Rushaga Gorilla Lodge is paradise for trekking the world’s famous silverback gorillas within the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. The lodge lies only 10 minutes away from Nshongi gorilla family. The lodge is a perfect safari accommodation for all visitors and adventurers, especially those visiting Uganda Gorilla Safaris. Rushaga Gorilla Lodge offers several amenities in place to give you comfortable stay while in the jungle at affordable rates with unique lodging options.
Rushaga is well known as a home to mountain gorillas and site where gorilla habituation takes places. It is a region of several gorilla families includes; Mishaya, Kahungye, Bweza, Busingye, Kutu, Rwigi among others. However, its location offers different forest walks, all with breathtaking views of the Kigezi highlands, you can visit the Batwa cultural experience from which you’re able to learn the ways of these local people who lived in the forest for hundreds of years.
The lodge offers luxurious rooms such as
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These rooms offer modern facilities and services. They have spacious cottages with an excellent blend of style and comfort. The room offers lavish amenities.
Luxury cottages.
Rushaga Gorilla Lodge is renown as perfect luxurious lodge that serve to luxurious tourists on their visit to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest a home to half remaining mountain gorillas in the wild.
These cottages offer modern facilities and services, the spacious cottages are perfect blend of style, we recommend visitors who want to enjoy luxurious life while in Bwindi’s impressive jungle.
Other attractions to see and do around the lodge includes; Bird watching tours, evening of traditional music, dance, Lake Bunyonyi for canoeing, culture around
the bonfire. Go visit Lake Mutanda for the visits to the Islands of the African Rock Pythons and visit Mgahinga National Park for Golden monkey tracking.
Activities offered at Rushaga Gorilla Lodge;
Visit Lake Bunyonyi famously know as a home for little birds and birds to see includes; African harrier hawk, egrets, cardinal woodpecker, grey crowned crane, African king fisher, herons, levillant cuckoo, white tailed mound, slender-billed baglafetch among others.
Visit Lake Mutanda
This lake lies in Kisoro district in southwestern Uganda estimates 20 kilometers north of the town of Kisoro. After gorilla habituation –trekking you can choose to visit this stunning lake and be able to participate in canoe riding and relax around the lake and be able to enjoy breathtaking air life experience.
Gorilla Habituation Experience
This is an incredible safari activity which is done only in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Gorilla habituation is a process where mountain gorillas are first undertaken through a training process of about 2 to 3 years. If they are notified by the park ranger that are used to human contact. Then that gorilla family is open for tourism. However, Bwindi Impenetrable has four gorilla sectors; Rushaga, Buhoma, Nkuringo and Ruhija, the three gorilla sectors are for gorilla trekking activity and Rushaga is best for gorilla habituation.
Gorilla habituation is a full day activity which starts with a briefing and after you will be grouped in a group of four people head out with park ranger, researcher, doctors into the forest. You will start looking for them as you sightsee other species like birds and animals like forest elephants, buffaloes, duiker, golden cats, giant forest hogs, bush pigs, yellow-backed duiker, side-striped jackal, civet, various bats that call Bwindi their permanent homes. Once you locate the gorilla family, trackers are given four hours to observe these rare species as you learn about their amazing life style, collect samples from them as well as enjoying memorable photography.
