BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST NATIONAL PARK
Bwindi is in the south west of the country, between 414-530kms from Kampala city (8-9 hours drive), on the western Rift Valley at the border with Congo, the park covers an area of over 330 km² as the name dictates. This park has dense ground cover of vines, shrubs and wide variety of flowers and aphrodisiac plants, is the only forest in Africa where gorillas and chimpanzees occur together of which they are less than 600 still left in the entire world, half of which live in Bwindi, with an estimated 350-400 chimpanzee. The forest is also sanctuary for over 120 species of mammals, including chimpanzees, black & white colobus, blue monkey, bushpig, duiker, leopard, jackal and elephants in the south east of the park, many birds roughly 360 species, 202 species of butterflies and over 200 species of trees found within the park