East Africa Holiday Safaris

20/03/2025

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Ally Suleiman Msuya, Lumban Vicky Jee Msuku, Ra Müller, Steve Mwalimu, Aliyi Haso, Samuel Selevest, Siladitya Ghatak, Hans Storytell, Nepalheritage Discoveries

13/03/2014

Easter Package to Kalangala (Ssese Islands) on sale. An individual pays 392 US$ and a couple 448 USD. Interested? Email me at [email protected]

11/03/2014

Still confused or thinking on where to have your Easter Holiday? We have organized a trip to the mighty Ssese Islands at a subsidized price for both singles and couples. Contact us on on our email:[email protected] or directly on our page. Looking forward to taking you there where you have always fancied to be.

08/03/2014

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01/03/2014

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Work without play, makes you a dull person, take leave and go for a vacation, think of visiting East Africa and at EAST AFRICA HOLIDAY SAFARIS, we shall plan and advise you accordingly

01/03/2014

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You may encounter buffalo, kob, Jackson’s Hartebeest, waterbuck, baboon, lion and oribi. After lunch enjoy a launch cruise to the base of the falls. View hundreds of hippos, Nile crocodiles and other wildlife that come to the river to drink. Birds are in plenty and include: the African Jacana, piac…

04/06/2013

History of the Gorillas

Mountain Gorilla.

Mountain Gorilla Background information- Fact- History-Behavior, Habitat and Diet and Predators:

Background Information

The endangered Mountain Gorillas of Uganda won't be found in any zoo in the world (they do not survive in captivity and there are no surviving mountain gorillas in zoos), you can only find them and see them in Africa, in the countries of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are only about 700 some Mountain Gorillas left in the world and about half live in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga Gorilla Park in Uganda, East Africa.

The life, diet and their habitat

The life of a mountain gorilla starts at sunrise, around 6 am. They wake up and begin looking for food which covers a great part of the morning. In general, a gorilla spends about 30% of the day with feeding, 30% with travelling and 40% with resting. In contrast to many primates, the gorilla lives mainly on the ground. They travel not more than a kilometer per day within their home range of about 20 square kilometers.

Gorillas are vegetarians, though occasionally they may eat ants and other insects. Their daily meal consists of roots, leaves, stems and pith of herbs, vines and shrub, and some fruits. During certain months of the year bamboo shoots supply a major part in their diet as well. A male adult can even eat up to 75 pounds per day! Because the gorillas receive a large quantity of water from its diet, they rarely have to drink.

The afternoons are mainly spent with resting and playing. This last activity is very important in the social life, especially for young gorillas, as it determines their integration into the group. They hug each other, bite, and hit or wrestle till one is pulled down on the ground.

At the end of the day, just before dusk, the great apes start constructing a nest where they will spend their night. Every single gorilla has its own nest, except for the infants who sleep next to their mothers. Nests are built on the ground or in trees and are carefully constructed by branches of bushes and other plants.

04/06/2013

Facts about Mountain gorilla-Uganda

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla. There are two populations. One is found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, within three National Parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The other is found in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Mountain gorillas are descendants of ancestral monkeys and apes found in Africa and Arabia during the start of the Oligocene epoch (34-24 million years ago). The fossil record provides evidence of the hominoid primates (apes) found in east Africa about 18–22 million years ago. The fossil record of the area where mountain gorillas live is particularly poor and so its evolutionary history is not clear. It was about 9 million years ago that the group of primates that were to evolve into gorillas split from their common ancestor with humans and chimps; this is when the genus Gorilla emerged. It is not certain what this early relative of the gorilla was, but it is traced back to the early ape Proconsul africanus. Mountain gorillas have been isolated from eastern lowland gorillas for about 400,000 years and these two taxa separated from their western counterparts approximately 2 million years ago. There has been considerable and as yet unresolved debate over the classification of mountain gorillas. The genus was first referenced as Troglodytes in 1847, but renamed to Gorilla in 1852. It was not until 1967 that the taxonomist Colin Groves proposed that all gorillas be regarded as one species (Gorilla gorilla) with three sub-species Gorilla gorilla gorilla (western lowland gorilla), Gorilla gorilla graueri (lowland gorillas found west of the Virungas) and Gorilla gorilla beringei (mountain gorillas including, Gorilla beringei found in the Virungas and Bwindi). In 2003 after a review they were divided into two species (Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei) by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Take pleasure in the best and most exciting gorilla safaris and wildlife tours in Uganda. We take you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Mgahinga National Park for the amazing gorilla trekking safaris. Being among our (man’) nearest relatives, Mountain Gorillas, are a must see by any visit in Uganda because of their charming nature