7 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari in Uganda, Congo, and Rwanda: For your ultimate gorilla trekking experience in Africa, you will have the chance to explore different national parks in Africa, where you will enjoy watching the mountain gorillas in Africa. For Virunga national park and Volcanoes national park will give you the opportunity to access the Virunga mountains, mount muhabura, mount sabyinyo, mount karisimbi, mount bisoke, mount gahinga, mount, Mikeno, Mount Nyamuragira and Mount Nyiragongo where you will access the habituated mountain gorillas in both Rwanda and Congo and for gorilla trekking in Uganda, Bwindi impenetrable national park, you will access the habituated gorilla families in the four sectors of the park which will give you the chance to spend an hour with the species observing their rewarding experiences in their natural habitat. Continue with the detailed 7 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari in Uganda, Congo, and Rwanda for a memorable wildlife experience in Africa.
Highlights of your safari
Day 1: Pick up and drive to Gisenyi, Congo Border.
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Congo
Day 3: Transfer to Kigali
Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Day 5: Gorilla trekking and transfer back to Kigali
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 7: Gorilla trekking and transfer back to Kigali
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Pick up and drive to Gisenyi, Congo Border.
At an agreed location in Kigali city, our guide will pick you up, welcome you, and transfer you to Congo. You will enjoy your drive to the border, watching the rolling hills of Rwanda. On reaching Goma, you will transfer to the grand barrier for check-in at the tourism office, where you will receive your gorilla trekking permit in Congo, Virunga National Park. After, you will be transferred to your hotel in Rumangabo. On arrival, you will have lunch and later on, you will get to participate in the nature walks in the park, which will give you access to a number of attractions like the primates, including the Albertine endemic primates and bird species, and many other rewarding attractions.
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Congo
After an early morning breakfast at your hotel at Mikeno lodge you will make your way to Bukima ranger post for a briefing about your gorilla trekking in Virunga national park. After the briefing session, you will be allocated a guide and a range and then make your way to the forests in search of the gentle giants. The search for the gorillas is dependent on their movements, and this can take between 2-7 hours. Later, head into the forest with your ranger guide and expect to hike for 1 to 3 hours until you find the mountain Gorillas in Virunga National Park. When you get to see them, you will enjoy one hour with them, watching their ways in the wild, and how they coexist with one another. How the juveniles groom one another. You will stay up to 1 hour maximum and head back to the Bukima camp, then be transferred back to your hotel Mikeno lodge, and have the rest of the day at leisure, including time for a nature walk.
Day 3: Transfer to Kigali
After an early morning breakfast at you hotel, you will then connect you’re your guide to transfer you back to Kigali city. Where you will get the chance to access
Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
You will be met by your driver guide at your agreed location in Kigali city to transfer to Volcanoes National Park, where you will arrive in time to participate in the Ibyi’wacu cultural village tour. Have a guided walk around the village at the different sites that exhibit the different aspects of the people of the village to have insight into the interesting features of the culture of the people of Rwanda. You will get to see the replica of the king’s palace, where you will get to see the architecture that they used during the olden times, which involves the use of grass and cow dung to establish strong house structures. At the king’s palace, you will get to see a medicine man who is mixing a number of herbs that were used to cure a number of diseases like barrenness and impotence, stomach upsets, fever, and many more. If you’re interested, you can also get involved in mixing the herbs, which will give you an authentic experience. After the experience, head to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay. Hotel Muhabura (budget) Da Vinci hotel (mid-range)
Day 5: Gorilla trekking and transfer back to Kigali
After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up from your hotel. Our guide will meet you after having your breakfast and your lunches packed, and he will take you to Kinigi Headquarters, where you are expected to be given a brief before starting the gorilla trek. This brief is done at 7 am. You are given guidelines during this brief before you are allowed to start the trek. This gorilla trek can take anywhere from 2 hours to half a day, as it’s unpredictable. When you finally find the gorillas, you will have to maintain a 7-meter distance, and you are allowed one hour to admire and take photos of the gorillas. During the time you spend with the gorillas you will get the opportunity to understand a number of their rewarding features like how they co-exist with one another, you will get to watch the durty of the dominant silverback whose role is to mate with the adult females to increase the members of the family, raid other gorilla families for their members, you will watch the juveniles grooming one another for a rewarding safari experience.
Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Depending on your location in Kigali city, you will be picked up by your guide to transfer you to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where you will get to participate in gorilla trekking in Uganda. Before you transfer to the park, you can participate in the Kigali city tour, where you will access a number of destinations from the Kigali genocide memorial museum, Kimironko market, and other sites. After the Kigali city tour, you will get to transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through the Cyanika border. Depending on the time you reach the hotel, you can get to participate in the Batwa trail experience, to understand more about the culture of the people of Rwanda. Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in either of the sectors of the park.
Day 7: Gorilla trekking and transfer back to Kigali
After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will make your way to transfer to the park headquarters in any sector of the park to embark on your gorilla trekking experience in Uganda, which will give you access to the habituated mountain gorillas in Africa. The safari experience will take about 2-7 hours, depending on the movement of the gorillas the previous night. During the safari experience, you will watch a number of different animal species as they go about their daily activities in the wild. Interesting about the safari experience, you will get to spend an hour with the species, understanding more about their behavior in the wild. After the safari experience, you will then embark on your journey back to Kigali and the end of your 7 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari in Uganda, Congo, and Rwanda.
Inclusions
- 4X4 safari land cruiser with a pop-up Roof for game viewing & Fuel
- Full-time English-speaking driver/ guide
- Park entrance fees
- Lunch
- Full-day game drive
- Pick up and drop off in Kigali city
- Vehicle entrance fees
- Bottled mineral water while on safari
Excludes;
- Tips
- All items of personal nature like tents, beddings, laundry, phone calls, beer, e.t.c
- Anything else not included in the itinerary
