Description

Gorilla Guardian Village is where you can experience the feel and touch of Rwandan culture, people and society. It is found in Ruhengeri the out skirts of Volcanoes National Park. Gorilla Guardian Village is formed by the ex-poachers and was created to transform their lives and embrace the Rwanda rich culture.

Our safari guide will pick you up from your hotel or lodge and drive you to Musanze district, in Kinigi area, Nyabigoma cell around Pac National des Volcano, where there is a small village with a true demonstration of Rwanda’s rich culture.

A guided community walk through this village will reward you with unusual and unforgettable experience as you visit different sites in this community. Visit the king’s house and listen to all the Kings’ stories and the meaning of all items within this house graced with the theatrical ceremony of enthroning you as the king by the village elder,which will give you nothing but a flavor and immense experience of a real African royal for a moment.

You will enjoy different types of traditional dances performed by community members like Intore dance and Ibyivugo using local and traditional musical instruments, like Umuduri, Ingoma Ikembe, Iningiri, Inanga, Amakondera, and Agakenke among others.

Visit the traditional healer as he lays before you the different plant species and their medicinal significance to the locals from time immemorial. While in his traditional clinic, he will demonstrate to you the prescription of those medicines and tasting one will be at your own will. You will then have an encounter with the elders for historic anecdotes about the life of Rwandans, the ancient kingdom wars, hazards that hit their community and all you need to hear about Rwanda.

Experience the local beer making process at a local brewery as you through the traditional methods of making the local beer out of bananas. Feel free to participate and taste when it is ready. The Batwa section will expose you to the poaching techniques once used as told by ex- poachers, their stories, the pottery making experience as well as the art and craft making demonstrated by the local women

While there, you will be guided on how to conduct yourself such that you blend well with the community so as not to make a negative impact as you interact and exchange cultural experiences with the locals. Do not hold back your cultural norms but rather share them with your hosts as this may bring a perfect understanding of one another and may bring out some similarity between both cultures.