Our tours generally start with your driver guide picking you up from your hotel or airport very early in the morning. These 4 days tour will start with a tour of the city of Kigali. The Kigali city tour includes a visit to the Kigali genocide memorial center, the main city market, the presidential palace museum, artisan shops and a few other places that might interest you.

After the city tour, out Guide will take you for lunch at a suitable spot local restaurant in Kigali before starting the 2.5 hours journey to the Volcanoes national park. The journey involves passing through beautiful mountainous countryside and vast tea plantations. You will discover why Rwanda is referred to as “The Land of a thousand hills”. Once you reach the park, you will be taken straight to your hotel for check-in and relaxation in your room or hotel gardens. Ensure that you sleep early so that you are ready for gorilla trekking the next day.

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Early morning your driver will pick you up and transfer to the park office in 15 minutes, it starts at 7:00 am. This briefing is organized by park officials at the headquarters in KINIGI. All trackers must be at the park offices and should attend the briefing to get an overview of what to expect during the activity.

As we already stated earlier, there are 12 habituated gorilla families in the volcanoes national park and you will be assigned one based on your overall fitness. Once the briefing is completed, you will be led to the starting point. Gorilla trekking takes between 2 to 6 hours. After locating your gorilla family, you only have one hour to observe them. Listen to instructions from your Guide and stay calm. you can use your time for taking pictures and learning more about their behaviors.

After observing the primates for one hour, you will return back to the starting point where our guide will be waiting to take you back to your hotel for lunch. After lunch, shower and rest as you wait for the Driver to take you to the Gorilla Guardians Village. The Village was formally known as the Iby’iwacu cultural village.

It started as a place where former poachers would sell souvenir to tourist but has now been rebuilt as a leading cultural center in the country. You will spend time being entertained by cultural performers and be requested to take part.

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After your breakfast, you will set off for volcanoes national park offices for another briefing on golden monkey tracking. You will have an opportunity hire a porter to help out with any heavy luggage during the briefing at the park office.

After briefing you will proceed to the starting point, later you will start trek and find them feeding on top of tree branches and on the ground. Golden monkeys are found in 3 countries – Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

They are critically endangered and face great threats from human activities. Golden monkeys are very playful and cute. They live in groups consisting of about 80 individuals. They are comfortable with flash cameras unlike gorillas. After spending time with them, you will go back to the starting point and find our driver waiting for you.

The next program will be lunch at the hotel and refreshment after which you will be taken for a drive to visit the twin lakes of Ruhondo and Burera. Overnight stay at la Palme hotel: B&B

Wake up and have late breakfast as you also prepare to check out and start the trip back to Kigali. The driver will take you up to the airport if you have a flight that day. If you are still in Rwanda, then he will drop you to your hotel.

Then see you for next time.

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