Blog
What an hour with mountain gorillas is actually like
Nobody warns you about the first ten minutes.
Not a content-marketing blog. Four pieces about things we get asked in vehicles and at dinner, written by people who do this every week.
Field notes
Four pieces worth your time
Blog
In defence of the green season
The case for April, May and November.
Blog
Photographing gorillas in a dark forest
Your 400 mm is the wrong lens.
Blog
How we actually choose your Bwindi sector
The decision that matters most, made mostly on your behalf.
More practical
Planning guides
If you want instructions rather than reflections, the travel guides cover permits, seasons, fitness and packing, and travel advice covers visas, health, money and safety.
Why we write these
Tour pages have a job to do, and it makes them flat. The questions people actually ask — is one hour enough, will I keep up, is it worth going in the rain, why did you put us in Ruhija — deserve a longer answer than a bullet point, and they are more useful written down than repeated in a vehicle for the four hundredth time.
Everything here is written by guides and trip planners who work these forests weekly. If something is wrong or has changed, we would rather you told us than quietly noticed.
Start here
- What an hour with gorillas is actually like — if you are still deciding whether to go
- How we choose your Bwindi sector — if you are deciding where
- In defence of the green season — if you are deciding when
- Photographing gorillas — if you are packing a camera