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3 Days
Specific Tour
15 people
English
Our company representative guide/driver will come and pick you up at the airport or your hotel in the morning to start your tour. You will begin by touring the city of Kigali. Kigali is a relatively small city but clean and well planned.
Rwanda city has many interesting landmarks but you will visit the Gisozi genocide war memorial site, the former presidential palace, the main city market and artisan shops. The genocide memorial Centre in Kigali was built in remembrance of the thousands of people who died during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After learning about what happened during the genocide, you will visit local markets, artisan shops, the former presidential palace (now a museum).
After the city tour, you’ll have lunch before starting the 2 to 3 hours’ journey to the Volcanoes National Park. While traveling to the park, you will be kept awake by the beautiful mountainous.
Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Muhabura (Budget), Da Vinci Lodge (Mid-range) and Virunga Lodge (Luxury).
Have early breakfast before heading for briefing at the park headquarters in Musanze. The briefing about gorilla tracking takes place at 7:00am and is conducted by the head park guide. The briefing covers topics about the history of the park, the gorilla groups, Dian Fossey, the rules and requirements for gorilla trekking.
After registration and assignment of gorilla groups. A gorilla family is amazing to watch. You could spend the whole day just watching as the young ones play and roll around. There is the mighty silverback, juveniles and breastfeeding mothers. While watching mountain gorillas, please follow instructions from your guide.
After your moment hour with the gorilla group, you should head back to the starting point where our company guide would be waiting for you. The driver will take you back to the lodge, have lunch and rest as you wait for the next activity.
Later in the afternoon, our guide will come to pick you up and take you to visit the Iby’iwacu cultural village which is located in Musanze (near the volcanoes national park). Enjoy the cultural dances, you can even dance with them and learn more about the culture of the people of Rwanda. The Centre is now known as the Gorilla Guardians Village and is said to be one of the best cultural centers in Rwanda.
Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Muhabura (Budget), Da Vinci Lodge (Mid-range) and Virunga Lodge (Luxury).
Wake up early and take your breakfast and get ready for golden monkey trekking.
You will then head to the forest with your porter and park Rangers. Golden monkeys are critically endangered like mountain gorillas and several projects have been started to save them from total extinction. The monkeys can be sighted on top of short bamboo trees but will come down to forage on the ground. Take enough photos of the cute primates but do not forget to also observe them. Once you are done,
After go back to the lodge for lunch, rest and begin your journey back to Kigali later. Our guide/drive will drop you at either the airport or your hotel in Kigali.
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