5 Days Rwanda Gorilla Safari

Tour Summary & Highlights

5-day Rwanda gorilla safaris are one of the bestselling tour packages for gorilla lovers, but have limited time to spare and connect with nature while searching for these endangered species in their natural habitat. This 5-day Rwanda gorilla safari will begin and end at Kigali International Airport. Mountain gorillas in Rwanda are found only in Volcanoes National Park, which is the highlight of this safari. Some of the activities you should look forward to doing during this safari include gorilla trekking, community tour, hiking, and visiting Lake Kivu, to name a few. All you should know is that this specific tour package is filled with a lot of adventure activities, which you should very much look forward to doing or carrying out.

Safari Summary

Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park

Day 2: Mountain Gorilla Trekking

Day 3: Golden Monkey Trekking and Community Tour

Day 4: Visiting the Dian Fossey Tomb and Karisoke Research Center

Day 5: Departure

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Day by Day Safari Detailed Plan

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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

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