2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda
This 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda package is tailored for visitors interested in a short Rwanda Safari, an opportunity to visit Volcanoes National Park – one of the few places in the world where you can see gorillas in the wild.
Located in the Northwestern Rwanda, Volcanoes National Park is habitat to the endangered mountain gorillas inhabiting an abundant variety of Afro-montane ecosystem found in the Albertine Rift with a blend of Neoboutonia forest plus bamboo forest, separated by Hagenia woodland moving higher you find the hypericum zone, the senecio-lobelias zone and the alpine prairie having a great cover of grass sedges to the mountains of Muhabura at at 4,127 meters, Gahinga at 3.474 meters, Sabyibyo at 3,634 meters, Bisoke at 3,711 meters, while the highest is the Karisimbi at 4.507 meters.
Volcanoes National Park covering an expanse of 16,000 hectares is home to 10 habituated gorilla groups open for gorilla trekking. On this 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda, you will visit one of these habituated gorillas and spend one hour in their presence observing their way of life in the forest.
Highlights of 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park – Departure
Detailed Itinerary of 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be warmly received by your driver-guide and go for a short Kigali City Tour visiting Kigali Genocide Memorial Site, the National Museum and the local markets giving you a perfect introduction to Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills.
After the exploring the cleanliest city in Africa, you will enjoy lunch a restaurant then set off on a journey to Volcanoes National Park found in Musanze, arrive in the evening, check out in at your lodge and spend the evening at rest. Have dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation
Luxury – Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Midrange – Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Budget – Muhabura Hotel
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park – Departure
Today is the climax of your 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda, wake up early for breakfast, meet your driver guide and head to the park headquarters with your packed lunch boxes. Join other visitors in a briefing session led by a park rangers, you will be taken through rules and regulations to follow while in the presence of mountain gorillas and best way to behave.
In groups of 8 people you will assigned a gorilla family to trek, then head into the forest looking for mountain gorillas. Some amount of physical fitness is required during this activity for a number of hills climbs involved. The experience is tedious but impressive when you finally come face to face with mountain gorillas, you will spend an hour observing the gorilla family as they go about their daily routine activities, of mothers caring for the little ones, the juveniles playing as well as feeding. You are expected to maintain a good distance while you watch them and also to make sure to turn off the flash of your camera as you take photographic images.
Gorilla trekking in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park takes approximately 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas and where they spent their previous night. After one hour with the gorillas, you will return to the park headquarters where you will find your driver and embark on a journey back to Kigali City where you will be dropped off at the airport for your departure flight.
End of 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Rwanda