with us a second time
12 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
An open letter
Tell us when you
can go.
Two questions decide a Uganda trip: which permit window (June-August or December-February for the dry trekking), and whether to extend with Rwanda's Volcanoes NP for a second gorilla family.
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