3-Day Mountain Gorilla Trekking Tour from Rwanda

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Pick-up, Kigali City Tour and Drive to Volcanoes National Park

A Lion Safaris English or French-speaking driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel, residence or from the airport. You will then go on a Kigali city tour, where you will have the chance to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial site and the Kimironko local market. After lunch, you will drive to Volcanoes National Park. Dinner and an overnight stay will be at your lodge.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Best Time To Visit June to August (It is drier and hiking is easier)

High Season June to September (Permits are scarce)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Volcanoes NP

GorillaCommon

ChimpanzeeNone

ElephantRare

BuffaloRare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

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GiraffeNone

LionNone

LeopardNone

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge

• Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Trekking Mountain Gorillas and Return to the Lodge

Early in the morning, after breakfast and with your packed lunch, your driver-guide will collect you from the lodge and take you to the park headquarters. You will receive a briefing on how to behave when meeting mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. You will then proceed to trek the gorillas.

After this remarkable experience, your driver-guide will return you to the lodge for a hot lunch. In the afternoon, if you will be interested, our driver guide will drive you to the Ellen DeGeneres Compass by Dian fossey for getting information on how fauna and flora of volcanoes national park are preserved and history of the park with Dian fossey an American lady who habituated the mountain gorillas in Rwanda then he will drive you back to your lodge for Dinner and Overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Activities:

• Gorilla tracking

Accommodation:

Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge

• Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Breakfast, Check-out and Return to Kigali

In the morning, after breakfast, you will check out. Your driver-guide will then collect you and drive you back to Kigali, where you will be dropped off at your home, hotel or at the airport for your flight back home.

Main Destination:

Kigali

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.