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For three days (two nights) combine the thrill of adrenalin-pumping gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park with the relaxing calm and serenity of Lake Kivu. Also includes a visit to the Twin Lakes of Burera & Ruhondo.
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Morning hours arrival into the Kigali International Airport. Meet and Greet Services by a Jambo Tours representative outside the Airport Arrivals section. After introductions and a short briefing, embark on a morning sight-seeing tour of Kigali City, including the Genocide Memorial Museum. At the end of the city tour, enjoy lunch at one of Kigali’s popular restaurants or at the Hotel Mille Collines (depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda, the hotel became famous after 1,268 people took refuge inside the building during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994). After lunch, depart and drive north-west of the country to the Ruhengeri area – at the foothills of the Volcanoes Mountains (94km, 2.5hrs). Arrive at your volcanoes lodge in the late afternoon for check-in and evening at leisure, with dinner included.
Early breakfast at your lodge (06:45hrs). After breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for registration of your gorilla trek and allocation of the particular gorilla family to visit. After registration and allocation of a gorilla family, the trekkers are put into groups – each group’s Lead Guide briefs the trekkers of the trekking procedures as well as the “do’s and don’ts while in the presence of gorillas. After the briefing, trekkers return to their respective vehicles for the drive up the mountain to the trek start point, or Trail-Head. Upon sighting the gorillas, you will stay with them for a magical one-hour as they go about their daily life, feeding, playing, resting; raising their young.
At the end of the trek, rejoin your driver-guide and transfer back to your lodge for freshening-up and lunch. After lunch and before departing for Lake Kivu you may wish to make a brief visit to the nearby spectacularly beautiful and picturesque Twin Lakes of Burera & Ruhondo. (time and weather permitting)
The Ultimate Experience!!
Later in the afternoon, depart and drive south-westwards – down the winding roads and through the beautiful, rolling hill-sides to the shores of Lake Kivu – Gisenyi. (65km – 1.5hrs). Arrival in the late afternoon to an orientation tour of Gisenyi Town, the Rwanda/DRC border point of Goma, and then onward to your Lake Kivu hotel, for check-in. Evening at leisure at your hotel, with dinner included.
Breakfast at your hotel then a morning at leisure on the shores of Lake Kivu (swimming, boat rides, water sports, biking, hiking) or a guided Lake Kivu orientation drive – including a visit to the hot springs and distant view of Rwanda’s Methane Gas Plant. After lunch at your hotel and check-out, depart and drive back to Kigali (156km, 3.5hrs), arriving in the late afternoon – with onward transfer to the Kigali International Airport for your evening outbound flight.
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