Detailed Itinerary
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Day 1: Enjoy City Tour & Transfer to Ruhengeri
On this day, you will be picked up from Kigali international airport in Kigali by our ever on time driver and straight away head for a city tour starting from Nyamata memorial genocide site where over 5000 people were killed and buried during the 1994 genocide.
Visit the first house, the national museum, do some shopping and then afterwards drive to Ruhengeri and check-in
Accommodation options:
Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge
Normal Luxury: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort
Day 2: Gorilla tracking & Twin Lake Visit
After your breakfast, you will continue to Volcanoes National Park headquarters in Kinigi. After your breakfast, you will continue to the park headquarters for a briefing. Thereafter get into the tropical rain forest and search for the mountain gorillas starting from where they were the previous day until you find them. You may find them doing their daily chores of feeding their young ones, climbing trees and others just relaxing. Take your best photographs having switched off your flash. This whole exercise takes a maximum of 1 hour. You will then return to the park offices for your gorilla tracking certificate. Lunch will be at the lodge.
In the afternoon, you may take a tour of the lake and also to the exceptional caves around the lake as you take remembrance photos with lots of fun poses near the caves. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options:
Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita kwitonda-lodge
Normal Luxury: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort
Day 3: Dian Fossey grave hike.
This day, you will have an early morning breakfast and coupled with packed lunch go for the Dian Fossey hike at Karisoke research centre, where Dian, an American anthropologist spent years researching and conserving the gorillas before she was killed and is buried there next to Digit, a silverback gorilla. You may encounter primates like vervet monkeys, golden monkeys, gorillas on the way to the research centre and then afterwards go for volcanic climbing at Karisimbi spending overnight camping at an altitude of 3800m.
Accommodation options:
Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge
Normal Luxury: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort
Day 4: Volcanic climbing at Bisoke
Wake up very early in the morning, have breakfast and then relocate to another volcanic climbing at Bisoke which is one-day activity and one is able to experience the difference in African Volcano altitudes then return for dinner and overnight
Accommodation options:
Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge
Normal Luxury: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort
Day 5:Transfer back to Kigali
Rise up not so much early and have a relaxed breakfast and then afterwards drive back to Kigali to catch up with the flight back home and bid farewell to the land of seven hills.
End of 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla Tour
