4 days gorilla trekking and chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park safari

4 days gorilla trekking and chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park safari

This 4 days gorilla trekking and chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park safari will lead you to Virunga National Park, the oldest national park in Africa, endowed with flora and fauna, making it the ultimate safari experience for the wildlife safaris in Congo. You will enjoy chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park, where you will observe authentic reactions of the chimps through different training sessions to get accustomed to human presence. With gorilla trekking, on the other hand, you will get to spend an hour with the mountain gorillas in Africa, observing a number of their rewarding features in their given gorilla families.

Highlights of your safari

Day 1: Pick up and drive to Gisenyi, Congo Border.

Day 2: Virunga Gorilla Trekking in Congo

Day 3: Chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park and nature walks

Day 4: Transfer to Kigali 

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: Pick up and drive to Gisenyi, Congo Border.
At an agreed location in Kigali city, our guide will pick you up, welcome you, and transfer you to Congo. You will enjoy your drive to the border watching the rolling hills of Rwanda. On reaching Goma, you will transfer to the grand barrier for check-in at the tourism office, where you will receive your gorilla trekking permit in Congo, Virunga National Park. After, you will be transferred to your hotel in Rumangabo. On arrival, you will have lunch and later on, you will get to participate in the nature walks in the park, which will give you access to a number of attractions like the primates, including the Albertine endemic primates and bird species, and many other rewarding attractions.

4 days gorilla trekking and chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park safari
Two young mountain gorillas are eating leaves in the forest of Virunga.

Day 2: Virunga Gorilla Trekking in Congo
After an early morning breakfast at your hotel at Mikeno lodge, you will make your way to the Bukima ranger post for a briefing about your gorilla trekking in Virunga National Park. After the briefing session, you will be allocated a guide and a range, and then make your way to the forests in search of the gentle giants. The search for the gorillas is dependent on their movements, and this can take between 2-7 hours. Later, head into the forest with your ranger guide and expect to hike for 1 to 3 hours until you find the mountain Gorillas in Virunga National Park. When you get to see them, you will enjoy one hour with them, watching their ways in the wild, and how they coexist with one another. How the juveniles groom one another. You will stay up to 1 hour maximum and head back to the Bukima camp, then be transferred back to your hotel Mikeno lodge, and have the rest of the day at leisure, including time for a nature walk.

Day 3: Chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park and nature walks

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will transfer to the Rumangabo sector of the park within the Mahura forest, where you will access the chimpanzee troops undergoing the habituation process. The safari experience will let you join a group of researchers and rangers and get to watch them as they train the species. This will give you the chance to watch their reactions to the different training sessions. The safari experience is an entire day experience hiking through the forests, but once you get to the troops, you will spend 4 hours with them observing their training sessions. Head back to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 4: Transfer to Kigali

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, you will connect with your guide to transfer you back to Kigali city. Depending on your departure flight time, you will be able to do a city tour visiting the Genocide memorial site in Kigali and Inema Crafts Village for souvenir shopping and drop off at the airport for your flight back home, and the end of your days gorilla trekking and chimpanzee habituation in Virunga National Park safari.

Quotation Includes;

  • Gorilla trekking permit
  • Chimpanzee habitution permit
  • Hiking fees
  • Park entrance fees
  • Congo Visa fee
  • Vehicle entrance fees
  • All accommodation as per the itinerary
  • 4X4 safari vehicle & Fuel
  • Full-time English/ French speaking driver/ guide
  • Bottled mineral water while on safari

Excludes;

  • Tips
  • Rwanda Visa fees
  • Air tickets
  • All items of personal nature like laundry, porterage, phone calls, beer, e.t.c
  • Anything else not included in the itinerary