Primate Wildlife Safaris | 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Tour in DR Congo

2 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Tour in DR Congo

Detailed Itinerary of 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Tour in DR Congo

The 2 Days Gorilla trekking Safari Tour takes you Gorilla Trekking in Virunga National Park located a few kilometers off the major town of Goma.

Trip Overview of the 2 Days Gorilla trekking Safari Tour in DR Congo

Day 1: Transfer from Kigali to Goma

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking Virunga National Park Congo

Detailed Itinerary of the 2 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Tour in DR Congo

Day 1: Transfer from Kigali to Goma

On your arrival at the airport, you Will be welcomed by the Primate Safari Experience’s Guide, take a simple city tour ( Genocide memorials) along the way to gisenyi, later transfer to Goma in Congo. During the journey you will view beautiful Rwanda’s rolling hills passing Ruhengeri in northern part of Rwanda and continuing to Goma boarder. Finalize boarder arrangements and cross into Congo. Dinner and overnight stay at Mikeno Lodge/Bukima tented camp or Tchegera island resort. The recommended is bukima tented because its the starting point for gorilla trekking in Virunga National park.

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking Virunga National Park Congo

Clients that will have stayed at bukima tented camp will not have to drive after their morning breakfast but will just walk to the starting point for briefing about the dos and donts ( gorilla trekking rules & regulations).

Yet clients that will have spent their overnight at mikeno lodge after early morning breakfast drive for 2 Hours to Bukima which is the starting point for these primates excursion. It is here that you will be briefed about gorilla trekking dos and don’ts before setting off into the forest to track gorillas in Virunga National Park for the incredible experience.

In the course of searching for Mountain Gorillas, You will stay with these beautiful Mountain Gorillas for 1 hour for observation and photography. Gorilla trekking through the forest, hills and swamps can be tough, sometimes taking up to 8 hours in the forest. After this experience, you will return to the park headquarters where you will find the driver waiting for you and straight away you will be driven back to the border and then to the airport in Kigali for either a night or your flight back home if at all it is due and this will mark the end of this safari.