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Overview
Detailed itinerary.
Overview
7 days Congo lowland gorillas and Mountain gorilla trekking is a fantastic that will take you to Kahuzi-Biega national park where you will be tracking lowland gorillas, you will also connect to Virunga national park where you will be tracking mountain gorillas, you expect to visit Mountain Nyiragongo where you will see boiling lava.
This great height will reward magical views of Goma city, Virunga national park, Volcanoes national park in Rwanda, Rwenzori Mountains and Mgahinga national park in Uganda.
Detailed itinerary.
Day 1: Arrival and city tour in Kigali
Upon arrival our driver guide will be ready to receive you at the Airport, he will take you through the itinerary and then immediately go for a city tour around Kigali. You will start with genocide memorial center where you will be seeing videos and listen to audios of during genocide, you will later proceed to artisans, local markets, and visit former presidential palace. Later have lunch in the city, retire to your hotel where you will have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Transfer to Bukavu city
Arise in the morning, enjoy breakfast, check-out of the lodge and be transferred to the park Bukavu in Congo. You will drive through Nyungwe national park southwards, this will take you about 7 hours, and you will have lunch en-route and then embark on the road. You will arrive in Bukavu in the evening, connect to your lodge, check-in, have dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Lowland gorilla trekking
Wake up in the morning, enjoy a delicious breakfast, meet your driver guide and be transferred to the Park headquarters for a briefing about lowland gorilla trekking. You will later be assigned a gorilla family to track, head to the park with a ranger guide who will help you to locate gorillas.
As you are on the trek to see gorillas, you will be amazed by different sounds of birds that will be singing for you, spend an hour with them, take pictures and videos as you enjoy how they move, how they play, how they feed, then later after a long day, return to the lodge, freshen up, have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Transfer to Virunga National Park
You will wake up in the morning, greet your intestines with breakfast, check-out and transfer to Virunga national park, you will have lunch en-route and proceed to the park, arriving in the evening, connect to your lodge, have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Mountain gorilla trekking
This is another day for you to have a second chance of spending a full hour with gorillas. After a scrumptious breakfast in the morning, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for a briefing about mountain gorilla trekking.
This time, you will be meeting a different species of gorillas from lowland gorillas, these ones are related to those in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and highest gorilla population being in Uganda’s Bwindi and Mgahinga National Parks. After mountain gorilla trekking, you will return to the lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6: Hike Mount. Nyiragongo
Arise in the morning, enjoy breakfast and transfer to Kabatsi which is the starting point for hiking. Hiking Mountain Nyiragongo will take you about 5 to 6 hours depending on your fitness, you will have a picnic lunch, arrive at the top of the mountain in the evening, and enjoy the magical breath and best scenery as well.
The boiling lava can be seen clearly in the night and when the day has closed you will head to the crater to see by yourself the boiling lava, this is a memory that will never die, spend this night on Nyiragongo Mountain.
Day 7: Descend Mount. Nyiragongo and departure
On the last stretch of this safari, you will wake up early in the morning, have breakfast and start descending mountain Nyiragongo to Kibati ranger station where you will meet your driver who will transfer you back to Kigali. You will have lunch en-route, proceed to Kigali for a drop off at the airport thus marking the end of your safari.
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Uganda Tourism Board
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Uganda Wildlife Authority
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The Buhoma Gorilla Camp
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The Bwindi Kids Charity
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What our customers Say ?
Headspun2023-07-16Unforgettable Rwanda Emerald tailored our 5 day trip to Rwanda to all our many and frequently changing requests without any fuss. Chris, our driver/guide for the duration, could not have been more helpful and professional
Nic2022-10-25Amazing holidays! Great holidays! Even my special wishes were included into the planning although time was short. Our guide and driver City Tyson Magezi was caring and responsible. We traveled for four weeks and stayed in different accommodations from hut to tent to amazing hotels.
Susanne2022-08-19Just amazing It felt so safe and comfortable and exciting to travel with emerald. Our guide was so caring, so experienced and always friendly and an a great mood. He showed us so many animals included lions and leopards. That was just amazing . We saw wonderful landscapes like waterfalls and had contact to people . No Uganda or Eastern Africa without emerald . I m deep in love with Uganda and will come back as soon as possible.
Jose Murta2022-05-13Memorable Family Trip in Uganda Fantastic Trip that exceeded our expectations! Travelled to Uganda with wife and 2 children (9 and 10y old) for 7 days. Since the start (at planning stage) got a great support from Bob (company owner) and Edmund (our guide) via WhatsApp. They tailored a program to our needs including the unforgettable mountain gorillas hike, general hikes to waterfalls, safari including boat trip to see hipos!! Edmund, our guide, always super polite and the kids enjoyed him a lot! All our hotels, meals included in the package so no hassle on this….we just paid for drinks! The only regret I have is not staying one extra day in the Mburo National Park to explore a bit more ;) Memorable trip with so much nature and a super-humble people that made the experience even more enjoyable!! Super recommend!! The whole family just feeling we need to get back to explore more ;)Dwayne B2022-05-13Great Experience With Emerald!! It was an amazing experience! My guides Lucky and Hillary made me feel as if I was family and took care of everything I needed. They were very knowledgeable as we trekked to gorillas in Bwindi and a ride a wildlife safari through Queen Elizabeth. I learned so much from them about the animals, the terrain and the surrounding people. They we also incredibly helpful in helping me find activities around Buhoma, where I stayed, all of which were great. By the time I left I knew I had made friends who I will continue to stay in touch with. Can’t wait to come back with my family!
Dávid B2022-05-12Feeding python - 9 lions on a tree - leopard vs. lion We saw all animals and extremely special situations in a short period of time, good organization and friendly guide Paul with lots of knowledge.
Rachmurta2022-05-10Unforgettable trip! We spent one week in Uganda travelling by the guidance of Gorilla Experience safari. The whole experience were definitely above our expectations. Edmand was a friendly, polite and kind guide the whole time!
Vit Siv2022-04-22Ultimately Unique Experience of Uganda! It was unbelievable unique experience, one in a life time. Everything right from arrival to minor ditals was taken care of, too service! Itinerary was compiled/tailor to our wishes and needs as well as to include as much activities as possible. Tyson was our guide. He is an amazing guide, but even better person. He did an incredible job to put this all together, and make it all happen. We managed to do everything we wanted and even more. Definitely a trip to remember!!
Emmanuel OKalany2022-01-08A rewarding experience for a family visit to queen Elizabeth National Park My family and I had an excellent guided tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The itinerary planning provided was good and the costing of items was realistic. The care and hospitality of the team was excellent. They were also flexible to make time adjustments brought about because of traveling with children
Gordon Y2021-06-23Trip to Kaiso Tonya Game Reserve The guide/driver was too keen to find out my interests. That way, we always had something to talk abouts. Thank you
