Safari overview
4 Days · 3 Nights · From USD 0
The 4 Days Rwanda Primate Trekking Tour is best recommended for a business traveler or solo traveler that wants a short guided African jungle tour or a self planner that wants to add it to their Kenya savanna safari. It’s also a great addition to the great migrations safari in Serengeti and or the nearby small Uganda savanna safari destinations. This tailor-made Africa safari will take you into the misty bamboo jungles of the Virungas, in Volcanoes National Park, on an excursion to track and locate a family of mountain gorillas led by a patriarch silverback.
Day by day itinerary
Day 1:Arrival Kigali + Overnight
Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, Meet & Greet Services, followed by transfer to your Kigali hotel.
Overnight on Bed & Breakfast basis: Kigali Serena Hotel or Park Inn by Radisson Hotel
Day 2:Kigali-City Tour + Lunch/Volcanoes National Park
A morning orientational tour of Kigali City, including a visit to the Genocide Memorial Museum. Lunch at the Hotel Mille Collines - featured in the film "Hotel Rwanda," regarding the 1994 Rwanda Genocide Against the Tutsis.Afternoon, drive to the Volcanoes Mountains, home to the Mountain Gorillas & Golden Monkeys overnight. 94km, 2.5hrs
Overnight on Full-board basis: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge.
Day 3:Volcanoes Forest-Gorilla Trek/Cultural Village Visit
Morning, enjoy the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime thrilling adventure - Mountain Gorilla Trek, in the volcanoes forest. After the mandatory one-hour duration with your gorilla family, drive back to your lodge for freshening up and lunch.After lunch, relax at the lodge as you re-live the fresh memories of your close encounter with human being’s closest relative in the wild.Late afternoon, enjoy a visit to the Iby’Iwachu Cultural Village (Gorillas Guardians) visit - for some insights into the transformed lifestyle of these families of former gorilla poachers; + traditional dance performance.
Overnight on Full-board basis: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge.
Day 4:Volcanoes Forest-Golden Monkeys Trek/Kigali/Depart
Morning, undertake the Golden Monkeys Trek adventure in the volcanoes forest, trekking the only other member of the primate species residing in the volcanoes forest. Freshening up and lunch at the lodge, followed by check-out - ready for your journey back to Kigali. Before exiting the Volcanoes Mountains base town of Musanze, make a brief stop-over visit of the DIAN FOSSEY MUSEUM-GALLERY. (No Entrance fee, but donations are welcome) Shortly after, bid farewell to the volcanoes mountains region and drive down the slopes, on the winding road, arriving in Kigali in the late afternoon, with onward transfer to the Kigali International Airport for your evening outbound. ---END OF OUR SERVICES--
Pricing
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