5 Days Rwanda Gorilla & Mountain Bisoke Hike

5 Days Rwanda Gorilla & Mountain Bisoke Hike

5 Days/4 nights Gorilla Trekking & Bisoke hike is among the expeditious adventures of primate safaris in Rwanda.It is recommended to honeymooners who have come to Rwanda for exploration adventure. 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla & Mountain Bisoke Hike

Mount Bisoke (also Visoke) is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift Valley and its a volcano created by rift action on the forming divergent boundary of the East African Rift Valley which is slowly bisecting the African plate.

The mountain reached a height of 3,711 metres (12,175 ft) after its last eruption in 1957. Bisoke has the largest crater lake of the range. Dont miss the chance to Hike Bisoke Mountain once on primate tour with Active African Vacations.

Planning to Enjoy mountain Gorilla trekking & Hiking Bisoke in Volcanoes national Park. Book 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla Safari to Comprehensively discover the national park with primate Safaris Rwanda.

Trip Summary

Day 1: Transfer to Ruhengeri from Kigali ( Driving time 2-3 Hours)
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park
Day 3: Dian Fossey grave Visit
Day 4: Hike Bisoke Mountain
Day 5: Transfer to Kigali. ( Driving time 2-3 hours)

End of 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla Safari adventure.

Detailed Itinerary

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Day 1: Enjoy City Tour & Transfer to Ruhengeri

On this day, you will be picked up from Kigali international airport in Kigali by our ever on time driver and straight away head for a city tour starting from Nyamata memorial genocide site where over 5000 people were killed and buried during the 1994 genocide.

Visit the first house, the national museum, do some shopping and then afterwards drive to Ruhengeri and check-in

Accommodation options:

Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge

Normal Luxury:  Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge

Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort

Day 2: Gorilla tracking & Twin Lake Visit

After your breakfast, you will continue to Volcanoes National Park headquarters in Kinigi.  After your breakfast, you will continue to the park headquarters for a briefing. Thereafter get into the tropical rain forest and search for the mountain gorillas starting from where they were the previous day until you find them. You may find them doing their daily chores of feeding their young ones, climbing trees and others just relaxing. Take your best photographs having switched off your flash.  This whole exercise takes a maximum of 1 hour. You will then return to the park offices for your gorilla tracking certificate. Lunch will be at the lodge.

In the afternoon, you may take a tour of the lake and also to the exceptional caves around the lake as you take remembrance photos with lots of fun poses near the caves. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation options:

Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita kwitonda-lodge

Normal Luxury:  Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge

Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort

Day 3: Dian Fossey grave hike.

This day, you will have an early morning breakfast and coupled with packed lunch go for the Dian Fossey hike at Karisoke research centre, where Dian, an American anthropologist spent years researching and conserving the gorillas before she was killed and is buried there next to Digit, a silverback gorilla. You may encounter primates like vervet monkeys, golden monkeys, gorillas on the way to the research centre and then afterwards go for volcanic climbing at Karisimbi spending overnight camping at an altitude of 3800m.

Accommodation options:

Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge

Normal Luxury:  Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge

Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort

Day 4: Volcanic climbing at Bisoke

Wake up very early in the morning, have breakfast and then relocate to another volcanic climbing at Bisoke which is one-day activity and one is able to experience the difference in African Volcano altitudes then return for dinner and overnight

Accommodation options:

Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge

Normal Luxury:  Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge

Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort

Day 5:Transfer back to Kigali

Rise up not so much early and have a relaxed breakfast and then afterwards drive back to Kigali to catch up with the flight back home and bid farewell to the land of seven hills.

End of 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla & Mountain Bisoke Hike

5 Days/4 nights Gorilla Trekking & Bisoke hike is among the expeditious adventures of primate