Gorilla Nest Hotel

... other two things and would have loved to have done them both. Ideally I would spend 4 nights, 5 days here and do 2 days gorilla trekking, 1 day to Dian Fossey's grave and 1 day to the golden monkeys. Wildlife Photography Tip: Don't bother with a lens ...

... guide wore as soon as it started to rain. Not to mention the fact that he wore blue when everything says wear muted colours. Gorilla Trekking Tip: Make sure you get a water proof jacket. Water resistant wont cut the mustard in the jungles of Rwanda. ...

... 2 hours of steady hiking we linked up with the trackers who had been talking to our guide on the radio.  Each gorilla family is assigned 5 trackers for monitoring and protection.  They stay with the family from dawn to dusk each day.  ...

... it all out in the open and it seems that they are. Next we were off for about a three hour road trip to the Gorilla Nest Lodge (and Golf Resort?!) on the outskirts of Kinigi, Rwanda. This is the home base from which Dian Fossey started researching the ...

... the church in Nymata today.  After that we drove approximately 2 hours north of Kigali to Ruhengeri and stayed at the Gorillas Nest Hotel.  The Genocide Memorial is modern and very well done.  It has mass graves for about 250,000, beautiful ...

It rains fiercely and loudly all night, drumming on the tin roofing of our gorilla nest lodge. Spirits are low as we arise to the dark and damp, and contemplate another hike into the forest – but this time soaking wet. Are Golden Monkeys really ...

... but if there was another decent hotel in the area I would probably try it out before returning to the Gorilla's Nest (PS: a group from Dubai has bought the hotel and has plans for renovations but they need to do more than fix the rooms to get this hotel ...

... been nice to be a stop or two faster.  Give and take.   Sleep and confusion   We stayed at the hotel called Gorilla Nest Lodge.  It is a nice place, not too expensive, but not all that cheap either.   The rooms were quite ...

... we took the Virunga Express bus ($2 USD pp vs private transport costing $200USD) north to Ruhengeri and then a taxi ride to the Gorilla's Nest Hotel in Kinigi (right next to the park entrance). At $100 USD for a room, this was the worse value we have ...

... but thanks to a taxi that was willing to go more Off-Road than Colin McRae we caught up with them and set off for the Gorilla Nest at 8am. By 11 we were stalking our very first real live Gorilla. What an unbelievable creature!! I couldn't belive how close ...

... he was over in Africa seeing the mountain gorillas and climbing Kilimanjaro. He was doing with the same company from the same hotel but on a different route. Had trouble getting to sleep as I was excited about going to see the gorillas in the ...

... for farming, and for any damages that animals from the park may do to their crops •    funding further gorilla research. Matt’s Travel Tip #443: Don’t give money to the kids that run alongside the vehicles wanting to ...

... it such a wonderful experience. The trip to Kigali was uneventful if tedious and I met some of my fellow gorilla trekkers at the hotel. The scenery between Kigali and Ruhengeri was breathtaking. I think 'land of a thousand hills' is an underestimation. ...

... or missing out. I chose missing out, the trip back alone would be $20 and $130 for chimp trekking was getting close to Gorilla trekking money and simply not an option. Naturally I was very disappointed and I am not sure I was entirely told the truth by ...

... our bags with them and set off a few paces of the track. Nothing prepared us for what we saw next. Our first mountain gorilla sat in her nest looking proper fed up. We all were near to tears the sight was so incredible. She was sheltering a tiny baby who ...

... were wild, unpredictable, and immensely strong animals, and we were not to forget that.  Within seconds of walking, a young gorilla vocalized from above us, and we looked up to see him munching foliage while sitting in his comfortable day nest in ...

... there who was doing a trek, and we hadn't seen any foreigners downtown. So, eventually we got a driver of the Gorilla's Nest (an expensive hotel near the park headquarters) shuttle to negotiate a price of $40 with his friend who had no clients for the ...

... , we are a bit behind, so here is some info dating back a few weeks, will try to update from Zanzibar in a few days time. Gorilla Trek The trek involved a 1000 km round-trip to get to western Uganda and back to Jinja over 4 days. On the way up drive ...

... did not scare the gorillas), but it was really, really funny. We moved away from momma and the babies and encountered another baby gorilla trying to swing from a vine hanging from a tree. The baby would climb up the vine and swing around and then rest. ...