Uganda receives 1st Airbus to boost Uganda Airlines flights to Big cities of the world

Uganda receives 1st Airbus to boost Uganda Airlines flights to Big cities of the world connecting to Dubai   and China Cities. Many Ugandans fly to these cities for trade links . Uganda  has  already mapped  out long routes that include Guangzhou and Beijing in China, London, and Dubai as the first routes.The A330neo is powered by Rolls-Royce's latest-generation Trent 7000 engines and features a new wing with an increased span. The cabin provides the comfort of the new airspace amenities including state-of-the-art passenger in-flight entertainment and Wi-Fi connectivity systems, amongst others.

 

Uganda tourism is likely to be boosted by direct flights from these big cities. If Chinese can get direct flights to Uganda then many  exponential tourists from china are likely to buy Ugandan safari packages to destination Uganda. London is another busy hub that will allow many tourist to connect to Entebbe airport without any difficult.Thus in such cases tourism will be boosted. Uganda has got one major airport Entebbe Airport and receives many flights arriving from flights of Emirates, Ethiopian airlines, Kenya airways. Sn Bruseels, KLM Royal dutch, Egypt air  and many more connect to Entebbe airport on daily basis

Travel Hemispheres brings you special flying tour packages to the Pearl of Africa Uganda. That will help you experience the hospitality of Ugandans both by air and road traveling. Booking and planning tour with us in time will save you the hassle and time to secure a life time experience of Uganda’s beautiful attractions. Among these include gorilla tours, wildlife safaris gorilla safaris, bird watching and primate safaris plus lots of game viewing and bird watching. As Covid 19 continue eating up  tourism industry  dew to social distance issues, when you do flying safari in Uganda will be easily done.

Uganda Flying Safaris to Solve Covid Safari Touring in Uganda

 

Travel Hemispheres brings you special flying tour packages to the Pearl of Africa Uganda. That will help you experience the hospitality of Ugandans both by air and road traveling. Booking and planning tour with us in time will save you the hassle and time to secure a life time experience of Uganda’s beautiful attractions. Among these include gorilla tours, wildlife safaris gorilla safaris, bird watching and primate safaris plus lots of game viewing and bird watching. As Covid 19 continue eating up  tourism industry  dew to social distance issues, when you do flying safari in Uganda will be able to avoid covid and do your holiday successfully  Hemispheres will offer special flying safaris to different national parks in the country. If you are on working visit to Uganda , any delegate booked can do a flying safari with us.

Honeymooners, old age and clients on Business visit to Uganda can take short gorilla safaris, wildlife safaris and other adventure Uganda tours using our flying safari services in Uganda. Will take this advantage of taking our flying safaris to avoid long time driving on the roads.

When is the best time to trek mountain gorillas in Uganda?

The best time to trek Mountain gorilla in Uganda all depends at time  you would wish to  have your holiday. Mountain gorilla trekking takes place throughout the year around .  In Uganda and Rwanda we experience 2 rainy seasons and  may be it’s the time your can postpone gorilla trekking. The months of June July and August are  dry seasons . Also the months of January and February  experience less rains.  June, July August and September receive less rains and are the best to to track and book gorilla safari with : https://www.travelhemispheres.com  .All these months are good for mountain gorilla trekking experience.

During  the  dry season months of  January , February, June, July- and  August   usually receive many tourists wanting to track mountain gorillas. Its advisable to book early some good months before your trekking date  because at timed gorilla permits on some days get sold out before. Its better you book in time and avoid disappointments  or missing out.

Other months of the year gorilla trekking also takes place but this time there is less traffic of people trekking. May be its better to book during this months as will be assured of  gorilla permit availability and congestion is limited while trekking . Bwindi offer the best gorilla trekking followed by Volcanoes park of Rwanda.

The months of months of  January , February, June, July- and  August   remain are the best time of the year even to visit other  national parks in the country when visibility is very good and have less overgrown bushes thus allowing viewing wildlife easily in the wild. Also animals tent to concentrate in one place for water, security and pasture and when other predator animals also will be closing on them for prey.

The best time to trek the gorillas in Uganda and ad Rwanda  the nearby countries that have the same activity  and DR Congo. Although in both counties, the activity is done all year round. But knowing the best time and the season would be of an advantage since it may help to cut the costs of the travelers like during the higher and the lower seasons where by some discount is offered to travelers during the lower seasons.

