Gorilla trekking in Rwanda, my best travel experience ever (video)
Mar 1, 2019, 4:13 pm
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Gorilla trekking in Rwanda, my best travel experience ever (video)
Last January, I enjoyed one my best travel experiences ever: gorilla trekking in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park. I booked the gorilla permir via Wilderness Safaris. A gorilla permit in Rwanda costs $1500 USD, twice the price of a permit in neighboring Uganda.
We gathered at 7 am at the National Park's headquarter, after which we driven by our guides to the starting point of the trek with a trail leading to the forest's edge. The scenery is beautiful, with massive volcanoes dominating the lush landscape. Once inside the rainforest, the hike became more strenuous but nothing too bad (mostly on flat terrain through bamboo vegetation). After 90 minutes, we reached the gorillas, and could stay with them for one hour. We tracked the Sabyonyo group, one of the easier to reach families of gorillas, which is famous for its enormous silverback Guhonda, the largest and oldest silverback in Ugansa.
We were extremely lucky with our gorilla tracking: we got some bluff charges by a silverback towards the end of our stay with the gorillas, and a baby gorilla even touched my travel companion (all captured on camera, cf clip below).
We gathered at 7 am at the National Park's headquarter, after which we driven by our guides to the starting point of the trek with a trail leading to the forest's edge. The scenery is beautiful, with massive volcanoes dominating the lush landscape. Once inside the rainforest, the hike became more strenuous but nothing too bad (mostly on flat terrain through bamboo vegetation). After 90 minutes, we reached the gorillas, and could stay with them for one hour. We tracked the Sabyonyo group, one of the easier to reach families of gorillas, which is famous for its enormous silverback Guhonda, the largest and oldest silverback in Ugansa.
We were extremely lucky with our gorilla tracking: we got some bluff charges by a silverback towards the end of our stay with the gorillas, and a baby gorilla even touched my travel companion (all captured on camera, cf clip below).
