These endangered species are found in Volcanoes National Park bordering Virunga National Park in the Democratic republic of Congo and Mountain Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda.
Early in the morning after your breakfast, you will have a city tour around Kigali enjoy the green city and have a visit to the genocide memorial center, national museum and Kigali memorial site where you will learn about the genocide genesis and the effect it caused on the people of Rwanda, we shall have lunch and then proceed to volcanoe national park along the way we shall see the beauty of the land of a thousand hills (the beautiful terrace).
Upon arrival, you will check into the hotel and wait for dinner and overnight as you relax with a beautiful view of the mountain.
You will get up very early in the morning, at 4:30 am and be transported to the starting point, where you will be briefed about the gorillas and the dos and don’ts of the trek. You will be grouped into groups of people and later on head out for the trek at 5:00 am with your guide. The guide will move at the pace of the slowest person in the group. Upon finding the gorilla family, you will be given an hour with them to take pictures and enjoy these creatures that have similar human behaviour.
This activity takes up to 6 hours to trek and spend time with them. Upon finishing, you will then proceed back and meet up with your driver, who will take you back to the hotel to have lunch and later relax at the lodge for the rest of the evening.
Early in the morning, you will have your breakfast checkout of the hotel and head out to for the golden monkey trek. You will report at the headquarters by 7:00 am where you will meet the ranger guides for a briefing and then drive to the starting point of the trek, which takes about 15 mins from the briefing point. The golden monkeys are fast and very active, jumping from tree to tree, this is possible with their long tails that provide balance.
These tails can also get stuck by the bamboo, and these are cut off as you will view some monkeys with short tails. They mostly live in the bamboo forests as well as vegetation at the far base of the Volcanoes mountain. They can easily be found by just following traces of the fresh leftovers of the bamboo shoots eaten. Guests also enjoy these primates for an hour, watching them as they pick bamboo shoots. After this memorable experience, you will then be driven back to Kigali to your hotel.
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