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.
