The 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package in Rwanda is one of the most demanded safari packages that offer travelers enough experience of tracking gorillas. Most people in the whole world spend more than 2 years planning a memorable safari, to see the wonderful gorillas living in untamed wild homes. There are only 4 national parks in the whole world where the endangered mountain gorillas are found and volcanoes national park is among these four national parks. Our 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package will bring you close to the amiable mountain gorillas that are living in their families in Volcanoes national park with each family led by a male-dominant silver back. Some families of gorillas have had more than one silverback, but there will be that one dominant silverback that leads the whole group. There are very many groups of habituated gorillas in Mgahinga gorilla national park about 10 gorilla families are available for the visitors to come and see.
Visitors coming for Vibrant Holiday Safaris 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package will have to drive for two hours from Kigali as you’re moving to the scenic roads enjoying the beautiful scenes of the beautiful Rwanda hills as you head to the home of the endangered Mountain Gorillas Volcanoes National Park. After, reaching the Volcanoes National Park, you will leave early in the morning and transfer to the point where there is a gorilla tracking briefing. After seeing the gorillas, you will spend one hour with mountain gorillas. It can happen that during tracking, the gentle gorilla might come and touch you, however, the rules have it that you’re not supposed to touch back because this could lead to the gorilla changing and causing a lot of havoc or damage to it since it will presume that you might be its enemy. The best time to go for the 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package in volcanoes national park is during the dry season when the park is dry and all trails within the park are very passable.
Expectations of this Safari
- Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
- Meeting the Iby’Iwacu cultural village which is interesting
- Enjoying the stunning scenes on your way and at the destination
- Sleeping in a comfortable safari lodge
- Services of a well-trained guide
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Kigali airport and drive to Volcanoes National Park
Today you will arrive at the Kigali international airport which is Rwanda’s main airport for international visitors visiting Rwanda. At the airport, a Vibrant Holiday Safaris safari guide representative will pick you up and welcome you to Rwanda. The country is made of several hills featuring the cleanest city in Africa. After pick up, you will embark on the journey to Musanze in Volcanoes National Park where the endangered Mountain gorillas are found. You will arrive in time check into your booked lodge and have lunch. After having your healthy lunch, you will go for the IbyIwacu cultural village tours where you will learn more about Rwanda’s culture. The journey to Volcanoes National Pak lasts for about two hours.
Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge (luxury), Le bamboo gorilla Lodge (Midrange), and Garden palace hotel (Budget)
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Day 2: Volcanoes park Gorilla trekking
Today in the morning, you will have your lunch early and now the safari guide driver will be outside your hotel lodge in the car waiting to transfer you to the gorilla trekking briefing point usually at the Volcanoes National Park headquarters. The briefing gives you an insight into how you should handle yourself while in the forest searching for the gorillas. As you’re at the headquarters waiting to be briefed, you will be enjoying the Rwandese traditional dance produced by the local Rwandese nationals as you enjoy a cup of coffee warming for your gorilla trekking journey to the volcano’s deep forests. Later, after being briefed about the way how you will handle yourself while in the park searching for the gorillas, with one of the park rangers, you will be divided into groups of 8 to start the experience. Gorilla trekking in volcanoes is a bit strenuous and thus you need to be physically fit. However, you may see the gorilla family you’re searching for a few minutes after you have started the journey. Some visitors going to track a certain gorilla family will have to first drive a few meters to the starting point before they start the actual activity of gorilla tracking. A porter may be helpful in giving you a hand especially when gorillas are nested far away from the starting point. If you get a gorilla family, you will be allowed to spend an hour in the presence of the gorillas before returning to your booked Lodge for lunch, and later with your driver, you will drive back to Kigali and this marks the end of your 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package
Tips for Volcanoes National Park Gorilla Tracking
We are pleased to inform you about these few tips as you book this safari
- You are informed that Mountain gorilla tracking activity is somehow a physically demanding activity and thus you need to take much water and where possible exercise before the activity to gain basic fitness.
- Know that drinking, smoking, and eating when you near gorillas is prohibited
- It good to come for this safari with hiking shoes or boots
- Carry your cameras in the jungle but you should turn off your flashlight
- Porters are ever ready and you can pick one by hiring him or her to assist you while walking into the forest
- It is ideal that you put on long trousers and long-sleeved sweaters or shirts while in the forest to avoid insects coming close to you
- Gardening gloves are helpful and protect your body from being scratched by plants or tree branches.
- You also need to have paid your Rwandan gorilla trekking permit at $1500 per person per day.
What is included in our safari tour include
- The bottled mineral water for the whole trip within the safari vehicle
- Gorilla trekking permit
- We provide the English speaking guide however our guides are multilingual
- Also our safari tour includes transportation within Rwanda
- We provide as well accommodation for the 1 night
- Enroute meal
- Full board meal plan
- Any other activity that has been mentioned in the itinerary
What is excluded from our safari tour?
These are the items that are not part of this safari tour and these include
- Personal Insurance
- Souvenirs
- International travel tickets
- Entry Visas
- All items of personal nature such as tipping and laundry etc.
- Extras at the lodge
What you should come with for 2 Days Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari Package
- You need to come with the rain jacket
- Sun hut
- Carry insect repellant against insects, especially mosquitoes
- Heavy and light attire including long trousers and long sleeved tops
- Hiking shoes that are water proof
- Garden gloves