RWANDA TRAVEL & GORILLA TREKKING

Many visitors to Rwanda have remarked that the physical beauty of this country, with its spectacular volcanoes rising above dense tropical forests, combined with the gentle hills, valleys and lakes of the savannah, make Rwanda the most beautiful of all African destinations.

This tiny land-locked central African country was wracked by years of civil war, but today peace has returned to ‘the land of a thousand hills’, and the great Mountain gorillas which Dian Fossey made so famous, are again accessible to the traveller.

Rwanda boasts a wide variety of wildlife, with the Parc National des Volcans in northern Rwanda being the home to the world’s largest concentration of endangered mountain gorillas, where the traveller can view them in their natural habitat at fairly close range.

Although Rwanda is best known for its wealth of primates, it also has one of Africa’s most diverse bird populations, with a staggering 670 different bird species recorded in Rwanda.

The main arrival point into Rwanda is the capital of Kigale, which is linked by air to neighbouring countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, or from Johannesburg in South Africa.