Day 1: Welcome in Kigali – tour briefing and transfer to Mgahinga National Park
Welcome to Kigali, Rwanda. Our tour representative and your driver/guide will meet you in the morning at Kigali International Airport. Then we stop in Kigali for a cup of coffee before starting our journey to Uganda, Mgahinga Nat Park via Rwanda/Uganda Cyanika border.
We’ll arrive early afternoon and check in to our lodge close to the Park.
Overnight at Travellers Resort
Day 2: Mountain gorilla trek – afternoon transfer back to Musanze, Rwanda
At about 6:30am, we take a drive of about 30mins to the National Park headquarters to meet your guides for the day. After completing our park formalities, we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime experience of tracking mountain gorillas. Once you spot them you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breath-taking experiences on earth!!! You get so close to these awesome giant primates. You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Tracking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience. You will spend one hour with the gorillas, but it is an hour you will never forget. Depending on the length of our trek, groups will return to our lodge by about 1pm.
In the afternoon, we transfer back to Rwanda, check in to our hotel in Musanze, close to the Volcanoes Nat Park
Overnight at Garden Place Hotel
Day 3: Golden monkey tracking, Iby’Iwacu Village visit, and travel to Kigali
This day is set out for Golden Monkey tracking in the Volcanoes National Park. Entering dense stands of bamboo interspersed with open glades; you will make your way deep into golden monkey territory. Guides lead visitors to the habitat of groups of ‘habituated’ golden monkeys – monkeys that have become accustomed to human presence. Though viewing is kept to a maximum of one hour, travellers can get an up-close look at the golden monkey in its natural habitat. Adult monkeys frolic in plain view, feeding on bamboo leaves and leaping from perch to perch. Females carry their young, completely comfortable among onlookers.
Later, visit Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village, a nonprofit umbrella organisation that aims at improving the lives of reformed poachers and communities around Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park through provision of conservation incentives, supporting community enterprise development and livelihood based projects. Return to your hotel to freshen up and have lunch then later transfer to Kigali arriving early afternoon.
Afterwards we bid our host goodbye and transfer to Kigali airport for your departure flight back home.
End of the Adventure
