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Gorilla Forest Camp Bwindi

It is situated on a hillside, giving you an opportunity to view the forest where the Mountain gorillas reside. This fabulous tented camp is within walking distance of the point where visitors meet to start gorilla trekking. And consists of 8 self-contained double rooms, each with two self-contained queen sized beds, a private wooden deck and bathroom facilities. The lodge also has a nice spacious dining and bar area with power for lighting and recharging of video equipment.

Gorilla Forest Camp has been designed to blend seamlessly into this most atmospheric of environments, carefully appointed towards the misty valleys and looming, forest-clad mountains that protect this fragile eco-system. Each tent has a spacious wooden veranda where guests can relax, enjoy a private meal and absorb the exotic mystery of the surrounding rainforest that provided the inspiration of Disney’s "The Jungle" Book. The Gorilla Forest Camp offers a bar and dining cottage overlooking the rain forest, as well as a raised natural platform for open air dining.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is an enduring pocket of a huge primeval forest that once stretched from the Virunga Volcanoes in the South to the Rwenzori Mountains in the North. The fertile 331 square kilometers of the park contain 113 species of mammals (including a herd of the rare forest elephant), 200 species of butterfly, over 360 species of birds and a prodigious 324 tree varieties (10 of which are endemic to the park). In addition to this incredible diversity, Bwindi is home to seven species of primates, attracting the attention of international conservation efforts, of which the most endangered is that elusive giant of Africa-- the Mountain Gorilla. Only 600 of these magnificent animals remain worldwide, and Bwindi is home to just over half of them.

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