Destination

  Kigali

Overview

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Prices Inclusive Of

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Package includes:

Transportation in a 4x4 safari vehicle
Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
1 Gorilla permits ($ 1500), per person
1 Golden Monkey permit, per person
1 chimpanzee permit, per person
Canopy walk
Museums visits
Coffee Tour
Twin lakes visit
Diane Fossey Institute center visit
En-route lunches
Game drives
Boat ride at Lake Ihema
Boat ride on Lake Kivu
Park fees
Kigali city tour
Services of English speaking driver/guide
1 liter bottle of mineral water per day per person during safari

Prices Exclusive Of

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Package excludes:

Covid 19 test fees
International and domestic flight fares
Items of a personal nature i.e., telephone/internet usage, alcoholic beverages, etc

Tour Activities

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Tour activities will depend on the location we are visiting based on the tour schedule.

Tour Schedule

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Day 1: Arrival And Transfer To Hotel

Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will go through custom and immigration you will be met by our company representative who will warmly welcome you to the Land of a thousand hills that Rwanda is know of, and later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at the hotel. Kigali Serena Hotel for check in.

Meal plan: dinner
Mid-range Hotel: Milles Collines
Luxury Hotel: Serena Hotel

Day 2: Transfer To Akagera Np For Game Drive And Night Game Drive

Today, after your relaxed morning breakfast you will be picked by your safari guide, and leave for Akagera national park, the journey to Akagera national park takes about 2.3 hours depending on the stopovers along the way. On arrival at the park, you shall proceed to your accommodation with a short game drive and check in for lunch. After lunch, you opt to relax your lodge, or head for brief game drive for game viewing. You will later return in the evening for relaxation. In the evening, you will go for a night game drive, to explore the park and try to sight some nocturnal animals. Later return to the lodge for dinner and evening stay.

Meal plan: Full board
Luxury Accommodation: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
Midrange Accommodation: Mentis Akagera Game Lodge

Day 3: Game Drive And Boat Trip In Akagera National Park

After an early morning breakfast at 6:00 am and leave for an early morning game drive in Akagera national park to catch up with late hunters and early risers. We will be searching for the big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, lions and Rhinos. The park is a varied habitat for wildlife and a number bird species with over 500 bird species in the park making it a birding paradise. You will later return to the lodge for lunch. After lunch, we head for a boat trip on Lake Ihema watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores and meet the buffaloes and elephants swallowing by the water banks. Later return to the lodge for dinner and evening stay.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Meal plan: Full board
Luxury Accommodation: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
Midrange Accommodation: Mentis Akagera Game Lodge

Day 4: Full Game Drive In Akagera National Park

After an early morning breakfast, leave for an early morning game drive in Akagera national park to catch up with late hunters and early risers. We will continue the search for the big five You will a have a break at a picnic lunch area. After lunch, proceed with your game drive for more search of abundant wildlife within this great park in the northern part of the park. Later drive back to the lodge, for relaxation and dinner.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Luxury Accommodation: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
Midrange Accommodation: Mentis Akagera Game Lodge

Day 5: Transfer To Volcanoes National Park

After your relaxed breakfast, you will jump into your jeep and find your way to Volcanoes national park via Kigali, head for a visit the Kigali genocide memorial ground to learn about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. And later have lunch before visiting You will later proceed to Musanze with a beautiful countryside view of the rolling hills. At arrival, check in to your booked accommodation.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Luxury Accommodation: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Midrange Accommodation: Ingagi Parkview Lodge

Day 6: Gorilla Trekking In Volcanoes National Park And Cultural Tour

After your breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for a briefing about the code of conduct while with trekking the gorillas. You will then enter the forest in search for the gorillas which may take 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas and your group speed. Meet and stay with the gorillas for a maximum of one hour. After then walk back to the lodge for lunch, and after, head for a cultural tour get an insight of Rwandan culture. You will later return to the lodge, Dinner and overnight.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Luxury Accommodation: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Midrange Accommodation: Ingagi Park View Lodge

Day 7: Golden Monkey Trek And Transfer To Gisenyi

After you warm early morning breakfast, you will be picked by our safari driver guide who will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing with your packed lunch and start off your day golden monkey trekking in search for these primates in the jungle. Just like the gorilla trekking experience, the same applies to golden monkey trekking though no so hectic like gorilla trekking. You will later return to the lodge for lunch and later transfer to Lake Kivu.

Meal Plan: breakfast and lunch
Luxury Accommodation: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel
Midrange Accommodation: Kivu Paradise Resort

Day 8: Relaxation On Lake Kivu with Night Fishermen Experience

Today, after your warm breakfast, you stay your day at leisure at the beach enjoying the breeze and fresh air of the lake.
in the evening you will enjoy the night fishermen experience. Later drive back to the hotel for diner and overnight.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Luxury Accommodation: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel
Midrange Accommodation: Kivu Paradise Resort

Day 9: Transfer To Nyungwe National Park With A Boat Trip In Kibuye

After your relaxed breakfast, jump into your jeep and find your way to Nyungwe, with a beautiful en route view of the Congo side, and Lake Kivu. You will head for a boat ride in Kibuye, on Lake Kivu, where you will visit numerous island, have great chance to watch a number of bird species on the lake as it is a birding paradise. Later return and head to your booked hotel for lunch and afternoon at leisure.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Midrange & Luxury Accommodation: Lake Kivu Marina Bay

Day 10: Chimpanzee Trekking And Tea Plantation

Today, after your early morning cap of African coffee, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking. You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before heading for a tea plantation visit to explore the beautiful Gisakura tea plantations, and learn about how tea is grown and harvested to production process, later return in the afternoon, dinner and overnight stay.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Midrange & Luxury Accommodation: Lake Kivu Marina Bay

Day 11: Waterfall Hike And Canopy Walk

Today, you will head off to visit the forest for a waterfall hike, where you have chances to talk a cool forest breath hike, and visit a number of waterfalls in the park. Along you can sight some primates and bird species. You will later return for lunch before heading for a canopy walk. This 90 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a luck day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal Plan: Full Board
Midrange & Luxury Accommodation: Lake Kivu Marina Bay

Day 12: Tranfer To Kigali And Kings Palace Visit

Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to the Kigali, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum in Southern Province, this will give you a great history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership of Kingship with an en route lunch.  You will reach in the afternoon in Kigali and head for some shopping, if time allows, visit local market, and art shop, before dropped off at the airport, for your flight back home in the evening.

Meal Plan: Full Board
No accommodation