Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

In the local Lukiga language Bwindi means ‘impenetrable’. This double warning is suitable and applicable to this Africa’s most ancient rainforest of tangled vegetation draped over a deeply fissured landscape of steed, slippery valleys and high draughty ridges.
It lies 530km from Kampala, in the south – west of Uganda in Kabale district close to the Democratic Republic of Congo border, the park covers 337sq km and encompasses one of the last remaining habitats of the mountain gorilla, where half of the world’s surviving mountain gorillas live.
The Park is a key destination for any birder who is intending to visit Uganda. With over 346 species of birds, of which 23 are Albertine Rift endemics which are globally threatened such as the African Broadbill, Rwenzori Turaco….Bwindi gives an open opportunity for montane forest birding in Africa. Besides the endangered gorillas and chimpanzees, other animals include buffaloes, elephant, bushbucks, the threatened golden monkeys ….

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