Airport pickup and transfer to your Hotel in Kigali. Early arrivals can take optional tour of Kigali city and the surrounding areas.
Overnight and Dinner at City Blue Hotel/ Hotel Des Millie Collines Kigali (B&B)
8 Days DRC Lowland Gorillas, Mountains Gorillas and Nyiragongo Hike Safari
In 2026, This 8day DRC Lowland Gorillas remains a premier adventure for experiencing both DRC Eastern Lowland Gorillas and Mountain Gorillas and a trek up the active Nyiragongo volcano. This circuit typically starts and ends in Kigali, Rwanda, crossing into the DRC via the Cyangugu (Bukavu) or Goma borders. We customise DRC congo safari Packages.
Airport pickup and transfer to your Hotel in Kigali. Early arrivals can take optional tour of Kigali city and the surrounding areas.
Overnight and Dinner at City Blue Hotel/ Hotel Des Millie Collines Kigali (B&B)
In the morning, you will be picked by the driver from your hotel in Kigali and drive southwards to Cyangugu boarder on the way to Bukavu in DR Congo. You will have a stop over in Butare, where you will visit the national museum of Rwanda, the king’s palace in Nyanza, and the Rwanda genocide memorial site. After lunch, continue on a scenic journey to Bukavu with wonderful views of the hills in Rwanda through the tropical forest of Nyungwe National Park and a clear view of Lake Kivu.
Dinner and Overnight at Panorama (FB)
In the morning, you will head for the memorable adventure of tracking the lowland gorillas in Kahuzi Biega National Park. Tracking lowland Gorillas is very amazing, lowland Gorillas differ from the mountain gorillas, the lowland gorillas are bigger in size, usually takes 1-4 hours tracking the lowland Gorillas.
The lowland Gorillas stay in bigger families as compared to mountain gorillas; you will not regret the safari effort once you meet the amazing Gorillas! Later in the afternoon drive back to your hotel.
Dinner and Overnight at Panorama (FB)
In the morning you will take a boat from Bukavu to Goma which takes 6-7hours. Upon arrival in Goma transfer to your hotel for rest and overnight at the Hotel. In the afternoon Goma city tour and return back to the hotel.
Dinner and Overnight: Goma Serena Hotel
At 11.30am pick up from the Hotel and transfer to Virunga National Park. In the afternoon nature walk and birds watching in Kibumba Village.
Dinner and Overnight Kibumba Tented Camp(FB)
After an early breakfast at Kibumba Tented Camp, trekkers will head down the hill to meet their Ranger guides and have a briefing before the gorilla trek. Treks usually require 1-2.5hours of hiking each way, depending on location of the gorilla group being trekked and the difficulty of the terrain. After spending the allotted hour with gorilla family group, trekkers will make their way back to camp, enjoy a late lunch and have the rest of the day at leisure.
Dinner and Overnight Kibumba Tented Camp (FB)
After breakfast in Kibumba, proceed to Kibati Ranger post at 8:15am, departure point for the Nyiragongo volcano trek. The climb up the volcano will take around four to six hours and trekkers will overnight on the summit.
After an early breakfast at the summit, downhill mountains where you will reach down at around 12am depending on the group speed. Upon arrival at the bottom proceed back to Kigali.
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