Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (1°07'S x 29°65'E) is a World Heritage Site located in south western Uganda shared by the districts of Rukungiri, Kisoro and Kabale. Bwindi is on the edge of the western rift valley. The park is 331 square kilometres on an altitude range of 2607 meters-Rwamunyonyi peak and 1160meters-Ishaha gorge. Weather is cold during June - July rains heavily in March-April and September-November.

Bwindi is an ecological island forest of global importance and is the richest conservation area in Uganda owing to the exceptional diversity of both flora and fauna. Its faunal community is considered to be East Africa's richest due to extensive lowland-montane forest continuum. It's the habitat for world's endangered mountain gorillas.

Bwindi is the Bird watchers haven as experienced bird watchers can identify up to 100 species in a day in Ruhija and Buhoma. It shelters 348 species of birds and contains 90% of all Albertine rift Endemics such as the Short-tailed Warbler, Rusty-faced woodland Warbler, Bar-tailed Trogon, Gruer's Rush Warbler, Wilcock's Honey-guide, Yellow-eyed black Fly-catcher, Kivu Ground Thrush, Dusky Crimson Wing, White-tailed Blue Monarch among others, hard or not possible to see in any other part of East Africa.

Some 350 species of birds have been recorded. At least 70 of the 78 montane forest bird species occurring in the Albertine Rift region are found in the forest, including 22 of the 36 endemics. 12 species of bird occur only in Bwindi and in some cases in the neighboring highland forests of south-west Kigezi within Uganda. Key species are the dwarf honeyguide, African green broadbill, Lagden's bush shrike, Kivu ground thrush, Oberlander's ground thrush , Grauer's rush warbler, Chaplin's flycatcher and dusky crimson wing.

Other rare birds are Fraser's eagle owl Bubo, white-bellied robin chat, Grauer's warbler, short-tailed warbler, yellow-eyed black flycatcher, montane double-collared sunbird and dusky twinspot.

Kampala to Kabale is a distance of 414 kilometres on tarmac surface and takes 6 to 7 hours. An additional 120 kilometres from Kabale to Buhoma Park Headquarters via Kanungu and Kanyantoorogo on Murram surface takes 3 to 4 hours and requires a 4 Wheel Drive vehicle. Kabale to Ruhija to Buhoma is 95 kilometers and takes about 3 hours.