5 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda

• You’ll be picked up from the airport (or hotel)
• Accommodation before the tour departs can be arranged for extra cost

DAY 1: Arrival and visit Kigali Memorial Center and proceed to Volcanoes National Park

• • Morning/Transfer
  Upon your arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be welcomed by our professional tour guide who will take you for a city excursion in and around Kigali. This is to enable you orient yourself with this great country of ‘a thousand hills’. After this excursion, you will proceed to Virunga National Park located in the North of Ruhengeri via undulating and beautiful terraced hills which shows a clear picture of the general landscape and altitude of Rwanda.
  • Afternoon
  You will have lunch and later relax at the lodge as you prepare for next day’s gorilla trekking experience
  • Evening
  You will have dinner and overnight at the lodge

Accommodation: Budget: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge Mid Range: Five Volcanoes Lodge Luxury: One and Only Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner. Drive time: 2 hours.

DAY 2: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park

• Morning/Briefing

Have an early morning tasty breakfast at the lodge, you will start your exciting morning drive to the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters for briefing about the do’s and dont’s of gorilla trekking experience

• Trek and Observation

You will depart for your gorilla trek into the indigenous forest in search for the Gorillas. This trek gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself into the strange but intimate part of the rain-forest where you will hear live calls of colorful birds, chattering of the rare golden monkey, as well as the forest filled with fresh spoor of the mountain elusive populations of buffalo and elephant.

• Evening

You will return from the forest and drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight Accommodation: Budget: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge Mid Range: Five Volcanoes Lodge Luxury: One and Only Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

DAY 3: Optional second gorilla trek or golden monkey

• Morning/Briefing

After breakfast, you will depart to the park headquarters for second gorilla trekking experience which aims at exhausting the different gorilla group different from the one you trekked the previous day.

• Trek and Observation

You will depart for your gorilla trek into the indigenous forest in search for the Gorillas. You will have an opportunity of identifying each gorilla in the gorilla group by name to the extent that at the end of the day you can be able to know their differences and what brings such differences between the groups you have tracked. You can as well go for golden monkey trekking as Volcanoes National Park is one place where gold meets with silver.

• Evening

You will return from the forest and drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight trek  Enjoy a bush or forest lunch before returning to the Lodge for dinner and overnight. Accommodation: Budget: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge Mid Range: Five Volcanoes Lodge Luxury: One and Only Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

DAY 4: Visit the African hero of gorillas

• Morning

After breakfast you will embark on you hevicle and drive to Volcanoes National park to visit the grave of the late Dian Fossey, an American naturalist and the first white Gorilla Hero of Africa. Dian Fossey's story is a beautiful one who conserved these great apes in Africa. She basically learnt, exhibited and lived the gorilla lifestyle. If possible you can even grab your copy of Gorillas in the mist a natural move based on natural beauty of Africa rainy forests. Later have a free leisure break dinner and overnight at your lodge.

• Afternoon 

You will later return and transfer back to the lodge for relaxation and overnight, you can opt to visit the Ibya Iwachu cultural village for cultural experience to get exposed to Rwanda's culture

• Evening

You will spend your evening at leisure at the the lodge and later dinner and overnight Accommodation: Budget: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge Mid Range: Five Volcanoes Lodge Luxury: One and Only Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

DAY 5: Drive back to Kigali to depart back home

• Morning

After breakfast, you will bid farewell to the lodge and drive back to Kigali City, and if you did not visit the genocide memorial centre, you will have an opportunity to do so before transferring to the airport

• Afternoon

You will have a stop in Kigali city for lunch and then proceed to the hotel or airport to end the tour

• Evening

You will be transferred to your booked hotel or Kigali International Airport for your evening flight back home Drive time: 2 hours Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch