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Gorilla Tracking
Gorilla tracking in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park is a once in life time adventure experience. Gorilla trekking is a are experience to meet the gorillas in their natural habitat in the volcano ranges of Volcanoes National Park in North Western Rwanda. Tracking gorillas is an unforgettable adventure experience. Seeing the rare mountain gorillas as they go about their daily life, feeding, playing, mingling, sleeping, moving in a group is a life changing encounter for most first time and returning gorilla trackers. The gorilla treks are carefully managed with professional trackers and dedicated guides that lead maximum groups of 8 gorilla trackers into the thick forested bamboo covered mountains. Once the gorillas are located, you spend an exhilirating one hour with the gorillas, only a few feet away from the gentle giants of the Virungas and Volcanoes. You may take as many photo opps as you wish without flashes, videos etc so that you can keep everlasting memories of your gorilla trekking experience.
The unique opportunity to see gorillas in their natural habitat is unforgettable, some even say life changing. Encounters with gorillas as they go about their daily lives are carefully managed, with expert trackers and guides leading small groups of tourists up bamboo-covered slopes to spend a precious and awe-inspiring hour just a few feet away from the gentle creatures.
Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park hosts well over 12 gorilla families or gorilla groups which are habituated for gorilla tracking, with a few more gorilla families habituated only for gorilla scientific research purposes. Each gorilla family consists of at least one silverback male gorilla, as well as several female gorillas and young baby gorillas.
The current gorilla groups or gorilla families are; Susa gorilla family , Igisha gorilla family, Karisimbi gorilla family, Sabyinyo gorilla family, Amahoro gorilla family, Agashya gorilla family, Kwitonda gorilla family, Umubano gorilla family, Hirwa gorilla family, Bwenge gorilla family, Ugyenda gorilla family and Muhoza gorilla family.
Eight gorilla tracking tickets or gorilla permits are allocated for each gorilla group or gorilla family on each day. The limitation of numbers to 8 is intended to keep the experiences as intimate, private and non-intrisuve as possible for the gorillas.. This means therefore that only 96 gorilla tickets or gorilla permits are available per day for tracking the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. We therefore highly suggest that you book your gorilla permits through us well in advance before gorilla permits sell out, especially during the peak travel months of July, August. September, December and January.
We offer a very reliable, efficient and responsive gorilla permits or Rwanda gorilla passes, Rwanda gorilla tickets, purchase service to take the stress out of your gorilla tour planning in Rwanda.
Visitors gather at the Volcanoes National Park headquarters in Kinigi at 7am, and are allocated a family group on the day according to fitness levels, as well as being briefed on protocols and rules for visiting the gorillas.
Gorilla treks or gorilla hikes to locate the gorilla families can last anything from 1 hour to 6 hours for the Susa gorilla family with tends to range very high up in the mountains. However luggage porters are available at a small fee to assist with carrying luggage, trek packs as well as offering a hiking had to trekkers who might need such help on the day. However nobody should be put off gorilla tracking as you will be assigned a gorilla group according to your request or fitness levels.
As part of the conservation and corporate social responsibility mission, 10% of the monies generated from sale of gorilla permits or gorilla tickets is allocated to local communities for purposes of building local health centres, local schools, developing local markets, local roads and any other local community priorities. RDB has in place a gorilla compensation fund in the event that gorillas damage the crops of the local farmers. The reason for the fund is to ensure peaceful coexistence of the mountain gorillas and the locals who in the past used to kill the gorillas as retaliation for destroying their crops.
The revenue from gorilla permits or gorilla tickets offers employment for many locals, from rangers and trackers to porters, drivers and staff at accommodation facilities near the park.
There is much more than gorilla tracking in Volcanoes National Park. After gorilla tracking, visitors have the opportunity to track golden monkeys the next day, or for visitors interested in tracing the footsteps of Dian Fossey, her tomb is a 30-minute drive from the Kinigi park headquarters from where you would start a two or three hours hike through the forest before arriving at the grave.
The annual Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony is an exciting opportunity for visitors to Volcanoes Park to meet up and name gorillas of their choice. The Kwita Izina gorilla naming event is usually preceded by guided gorilla exprience tours where visitors gets a chance to mingle with park staff meet park, gorilla conservationists as well as attending cultural evenings.
Conservation organisations currently working in Rwanda include Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, The Gorilla Organisation, International Gorilla Conservation Organisation, Gorilla Doctors and Wildlife Conservation Society.
We assist gorilla trekking travellers to Rwanda with purchase of their Rwanda gorilla permit. We charge a US$50 fee for the professional and efficient Rwanda gorilla permit acquisition service. If no Rwanda gorilla permits are available for your preferred gorilla trekking dates, and you haven't got the luxury of flexible travel dates, we will usually suggest gorilla trekking across the border in Uganda, ( gorilla permit price US$700) to widen the chances of locating a gorilla permit. You would still fly into and out of Kigali Airport, but would only cross into Uganda for gorilla trekking.
Upon purchase of your Rwanda gorilla permit, we will scan and email you a copy of your permit for your peace of mind. The original of the gorilla permit can be picked up on arrival to Kigali. For clients who rent a self drive or with driver hire car from us, your Rwanda~Uganda gorilla permit, will be delivered to you by your car hire delivery driver.
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