Uganda has  the best climate in East Africa  due to its location along the Equator and surrounded by the great water bodies like the mighty river Nile with its climatic changes. In Uganda, there are two seasons that’s the dry and the wet seasons of the year. The rainy seasons start from march to May and from October to November.

In Uganda,  climate is hot and wet  with cool  days regulated by diverse forests, Rivers lakes and altitude throughout the years. Temperature will always range from 20.5c to 28 degrees these results to variation in altitude. The rainfall received in Uganda ranges from 1000-2000 mm and it received throughout out the year causing changes in the climate and weather in the country thus making it difficult to predict th best times of the year to carry out the gorilla trekking exercise in Uganda.

 Uganda safaris can still be visited throughout the year but the most appropriate time to visit the gorillas in Bwindi and Mgahinga national park is from June. July, August and September and  there is reason to postpone your gorilla holiday trip due to weather issues. We usually advise our visitors to carry warm Jackets because evenings and nights during rainy seasons can be cold. , hiking shoes  are also good to carry  all these will help you to keep warm during rainy seasons.

 

What is Covid-19 visitor rules towards to Uganda?

 What is Covid-19  Visitor Rules  To  Uganda

Covid -19 did not spare Uganda. Though it is still at its lowest in terms of people affected.   Visitors wishing to do uganda safaris and tours  must have tested negative for at least 72 hours. All travelers arriving in Uganda must have a negative COVID-19 certificate. The only accepted test is a SARS-CoV 2 Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) performed within 120 hours of departure (meaning travelers must be tested and get results within 5 days of their first flight). Other tests, such as Rapid Diagnostics Test (RDTs), are not accepted.

  All travelers arriving or transiting through  border points of Rwanda, Kenya Tanzania and .Sudan  will be screened upon entry ton arrival and be allowed to proceed on you tour to Uganda.

For Rwanda  all travelers are required to wait 24 hours for the results of their COVID-19 test in a designated transit hotel. All COVID-19 prevention measures announced by the Ministry of Health must be respected during waiting period• The Government of Rwanda has negotiated special rates at designated transit hotels for the 24 hour waiting period. Should a guest wish to remain in the hotel after receiving negative test results, they are welcome to extend their stay at the hotel’s applicable rates.

While in Uganda visitors after showing certificate  convid -19 will be allowed to proceed on safari with your guide.  I is rtill not easy to cross from either country to another and am still gathering information as to whether will be allowed to cross from Uganda to Rwanda.  As of today they allow visitors who are passing at one entry that is airport. 

While doing Uganda safari , gorilla tracking has been resumed  and it is going on smoothly.  We at Travel Hemispheres are arranging tours and safaris to all destination parts of the country. Your  itinerary  and cost  to track gorillas  in Uganda will tailor-made for your interests and taste.  . We also have golden monkey tracking  activity in Uganda.

 

What is a Mountain Gorilla Sliver Back ?

 What  is a Mountain Gorilla Sliver Back ?

Mountain gorillas differ from lowland gorillas (Western Gorillas). At first scientists thought there was no difference between these gorillas.  The sliver back  gorilla is from the  is Mature male mountain gorillas of about 12 years that have grown a sliver grey hair on its back. A saddle of grey hair grows on its back after attaining sexually maturity age. Gorillas are very social animals and each group call it a family may have 4 up 30 or 50 members headed by 1 sliver back mountain gorilla.  A such group will have a sliver back or two of them heading the family. Other members of the group may contain females who are wives to the sliver back thus sliver back gorillas are polygamous in nature. Others are Juveniles and infants. The dominant sliver back commands the family and gives protection and other young sliver backs take orders from the head. Orders may include the directions to take while searching for food and if threatened who should fight first . A silver back enjoys the center of attraction at any time in the group or family. The Sliver back gorilla take in-charge of the group. The gorilla family call it a gorilla group is equally answerable to the head gorilla called Sliver back.

