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4 days
FROM $2,630 At a glance
Take this incredible opportunity to have the experience of a lifetime – meet the IUCN red-listed critically endangered mountain gorilla. This gorilla trekking safari enables you to do just that: a trek into Volcanoes National Park, also known as Parc National des Volcans, in northeast Rwanda, for a close encounter with these incredible beasts. What’s more, by making this your choice of holiday, you’ll directly be supporting their continued conservation.
Day by day
Kigali
Once you’ve cleared immigration and customs at Kigali International Airport, Rwanda, your Wildlife Safari representative will meet you and accompany you by private vehicle transfer to Kigali Serena Hotel.
Volcanoes
After breakfast at Kigali Serena Hotel, travel north by road through the terraced hills of Rwanda’s small-scale farms, towards the cloud-shrouded Virunga mountains. After lunch at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge, enjoy the afternoon at leisure to prepare for your gorilla trek. Dinner is at the lodge.
Volcanoes
After an early breakfast at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge and briefing, set off with your guides and porters into the equatorial rain forest, searching for your designated mountain-gorilla family. Trek along the slopes of the Virunga Mountain range, ascending slowly through dense bamboo and foliage for up to several hours while your guides locate the habituated gorillas. Your porter will carry camera equipment, additional clothing and bottled water. Once you’ve found them, you’ll spend quality time with your gorilla family, watching them feed and socialise, before trekking back to your starting point. Lunch and dinner are at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge.
Depart
After breakfast at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge, return by road to Kigali, where you’ll have lunch at a local restaurant. Time permitting, you’ll stop at a local craft market and cultural centre before arriving at Kigali International Airport for your onward flight arrangements.
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Pricing and Dates
$5,906per adult sharing
$776additional for single travellers within a group
- Meet-and-greet service on arrival and departure
- Private ground transport
- Services of experienced guides during your gorilla trek
- Luxury accommodation on a twin-share basis
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner as indicated in the itinerary
- Local brand drinks at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
- All airport transfers
- One gorilla permit per person
- All entrance fees, wildlife sanctuary fees, government taxes and statutory charges
- Wildlife Safari document wallet and luggage tag
$4,612per adult sharing
$230additional for single travellers within a group
- Meet-and-greet service on arrival and departure
- Private ground transport
- Services of experienced guides during your gorilla trek
- Luxury accommodation on a twin-share basis
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner as indicated in the itinerary
- Local brand drinks at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
- All airport transfers
- One gorilla permit per person
- All entrance fees, wildlife sanctuary fees, government taxes and statutory charges
- Wildlife Safari document wallet and luggage tag
$5,906per adult sharing
$776additional for single travellers within a group
- Meet-and-greet service on arrival and departure
- Private ground transport
- Services of experienced guides during your gorilla trek
- Luxury accommodation on a twin-share basis
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner as indicated in the itinerary
- Local brand drinks at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
- All airport transfers
- One gorilla permit per person
- All entrance fees, wildlife sanctuary fees, government taxes and statutory charges
- Wildlife Safari document wallet and luggage tag
$4,612per adult sharing
$230additional for single travellers within a group
- Meet-and-greet service on arrival and departure
- Private ground transport
- Services of experienced guides during your gorilla trek
- Luxury accommodation on a twin-share basis
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner as indicated in the itinerary
- Local brand drinks at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
- All airport transfers
- One gorilla permit per person
- All entrance fees, wildlife sanctuary fees, government taxes and statutory charges
- Wildlife Safari document wallet and luggage tag
$5,906per adult sharing
$776additional for single travellers within a group
- Meet-and-greet service on arrival and departure
- Private ground transport
- Services of experienced guides during your gorilla trek
- Luxury accommodation on a twin-share basis
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner as indicated in the itinerary
- Local brand drinks at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
- All airport transfers
- One gorilla permit per person
- All entrance fees, wildlife sanctuary fees, government taxes and statutory charges
- Wildlife Safari document wallet and luggage tag
Destinations on this trip
Rwanda has completed a remarkable transformation as a nation and has reinvented itself as a superb safari vacation destination. Rwanda safaris have traditionally focused on mountain gorilla encounters, but visits to the land of a thousand hills also offer more conventional – but no less remarkable – safari experiences, plus insights into its rich cultural heritage.
Volcanoes National Park is perhaps the quintessential Rwandan safari destination, and one of only a handful of places where iconic mountain gorilla can be encountered at close quarters. Volcanoes safaris enable an entry into the unique ecosystem on which the gorilla depend – a world of soaring summits and mysterious, misty forests.
