Volcanoes National Park
Day 48 & 49 – 26 th & 27 th July 2019 We left Kigali for Volcanoes NP after breakfast and arrived at Kinigi Guest House just after lunch – a fabulous road all the way. Because we’d have an early start the next morning, we decided to stay in rooms instead of camping. Wow, three nights’ accommodation on the trot – we were really spoiling ourselves 😊. You can imagine the excitement in the morning - time to see the Gorillas!!! The briefing at Volcanoes NP HQ took place at 07h00, however the entourage consisting of our group of four, two porters and our guide commenced the trek at 10h00. They don’t call them Mountain Gorillas for nothing – a steep hike of around 5 km’s and although I had to stop to rest and get my breath several times, I was ably assisted by the porter on the very steep and rugged terrain. During the return down the mountain we couldn’t believe that we had actually climbed all that way up, although it did take half the time going down than wha