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Overview
- Duration:30 hours 0 minutes
- Tour Type:Private tour
- Language:English, French
Highlights
- Mountain gorilla trekking (Day 2): Track a habituated gorilla group through forested slopes, vines, and bamboo. Treks can take anywhere from half an hour to 8 hours, and you get a maximum of one hour with the gorillas once found.
- Learn to read the forest: Guides point out gorilla signs such as dung, nests, and chewed bamboo shoots along the way.
- Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge: The page names this as your accommodation, built from eco-friendly local materials including bamboo, with local community craftsmanship.
- Ibyiwacu Cultural Village (Day 1): After check-in, a visit to experience traditional Rwandan life.
- Short transfer: Only about 2 hours’ drive from Kigali to the lodge, designed for travelers short on time.
- Optional genocide memorial visit (Day 3): A stop in Kigali before you leave, depending on your departure time.
- Included: Gorilla permits, park ranger fees, taxes, an English and/or French-speaking driver-guide, meals, and 4×4 transport. Airport transfer is included if your flight is the same day the safari ends.
- Flexible pickup: From the airport or a hotel, with a minimum of 1 traveler.
Itinerary
3 Days Gorilla Trekking Itinerary
Arrival
• You’ll be picked up from the airport (or hotel). • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost
Day 1: Pick Up From Kigali To Volcanoes National Park
After only 2 hours driving you will reach the lodge. The lodge has been built using environmentally friendly local materials such as Bamboos made fitted by a local community workmanship. We value the environment so much that we have been careful in the design and construction of Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge to ensure that the environment is not harmed. After check in we will be visiting ibyiwacu cultural Village (traditional life experience).
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking
You will trek one of the habituated Gorilla groups who can tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period every day. The time taken to track the gorillas can take as little as half an hour to as much as 8 hours!Your track will be an exciting journey along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes and bamboo before you eventually reach the gorillas’ current location. Your guide will point out signs of previous gorilla activity, including dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. Once the gorillas have been located, you will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them. Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is a humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Rwanda’s own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’.
Day 3: Drive Back To Kigali
After breakfast you drive back to Kigali. It is possible to visit the genocide memorial in Kigali before you leave. This depends on your departure time.
Includes/Excludes
- Gorilla Permits
- Park Ranger Fees
- Relevant Government Taxes
- Full time English or/and French speaking Driver/Guide
- Meal
- Ground Transportation by a 4×4 vehicle
- Airport transfer, as long as your flight is on the same day on which the safari ends
- Airfares
- Visa Fees
- Personal Insurance
- Expenses of personal nature such as; drinks, tips, laundry, telephone, cigarettes, accommodation & meals not indicated in the itinerary and optional activities.
Cancellation policy
You can cancel up to 72 hours in advance of the experience for a refund.
