Discover the thrills of mountain gorilla trekking in Rwanda with this affordable 3-Day Gorilla Trekking Safari in Rwanda. This short gorilla trekking expedition highlights an encounter with these gentle primates and a golden monkey tracking adventure at an unbeatable price.
3 Days Rwanda Gorilla Safari Summary
Trekking Rwanda gorilla is less tiring because of Volcanoes National Park’s distance. The park is just 2 hours away from Kigali, making it possible to do short gorilla trekking trips in Rwanda. This 3 days Rwanda gorilla safari mainly highlights an experience with the gorillas in Volcanoes National Park.
3 Days Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Musanze
Upon setting foot on Rwanda’s soil at Kigali International Airport on this day of your gorilla trekking Rwanda safari, you will be met by our travel company representative accompanied by a professional safari guide ready to transfer you to Musanze, the town where Volcanoes National Park is located. We shall have our lunch from Hotel Mille Des Collines (where the Hotel Rwanda movie was acted from), do a little shopping around Kigali, pay our tribute to the fallen lives of Rwandans that lie at the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Monument and later on embark on a 3 hours journey to Volcanoes National Park in the northern province of Rwanda. We should arrive by evening, have dinner and an early night so that we have enough time to relax and prepare for our mountain gorilla trekking experience the following day.
Day 2: Gorilla trekking & Twin Lakes Visit
This is the day we bond with our long-time gorilla cousins. We shall rise to an early breakfast and drive off to the park headquarters in Kinigi to catch up with the 07:30 briefing meeting. We shall be allocated into groups, each with armed game rangers and head straight into the Volcanoes for our mountain gorilla quest. When we finally locate these gorillas, we shall have a full hour with them and then return to the park headquarters for lunch and our respective gorilla tracking certificates.
In the late afternoon, we shall head to visit the twin lakes of Burera and Ruhondo, explore the local communities and return to our lodge after for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Golden Money tracking and transfer to Kigali City
After breakfast, we shall head to the part headquarters to catch up with a group of people and after head back to the jungles for another exciting activity, tracking Golden Monkeys. We shall have a full hour with these primates upon locating them and return to our lodge for lunch then transfer back to Kigali International Airport for your departure.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
End of 3 days Rwanda gorilla tour.