The Exclusive Mount Gahinga Lodge is located in Mgahinga Gorilla Park.
Mount Gahinga Lodge – Luxury Accommodation in the Shadows of the Virunga volcanoes
The Exclusive Luxury Mount Gahinga Lodge, located in Mgahinga Gorilla Park, is the only luxury lodge outside of Mgahinga Gorilla Park. The Lodge sits in the rolling foothills of the awe-inspiring Virunga Volcanoes. Locally they called the Mufumbiro Mountains the Mountains that cook.
Mount Gahinga Lodge blends in with the surrounding area, reflecting the traditional designs and styles of Southwest Uganda. The Lodge is the perfect base for discovering and exploring Mgahinga Gorilla Park, and the Lodge has a private trail that quickly takes you inside the Park.
In Mgahinga Gorilla Park, you can trek Gorillas visiting the famous Nyakagezi Gorilla Family. Encounter the rare Golden Monkeys, climb one of the three Volcanoes in the Park and hike along the Sabinyo Gorge or the Border Trail.
There is even a private, short trail to the Park Headquarter, the starting point for most visitors to the PPark.
Additionally, Mount Gahinga Lodge offers its activities to its guests. You can visit the Gahinga Batwa Village, constructed for about 130 landless Batwa in the area. Visit the Vocational Center and see how local crafts 
are made. Participate in the Batwa Heritage Forest activity, where you learn how the indigenous Batwa lived in the Forest for thousands of years.
Eight cottages are called Bandas. Two of the cottages are deluxe, and all are comfortable luxury cottages with a fireplace for those chilly Gorilla Highlands evenings.
Each cottage has a verandah with spectacular views perfect for the Gorilla Trek Sundowners. Meals are exquisite culinary delights and a fusion of meals you may know but with that local African touch.
Drinks, including all soft drinks and alcoholic Beverages such as House Wines, Local Beers, and local spirits such as Uganda Waragi, are part of the full-board stay at the Lodge.
Enjoy a thirty-minute complimentary massage per guest per stay. Extra massages are available at an additional cost—full board accommodation, including all soft drinks and house alcoholic beverages (excludes premium, imported beverages).
A Personal Butler is at your beck and call to attend to your wellness, and laundry service is offered as a courtesy to the guests. Additionally, hairdryers are in the rooms, and WiFi is available in the comfortable main Lodge building.
Things to do and see while staying at Mount Gahinga Lodge:
Mgahinga Gorilla Park is one of Uganda’s smallest National Parks. However, there are many things for you to do and see.
Gorilla Trekking is one of the featured activities. The Bonus is that a Luxury Gorilla Safari in Uganda comes at a fraction of what it would cost you in Rwanda.
There is a Golden Monkey Trekking, a four to five-hour activity. The Batwa Trail is a time with the first people of the Forest.
There are three volcanoes, each you can climb in one day-hikes. It would help if you had a midrange fitness level to do so.
In Addition, Mount Gahinga Lodge offers activities, such as the Gahinga Batwa Village. Their Batwa Heritage Trail, a Caldera Hike, and more.
You can always enjoy a good book while relaxing in your room or on the porch. Daytrips to Lake Mutanda can also be taken.
Getting to Mount Gahinga Lodge – Mgahinga Gorilla Park:
The easiest way is to book one of our Fly-In Safaris, where you stay at Mount Gahinga Lodge while tracking Gorillas, Golden Monkeys in the Park. You fly from Entebbe International Airport to Kisoro, the closest airport to Mgahinga Gorilla Park and Mount Gahinga Lodge. The flight time is 90 minutes, saving you nine to 10 hours driving here.
The second-best way is to include Mgahinga Gorilla Park in a longer fly-in or drive Safari that takes several parks in Western Uganda.
Another option is flying into Kigali, Rwanda, and then driving to Mgahinga Gorilla Park. It is a three- and a half-hour drive, and it is a good option for many of our clients.
Getting to Mount Gahinga Lodge – Mgahinga Gorilla is easy, and we will make all the arrangements for you. Just let us know.
Why do we include Mount Gahinga Lodge in our Safaris?
The primary reason why we use Mount Gahinga Lodge is that not one of our clients has ever voiced a complaint about the Lodge. That in our business is most welcomed, yet a rarity. Mount Gahinga exceeds most accommodation standards and sets new ones. The level of service is world-class, and the meals are superb. The furnishings exude subdued elegance, not tacky attempts of pretense.
Our clients have raved about the gourmet meals resulting from Ugandan Chefs being trained by top-flight chefs from Europe and beyond. Meals are prepared using local fresh ingredients that are grown explicitly according to the standards set forth by the Lodge.
We use the Lodge because of the exemplary workPraveen Momam in conservation and people conservation for the maligned Batwa People. Praveen Momam grew up in the area where his father was a civil servant during Colonial Times. During Idi Amin’s time, the family and thousands of others of Indian descent were evicted. Yet he never forgot the place of his younger years where he and his father used to explore the forests and hills surrounding Kisoro.
As Uganda’s troubled times ended, he erected Mount Gahinga Lodge. Walter Baumgärtel, a Gorilla Conservation and Gorilla Tourism pioneer, was one of his role models, as was Dian Fossey, who often visited the Travelers Rest Hotel in Kisoro that Walter Baumgärtel.
In recent years Praveen Momam’s foundation built the Gahinga Batwa Village. The lives of the least and lost, the most voiceless Batwa were given a home, a village, school, trade school, and more.
Now you understand why we use Mount Gahinga Lodge for our Safaris in Uganda.
