Safari Overview
This 4 Days Rwanda primates safari, sets you up for a memorable encounter with the giant Mountain gorillas as you get to visit Volcanoes National Park home to these gentle giants. Volcanoes National Park is part of the larger Virunga conservation area which is the only place where the Eastern highland mountain gorillas can be found in the entire world. In addition to your face to face encounter with the gentle giants of Volcanoes, you are going to indulge yourself in a thrilling hike to the top of Bisoke range which one of the ranges of the Virunga mountains that cut across the three neighboring countries of Rwanda Uganda and D.R. Congo
Safari Highlight
Day 2: Today, you will have you visit to Kigali genocide museum then transfer to Volcanoes and visit Ibyi’wacu community.
Day 3: Engage in an epic gorilla trekking adventure in Volcanoes Park and transfer back to Kigali
Day 3: Indulge in a spectacular hiking experience to the top of mount Bisoke
Day 4: Return to Kigali airport for your outbound flight.
Detailed safari itinerary
Day 1: Do a Kigali city tour with a visit to genocide museum then drive to Volcanoes Park
Day 1 of this Rwanda tour, kicks off with an early morning pick up from your Kigali hotel and visit the Kigali genocide memorial museum. This museum captures the horror of the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which this country fell into turmoil as over 800, 000 are believed to have died as the Hutu people massacred the Tutsi in a period of about 90 days. After you visit to the memorial, you embark on your transfer to Volcanoes park, home to the biggest primates on earth the giant mountain gorillas. This 110km or 2.5-3 hours journey to Volcanoes National Park takes you on a spectacular journey through the countryside of this rather pristine country. You will get to encounter numerous Rwandans going about their daily activities and these will range from trade to farming their lands. Also, expect to be blown away by the amazing rolling hills of Rwanda which surely confirm to you why this country is referred to as the land of a thousand hills. Upon arriving in Volcanoes, you will engage in a community visit to Ibi’wacu community which is found on the peripherals of this park. Here you will get to see for yourself firsthand how these locals have managed to share these lands with the wild dwellers that are so close to them. You will also get to see how the park has immensely helped in improving the lives of these communities as way of ensuring that they peacefully co-exist with gorillas without getting the urge to hunt them.
Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 2: Trek gorillas
This day you will get you to actually meet the gorillas as you engage in a memorable gorilla trekking experience which will have you meet these gentle giants in their natural habitat. You will spend an hour observing these majestic creatures in order to have an understanding about their habits which aren’t far from our own.
Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3: Mount Bisoke hike
The Bisoke range is one of the 8 Virunga ranges that are found in the Western arm of the East African great rift valley that is slowly but surely bisecting the African tectonic plate. This mountain range rises to a staggering height of 3711m above sea level hence giving you a worthy challenge for your hiking experience. Depending on your hiking skills, this hike is likely to last about 6 hours to rise to the top and return to the starting point. During this hike expect to encounter several of the wild dwellers of Volcanoes national park which include various monkey species, birds and many others. It is also worthy to note that when Diane Fossey the famous primatologist whose work to conserve the gorillas Virunga is highly revered named her research station Karisoke research station, she got it by coining the names of the 2 Virunga ranges in Rwanda, that’s Karismbi and Bisoke ranges.
Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Return to Kigali
This is the last day of your Rwanda tour, and it will have you check out of your lodge after breakfast and drive back to Kigali international airport in time for check in for your departure flight from Rwanda. This tour makes a perfect extension to a longer or larer east African tour to either Kenya, Tanzania or the East African coastal areas of Mombasa, Zanzibar and Madagascar.
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