Four Gorillas lodge is located at the peripheral of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Rushaga sector. Four Gorillas lodge offers the best of all worlds to those who travel to Bwindi Forest National Park. In this oasis of privacy, serenity and rejuvenation, there are no crowds, just Mountain Gorillas as well as the soothing sound of birds, rustling trees, soft breezes and breath-taking views – the Four Gorillas Lodge is the closest to the park headquarters, only 10 minutes away from the Gorilla tracking and briefing centre.
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The signature cottages are surrounded by dense forest and feature upscale elegance within a cozy homesteading. The Four Gorillas Lodge offers facilities such as free shuttle service to and from Kisoro Airstrip – an atmospheric restaurant and bar as well as a gift shop. Designed to be eco-friendly, it is elegantly integrated into a rain forest setting. The restaurant serves a full buffet breakfast and also offer activities like gorilla trekking, nature walks, hiking, and bird watching among others
All rooms are ensuite and the on-site restaurant serves up a mouth-watering menu of both local and international cuisine with a patio area that provides an internet connection with the forest canopy.
Possible Activities from Four Gorillas Lodge
Gorilla tracking / trekking at Four Gorillas Lodge.
The forest has its doors and windows open wide enough for you to have an unrivaled gorilla trekking tours. Having an encounter with these landlords of the mountainous and forested Bwindi impenetrable national park in the Rushaga region is beyond word description.The tracking experience involves moving on foot in the thick forest, cross over rivers, do a little bit hiking in pursuit of the man’s immediate wild relative.
Gorilla habituation experience at Four Gorillas Lodge.
There is more to just gorilla trekking experience that allows you to spend only one hour with the mountain gorillas. You can also do gorilla habituation experience that gives you four hours in in the presence of mountain gorillas. This is an activity that will see you study the behaviors of mountain gorillas as the get familiar with human being around them. Just on our neighboring Rwanda gorilla trekking are conducted in Volcanoes National Park, which is part of the great Virunga.
Bird watching Experience.
Offering the world’s best bird watching tour experience with a vast diversity of bird species, in Rushaga region near the Four Gorillas lodge is home to several be species including the endemic Albertine rift ones including the Short-tailed Warbler, Rusty-faced woodland Warbler, Bar-tailed Trogon, Gruel’s Rush Warbler, Wilcock’s Honey-guide, Yellow-eyed black Fly-catcher, Kivu Ground Thrush, Dusky Crimson Wing, White-tailed Blue Monarch that are almost impossible to see in any other part of East Africa. Your stay at four cousins lodge blend up your birding safari.
Meet the Batwa Pigmies
Famously referred to as the Pigmies, Batwa tribe is one indigenous tribe in Uganda. Your stay at Rushaga region at Four Gorillas lodge gives you accessibility to reach to them and encounter the cultural and traditional experience bestowed to them. They lived in this forest apparently gazetted as Bwindi Impenetrable Forest national park for several years. For the opportunity to meet and have an encounter with the Batwa community or people, book with our trusted tour operator partners. The Batwa cultural experience is also popular in Mgahinga National Park
Guided Nature walks
Take a beautiful walk through various trails in the forest. You can also reach to the river Bubale in the lower parts of the Four Gorillas lodge, listen to sounds birds singing as you move through the forest around the lodge, and have sights of other animal species present in the area. All these can both be locally arranged by the local tour operators.