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Day 1: Arrival Kigali

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel

Arrive at Kigali airport, meet and greet, then transfer to Kigali Serena Hotel (no other services included). If any additional services are required on this day, please ask for a separate quote.

Day 2: Kigali – Drive to Nyungwe Forest National Park

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge

After breakfast, you will check out and drive to Nyungwe. Enroute you will visit the Kings palace, the museum and have lunch. Arrive late evening for check in followed by time to rest with dinner.

Day 3: Nyungwe Forest National Park

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge

After breakfast, proceed for a morning chimpanzee trek. Rest of the day at leisure with optional activities has provided by the lodge. All meals at Nyungwe Forest Lodge

Day 4: Nyungwe – Drive to Volcanoes National Part

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

After breakfast check out and depart with picnic lunches for Volcanoes national park. Arrive for check in followed by the rest of the day at leisure with dinner

Day 5: Volcanoes National Park

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

You meet early in the morning at the park headquarters. After a briefing on safety and gorilla etiquette, you’re led in a small group along clear paths up into the forest. The altitude is over 2,500m, so although the pace is unhurried, the hike is tiring, taking from 30 minutes to a few hours. Your English speaking guides are very good and will be taking you to a specific group of ‘habituated’ gorillas, which they know well and which are used to human visitors. Time taken with Gorillas is normally restricted to 1hour only. Providing all meals .

Day 6: Volcanoes National Park – Kigali

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel

Depart for another Gorilla trek in the Morning. The great volcanic massif of the Virunga Mountains straddles the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the DRC, covering a huge area of over 8,000km², and Encompassing, six active and three extinct volcanoes, much of this is protected by national parks, including the Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcanoes) on the Rwandan side, which was made famous by Dian Fossey’s work and the film Gorillas in the Mist. Many primates occur here, including rare, endemic golden monkeys and about 350 mountain gorillas; that’s more than half of the world’s population – and this is the best place to see them. Even without the gorillas, this park would be fascinating. Its altitude ranges from about 2,500m to Karisimbi’s peak at 4,500m, encompassing extensive bamboo forests and some of the planet’s last remaining Afro montane forest. The vegetation is rampant, covering a variety of different zones including, on higher slopes, an almost other-worldly habitat of thick moors with endemic giant lobelia and groundsel. These various ecosystems harbor a spectacular. After lunch you will drive back to Kigali arriving for dinner

Day 7: Depart

After breakfast, you will check out and proceed for city tour which will include a visit to the genocide museum. After lunch and depending on your departure flight timings your will be transferred Kigali airport for your onward flight. End of Safari

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!