The 4 Days Congo Lowland Double Gorilla Trek take tourists to the home of the Eastern lowland gorillas in their natural habitat. Visit two different gorilla families on different days during gorilla trekking. This experience will allow you to spend an hour on each trek and create everlasting memories with these gorillas by taking photos and recording videos.
Gorilla subspecies visited are the largest among all primates. During this tour, visit places like Nyanza palace museum, pass through Nyungwe forest and spot some primates, and have a short Kigali city tour which will be optional.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Head to Kahuzi-Biega NP from Kigali
Our driver guide will pick you and brief you about the tour and then hit the road by driving to the Democratic Republic of Congo where you will head straight to Bukavu town, near the famed Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Kahuzi-Biega national park is among the few only protected areas that harbor rare Eastern lowland gorillas.
The Park is located between two mountains, Mt Kahuzi and Mt Biega. Arrive and check in at the safari lodge where you will spend the 3 nights.
Day 2: First eastern lowland gorilla trekking safari
Head to the park headquarters for a briefing which will last for about 30 minutes, you will be guided on how to behave while trekking, begin the trek when you are well dressed in trekking attire such as a long-sleeved shirt, garden gloves, hat and more, the ranger guide will help you to locate the gorillas and spend an hour with them enjoying their movements, behaviors and more. Take memorable photos and head back to the lodge and this will be the end of the day.
Day 3: Second gorilla trekking
Finish breakfast and head for a briefing, you will be allocated a gorilla family that you will trek or visit and then start the experience with the guidance of the ranger guide who is well conversant with all the eye-catching objects you will meet on this amazing gorilla trekking trail.
Locate the family of gorillas trekked and spend an hour with them taking or capturing memorable moments. Later after the experience that can even last for 8 hours depending on the location where the gorillas will have spent a night, and head to the lodge for dinner and another night.
Day 4: Travel back to Kigali and departure
Leave the lodge in the morning and transfer to Kigali immediately after breakfast and on arrival, have an optional city tour. While on the way, visit former presidential palace museum in Nyanza.
Learn about how the former president of Rwanda perished in the plane crush. You will be dropped at the airport marking an end of 4 Days Congo Lowland Double Gorilla Trek.
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