Volcanoes National Park
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4 Days Gorilla Safari & Visoke Hike vacation gives you more optional activities to take on after your gorilla trekking adventure in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. From the vibrant capital Kigali, your private driver will snail drive you 3 hours through Rwanda’s most beautiful countryside to one of the most beautiful exclusive properties in ht overflows of Volcanoes National Park where you’ll hail to track the mountain gorillas.
Arrival at Kigali International Airport, after processing your visa, you’ll be required to follow through with Covid-19 Rwanda entry guidelines, maybe show your Covid negative test, and then your private Gorilla Safari & Visoke Hike safari guide will be waiting on the other side.
Meet and greet by your private tour driver/guide and after a briefing session, drive North of Kigali to Kinigi at the foot of Volcanoes National Park, through Rwanda’s most beautiful countryside and immerse your imagination in nature’s own tranquility.
Drive time is about 3 hours with great drive speed to allow you to enjoy the scenery. Check into the lodge and later enjoy dinner surrounded by the evergreen tropical forest.
With an early breakfast, drive to the park headquarters for gorilla briefing (45 minutes). This is the Gorilla Safari & Visoke Hike vacation’s major highlight that brought you to these jungles, so take a breath, collect all your intrinsic emotions and excitement and get ready to be wowed. Make sure your expectations are floating, we don’t wanna drown in too much of less or more than we bargained for.
When venturing into this gigantic forest, a packed lunch, comfortable clothes, shoes, and a walking stick is a must before. The time spent gorilla tracking is unpredictable, It varies from 2-8 hours before an encounter with the family of these gentle creatures. The location of each gorilla family depends on temperature, their feeding range, and movement of the previous day with the trackers ahead of your tracking group. Strict guidelines will be issued at the trailhead briefing point, make sure you remember the most important ones.
Enjoy the one hour allotted, (only time allowed in the company of each gorilla family a day) watch and capture this memorable experience as they go about their day to day activities; the young ones playing around the old ones, feeding each other, and eating foliage. The sight of these outstanding creatures is the climax of this entire safari. Later retire for an overnight at the lodge.
This day will require you to choose between staying at the lodge for a relaxation day with simple activities, or tracking the endangered golden monkey in Volcanoes NP, visiting Dian Fossey’s resting home, and hiking one of the volcano peaks. Whichever you choose, our goal is to make your day as memorable as possible and we’ll just do that.
If you choose to go back into the jungle, you’ll be briefed by the park rangers and then escorted into the misty jungles to find your nemesis. These fragile cute little golden monkeys light up the jungle and alter all your perceptions about wild creatures that occupy jungles across the world, it’s a moment you want to keep forever so make sure you’re ready to be rewarded your courage to come to Africa. You will not stay with them for more than one hour, the intelligent guys think you may agitate their inner beings and maybe transfer some diseases (you know) if you stay longer.
After that heartfelt moment with the golden monkeys, the guides will lead you through the forest path to the legend that made all that trip possible from back in 1962, the legendary primatologist Dian Fossey’s grave. That little lady took all the guts to protect the mountain gorillas from savages and let the world know about the treasure we had berried deep in our African jungle, so a visit to her grave is warranted, take a knee!
Later that evening, check out at the lodge and get on the 3-hour drive to Kigali where you’ll spend the night.
With an early sumptuous breakfast, drive lazily back into Kigali. Take a city excursion or Kigali Genocide memorial in Gisozi and the Rwanda National Museum visit, the time to be spent in these places depends on your departure flight.
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