Serengeti National Park * Volcanoes National Park
This is a simply 6-night fly-in safari which enables you to experience two of the highlights of East Africa: the Serengeti Wildebeest Migration as well as tracking the endangered Mountain Gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park of Rwanda. Ideally we would love you to add some additional nights to experience other facets of these two countries. But if time is short, then this is a perfect starting point. You can then easily add on a few nights of R&R in Tanzania at the start if you wish.
The lush slopes of these volcanoes provide a dramatic natural setting for one of the most thrilling and memorable wildlife experiences: seeing the mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Roughly half of the world’s wild population of mountain gorillas reside on the Rwandan slopes of the Virungas massif.
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On arrival you are met and transferred to your camp
Fly onto Kigali in the morning and enjoy lunch. Then afternoon transfer (2.5 hours) to Volcanoes National Park
We recommend doing the Golden Monkey trek first to acclimatize to the altitude. This is an easier trek of 45 to 70 minutes each way on mainy flattish ground. The overall experience from start to finish takes approx 3½ hours. It is wonderful to see the Golden Monkeys interacting with each other. They are very active, peeling the bamboo like a banana, to eat its insides, grooming each other and swinging from tree to tree.
A trek into the forest on the slopes of the volcanoes, led by experienced trackers, will bring you amongst a family of Mountain Gorillas. These massive primates are extremely rare, and you will get within metres of the family, and be privileged to spend time amongst them. The trekking may be fairly strenuous; up to six hours is not uncommon (3 hours each way) though the norm is more like 1½ to 2 hours. And at relatively high altitude.
Return by road to Kigali in time for your onward flight arrangements.
This is a set tour using specific camps. However many tours can be adapted. Chat to us about your options. It excludes international flights but includes an estimate for all domestic or regional flights within the tour.
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