www.gorillahighlands.com
Miha Logar, whose brainchild the Gorilla Highlands concept is, over the Easter holidays
updated his website and added an intriguing story about some ground breaking developments to make access to parts of the Mt. Mgahinga National Park easier.
Read on to find out what has changed in this part of South Western Uganda, close to the border with Rwanda and Congo. Also check out the Gorilla Highlands website to find out more about Uganda’s South West, an up- and coming adventure, hiking, mountain biking, canoeing and adrenaline pumping destination.
Into Sabinyo Gorge in a More Comfy Way
The most popular nature walk in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park leads into the luxuriant gorge deep under the steep slopes of Mt Sabinyo. It is totally comparable to volcano hiking, in duration (5-6 hours), beauty, and even difficulty.
With this new development we recommend Sabinyo Gorge Walk even higher than before. You will walk through the bamboo area down into a narrow valley between two of the extinct volcano’s tooth roots (“Sabyinyo” means old man’s teeth), following a running stream that makes the rocks moist and the vegetation overflowing. Turinawe reports that the water is slowly increasing and he expects the waterfall at the end of the gorge to be at its best in the second half of April.
And if you are concerned because we mentioned that this was the most visited nature walk attraction of Mgahinga, allow us to add a significant number: that merely means about 10 visitors a month! Seriously, if you want to do something attractive in one of Uganda’s most impressive national parks and have, in addition to park entry fees, 30 dollars in your pocket (or only 15,000 shillings if you have an East African passport/15 dollars if you are an East African resident), Sabinyo Gorge will not disappoint you.
