Cultural Activities And The Gorillas – 2 Days
Overview
You’ll learn the culture are bananas and its important in Rwanda. Other activities will be Basket weaving, Community Village walk, traditional cow milking, bee keeping and art & craft as practiced by the locals.
Tour Summary
- You’ll go to Rwanda
- This tour starts and ends at Kigali International airport – Getting there & away
- You’ll visit Volcanoes Nat Park, Ruhengeri
- Activities: mountain gorilla tracking, bird watching, game drive, drives and walks, City Tour and Shopping, Canopy Walk
- Getting around: comfortable vehicles
- Good hotels
- Varied menu, cold lunches and hot diners.
- Equatorial climate (25 – 30°C). Nights can be fresh, mostly at high altitudes. High risk of rain in the Virunga region.
- Experienced English-speaking guide during the whole safari.
Itinerary (2 days)
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Day 1
Ruhengeri -Kigali
Our representative will pick you up from the airport, with a short brief and depart for Ruhengeri arriving at Redrocks
Intercultural exchange centre for some local community activities that include Banana Beer production, Banana plant is Rwanda’s most important crop, with variety of uses and symbolic as a celebration in many homes. One of its uses is making the banana beer or as locals call it “Ugwagwa” the banana beer production takes several days to complete but you get to learn practically how the banana are pounded to become beer. You’ll learn the culture are bananas and its important in Rwanda. Other activities will be Basket weaving, Community Village walk, traditional cow milking, bee keeping and art & craft as practiced by the locals. Lunch will be at Redrocks Rwanda thereafter in the late afternoon we headback to the town of Musanze where youll check in to your hotel for Dinner and Overnight. -
Day 2
Gorilla Tracking in the Volcanoes Nat Park.
Early breakfast, at 0600hrs later drive towards the National Park headquarters – Kinigi to meet your guides for the day. After completing our park formalities, we are embark on a once in a life time experience of tracking mountain gorillas. Once you spot them you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breathtaking wildlife experiences on earth!!! You get so close to these awesome giant primates. You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Tracking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience. These massive primates are extremely rare, with less than 700 living today. You will get within meters of the family, and be privileged to spend an hour amongst them. The trekking may be fairly strenuous; up to six hours or longer at a relatively high altitude. We encourage for your own enjoyment to make sure that you are perfectly fit and healthy. (We’ve had people as old as 70 years old do gorilla tracking so this should not be a problem; all you need is to ask your driver guide to request a shorter group for you if you cannot trek far) It is important to bring good hiking boots, long trousers, gloves for protection against stinging nettles, some snacks & sweets as well as sufficient water as the rain forest gets hot and humid during the day. You will spend one hour with the gorillas, but it is an hour you will never forget. Return to your hotel for lunch at your lodge then depart arriving for a drop off at your hotel in Kigali.
Best Price (USD)
$1070.00
$1070.00
per person
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Inclusions & Exclusions
Included
- Accommodation as stated in the itinerary
- English speaking guide
- Transport
- Meals as per the program
- One gorilla permit
- All guide fees
Excluded
- International flight and Entry Visa for Rwanda
- Travel insurance
- Drinks and dinning room tips
- Telephone bills, laundry and any itemof personal nature
- Activities not mentioned in the program