4 Days Congo Tour, Virunga & Nyiragongo

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 the Kigali city in Rwanda thereby marking the end of your 4 day Congo tour.

It’s market day in Lausanne! Enjoy browsing and packing a picnic lunch for our 11 a.m. boat cruise on Lake Geneva. A few miles down-shore we’ll dock at Château de Chillon, where we’ll have a guided tour of this delightfully medieval castle on the water. On our way back we’ll take time to peek into the vineyards surrounding Lutry before returning to Lausanne. Boat: 2 hrs. Bus: 1 hr. Walking: moderate.