Things to do in Rwanda

Permits are limited and expensive by design, capping each habituated family group at eight visitors a day for one hour with the gorillas once found.

A less-booked, less-expensive permit than gorilla trekking, in the same bamboo forest, for an endangered species found almost nowhere else.

Mount Bisoke's crater lake and Mount Karisimbi's multi-day summit push are open to trekkers with a separate permit from the gorilla treks.

One of Africa's oldest rainforests, home to habituated chimp communities and a canopy walkway suspended sixty metres up.