2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Safari

Overview

This 2-day gorilla tracking safari will take you to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, home to the world’s remaining mountain gorillas and golden monkeys. The tour will start with a Kigali city tour of the various historical sites like local markets, genocide sites, conventional centers, king’s palaces, and more other places if time allows. The 2-day gorilla safari will start and end in Rwanda.

Trip Breakdown

• Day 1: City tour and Transfer to Volcanoes national park
• Day 2: Mountain gorilla tracking and departure

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Kigali City Tour & Volcanoes National Park

Our company guide will pick you up from the hotel or Kigali International Airport for transfer to Volcanoes National Park for a 2-day Rwanda gorilla tracking safari where you will do a gorilla trekking experience. Set off for your 2-day tour; first, do a Kigali city tour with a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, the Kigali Convention Centre, and local markets, among others. Have lunch from any tourist’s restaurant, and you can try out some local foods or can order for international foods. After lunch you will drive for 2 hours to Volcanoes National Park, where you will do the most famous activity, the gorilla tracking experience. Pass by rolling hills and evergreen vegetation; you will see local people doing their daily activities. Proceed to the lodge where you will check in and wait for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation option:

• Mountain Gorilla View Lodge [luxury]
• La Bambous lodge [Mid-range]
• Da Vinci lodge [Budget]

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Duration: 2 hours

 

Day 2: Mountain Gorilla Tracking & Departure

Wake up early in the morning and have breakfast. Pick your trekking equipment, enough drinking water, and a packed lunch, and set off with your safari guide/driver to the park’s headquarters for a short briefing by the park warden before taking the gorilla trek. You drive to the trekking starting point at 8:30 am. With the assistance of a well-armed game ranger, your groups will follow a designated trail into the jungle in search of gorilla families. Where these critically endangered mountain gorillas slept the night before or how they moved while looking for food will determine where you can find them. It can take between thirty and six hours to complete the trek. You will then spend only one hour with these endangered mountain gorillas, see them feeding, breastfeeding, the silverback guarding the family, and playing, and you will interact with them. After the trek, report back to the park’s headquarters, where you will be rewarded with a trekking certificate. Thereafter, drive back to the lodge, have refreshments, and then check out of the lodge and transfer back to Kigali International Airport, where you will catch up with your flight back home.

End of the tour.

Includes

• Gorilla permit
• Accommodation
• English-speaking guide/driver
• Meals full board
• Mineral water
• Transport to and from,
• City tour