A silverback in the bamboo

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Volcanoes National Park · Rwanda

Ingagi House

A forest villa · from $7,500 a night

Spend like a billionaire

Gorilla permits for August are gone for this year

Six villas of volcanic stone and thatch on the slope of an extinct crater, looking across the Virunga volcanoes where the mountain gorillas live. Each morning a tracker leaves before dawn to find the families, and you follow into the bamboo to spend an hour, at arm's length, with a silverback and his young. Evenings are by the fire, with the mist coming up the valley.

  • An hour with the mountain gorillas
  • On the rim of a crater
  • Your own tracker and guide

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Handled for you

  • A car at your door, and at every door after it
  • Bags collected at home and unpacked before you arrive
  • A concierge on call, day and night, until you are home
  • Permits, guides and kit, fitted and waiting

Best time to go

June to September and December to February

June to September and December to February, the dry seasons, when the trails are firm and the gorillas easier to reach. March to May is the long rains.

In pictures

A young gorilla, an arm's length away
A golden monkey in the forest
Mist lifting off the hills at dawn
The fire, lit for your return
A volcano under cloud
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Your journey

Nights
4 nights
Guests
2 guests
Can't wait?Your first postcard arrives tomorrow.

Enhancements · 0 added

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A wildlife photographerBeside you on every trek$8,000
A massage after the trekVolcanic stones, in your villa$900
Dian Fossey's graveThe trek to her research camp, where she is buried among her gorillas$1,500
A family to yourselvesEvery permit for one gorilla family, for one morning$12,000Fully booked through the dry season
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$30,000Complimentary
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