3 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip

This 3 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip will combine great Rwanda safari highlights of gorilla trekking and a glimpse into the Rwandan culture by visiting the gorilla guardian’s village. The mountain gorillas live deep in the jungles of the Virunga volcanoes shared between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo. The route to this park takes you through the communities where you enjoy the scenery of ‘the thousand hills.

3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip Highlights

Day 1: Arrival and transfer to Kinigi for your Gorilla Tracking.

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking, Parc National des Volcanoes.

Day 3: Return to Kigali, visit the Genocide memorial/museum and transfer to the airport.

Detailed 3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip

Day 1: Arrival and transfer to Kinigi for your Gorilla Tracking

Transfer to Volcanoes National Park the home of gorilla tracking activity in Rwanda. Best known to the outside world as the place where for almost 20yrs the American primatologist Dian Fossey under took her pioneering studies of mountain gorilla behaviour.

Accommodation in

• Classic: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge 
• Budget: Kinigi Guest House or Muhavura Lodge.

Day 2 of 3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip: Gorilla Trekking, Parc National des Volcanoes

Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Tour

Have breakfast and go to ORTPN offices for briefing after that set off in the forest for Gorilla trekking. 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 colourful 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 marvellous peaks are sighted, easy to get to and among the uppermost in Africa, indicating an ascent. Gorilla trekking is quite strenuous but a worthwhile on 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.

In the afternoon if interested set out for a tour to the twin lakes of Ruhondo and Burera or take a community walk around neighbouring communities of the forest. Interact with the local people; learn about their way of living. After a wonderful evening, you return to your lodge for dinner and rest.

Day 3 of 3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip: Return to Kigali, visit Genocide memorial/museum and transfer to airport

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 centre and the genocide memorial. Have lunch en-route and then Transfer to the airport.

End of 3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip

Tariff per person (including gorilla permit):

The tariff includes:

• Accommodation in double room, full board treatment, excluding drinks
• All the transfer in private means 4×4 Land Cruiser or minibus
• English speaking Driver/Guide
• Entrance fees, taxes and “gorilla permit” and chimp permits.

 The tariff does not include:

• Air ticket.
• Tourist insurance
• Entrance visas: 50 USD for Rwanda before arrival
• Drinks and tips.
• Everything not directly mentioned in the programme itinerary.

3 Day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Trip Terms and Conditions

Reservations

• We require a deposit of 50% of the total tour cost for the clients to safeguard the reservations and gorilla permits.
• The balance should be paid 1 month prior to the arrival.
• For bookings coming one month before departure, we shall require the full payment of the tour costs.
• The payment is made by international money transfer to the company bank account in Uganda.

Important Information

• Tour tariffs are based on all known costs and rates of exchange at the time of the transfer, any significant changes beyond will be immediately communicated to our clients.
• We also retain the right to alter any arrangements due to local conditions. We also retain the right to refuse any person from participating or continuing any tour if that person causes or is deemed to cause hazard or inconvenience to other clients and to our environment and ecosystems.
• Please note that in Uganda US dollar banknotes series before year 2006 are accepted only with a low exchange rate, therefore clients are advised to travel to Uganda with more recent banknotes series.  The same applies to banknotes below 50 USD.