Uganda Gorillas Daytrip from Kigali

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Morning: At about 3:00am, we take a drive of about 2.5hrs to the Rwanda/Uganda border of Cyanika. Arrive in time and assisted with customs, cross to Uganda and your driver on the other side will greet and brief you before transfer to the National Park headquarters at to meet your guides for the day. After completing our park formalities, we embark on a once in a life time experience of tracking mountain gorillas. Once you spot them you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long-lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breath-taking experiences on earth!!! You get so 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 fairly strenuous; up to 3 hours or longer at a relatively high altitude. 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. Depending on the length of our trek, groups will return by about 12pm. After the trek transferred back to the border, cross back to Rwanda and continue with your onward journey.

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