On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be met by our representative who will give you ,your safari briefing before you are transferred to Kigali Serena Hotel for overnight .
Standard Room
After breakfast, you will check-out of your room and your driver guide will be waiting for you at the hotel lobby. Depart and visit the genocide museum and enjoy a city tour of Kigali followed by lunch
After lunch depart on scenic drive North West wards through the beautiful terraced hillsides that display Rwanda’s landscape.
Arrive at Ruhengeri, the base for Gorilla trekking at the Parc National des Volcans. The town itself is located only 25km from Uganda boarder, is relatively a small city of about 70,000 people. The constant flow of humanity is quite remarkable. The Town has great views of the surrounding volcanoes. People are very friendly here and although a former Belgian colony (and thus French-speaking), many people speak English here.
Proceed to Virunga Inn Resort & Spa for dinner and overnight.
Standard Room
Early breakfast.
6.20 AM: Transfer to the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters for your first day of trekking.
7.00 AM: Briefing by your trackers then drive to the trail head for the start of your amazing Gorilla Tracking adventure.
Porters may be hired for the trek to carry your backpack and gear. The cost is ten USD per person/per day. We advise that you utilize this service.
Your trek again starts in the cultivated foothills of the Virunga’s offering stirring views in all directions. When it enters the national park, trekkers will be immersed in the mysterious intimacy of the rainforest, alive with the colorful bird calls, chattering golden monkeys, littered with fresh spoor of the mountains’ elusive buffalo and elephant. Through gaps in the canopy, the magnificent peaks are glimpsed, among the highest in Africa yet easily accessible, beckon an ascent.
Weaving through overhanging vines, moss-covered hagenia trees and giant lobelias that thrive in the tropical climate, our experienced trackers, who have spent their entire lives in or close to this forest, soon bring us up close with one of the Gorilla Families.
Upon sighting the gorillas, you will stay with them for a magical hour as they go about their daily life, feeding, playing, resting; raising their young. Coming face to face with a giant silverback must truly be one of the greatest wildlife experiences on earth!
After the trek, rejoin your driver Guide for a transfer to your lodge for lunch.
Afternoon visit the twin Lakes Ruhondo and Bulera and the crafts market or the Ibyiwacu cultural village. Return to your lodge to freshen up followed by dinner
Enjoy breakfast at your Lodge.
Depart from foothills of the Virunga volcanoes and drive south past banana plantations on a scenic drive to Kigali. Everything and everywhere, sheer green and hanging on the hills; Rwanda truly - land of a thousand fertile green hills.
Transfer to Kigali International airport for your departure flight.
