Rwanda

A country you can drive across in a day, holding one of the last strongholds of the mountain gorilla and a volcano with an active lava lake in its crater rim.

2 Wildlife & Hunting lines

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Wildlife Expedition · Nyungwe National Park

Chimpanzee trekking, Nyungwe Forest

ADVANCEDRisk: MODERATEUSD Permit + guide US$100–1…

One of the oldest rainforests in Africa, home to habituated chimpanzee troops tracked through steep, dense montane forest that's genuinely more physically demanding than most gorilla trekking routes — the terrain here is consistently steeper and the chimps move faster and further.

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Wildlife Expedition · Volcanoes National Park, Northern Province

Gorilla trekking, Volcanoes National Park

ADVANCEDRisk: MODERATEUSD Permit US$1,500 (permit…

Trekking through bamboo forest and volcanic slopes to visit habituated mountain gorilla families in the same Virunga range where Dian Fossey conducted her research — permit numbers are strictly capped, and trek length to reach a given family can range from under an hour to most of a day.

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