5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari – Budget Mount Bisoke Hiking & Uganda Gorilla Trekking Trip
Join the amazing 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari – Budget Mount Bisoke Hiking & Uganda Gorilla Trekking Trip. Visiting the following destinations; 1) Mount Bisoke hiking/Climbing & Golden Monkey Trekking, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda & 2) Uganda Gorilla Trekking, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Obtain an East African Tourist visa at kigali Airport on arrival or online of Rwanda Immigration website at a fee of $100 to facilitate your movements across the borders.
5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari Highlights
- Day 1: Kigali transfer to Volcanoes National Park
- Day 2: Mount Bisoke Volcano Trekking, Hiking & climbing, Volcanoes NP
- Day 3: Golden Monkey Trekking, Volcanoes NP, Rwanda – Mgahinga Gorilla NP, Uganda
- Day 4: Uganda Gorilla Trekking, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
- Day 5: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda – Kigali, Rwanda
Detailed 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari
Day 1: Kigali transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Your private 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari guide with a safari 4WD vehicle, meets & greets you at your Hotel in Kigali. You will visit the Kigali Genocide Museum to pay your last respect for victims of 1994 Rwandan Genocide against tutsi before Leaving the lively capital, you drive north-west through lush hills & bustling market towns for approximately 2.5 hours, to the stunning Volcanoes National Park – well known as the venue for Dian Fossey’s pioneering studies of the mountain gorillas. Overnight at Muhabura Hotel or Similar.
- Main Destination: Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation: Hotel Muhabura – Budget hoteljust outside Volcanoes NP (Gorillas, Rwanda)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 2: Mount Bisoke Volcano Trekking, Hiking & climbing, Volcanoes NP
After an early morning breakfast, transfer to Volcanoes National Park headquarters at Kinigi ahead of the Bisoke Volcano Trekking. Mount Bisoke (also Visoke) is an active Volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift in the western branch of the East African Rift &straddles the border of Rwanda & Democratic Republic of Congo but the summit/Crater Lake is located in Rwanda. After the Volcano Hike return to the hotel. Overnight at Muhabura Hotel or Similar.
- Main Destination: Mount Bisoke (Virunga Mountains, Rwanda)
- Accommodation: Hotel Muhabura – Budget hoteljust outside Volcanoes NP (Gorillas, Rwanda)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 3: Golden Monkey Trekking, Volcanoes NP, Rwanda – Mgahinga Gorilla NP, Uganda
After an early morning breakfast transfer to the park headquarters at Kinigi to go for golden monkey tracking. These primates are beautiful, endangered & more agile than the mountain gorillas. They live in bamboo thickets on the lower slopes of the mountains – and tracking them acclimatizes you perfectly to the slight altitude, marking your last views of the park’s environs, and this will be followed by a transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda. Overnight at Casa Gorilla Lodge or similar.
- Main Destination: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation: Casa Gorilla Lodge & Campsite – Budget lodge less than 1hr drive from Mgahinga Gorilla NP (Gorillas, Uganda)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 4: Uganda Gorilla Trekking, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
After an early morning breakfast, transfer to the ranger station for Uganda Gorilla Trekking Briefing on dos and don’ts while you will be interacting with gorillas, afterwards you will be accompanied by a senior ranger 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari guide & hike into the forest in search of gorillas. Once you find them you usually have an hour with them, time to sit and observe them at very close quarters of 10 meters & after the experience return back to the lodge. Overnight at Casa Gorilla Lodge or similar.
- Main Destination: Mount Muhavura (Virunga Mountains, Uganda)
- Accommodation: Casa Gorilla Lodge & Campsite – Budget lodge in Kisoro (Town, Uganda)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 5: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda – Kigali, Rwanda
A leisurely breakfast will be followed by transfer back to Kigali leaving the magnificent forest to the gorillas marking the end of the 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari – Budget Mount Bisoke Hiking & Gorilla Trekking Trip. Upon arrival your driver guide will be advised on the drop off point and or at your hotel or at the airport targeting for your outbound departure time. End.
- Main Destination: Kigali (Rwanda)
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, drinking water (Other drinks not included)
End of 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari
5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
Included
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional 5-Day Rwanda Adventure Safari driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water (On all days)
Excluded
- International flights (From/to home)
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees