Volcanoes National Park has gotten many other activities other than gorilla trekking. This park is a home to numerous caves, hiking trails, a number of cultural and community tourism as well as a bird watching location. The immediate tour after gorilla trekking is the Dian Fossey Tomb Trail since it was in favor of protecting mountain gorillas. This trail leading to the Tomb and Karisoke Research Centre is a beautiful moment hiking up steep slopes to meet the researcher’s Tomb.
On your Rwanda tours you can also take a hike of mountain Bisoke Crater Lake. Hiking to this lake requires four hours up a steep trail from Bisoke departure point to reach the summit. You take a walk around the Crater Lake rim and the all trip will take you a total of seven hours. Karisimbi Volcano hike is also the fifth highest in Africa. It is a strenuous two day hike which starts early in the morning taking six hours. You climb further via Bisoke side before reaching the first stopping place but the most exciting hike you would ever think of.
Community and cultural activities are also interesting in Rwanda. Ethno Botany Tour with traditional healers introduces you to herbs and plants that help to treat different ailments. It’s followed by visiting local pharmacy where you meet individuals who are under treatment and follow up their recovery stages. Kinigi Iby’Iwacu cultural village also offers a number of activities and opportunities to experience Rwandan traditional living. Millet and sorghum on the local grinding stone to make food, cycling a wooden bicycle around the village, elderly stories about traditions and practices, arrow shooting with the Batwa people as well as enjoying the Intore dancers. You can also take a walk in their markets where you meet matooke and sorghum as their staple food.
Caving tourism is also another activity within Volcanoes National Park. There are 52 surveyed caves formed from the Cenozoic volcanic rocks with its longest being Ubuvumo Bwibihonga. Musanze cave is 2km long and the most frequently visited cave with 31 entrances, most of which being roof collapses. Bat roots are a feature of the cave and collapses create an incredible array of coloured shafts of light shining into the cave. Rwanda Gorilla safaris offer all the above opportunities to all its clients at a reduced price as well as free transportation to and fro the airport.