Mature Mountain Gorilla Sliver Back

Mountain Gorilla Sliver Back

 This Sliver back prepare young male Juveniles  how to defend the group and leadership skills  and  incase the head is no long active mainly when it gets old , the young one who will take over. At times when sliver back gets misunderstanding with young sliver backs , will fight and chase the old Sliver back out of the family or get killed  after winning him.  Here is the time when the group breaks into other groups thus forming New Gorilla families and groups. People or tourists  who  carryout Mountain gorilla trekking safaris enjoy mostly the  presence of a Sliver back  leadership skills displayed and command showed in presence of new visitors who actually are human beings.. Missing encountering Sliver Back  when tracking mountain gorillas remain incomplete not until you visit again and encounter this forest Gentle Giant- the Mountain Gorilla Sliver Back of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.  

How Much is Gorilla tracking Permit?

 

How Much is Gorilla Permit?

One can ask himself or herself this question. What is a gorilla permit?  Before we get to know how much is gorilla permit cost , one need to know what is this gorilla permit all about?  A gorilla permit is paper print or virtual/card   document issued by Government body and  in Uganda by  Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and in Rwanda by ORTPN   authorizing the holder to visit the gorillas in the their natural habitat in this case in Uganda gorilla trekking or call it tracking takes place at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga National park. While in Rwanda gorilla tracking take place at Volcanoes National park and IN DRC Congo at Virunga National park.

Effective 1^st July 2020 a gorilla permit in Uganda will cost US $ 700. While in Rwanda the cost of Gorilla permit has been and is still costing US $ 1500. A gorilla permit is a one day visit to the gorillas . A gorilla permit is usually booked  and paid in advance say for some good months or a year before coming. This is done because gorilla permits at time are sold out and to avoid missing out on trekking mountain gorillas it better booking and paying for in advance. Travel  Hemispheres as a ground tour operator in Uganda , Rwanda and DRC Congo will help you to book and secure for  your gorilla trekking permit in time .

 

8 people are allowed to visit one gorilla family . Mature people are allowed to Trek gorillas  and minimum age is 15 years of age allowed to trek mountain gorillas. 1 hour is allowed to view and stay with gorillas  once gorillas are sited.  Trekking can take many or few hours and all depend on the family trekked. Remember gorillas move inside the parks and are not stationed in one place. Your guides  will help you to  lead all the way through until you are out of the forest back to your Lodge.

Do gorillas talk or communicate?

 

Do Gorillas communicate among themselves or call it GORILLA VOCALIZATIONS

 

Twenty-five distinct vocalizations are recognized, many of which are used primarily for group communication within dense vegetation. Gorilla Sounds  are classified as grunts and barks are heard most frequently while traveling, and indicate the whereabouts of individual group members (Harcourt et al. 1993). They may also be used during social interactions when discipline is required. Screams and roars signal alarm or warning, and are produced most often by silverbacks. Deep, rumbling belches suggest contentment and are heard frequently during feeding and resting periods. They are the most common form of intra group communication (Fossey 1983).

Because of the extensive research begun by Dr. Fossey and since carried on by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and other gorilla conservation groups, the mountain gorilla is one of the most understood of all gorillas. The general consensus of those who work closely with the mountain gorillas is that they are generally peaceful and gentle.

This doesn’t mean that they won’t occasionally charge, scream or show their teeth, to an outsider or within the group itself. Most of these Mountain Gorilla actions are meant to serve as warnings, to ward off danger or to prevent a fight. Mountain gorillas can communicate in a variety of ways, including facial expressions, sounds, postures and gestures. There is the classic chest beating by male gorillas, which is used to show stature, scare off opponents or even to prevent a fight. When the Mountain Gorilla feels threatened they can make a variety of loud sounds, resembling roars or screams. Facial expressions are mostly used as communication. An open mouth with both upper and lower teeth showing means regressions. A closed mouth with clenched teeth could signal anger.

 

One of the nicest sounds is heard when the group is resting after a period of feeding. Mountain gorillas roughly spend 30% of their day feeding, 30% moving, and 40% resting. At dusk, they prepare to settle down for the night and sleep in nests made of vegetation that the gorillas shove under and around them. Forming of nests is mainly the bending of soft trees, breaking mature bamboo sticks and other tree species that have broad leaves to provide a blanket and shield against the cold. Mothers find a comfortable spot where their backs will be supported as they breast feed and cuddle their babies for the night.