Mgahinga Gorilla National Park: Guided Tour｜Uganda

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Explore the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and see the Batwa people, the forest's first inhabitants. Discover the park's unique flora and fauna, including the rare mountain gorillas and golden monkeys.

Meet your guide and head to the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, which sits high in the clouds, at an altitude of between 2,227 meters and 4,127 meters. As its name suggests, it was created to protect the rare mountain gorillas that inhabit its dense forests, and it is also an important habitat for the endangered golden monkey.

As well as being important for wildlife, the park also has a huge cultural significance, in particular for the indigenous Batwa pygmies. This tribe of hunter-gatherers was the forest’s “first people”, and their ancient knowledge of its secrets remains unrivaled.

See the park's most striking features, its three conical, extinct volcanoes, part of the spectacular Virunga Range that lies along the border region of Uganda, Congo, and Rwanda. Mgahinga forms part of the much larger Virunga Conservation Area which includes adjacent parks in these countries. The volcanoes’ slopes contain various ecosystems and are biologically diverse, and their peaks provide a striking backdrop to this gorgeous scenery.

Mgahinga boasts of over 76 mammals which include elephants, giant forest hog, bush pigs, bush back, buffalos, leopards, and a bird checklist of over 180 species including the 14 endemic Albertine rift notably the Kivu ground thrush and turaco.