Iby’iwacu cultural village apparently known as the Gorilla guardian village is found in Rwanda Northern Province Nyabigoma musanze district in a close proximity with volcanoes national park.

Iby’iwacu is a Kinyarwanda word that simply means “treasures of our home heritage” and in fact Rwanda is one of those travel destinations in Africa that offers outstanding cultural safari tours in the region. Visit Iby’iwacu cultural village and have a taste of Rwanda’s well reserved unique culture.

Are you planning to visit Rwanda for mountain gorilla trekking safari and looking out for what other places to visit in Rwanda, we would recommend visiting Iby’iwacu cultural village any day any time while in Rwanda. You can possibly extend your gorilla trekking safari tour in Rwanda volcanoes national park to this amazing Gorilla guardian village full of life changing experiences.

Iby’iwacu culture village currently gorilla guardian village was established in 2005 as a non-government organization aimed at gearing  community based conservation strategy, where by different categories of people that once imposed pressure on volcanoes national park in terms of encroachment and other human related activities and actions against sustainable gorilla conservation in the volcanoes national park were brought together and sensitized about the need for sustainable conservation and the benefit of gorilla tourism within the area.

And as a result Iby’iwacu village communities have been seen embracing this real cause by offering lots of products and services to the existing tourist attractions in the volcanoes region and this has greatly left tourist/visitor experience in the volcanoes area so action pact. At Iby’iwacu cultural village you’ll meet some of those who were once poachers and meeting these reformed poachers is always a great moment with lots of stories to tell, memories and experiences they live on and willing to share it out with all their visitors.

What to expect from ibyiwacu cultural village/guardian gorilla village?

Traveling to Rwanda on a safari tour is a great decision one can make but again if you’re interested in meeting the locals and sharing light moments with the natives in Rwanda, Ibyiwacu cultural village is the ideal spot for that. Look no further than visiting the gorilla guardian village for any chance you get while in Rwanda.

Rwanda safari tours without meeting and interacting with friendliest welcoming Rwanda people feels like an incomplete adventure. That’s why we highly recommend Ibyiwacu cultural village/gorilla guardian village as it’s absolutely the most reliable place for that and worth visiting.

Looking at what tourists/visitors should expect from Iby’iwacu cultural village and what makes the place such an incredible spot in the areas of volcanoes national park;

Community walks and home visits; Iby’iwacu cultural village is a place typically where you’ll meet Rwandan people and hosted in a typical African home set up. People in this village are always seen in smiles warmly welcoming and entertaining whoever comes to visit the place.

By visiting and being hosted in some of typically African homes found there will introduce you to quite a number of things done in the homes of these Rwandan people on daily basis. You will definitely learn a lot and appreciate the rich culture of Rwandese.

Community and village walks will lead you to a group of Rwanda nationals that are into local alcohol brewing as a business. You will be taken through the processes of making local beer out of bananas and sorghum and without doubt will be among the top highlights of your safari tour in Rwanda while at Iby’iwacu cultural village/Gorilla guardian village.

Visit the king’s palace; Iby’iwacu village is such an organized place and demonstrate the life of Rwandan people lived under the reign of kings in the traditional society some good many years ago. During the kings’ palace visit, you will be presented to a lot of stuff that carried a lot of meaning in the palace and these include like spears, arrows, shields and among others.

With the help of the community guides at the place, you will be able to ask questions and for any information to get you understand well how everything looked in those old times of the kings reign.

Meeting the traditional healer; at this place it’s purely African and purely Rwandan old style of doing things. In the African traditional society people believed in a lot of things and just like that they believed in traditional healers who used herbs as medicine for curing quite a number of African diseases.

At Ibyiwacu cultural village you get a chance of meeting one of them and will take you through some of the medicinal plants and herbs that helped in so many treatments and healing of quite a number of diseases. Definitely you will like this whole encounter with the traditional healer at Iby’iwacu cultural village known as gorilla guardian village.

Cultural dances and artists; in the African traditional society, cultural dances, songs mattered a lot when it came to coming together for various ceremonies for example whenever a new baby born was born, people would come together and celebrate by drumming, singing and dancing cultural songs and by this way people found happiness.

Visiting Iby’iwacu cultural village takes you back to the old days of such entertainment. You will be welcomed by a group of cultural singers well dressed in their Kinyarwanda style, drumming and dancing. And by this will be a perfect start for a full experience at the place.

Visiting the Batwa community; at Iby’iwacu, there is a number of different groups of Rwandan people characterized by different unique cultures dedicated to showcase their culture to all their visitors. This cultural village is also dedicated for sustainable conservation which is more community based.

Batwa is another ethnic group of people in Rwanda after the popular Tutsi and the Hutu. The Batwa people are so well known as the fruit gatherers and hunters as they lived in the forest for so many years and so much depended on the forest for their survival.

After which they were evicted from the forest when these forests were gazette as protected areas, and therefore Batwa people now live in communities outside the protected areas and they are seen adapting to the new life outside the forests as ambassadors of conservation.

At Iby’iwacu cultural village, you will have a chance to meet these Batwa people who were once Bushmen and share a light moment as you listen to their stories to understand particularly the life they lived in the forests. Interestingly these Batwa people still have some of the tools they used in hunting and killing forest animals for meat as their food, therefore expect to see some of these tools like arrows, spears and among others and how they were used.

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Visiting Iby’iwacu cultural village can be well spiced if combined with either tracking golden monkeys in volcanoes national park or gorilla trekking in Rwanda and Uganda. Contact us for your dream safari in Rwanda.