3-Day Uganda Gorilla Trek

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Kigali international airport pick up and transfer to your hotel

Upon your arrival in Kigali, you will meet our guide who will brief you and take to your hotel. Depending on your arrival time, after check at Lebanon hotel, we will proceed with a short Kigali city tour where you will visit the genocide memorial and other sites in Kigali.

Main Destination:

Kigali (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

Lebanon Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in Kigali

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Transfer to Mgahinga National Park and Pygmy community walk

After your breakfast, you will cross Rwanda-Uganda border via Cyanika border and drive about 1hour to Gisoro.
You will go for check in first and then after you will proceed with a visit to Batwa (Pygmy). A pygmy guide who will pass you through their journey from before and after they have been evicted from the park and how they have survived will guide you.

Main Destination:

Kisoro (Town, Uganda)

Accommodation:

Ikaze Cottages

• Mid-range lodge located near Kisoro (Town)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Mountain Gorilla Trek and transfer back to Kigali for your fly back to your home

After your breakfast, preferably at 7:00 AM, you will then, at 7:30 AM, take a drive of about 30 minutes to the National Park headquarters to meet your guides for the day. After completing the park formalities, embark on a once-in-a-lifetime experience of tracking mountain gorillas. Learn how the park is home to over a third of the remaining 1,000 Mountain Gorillas in the world. Walk for approximately two to four hours through thick bush and over steep, rugged terrain at elevations ranging from 7,000 to 9,000 feet. Once you spot the gorillas, spend up to an hour watching these incredible creatures from close by while taking pictures for your memory.
Depending on the length of our trek, you will end your trek around 1 and drive for 4 hours back to Kigali, arriving in time for some last-minute shopping and a transfer to the airport to fly back to your home.

Main Destination:

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Gorillas)

Best Time To Visit June to August and December to January (Gorilla trekking is easiest)

High Season June to September (Gorilla permits are scarce)

Best Weather Jun to Aug and Dec to Jan (Less rainfall)

Wildlife in Mgahinga Gorilla NP

GorillaCommon

ChimpanzeeNone

BuffaloOccasional

ElephantRare

LeopardRare

White RhinoNone

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GiraffeNone

Black RhinoNone

LionNone

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Non-alcoholic drinks

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.