Getting to Volcanoes National Park is so easy to reach within only 2 hours’ drive from the Capital Kigali. Given the short driving distance, road transport is the main transport means and it’s easy to undertake a 1-day gorilla trekking tour. Travels usually involve relishing the cool, quiet, and serene rolling hills before arriving at Kinigi Park Headquarters for the start of your planned tourist activities. Rwanda is a lush, scenic landscape of majestic mountains, the Virunga Volcanoes in the north-west, home to the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas.
Getting to Volcanoes National Park by road is – an experience that adds even more to the sense of adventure in Rwanda, the journey to Volcanoes goes through beautiful scenery, plantations of tea, colorful roadside fruit markets, different landscapes, and towns.
For the ultimate in luxury safari experiences, we can’t think of anything better than a scenic helicopter flight from Kigali International airport to Musanze airstrip, the airstrip is 25 minutes drive to the park headquarters. Rolling hills from the Air. You reckon the greatest view of these amazing hills from an aerial flight though, nearly 30 minutes to Volcanoes which is totally unforgettable.
Whatever mode you choose, the experience remains amazing and this is the perfect location from which to experience one of life’s most unforgettable moments – tracking and observing the mesmerizing gorillas in one of Africa’s most beautiful homes, evocative settings.
Even without gorillas, Rwanda is stunning. Lake Kivu, for example, has sublime inland beaches and perfect coves for discovery by canoe. Nyungwe Forest is an epic rainforest (the largest in the region), the only place for Chimpanzee trekking tours in Rwanda. And the people are welcoming and warm, belying the horrific events here in the 1990s.
Don’t just go ape though! Seeing the mountain gorillas is, for many, a dream come true. But why let the dream end there? A trip to Rwanda combines perfectly with a full-on Big Five safari in Akagera National Park or take an outstanding boat trip in Rwanda to witness the aquatic wildlife and different bird species. You’re simply spoilt for choice.