Nkuringo Gorilla Camp provides affordable accommodation in Bwindi, Southwestern Uganda, gorilla trekking tours packages and other Bwindi Eco tours. The lodge is located at 2161m ASL on the Nteko ridge overlooking a beautiful swath of the world renowned Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park that’s inhabited by the world’s most sought after animal, the Mountain Gorilla. The ridge provides a superb vantage across the Kashasha river valley to the forested hill known as ‘Nkuringo’ and the surrounding plethora of trees of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
This section of forest is home to the Nkuringo group of Mountain Gorillas-Nkuringo Gorilla group from where the gorilla Eco camp provides a prime access point to the start of the amazing Gorilla Trekking tour. The gorilla lodge known as gorilla Eco camp has panoramic views of the majestic volcanoes of the Virunga chain and across the escarpment into the Albertine Rift Valley within the DR Congo.
A lucky few visitors will observe the clouds envelop the forested valley below the gorilla trekking lodge and be party to views to the north as far as the glaciers on the Rwenzori peaks some 160 kms distant. In January 2010 visitors where thrilled to witness not one but two active volcanoes in the DR Congo from Nkuringo. Both Nyiragongo and Nyimuragira continue to light up the night sky on clear evenings for the intrepid travelers to Nkuringo…