Rwanda – Gorilla Trekking Safari
Rwanda:
Gorilla Trekking Safari
East Africa
7 Nights
2+ People
About The Adventure
Trekking to see our closest living relatives thriving in the dense, protected forests of Volcanoes National Park and Nyungwe Forest requires a healthy amount of energy. A midway stop on Lake Kivu breaks up the active days and provides a change of scenery before you continue on in search of gorillas.
Trip Itinerary
- On arrival at the Kanombe Airport in Kigali, the tour guide will drive you to your Hotel where you will dine and rest for the night.
- After your breakfast have a city tour and visit the Kigali Memorial Genocide Centre: which well exhibits Rwanda’s the history of the genocide on video shows, see photographs, read some written accounts see a number of art crafts, read personal testimonies as well as exhibitions.
- The exhibition shows a section referred to as wasted lives which refer to the genocides plus holocausts in South-Western Africa, Bosnia, Armenia and Cambodia. After your lunch drive to Volcanoes National Park to trek gorillas.
- Parc national des Volcans is the best location to trek these uncommon yet fascinating mountain gorilla in Africa. This park is found on Rwanda’s border with DR Congo, and Uganda. This chain of mountains has 7 volcanoes and the Karisimbi is the highest standing over 4500 meters.
- The slopes covered with bamboo and rainforest vegetation are home to some of the last surviving mountain gorillas. It is not very challenging to find them and each gorilla family can be visited by a maximum of 8 people each day, hence availing 32 permits each day.
- After gorilla tracking, return to your hotel and relax.
- Following breakfast drive to Gisenyi to trek golden monkeys
- After lunch enjoy a community walk to interact with the resident who may actually entertain you with cultural dances
- You may choose to observe the locals brewing local beer from yellow bananas.
- After breakfast and drive to Lake Kivu for a boat ride around the Virgin Islands like the Napoleon’s Hat Island and there you can ascend to the peak of the hat to view the thousands of Angola bats in the blue skies.
- Following lunch continue to Butare the intellectual centre of Rwanda to visit the national university plus the Institute of Scientific Research as well as the national museum.
- Nyungwe Forest is among the greatly safeguarded montane rainforests in the whole of Africa.
- It extends over an expanse of 970 sq km and offers breathtaking scenery looking over the forest plus Lake Kivu, in addition to sights to the north of the far away volcanoes of Parc National des Virunga.
- The primary attraction here are the guided tours when tracking the large troops of black & white Angolan Colobus monkeys ( which may have as many as 400 members in every troop) or even chimpanzees.
- Roughly there are 270 species of trees, more than 70 species of mammals, 275 species of birds plus a profusion of orchids as well as butterflies.
- After breakfast proceed with chimpanzee trekking within the Nyungwe forest.
- This forest is home to huge chimpanzees troops only comparable to those in Uganda’s Kibale Forest national park.
- The L’Hoest’s monkeys plus the white Angolan Colobus monkeys make primate tourism within this forest equivalent to no other in Africa.
- After lunch, drive to Nyanza the historical seat of the long ago kings of Rwanda.
- Visit this palace and listen to the traditional story-telling done by village elders.
- After your breakfast you will drive to Kigali and later be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.
Trip Preparation
- Fully equipped safari vehicle
- Services of tour leader and camp courier
- All accommodation, all catering equipment
- National Park entrance fees
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner where specified (Meals not shown will be to the clients account. Occasionally breakfast and lunch may be combined into a brunch where necessary e.g. mornings with early game drives)
- Travel and medical insurance
- Personal spending money, visas, passports
- Vaccinations
- Personal taxes (including departure and border taxes)
- All optional activities, unscheduled or optional national/game parks and other activities
- Gratuities, restaurant meals and drinks
- All other items of a personal nature
- Rates subject to a minimum of 2 guests travelling
- The operator may reroute the itinerary or accommodate in similar lodges in case of non-availability
- Single traveller supplement and child rates will be quoted on request
- Validity periods are as specified above – should a booking fall over two rate periods the rate will change and we reserve the right to re-quote
- The rates quoted are subject to change without prior warning if there are any increases in bed levies, park fees, ROE, fuel, sales tax or VAT, third-party services or any other circumstances beyond our control in the countries featured in this quote
- Drummond Safaris Terms apply
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