Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year as a private journey or as a pre- or post-extension to our Great African Flying Safari.
Prices:
Tour per person sharing room from $3,980 for this four-day sample extension
For more information, to book, or to speak to an R. Crusoe & Son tour specialist, please call us at 800-585-8555.
Local Flavor
Forget King Kong. He was a surly, steroid-shooting figment of Hollywood’s imagination, designed to keep the box office humming. Want to get up-close-and-personal with the real thing? If so, come with us on a mountain-gorilla trekking adventure in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Extension.
This is a four-day sample extension. Remember that R. Crusoe can create a Rwanda gorilla trekking journey of any length to meet your exact specifications.
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla Beringei) was unknown until 1902, when a German by the name of Captain von Beringe observed some tall “man-like” apes in what is now Rwanda. Little was known about them until naturalist George Schaller spent a year studying the animals in 1959 and 1960. His book, The Year of the Gorilla, changed the notion of the largest of apes from violent and vicious "King Kong monsters" to "amiable vegetarians" that live in small, cohesive family groups.
In 1963, a curious American by the name of Dian Fossey staggered up a 10,000-foot volcano in Rwanda and got the first glimpse of the gentle giants that would occupy most of her life. "Peeking through the vegetation,” she wrote, “we could distinguish an equally curious phalanx of black, leather-countenanced, furry-headed primates peering back at us," Fossey wrote later in her book, Gorillas in the Mist. "Their bright eyes darted nervously from under heavy brows as though trying to identify us as familiar friends or possible foes. Immediately I was struck by the physical magnificence of the huge jet-black bodies blended against the green palette wash of the thick forest foliage."
Isn’t it time you witnessed these incredible giants with your own two eyes? If you are up for a bit of adventure through jungle undergrowth and a bit of mud, come to Rwanda’s famed Volcanoes National Park to get up-close-and-personal with the mountain gorilla. The government of Rwanda issues only a very limited number of permits each year. We can get our hands on some.
Experienced guides join us every step of the way, tracking gorilla families as they eat, play, and attend to their family business in the Rwandan forest. While we're in Volcanoes National Park, take a walking safari for a look at golden monkeys, too, a rare and delightful opportunity to get close to these small primate relatives.
This is a great time to trek in Rwanda, as a top, new lodge has just opened up in Volcanoes National Park.
We suggest tacking this tour onto R. Crusoe’s Great African Flying Safari. It's just a short flight from Nairobi, Kenya, to Kigali, Rwanda.
Gorilla trekking. In a word? Life-changing. It's an experience you simply mustn't miss.
How can you resist?
Please note: During the gorilla trekking portion of this journey in Volcanoes National Park, R. Crusoe & Son travelers join with other, non-Crusoe travelers in very small, ranger-led groups.
To request a detailed itinerary for this journey (and others), click here.