Rwanda has long been one of those places that sits just beyond easy reach.
This Iconic Africa Special changes that, opening up access to gorilla trekking for our SADC guests at rates up to 70% lower than usual — something that VERY rarely comes around.
There are certain trips that tend to live more in conversation than in reality.
Rwanda is one of them.
It comes up easily enough — over a glass of wine, around a dinner table, somewhere between “we should really go” and “one day.” The images are always the same: mist hanging low over forested slopes, the quiet anticipation of a trek, that first moment of eye contact with a gorilla in the undergrowth.
And then, just as quickly, the conversation moves on.
Not because the interest fades, but because the numbers tend to bring things back down to earth.
Gorilla trekking, for all its appeal, has always sat at the upper end of the safari spectrum. Permits priced in dollars, logistics to match — it’s the kind of experience that often gets postponed, rather than planned.
But every now and then, something shifts.
Set just outside Volcanoes National Park, Amarembo by Touch Down sits quietly on the edge of one of Africa’s most compelling wildlife experiences. There’s no overstatement to it. It’s comfortable, well-positioned, and close enough that early mornings don’t feel like a logistical exercise.
More importantly, it places you exactly where you need to be — at the start of a day that rarely unfolds the same way twice.
A gorilla trek isn’t something you can fully prepare for. There’s the briefing, of course, and the general outline of how things might go, but once you step into the forest, everything slows. The air shifts, the sounds change, and the sense of anticipation builds gradually rather than all at once.
You walk. You stop. You listen.
And then, at some point, you’re there.
It’s not dramatic in the way people expect. No sudden reveal, no orchestrated moment. Just a quiet realisation that you’re sharing space with something entirely self-contained. A silverback watching without concern. A younger gorilla moving through the foliage with a kind of casual confidence. The forest continuing around them as if nothing has changed — even though, for you, it has. Monumentally.
It’s an experience that tends to stay with people for reasons that are hard to put into words at the time.
Which is perhaps why it’s always been so sought after.
For travellers within the SADC region, the current Iconic Africa Special has secured rates at Amarembo in a way that makes the broader Rwanda experience significantly more accessible than it has been in the past.
A 3 day, 4 night stay including all meals, trekking permits (1 Gorilla, 1 Golden monkey), is now on sale for R49, 999! The offer is valid for travel until the 30 May, with strictly limited availability!
It’s not something being shouted about, and perhaps that’s why it feels as interesting as it does.
Because when a place like Rwanda — long considered just out of reach — suddenly becomes more than possible, and it changes the nature of the conversation entirely.
It moves from “one day” to “now”.
And those are often the trips that end up meaning the most!
