Category: Rwanda

It is our last performance today and our last trek with the gorillas. We get allocated the Sabyinyo family,it has the oldest silverback Guhonda at 46 years of age and two other silverbacks his son now a very strong male and his brother Big Ben with a bald patch on…

A 5.30am wake up, off to breakfast and another perfect sunny day. Today we get allocated the Hirwa family , it has 16 members and it’s silverback is called lucky as when it was time for him to leave his family and establish his own, 8 females left with him…

Three hours from Kigali by road and we arrive to the edge of the Volcanoes National park encompassing the Virunga Massive range. This is the home of the mountain gorillas. The mountains are shared by four countries Rwanda, Uganda , DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Burundi. Despite this being…

It takes a full day of travel by the time we leave Warsaw at 6am and arrive in Kigali Rwanda at 7.30pm, journey made very comfortable by the exit seats we manage to snag 🙂 It is dark and flying in over Africa we start seeing sporadic round dots of…