Gorillas Hotel Kigali

... , and now make more money carrying people’s cameras, water, raincoats etc., up the mountain than they ever did poaching gorillas. We donned our gardening gloves, hats, and were frocked up in our long sleeves and long pants to keep the stinging ...

... a month but we got it done; thanks Harold! With the permits alone costing $375USD pp for one hour with the gorillas (plus the cost of flying to Kigali) this was sure to be the most expensive hour of our trip and lives! But it was totally worth it. ...

... times kill human children, parks officials say. from: http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/ Abstract: Visited the mountain gorillas in Rwanda which was magical, relaxed at Lake Bunyonyi (again), spent 14 amazing hours with the chimps back ...

... for older children, and well-worth watching.   When I first came to Rwanda in 1996, it was the only safe hotel for Westerners in Kigali, so I've stayed here many times. But now that things have stabilized, I've moved to less expensive digs at Chez ...

... 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. The two days of ...

... climbed a curvy, mountain road, engulfed in lush green vegetation and sprinkled with crop fields across the heights of the rolling mountains and distant volcanoes.  Tomorrow...we are visiting a family of nine gorillas, of the world's remaining ...

... reason these bones have not been buried is because they believe that the remains need to be seen as evidence of this atrocity to future generations. Tomorrow I'm off to Volcanoes National Park to track the mountain gorillas!! Peace, ...

... stay in the one spot browsing and sunning themselves, but not this group. There are guidelines to follow when visiting the Gorillas, including staying 7 metres away from them. Good in theory, but they forgot to tell the Gorillas this! At my closest, ...

... is catching the world's attention right now. The biggest draw in Rwanda has got to be a chance to see the critically endangered gorillas that inhabit the high mountains on the Ugandan and Congolese borders, and that is where we spent our time outside of ...

... - if you want to read about a particular place click the links, otherwise read on below: ~ Lake Kivu ~ Gorillas [Ruhengeri] ~ Genocide Memorials ~ Rwanda Summary ~~~~~~~~~~ Day the Twenty-ninth - in which we blag passage to Rwanda and I ...

... Rwanda before moving on to Tanzania the next day. I would have loved to see the Volcanoes National Park close to the border with Congo as well as the gorillas but Sergey and Liz had been in the small country for almost two weeks and it was time to move ...

... this morning after a teary-eyed goodbye to my tent buddy Louise. She is staying in Uganda an extra few days to go see the Gorillas. I'll miss you Louise!! I talked to the director a bit more and talked to the kids who were too young to go to school. I ...

Once again, I'm sitting on the floor of the lobby at the Gorillas Hotel here in Kigali, only this time, we're waiting to check out rather than trying to check in.  We spent the last two days on Lake Kivu and training at a church in Kibuye, but I'm ...

... Congo can be seen across the lake.) After heading back from Kibuye on Wednesday morning, we stopped back in at Gorillas hotel for our last night in Kigali.  The next morning, we took another 3 hour bus ride to Akagera, clear over on the eastern side ...

We're here!  (But our luggage isn't, and the hotel we're supposed to be staying at gave some of our rooms away, so we're all moving to a different hotel . . . no surprise, again.) Running over to the next hotel, but more soon! ...

... she would not find a husband in Rwanda as she could not hoe the garden very well. Today we are back at a nice hotel in Kigali. We plan to visit the genocide memorial this afternoon. We have a very early flight to Mozambique tomorrow. I'm not sure when we ...

... before the flight. Matt’s Travel Tip #953: When flying in Africa confirm your flight times regularly, especially when flying RwandAir. Hotel Gorillas is a pretty nice hotel, I must've spent more money than I thought for this tour lol. It was ...

... assumed that Kigali had ridiculously loud, horn happy rush hour traffic! The following afternoon we paid a visit to Hotel Des Mille Collines, a Kigali institution made infamous by the 1994 genocide. Its story is told through the Oscar-winning film ...

... four Germans. The permit for this activity costs $100 per person as opposed to the $500 per person permit charge for tracking gorillas, and they don't have such tight restrictions on how many people can go in one group. We enjoy conversing with the other ...

... contacts (at least one complaining about someone missing or being late to a meeting), low budget tourists here to see the fascinating mountain gorillas, missionaries on their way out to or in from the bush, and so on. I think of it as an African version ...