Iby’iwacu Cultural Village/ Gorilla Guardian Village Tour

Iby’iwacu Cultural Village | Gorilla Guardian Village Tour for an utmost cultural encounter throughout a 2- or 3-day Rwanda gorilla trek, the finest way of connecting with the local community and acquiring more information about their traditions is through paying a visit to the Iby’iwacu cultural village to engage yourself in the local culture in Rwanda. Iby’iwacu cultural village is also well known as the Gorilla Guardians village in the neighbourhood of Volcanoes National Park. Iby’iwacu provides distinctive cultural encounters in Rwanda such as singing, dancing, traditional healers, homestays, and the historical background of Rwanda with a duplicate of the King’s Palace on the slopes of Sabinyo.

While there, you will acquire more information about the story of a youthful environmentalist from the
town. Edwin Sebuhoro persuaded poachers to put down their illegal hunting tools and reform, changing them into Gorilla Guardians now safeguarding the Mountain Gorillas. The Iby’iwacu village communities apply their expertise to display and protect Rwandan culture, for instance the primitive skills of hunting, customary dancing, weaving baskets, making banana beer, food cooking classes, and traditional Kingdom customs in Rwandese.

In historically long-ago kingdoms in Rwanda, kings used to hold power with full command to make a
decisions on anything, inclusive of the courts and the resource allocation. The local community accorded him in a respectful way, provided him gifts, served in ploughing his farms, and looked after his cattle. In Rwanda, the kings possessed the topmost power in the country, made resolutions and executed them without doubt by the subjects.

At the dummy of the king’s palace at the Iby’iwacu village, you will acquire more knowledge about non identical clan subjects and cultural valuables. During this cultural tour, incase you are interested, you will be crowned the king, exercising a king’s authority ceremony that the whole village will accompany. The aggressive Intore will perform dances in possession of spears culturally to safeguard you and the king, and drumming throughout the ceremony will permit you to acquire knowledge about drumming and dancing. This trip also draws you adjacent to a traditional doctor with information of various plants, roots, and leaves were used to offer herbal medicine to unwell people around the village. This village tour will teach you how to grind sorghum and manufacture a local porridge or beer on a grinding stone; also, acquire information on how to prepare local Rwandan food and eat with your hands as a Rwandan custom.

The Batwa community at the cultural centre will sing for the clients the gorilla preservation songs, give a demonstration of life in the forests and how they endured on game hunting skills in possession of spears, bows, arrows, and a fruit collection in their previous home prior to eviction for Gorilla  preservation with hunting skills and traps put in place for tiny animals like antelopes and share their pottery skills now.