Safari Itinerary

Arrival at Kigali Airport and Transfer to Hotel

You’ll be collected from the airport (or hotel).
Accommodation before the tour departs can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1: Drive To Volcanoes National Park North-West of Rwanda.

Our representative will pick you from Kigali airport, En route to this park takes you through the communities where you enjoy the scenery of ‘the thousand hills”

After only 2 hours driving you will reach the lodge. The lodge has been built using environmentally friendly local materials such as Bamboos made fitted by a local community workmanship. We value the environment so much that we have been careful in the design and construction of Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge or the king fisher beach hotel to ensure that the environment, you relax for the overnight dinner.

Accommodation:
Mid-range lodge – Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Meals & Drinks: Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included)

Day 2: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park Rwanda.

Today you will start early and you will track one of the habituated Gorilla groups who can tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period every day. The time taken to track the gorillas can take as little as half an hour to as much as 6 hours!

Your track will be an exciting journey along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes and bamboo before you eventually reach the gorillas’ current location. Your guide will point out signs of previous gorilla activity, including dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. Once the gorillas have been located, you will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them. Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is a humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Rwanda’s own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’, According to the available time you have you get chance to visit the  musanze caves or the twin lakes or Gorilla guardian village(former Ibyiwacu cultural village) before you retire for an overnight.

Accommodation:
Mid-range lodge: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Meals & Drinks: Drinks not included

Day 3: Departure and Drive back to kigali City

After breakfast  you drive back to Kigali city for a city tour and buy sovereigns, in Kigali you visit historic and cultural sites like: Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, Craft markets in Kigali, National Museum, and presidential museum depending on the time, After lunch we drive to kigali Airport for your flight back home, sure you check in 2 hours before departure time.

This is the end of a wonderful 3 days Rwanda gorilla trekking safari!

Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)