GORILLA SAFARIS IN RWANDA

GORILLA SAFARIS IN RWANDA

Do you crave for happiness and excitement? Then set your dates for a gorilla safari in Rwanda, a trip that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and also inspires your hopes offering unforgettable memories that forever remain vivid and heartwarming.

Perhaps you have had several African safaris to different countries that were disappointing, it’s now time you got a relief from the trauma of the bad trips and encountered the endangered great apes of the jungle on your Rwanda safari.

Or maybe you have even been in Rwanda for her culture or business meeting, and this time round you long for something different to happen, something that is so exciting and new, something that lets your life blaze that the whole world can see it, then it should be a gorilla tour.

Rwanda is blessed to be among the few African countries with the remaining population of the mountain gorillas, the most sought species all around the world.

In spite of the fact that Rwanda is just a small country located in the east and central Africa, it features one of the ancient national parks in Africa; the volcanoes national park which is a home to over 450 mountain gorillas, a number that has not been noticed anywhere else, except in Rwanda.

With almost half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas living in Rwanda’s volcanoes national park, a Rwanda gorilla safari offers tourists the most ultimate encounters with the gentle giants of the forest in their natural setting.

The park has 10 habituated gorilla families plus one put aside for research. This gives chance to 80 tourists to encounter the gorillas per day basing on the principle that each family receives only eight visitors in a day.

It takes 1 – 8 hours to trek the gorillas in volcanoes national park depending on the luck of the trekkers. One group can spot the apes in just an hour and another can even finish the eight hours without spotting any group. However with the help of the experienced guides in Volcanoes national park, you cannot leave the park without seeing any.

Note that young children below the age 15 years are not allowed to trek the gorillas. Also the sick people with flu, cough and any other disease are not allowed as the gorillas are so vulnerable to flu and cough and can easily contradict them.

Having walked through the beautiful lush with stinging and burning nettles, paving your way out with a stick or your hands up the muddy steep slopes of the volcano, you finally meet the endangered ages that every tourist yearns to encounter. Looking into the brown eyes of a silverback is simply a moment of excitement of achieving your long desired dream.

Spend a full hour just watching these shy and aggressive species, beating their chest and making funny sounds of anger and joy. Take as many pictures as you want provided you don’t use a flash as it annoys the gorillas and it might even send them away.

After trekking thegorillas in Volcanoes national park, you can also have a cultural encounter with local people of Rwanda in the Ibyawachu cultural village, have a nature walk in the forest and also do birding activities if you are a bird lover.

More on that, travelers can also do a combined wildlife safari in Rwanda to Akagera national park for divine game drives and Nyungwe forest national park for unique chimp trekking and canopy walk. Alternatively, tourists also do Kigali city tours and have themselves chances to visit the Kigali Genocide memorial and other memorial grounds.

There can only be a few other places in the world, or even none that can offer safari experiences that are so magical like the safaris in Rwanda do. Book now, not just for a trip in Rwanda, but for your once in a life time experience.