The Gorilla Trekking Field Guide

A practical, beautifully composed field guide to the one hour most travellers travel the furthest to experience. Written by our lead naturalist and the designers who have spent more than a decade staging this single morning.

What's inside.

• ✦The hour itself: what to expect when you meet a gorilla family.
• ✦Permits and the Gorilla Habituation Experience, simply explained.
• ✦The four Bwindi sectors matched to the kind of traveller you are.
• ✦Bwindi or Mgahinga: forest families or volcano views.
• ✦What to wear and carry, and why every traveller should hire a porter.
• ✦The etiquette of the hour and a trek day checklist.