Gorilla trekking

20minutes’drive to get to the National Park headquarters – Kinigi to meet your guides for the day. After completing park formalities, we are embarking on a once in a life time experience of tracking mountain gorillas and the time frame depends on how are the Gorillas. Once you spot them you are allowed to spend one hour watching your closest long-lost cousins. This is perhaps one of the most breath-taking wildlife experiences on earth!!! You get very close to these awesome giant primates.

You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Tracking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience. These massive primates are extremely rare, with less than 1000 living today. You will get within meters of the family and be privileged to spend an hour amongst them. The trekking may be strenuous; up to six hours or longer at a relatively high altitude.

We encourage for your own enjoyment to make sure that you are perfectly fit and healthy. (We’ve had people as old as 75 years old do gorilla tracking so this should not be a problem; all you need is to ask your driver guide to request a shorter to reach group for you if cannot you hike too far) It is important to bring good hiking boots, long trousers, gloves for protection against stinging nettles, some snacks & sweets (for you, not the gorillas) as well as sufficient water as the rain forest gets hot and humid during the day. You will spend one hour with the gorillas, but it is an hour you will never forget.