3 days -
S intriguing gorilla safari in rwanda
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price from
$3,383
per adult
min person:
1
days: 3
Includes
- 2 nights’ accommodation
- Airport transfers and assistance
- Bottled drinking water while trekking and in vehicle
- Breakfast at Kigali Serena Hotel
- City tour of Kigali
- Full-board meals at Sabyingyo Silverback Lodge
- One gorilla permit (cost given separate from per person cost and subject to change)
- Private transport in a 4x4 Land cruiser
- Services of an English-speaking driver / guide
Excludes
- Airport taxes
- Excess baggage charges levied by airlines
- Gratuities to driver / guides and other conveyance attendants
- Insurance coverage is available for baggage. Accident and Trip Cancellation / Interruption at special low cost group rates
- International, regional and local airfares
- Laundry and other items of a personal nature such as drinks, telephone calls, etc
- Meals and beverages other than specified
- Passport and visa fees and service charges for obtaining visas
- Personal and baggage insurance
Itinerary
Day: 1
Kigali - volcanoes national park
Upon arrival at kigali international airport, you will be met by a representative of sir michaels safaris outside the airport arrivals section. After a briefing, you will depart on a scenic drive to the northwest through the beautiful terraced hillsides that display rwandas landscape.
You will arrive at ruhengeri, the base for gorilla trekking at the volcanoes national park. The town itself is located only 25 kilometers from uganda border. It is relatively a small city of about 70,000 people. The constant flow of humanity is quite remarkable. The town also has great views of the surrounding volcanoes.
Here, people are very friendly and despite being a former belgian colony, many people here speak english. On this day, you will stay overnight at sabyinyo silverback lodge.
Day: 2
volcanoes national park - gorilla trek
You will start the day with an early breakfast. At 06:20, you will be transferred to the volcanoes national park hqs for your first day of trekking. At 07:00, there will be a briefing delivered by your trackers and then you will drive to the trail head for the start of your amazing gorilla tracking adventure. You may want to hire a porter to carry your backpack and gear during the trek. The cost of the porter is 10 usd per person / day. You are advised to utilize this service.
Your trek will start in the cultivated foothills of the virunga`s offering stirring views in all directions. When entering the national park, trekkers will be immersed in the mysterious intimacy of the rain forest, alive with the colorful bird calls, chattering golden monkeys, littered with fresh spoor of the mountains elusive buffalos and elephants. Through gaps in the canopy, the magnificent peaks are glimpsed, among the highest in africa yet easily accessible, beckoning an ascent.
Weaving through overhanging vines, moss-covered hagenia trees, and giant lobelias that thrive in the tropical climate, your experienced trackers, who have spent their entire lives in or close to this forest, soon will bring you up close with one of the gorilla families. Upon sighting the gorillas, you will stay with them for a magical hour as they go about their daily life, feeding, playing, resting; raising their young. Coming face to face with a giant silverback must truly be one of the greatest wildlife experiences on earth.
Afterward, you will depart from foothills of the volcanoes and drive south past coffee, tea and banana plantations on a scenic drive to kigali. Everything and everywhere, sheer green and hanging on the hills, rwanda is truly the land of a thousand fertile green hills. In the evening, you will stay overnight at kigali serena hotel.
Day: 3
kigali
You will have breakfast at the hotel. Then, you will enjoy a city tour of kigali, visit the kandt house museum of natural history, see old kigali and the craft centers, then visit the genocide memorial site. You will learn about rwandas history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide, learning about other genocides in the world and how this country has dealt with that past. You will have more tour and see the new developments in rwanda. Afterward, you will have lunch in kigali and be transferred to kigali international airport (kgl) for your scheduled departure flight. This is the end of services.
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