8 Days Best of Rwanda Safari

8 Days Best of Rwanda Safari

This 8 Days Best of Rwanda Safari we’ve described offers a fantastic opportunity to explore the diverse attractions of Rwanda within a relatively short timeframe. Here are the key highlights of this adventure:

Nyungwe National Park: This park is known for its lush rainforests and rich biodiversity.

Activities may include chimpanzee tracking, canopy walks, and birdwatching.

Interaction with local communities to experience Rwandan culture.

Volcanoes National Park: Famous for its mountain gorilla populations.

Gorilla Trekking: A highlight of this park, offering a unique opportunity to observe these magnificent primates in their natural habitat.

Golden Monkey Trekking: Another thrilling activity to witness these unique monkeys.

Lake Kivu: A picturesque lake in Rwanda, offering beautiful scenery and a relaxing atmosphere.

Opportunities for boat rides, swimming, and lakeside relaxation.

Interaction with Local Communities: Engaging with local communities allows travelers to immerse themselves in Rwandan culture, learn about traditions, and contribute positively to the local economy.

This safari adventure provides a well-rounded experience of Rwanda’s natural beauty, wildlife, and cultural heritage. It’s a great way to create lasting memories while exploring the highlights of this remarkable country.

Day 1: Airport Transfer to Hotel

Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will go through custom and immigration, and you will be met by our company guide 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.

Location: Kigali

Accommodation Option:

Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park.

Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to the western province, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum and Ethnographic 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 enroute lunch.  You will reach in the afternoon at Nyungwe national park and spend the afternoon at your leisure. Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Location: Nyungwe national park

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking & canopy

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 canopy walk. This 70 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 at the lodge.

Location: Nyungwe national park

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 4: Transfer to Gisenyi

After a relaxed morning breakfast, you will transfer to Lake Kivu, Gisenyi area, with a beautiful country side ride and view of Lake Kivu, where you will spend a full day, just at your leisure, as you relax at your lodge, enjoying a fresh breath.

Location: Gisenyi

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 5: Transfer to Musanze.

You will wake up ready to catch up with the beautiful sun rise over the Lake Kivu after just getting done with your morning breakfast. You will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within this great lake. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of the bats. This lake is also known as a birding paradise as it hosts a number of bird species like the comrand, pied king fishers, weaver birds, heron to mention but a few. You will later return for and drive off to Musanze which is roughly a 3 hours’ drive. Musanze is a tourism area near Volcanoes National Park, where most of the lodges are located since there are no lodges inside of the park. Dinner and overnight

Location: Musanze

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 6: Gorilla Trekking & Cultural visit

Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the gorilla trekking briefing from the park headquarters and thereafter, you will enter the jungle with your packed lunch to search the shy mountain gorillas and enjoy their life style in their real home. After meeting the gorillas, you can sit around these great apes for a whole hour watching their social life as you take pictures. On a gorilla safari, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as walking shoes, packed food and mineral water, insect repellent, sun screen and hut. The gorilla tracking experience takes half or whole day depending on the movements of these primates. After this gorilla tracking experience, you will return to your lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, ready for a village foot safari, to explore the indigenous local life with a taste of the traditional performance at Iby Iwacu cultural center. Dinner and overnight

Location: Volcanoes National Park

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 7: Golden monkey & Transfer to Kigali.

Today 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 and start off your day golden monkey trekking. 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 Kigali, if time permits, do a Kigali city tour with a visit to Kigali genocide memorial ground and Kimironko local market for shopping.

Location: Kigali

Accommodation Option:

Meals Plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking Water and Fruits Throughout the journey

Day 8: Transfer to the airport.

After getting done with your relaxed morning breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport to catch up with your onward flight.

Cost Includes on 8 Days Best of Rwanda Safari

• Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle.
• Accommodation and meals as per itinerary.
• 1 Gorilla permits ($1500), per person to be paid in advance.
• 1 Chimpanzee permit, per person.
• 1 Golden Monkey permit, per person.
• En-route lunches.
• Kigali city tour.
• Boat ride on Lake Kivu.
• Park entrance fee.
• Canopy walk.
• Services of English speaking driver/guide.
• Bottled water per day per person during safari.

Cost Includes on 8 Days Best of Rwanda Safari

• International and domestic flights
• Country entry visa
• Personal travel insurance
• Items of personal nature/laundry/telephone charges
• Souvenirs and gifts, Tips
• Alcoholic and other soft drinks (sodas, special juice order at the lodge and wines)

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