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Things to do in Rwanda

Steep hills terraced with tea and banana, a rebuilt capital that runs cleaner than most in Africa, and the misted bamboo forests where the last mountain gorillas hold on.

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What's worth your time in Rwanda

Trek mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park

Nature

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.

Trek golden monkeys

Nature

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

Hike a Volcanoes National Park peak

Adventure

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.

Track chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest

Nature

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