4 Days Congo Tour

Your Congo tour starts and ends in Rwanda. Your trip to Congo will start when you are picked up from your hotel or from Kigali international airport by our Gorilla Cousins guide, who will drive you to Gisenyi town on the Rwanda-Congo border. Upon reaching the border, the travel documents will be verified before you cross over to Goma in the democratic republic of Congo, where you will check in to your hotel or lodge.

You will have an early breakfast before driving to Bukima park station in Virunga National Park for your Congo Mountain Gorilla trekking. Upon reaching, you will be briefed and assigned a gorilla family to track. You will also meet the Congo gorilla tracking guides at this point. After meeting the guides, you will proceed with your gorilla safari, where you follow the gorillas into the wild. Taking pictures is permitted, though you are required to disable the flash. The gorilla trekking exercise will take about 1 hour.

You will wake up early in the morning, eat your breakfast, and proceed to the foothills of Nyirangongo Volcano in Virunga National Park. You will follow the Nyirangongo trail and climb up the volcano, with the trek taking up to 6 hours, with impressive scenic views and encounters with rare birds and wild animals. You will spend the night at the edge of the Nyirangongo crater in tents, where you can clearly see the active lava lake.

You will have an early breakfast and by 8:00 AM set off for Kigali city in Rwanda, thereby marking the end of your 4 day Congo tour.