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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, an later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for dinner and overnight stay. Meals – Dinner

Accommodation options: Serena Hotel Kigali, (luxury) or Hotel des Mille Collines (Mid-range) Or Quiet Haven Hotel (Standard)

Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Travel time +5 hours

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. Meals -Breakfast, lunch & Dinner

Accommodation options: One & Only Nyungwe House (High End) OR Mantis Marina Kivu Bay (Mid – range)

Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard)

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking & Canopy Walk.

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 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.  Meals Breakfast, lunch & Dinner.

Accommodation options: One & Only Nyungwe House (High End) OR Mantis Marina Kivu Bay(Mid – range) Emeraude Kivu Resort(Standard)

Day 4: Transfer to Musanze.

You will make 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 host 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. Meals: Breakfast, lunch & Dinner

Accommodation options: One & Only Gorilla Nest lodge (High End) Or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge( mid – range)

or La Palme Hotel (Standard Hotel)

Day 5: Gorilla Trekking.

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, spend the day at your leisure as you enjoy your bungalow, diner and overnight at the lodge. Meals – Breakfast, lunch & Dinner

Accommodation options: One & Only Gorilla Nest lodge(High End) Or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge( mid – range)

or La Palme Hotel (Standard Hotel)

Day 6: Golden monkey & Transfer to Kigali. Travel time + 2 hrs

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 you 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. Meals – Breakfast, lunch & Dinner.

Accommodation options: Serena Hotel Kigali, or Hotel des Mille Collines (Mid-range) Or Quiet Haven Hotel (Standard)

Day 7: Transfer to the airport.

After getting done with your relaxed morning breakfast, depending on your flight time, you will be transferred to the airport to catch up with your onward flight. End of service!

Day 1: Transfer to Akagera National Park

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Rusizi Tented Camp

Following a delicious breakfast in Kigali, you will drive to Akagera National Park the only wildlife park in the whole of Rwanda yet the smallest of the three national Parks. You will arrive at your lodge – Akagera Game Lodge in time for lunch, where you will check-in, have lunch, rest, and later have a game drive in the evening looking for Elephants, Gazelles, Antelopes, Buffaloes, Giraffes, Impalas, Leopards, Zebras, Bush Babies, Topis and Baboons among others. Head back to Akagera Game Lodge where you will dine and spend the night.

Day 2: Game Drive And Boat Cruise On Lake Ihema

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Rusizi Tented Camp

You’ll have a hot Cup of coffee or tea in the early morning thereafter set out for a game drive in the early morning to see the early risers as well as other animals which you could have missed out on the game drive the day before. Among the animals you will see are Masai Giraffes, Leopards, Antelopes, Zebra, Buffaloes, African Elephants, and many more. You will return to the lodge to relax, have some refreshments and lunch. In the evening you will enjoy a boat cruise on Lake Ihema to see Crocodiles and Hippos plus various birds such as the Kingfisher, the uncommon Shoebill Stork as well as the Fish Eagle among others. Head back to Akagera Game Lodge where you will dine and spend the night.

Day 3: Transfer To Nyungwe Forest National Park

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Nyungwe Top View Hotel

Soon after breakfast, you’ll drive to the fascinating Nyungwe forest National Park through Kigali. On the way to the Park, you’ll visit a number of tourist attractions like the traditional Rwanda King’s palace found in Nyanza as well as the Cultural Museum found in Butare. Afterward, drive through the hilly countryside past the tea fields scattered with tiny wooden houses up to Nyungwe. Dine and slumber at the lodge

Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking and Transfer To Lake Kivu

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel Bethanie

Following breakfast, you’ll go for an early Chimpanzee tracking experience in the forest to look for the closest friends to man. The Forest Ranger will guide you through the various forest trails. This tracking activity takes approximately 3 to 5 hours after which you will return to your lodge for a delicious lunch and then in the afternoon, you’ll drive to Kibuye town found on Lake Kivu’sFemale gorilla shores. Dine and slumber at Hotel Bethanie

Day 5: Transfer To Volcanoes National Park

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Soon after breakfast, you’ll depart from Kibuye town and drive to Ruhengeri through Gisenyi. The drive will unveil to you the beautiful countryside especially the Kayove as well as the Gisovu tea growing regions. Arrive in Ruhengeri and then dine and slumber at the lodge.

Day 6: Mountain Gorilla Trekking In Volcanoes National Park

Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch

On having breakfast, you will drive to the park headquarters arriving by 8:00 am for a briefing as well as distribution into Gorilla Tracking Groups. You will then head out into the forest and begin tracking mountain gorillas. In Africa, mountain gorillas are found only in two places: in Rwanda and in Uganda’s Bwindi forest. You should have packed drinking water because the trekking may be rough at times particularly in the dry season since the Gorillas move long distances. In contrast to Uganda, Rwanda Gorilla tracking may take between 2 and 7 hours based on the Gorilla Movement. You will be permitted to spend the utmost one hour with the Gorillas and there you can take photos and even videos but as per the park regulations. After one hour, you’ll go back to the lodge for some refreshments and a delicious Lunch. you’ll return to Kigali in the evening dine and slumber at Step Town Motel or at Hotel Chezlando or straightaway be transferred to Kigali airport for your departure flight. (Based on the time of flight)