Tour overview
3 days best of Rwanda gorillas safari is a short trip to Rwanda’s mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. You will have a city tour in Rwanda’s capital making visits to genocide memorial sites, museums as well as markets like Kimironko market. You will further proceed to Volcanoes National Park where you will have ample time with the mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Volcanoes National Park is encompassed by five out of the eight Virunga Mountains and it is best known for protecting mountain gorillas, golden monkeys as well as several other mammal and bird species. Volcanoes National Park is known for being a base for Dian Fossey a primatologist who loved gorillas like no other.
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Kigali city tour & drive to Volcanoes National Park
Our professional driver guide will be waiting to meet you, take you through a briefing of your itinerary and set off for a city tour within Kigali. You will make visits to a few of Rwanda’s genocide memorial sites and museums based in the city such as the Kigali genocide memorial, Rwanda Art museum and Kandt House museum. You will proceed to Kimironko market to mingle with the locals and purchase some souvenirs before having your lunch. After lunch you will proceed to Volcanoes National Park a home to Rwanda’s mountain Gorillas. Arrival will be in the late afternoon to check-in at your reserved lodge and later have dinner and an overnight.
Day 2: Gorilla trekking & Gorilla Guardian’s village
Today morning, have breakfast and turn up for a briefing about gorilla trekking dos and don’ts at the Park headquarters. Having been divided into groups of eight maximum, you will head off to the starting point of your trek to embark on the search for mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. After you have located your assigned gorilla family, an hour will be allowed with the gorillas for you to have an eye to eye contact with them pursuing their routine activities. Return back to your lodge for lunch before you head off for a cultural experience in the Gorilla Guardian’s village where Rwanda’s culture, traditions, norms, history and its people were brought together for tourists. Get back to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 3: Return to Kigali and departure
Wake up to a scrumptious breakfast and checkout to meet your driver guide to be driven back to Kigali. This a 2 to 3 hours adventurous drive through the country’s winding and rolling terrain while capturing beautiful scenery in the mountains and valleys’ backdrops. Arrival in Kigali will be time for lunch after which you will proceed to the airport to catch your flight back home.
