memorable African mountain gorilla trekking experience in this affordable 3 Days Rwanda Gorilla Tour, one of the most highly recommended by Gorillas and Wildlife Safaris. The meticulously designed gorilla tracking program starts when your safari guide meets you at your hotel in Kigali (Rwanda) on Day one for the transfer to Volcanoes National Park. Before we drive to Volcanoes National Park for the gorillas, we conduct a brief city tour of Kigali city, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial at Gisozi and sight visiting other great places in the city. We then proceed to Volcanoes for a night before the adventure of gorilla tracking on the next day. The cost includes your gorilla permit, Rwanda gorilla trek accommodation and transportation from Kigali to Volcanoes National Park and back, and the services of a tour guide.
Begin your 3 days Rwanda Gorilla Trek Tour with a meeting with our driver (who is also your tour gorilla tour guide) in Kigali at your hotel or at Kigali Airport. We then continue with your transfer with a private vehicle to Volcanoes National Park, the home of gorilla trekking activity in Rwanda.
Your 3-day Rwanda gorilla tour also includes a tour of Kigali City. You can choose to do this at the beginning of the gorilla tour or at the end. Either way, your tour guide will be available to take you through some interesting spots in Kigali City. The new prosperity features a number of thriving markets and features the mountain terrain famous in Rwanda. A sober contrast to its recent history. For survivors and others whose families were murdered in Rwanda´s genocide in 1994, the memorial sites and centers are places of dignified remembrance for loved ones lost. It is also a place of reflection and learning for the wider community, both in Rwanda and internationally.
Ranging in altitude from 2,400m to 4,507 the Volcanoes National Park (French: Parc National des Volcans) is dominated by the setting of volcanoes after which it is named. Best known to the outside world as the place where for almost 20yrs the American primatologist Dian Fossey undertook her pioneering studies of mountain gorilla behavior.
Day hikes to see the gorilla families can be strenuous on tracks climbing through the forest, and time is very limited once contact is made with the gorilla families. It is a rare and memorable experience to visit with these giant cousins of man.
Our accommodation is ideally positioned for those who want to watch animals in their habitat, specifically the endangered Rwanda mountain gorillas that still roam these areas.
Share in the cuisine of Rwanda, which is served with the hospitality for which we all return to African countries. Take walks, learn more about the gorillas, and absorb the gorgeous surrounding landscape.
Accommodation options available
Top Luxury: Virunga Lodge | The Bishop’s House | Silverback Sabinyo Lodge
Up-market: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Moderate: Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Low Budget: Hotel Muhabura
Have breakfast and go to Volcanoes National Park offices for briefing, after set off in the forest for gorilla trekking. Obviously, this is surely the highlight of your 3 days Rwanda gorilla trek tour and we are committed to leaving some lasting memories with you. We ensure that your gorilla permit is well booked in advance, you have all you need for your gorilla tour, and you are allocated the befitting gorilla group to trek in Volcanoes National Park.
A thrilling trek through the refined foothills of the Virungas provides inspiring views in all directions. Then, suddenly, the trail enters the national park, engrossing trekkers in the strange closeness of the rainforest, alive with the calls of colorful birds and chattering of the rare golden monkey, and besieged with fresh spoor of the mountains’ elusive populations of buffalo and elephant.
Through gaps in the forest canopy, the marvelous peaks are sighted, easily easy to get to, and among the uppermost in Africa, indicating an ascent.
Gorilla trekking is quite strenuous but a worthwhile encounter of these gentle giants. The enthusiasm of your coming across with these apes will wipe away your intricacy of the strenuous trek.
Spend time watching gorillas, watch the adults feeding their young ones, brushing and resting as the youngsters play from vines in a pleasurably playful display.
Accommodation options available
Top Luxury: Virunga Lodge | The Bishop’s House | Silverback Sabinyo Lodge
Up-market: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Moderate: Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Low Budget: Hotel Muhabura
Following breakfast, you will leave for Kigali.
Go for a city tour including visits to the market, a pottery project, handicraft shops, the Franco-Rwandan cultural center, and the genocide memorial.
Have lunch en route and then transfer to the airport.
This will be the end of your 3 days Rwanda gorilla trek tour.