Located in the southwestern region of Kampala, in the district of Kisoro, Mgahinga is the second best national to do gorilla trekking after the famous Bwindi impenetrable forest national park. Mgahinga has got one habituated gorilla family opened to trekkers for gorilla trekking. Besides Gorillas, the park also boosts with a variety of other attractions with wide range of activities to be done in the park. The park offers other activities such as golden monkey tracking, bird watching, Batwa community trail where you will encounter the long inhabitants of the forest. The Batwa where the first inhabitants who lived and survived in the forest before the establishment of the national park whereby many of them where displaced but the few that remained behind, settled around the park boarders.
There are many options to choose from and get to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, the park is accessible by road from the nearby Kisoro town, about 14kms away. If you are in Kisoro, you can hire a car (taxi) to take you to the Mgahinga park entrance. You also inquire from the locals and they will give you directions to the park.