Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
From Kigali International Airport, you will be picked up, and depending on the time of your arrival, you will have an optional Kigali city tour. After the short city tour, you will be transferred to Volcanoes National Park, which is approximately a 2- 3-hour drive away. On arrival, you will check in, have dinner, and sleep overnight.
Meal plan; Dinner
Day 2: Mountain Gorilla Trekking
Day 2 will be for the highlight activity of the safari, which happens to be the gorilla trekking activity. After having breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for where you will be briefed, allocated to a gorilla trekking group, trekking trail, tour guide, and game rangers. After all that is done, you will start with your gorilla trekking activity, which will take approximately 6 hours of searching for mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Since this may take a while, a lunch break will be given to you so that you can enjoy your packed lunch from the lodge. After lunch, you will proceed with your trekking activity, and when you find a gorilla family, not more than an hour will be given to you to spend in their presence. From the gorilla trekking activity, you will head back to the lodge and relax for the rest of the day, or opt for a guided nature walk, from which you will head back to the lodge for dinner and rest for the night.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 3: Golden Monkey Trekking and Community Tour
After having breakfast in the morning, you will head for the Golden Monkey trekking activity, which will still be done in Volcanoes National Park. Golden monkeys are very interesting and fun primates to trek down, and with the help of experienced tour guides and rangers, you will be able to find these species with ease. After finding them, you will be given some time to enjoy seeing them swing around from one branch to another, feed, play, and, with permission from the tour guide, you can also take their pictures. From there you will head back to the lodge, for then proceed for a community tour at the Iby'lwacu cultural village, also known as the Gorilla Guardians Village, because it is where the locals who were at first killers or poachers of these endangered species (mountain gorillas), but now, after sanitization are the guardians or protectors of the gorillas stay or leave. They also act as guides to share knowledge about these amazing creatures. From the community tour, you will head back to the lodge for dinner and call it a day.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 4: Visiting the Dian Fossey Tom and Karisoke Research Center
Dian Fossey was and is still a very important person when it comes to the history of Mountain gorillas in Rwanda. So, day 4 will be for visiting the Tomb of Dian Fossy who fought for the well-being of gorillas and protected them from the poachers who had become a threat, leading to their extinction. After having breakfast, you will head for a guided hiking activity while listening to the history of Dian Fossey, and get to learn all you need to know from the guide. After seeing the tomb, you will also head to the Karisoke Research Center, which was as well started up by Dian Fossey with the aim of studding more about the Mountain gorillas in terms of lifestyle, diseases and cures. Having learnt about the history and of Dian Fossey and how Mountain gorillas in Rwanda were saved from extinction, you will head back to the lodge for dinner and call it a day.
Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5; Departure
Day 5 marks the last day of your safari which means after having breakfast, you will check out and depending on your flight schedule you will be transferred back to Kigali International Airport for Departure.
Meal plan; Breakfast






























