4-day Uganda-Gorilla Trekking From Kigali

Day 1: Transfer from Kigali to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

You will be driving from the Airport upon arrival or your place of residence. One of our Safari Vacations and Travel Services guides will pick you up for an en-route Kigali City Tour.

Visit the Kigali Genocide memorial, Nyamata church, Kimoronko craft market, or other local markets. You will then have lunch and afterwards, you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Uganda. Bwindi is home to the endangered mountain gorillas. You will arrive in the evening in good time to have your dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and Overnight: Buhoma Lodge/Rushaga Havens Gorilla Lodge

Day 2: Mountain Gorilla tracking and Community walk

Take an Early morning breakfast, and head to the park office together with your packed lunch. You’ll take some drinking water and dress in good Gorilla Trekking attire. You will attend the briefing about the Do’s and Don’ts of gorilla tracking in the impenetrable forest.

You will get to spend one hour with the gorillas once you find them. The whole tracking takes 4 – 6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas.

Depending on how strong you will be on your return, head for a community walk. A community walk will help you to learn about culture and interact with local people. The Batwa/ pygmies were forest dwellers before they were evicted from forests. You’ll visit them and witness or experience their primitive ways of life. Later return to the lodge for your dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and Overnight: Buhoma Lodge/Rushaga Havens Gorilla Lodge

Day 3: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park and Cultural visit to Gorilla Guardian Village (Ibyiwacu Cultural Village)

In the morning after breakfast, you will drive to Cyanika border, and cross over to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. In the afternoon after your lunch, you will go to visit the Iby’iwacu cultural village. It is currently famous as the Gorilla Guardian village to learn about Rwanda’s culture. Here, you will meet and interact with local Rwandan men and women. They will welcome you with traditional dances and a drummer. You will the after go and check in to your lodge.

Dinner and Overnight: Volcanoes Lodge/Muhabura Hotel

Day 4: Golden Monkey tracking and Transfer to Kigali.

On this day after your morning breakfast, you will report to the Park headquarters ready for your golden Monkey tracking. You find these endangered monkeys typically in this region but habituated to human presence.

You will receive a briefing before you head out with your lead guide to track them. Once you finish the tracking, you will return to the lodge and refresh yourself. Afterward, proceed with your 2 ½ hour drive to Kigali as you mark the end of your tour.

You will transfer to the Kigali airport for your scheduled flight time or be drop off at your Hotel.

End of the Gorilla Trekking Uganda from Rwanda