The Iby’iwacu Cultural Village in Volcanoes National Park Rwanda is one of the greatest cultural encounter offering a village experience of an ordinary Rwanda people. Get thrilled by the Iby’iwacu Cultural Village with inspiring stories of a young man who became a leader in conservation by finding new ways for poachers to earn a living.
Iby’iwacu Cultural Village is a must visit on your visit to Park volcanoes. Most visitors take a leisurely visit in the afternoon on the day after their gorilla trekking safari to Volcanoes, to spice it up with a rewarding visit to share the life style of the local communities. You will leave not only smarter but inspired to drive positive change in the world. The Iby’iwacu Cultural Village is in no way a scam to take tourists money but rather an example of how a young brave mind can change the world and old minds can change as well with education and innovative solutions.
Visit Iby’iwacu Cultural Village
This Iby’iwacu Cultural Village is a village of ex-poachers, those previously stealing the gorillas due to poverty, they now stopped poaching, as they found a different way to make living by running this cultural village and also sending their young men to get in involved with gorilla conservation.
Visitors are taken for walks around each tent which tells you all about how and why they did the things they did and you can see people acting them out.
The Iby’lwacu Cultural Village should be visited by anyone visitors coming to the Volcanoes National Park. Not only showcases the village the Rwandan culture, way of living, and how to make crafts and traditional dances.it was established to combat poaching by offering previous poachers an alternative way of making a living. Having said that, the people working at the Iby’lwacu Cultural Village are ex-poachers and other unprivileged people from the surrounding village. Visiting the Iby’lwacu Cultural Village is not only very interesting and informative but definitely a project every Volcanoes National Park tourist should support!
At the end of the Iby’iwacu Cultural Village, guests ate entertained by an amazing cultural dance performance, a traditional dance for weddings. It was truly amazing and you will get so impressed. This cultural village is a great way to have an insight into the cultural history of Rwanda.
Other activities in Volcanoes National Park can include the Golden Monkey trek, visiting Musanze caves or hike to Dian Fossey’s grave, Bisoke Mountain hike, and visiting the popular Karisoke Museum. In Rwanda, tourists can exclusively enjoy a spice of Rwanda Gorilla trek with trekking Chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest National Park with a wildlife safari in Akagera National Park