One Day Gorilla Trekking

1 Day Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park

One might wonder if it is possible to do gorilla trekking in 1 day. Yes it is much possible in Rwanda Volcanoes National Park. On your 1 day tour we recommended visitors to spend a night either in Rwanda capital city Kigali or Musanze Province so as to reach the trekking point in time. You will leave the Hotel at 4: 30am exactly for Volcanoes National Park, head to Kinigi headquarters for briefing on dos and don’ts of mountain gorillas and you will be allocated trekking group.

Day 1: transfer and gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park

Wake up early and our company guide/driver will collect you from hotel for transfer to Volcanoes National Park. The journey takes 2 hours drive to reach Volcanoes National Park and you will head to Kingi headquarters for briefing on the dos and don’ts of mountain gorilla trekking.

You will enter the jungle with accompany of well armed game ranger in search of endangered mountain gorillas. Time taken on trekking gorillas depends on how first you allocate the gorilla family and how far the gorilla family as moved in search of food. These gorillas are so mobile, so it needs some good time to track where they have build their new nest. The time spend can be 1 hour to 6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas. Trekking with ranger guide is much better because they have some ideal on the movement of the gorilla. After finding the gorilla family, you will be allowed only one hour to interact, taking photos and learning behavior of the gorilla. After finding the gorillas you will descend the forest and head to Kigali international airport to catch up with flight or head to hotel.

Included on the safari

Transportation

English speaking driver/guide

Mineral water

Rules and regulations of Gorilla trekking

Maximum of 8 visitors only are allowed to trek gorillas per group

Children below 15 years old are not allowed to trek gorillas

Avoid eating and smoking when next to gorillas

Always keep your voices low when with gorillas, cause it might scare away the gorillas.

Always keep distance of about 7 meters [21 feets ] from the gorillas cause they are wild animals

Stay in the accompany of ranger guide and your group members

Always one with any sort of communicable disease like flu is not allowed to trek mountain gorillas.

Avoid use of flash light cameras, they might scare away the gorillas. 

Never try to catch the gorilla cause it also wild animals like others