1 Day Mountain Gorillas Trekking Rwanda
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1 day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking tour takes you to the extraordinary adventure where you meet the majestic Mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park. This is a short trip designed for travellers with limited time, allowing you to do the Mountain Gorillas Trekking and return back to Kigali on the same day.
Volcanoes National Park located in the Northwest of Rwanda Covering an area of approximately 160 square kilometres, it is part of the larger Virunga Massif, a chain of eight volcanic mountains shared between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). This park is famous for its lush bamboo forests, mist-covered volcanoes, and as the sanctuary for the 14 families of mountain gorillas including: (Susa family, Sabinyo family, Amahoro family, Agashya family, Kwitonda family, Umubano family, Kwisanga family, Noheli family, Hirwa family, Bwenge family,Karisimbi family, Igisha family, Muhoza family, Isimbi family), making it one of Africa’s most iconic wildlife destinations
Detailed itinerary
In the early morning you will have your breakfast or choose to get packed breakfast which you can have on the way and later on you will be met by your driver guide for briefing about 1 day Rwanda Gorilla Trekking tour. around 4:30am you will start heading to Volcanoes National Park Headquarters in Kinigi which is about 2-3 hours drive enjoying the beautiful landscape of Rwanda the land of thousand hills. arrive at the park headquarters around 7 am, meet the ranger guides and other visitors whom you will go together for the Mountain Gorillas Trekking.
Have a briefing about the Mountain Gorillas family you are going to visit, how you should behave with them and then drive to the Mountain Gorillas Trekking starting point, start trekking at around 8am which takes approximately 3-6 hours depending on how the gorillas are moving, after you have found the Mountain Gorillas you will spend 1 full hour with them, learning more about them and taking pictures (remember to mute your devices and switching off the flashlights). after this you will exit the Volcanoes National Park and head back to the starting point.
your driver guide will be waiting for you at the starting point and will take you to a restaurant in the Musanze town for lunch, with an option of a short visit to the Diane Fossey Gorilla fund (Ellen Dee genres campus) to learn more about the Mountain Gorillas and conservation at large, and then after that your driver guide will bring you back in Kigali drop you at your accommodation or your chosen location in Kigali, marking the end of 1 day Mountain Gorillas trekking in Rwanda.