Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari

Rwanda Safari Tour

On arrival at Kanombe Airport, our tours representative will pick you up and transfer you to Kigali for a city tour. You will visit the genocide memorial. The Kigali Genocide Memorial was launched in April 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. This Centre is well set on a place in Kigali where over 250,000 people are buried.

These graves are a patent aide memoire of the cost of unawareness. The site is an undeviating memorial to victim of Rwanda genocide. It is a place for people to grieve the loved ones that succumbed to the genocide. It contains a permanent exhibition of the Rwandan genocide and an exhibition of other genocides around the world.

You will then transfer to Kinigi for dinner and overnight at Budget Kinigi Guest House Standard – Gorilla nest lodge Luxury Volcanoes Np / Sabinyo Silver Back

Gorilla Trekking

After an early breakfast, report at the ORTPN offices for registration and briefing. Drive to the Volcanoes National Park for a memorable gorilla trek. Gorilla tracking may sometimes seem to be strenuous so trekkers are required to be fit because it may take from 2 hours to 10 hours .

You will return to the lodge . In the afternoon if trekking ends early , you may visit the twin lakes of Burera and Ruhondo. Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel on Full board basis.

Dian Fossey / Golden Monkey Trek

After an early breakfast, report at the ORTPN Office for registration and briefing, thereafter drive to the Volcanoes National Park for the Golden Monkeys trekking or Dianne Fossey grave trekking.

The Golden monkey is one of the most rare primates in Africa . It is now believed that the only feasible population of these monkeys are left in the Virunga Volcanoes National park. A lesser populace may exist in the Nyungwe Forest National Park in Southern Rwanda but this has yet to be confirmed. The golden monkey is a dissimilar species of guenon – Cercopithecus Kandti and is prevalent to the Albertine Rift.

While the Dianne fossey trek will take you to the graves of the late famous American zoologist Dianne Fossey who was murdered while on her research about Gorillas and other primates in Park des Volcans. Volcanoes NP was the base for the famous American naturalist who carried out her research into the gorillas. She arrived in 1967 and established the Karisoke Research Centre between Karisimbi and Visoke.

Since then, she exhausted nearly all her time in the park. She is extensively ascribed for saving the gorillas from annihilation by conveying their predicament to the attention of the international community. She was murdered by unknown assailants at her home in 1985, a crime often attributed to the poachers she had spent her life fighting against.

Fossey’s dynamism research was later revealed in the movie Gorillas in the Mist, marked after her memoirs. She was buried in the volcanoes National park in a grave close to her research center amongst the gorillas which became her life.

You can choose either of the treks because both of them begin in the morning. Retire for dinner and over night at your lodge in Kinigi or if your flight tomorrow is early then we will transfer you to Kigali for your dinner and overnight at Hotel Chez Lando or Hotel Gorillas or Hotel Des Mille collines or Hotel Kigali Serena.

Shopping

After breakfast, walk around the city, shopping for Rwandan souvenirs. Transfer to the Airport for your home-bound flight.
End of the Rwanda gorilla trekking Safari.