11 Days Experience Rwanda Adventure Safari with Gorilla trekking
Overview
This 11 days epic Rwanda safari adventure will give you a great memory of Rwandan tour and you explore and wrap up Rwandan attractions in just 11 days. You will be able to visit all the 3 Rwandan parks thus Nyungwe National Park and Volcanoes national park and Akagera National Park adding in a visit to Lake Kivu to spice up your stay. You will as well be able to interact with the local community as you go by your day activities. You will well be able to do gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking which is a life time adventure.
Itinerary
Upon arrival at Kigali international airport and passing through the immigration process, you will be welcomed by our safari driver who will, brief you shortly and transfer you to the booked accommodation.
Accommodation Options:
Luxury Option: Kigali Marriott Hotel
High end option: The Retreat
Meals: Diner
Today you will be picked at your lodge after completing your morning breakfast, and head for a Kigali city tour and visit the Kigali genocide memorial ground, and have lunch before being transferred to Musanze near Volcanoes National Park where you will your dinner and overnight stay.
Day Itinerary
- 0830: Pick up from your hotel in Kigali
- 0845: Drive and visit the Genocide Memorial Centre
- 1030: Transfer to Volcanoes. Travel time 2.5hrs.
- 1300: Arrival at your lodge in Volcanoes NP
- 1330: Lunch for the day and spend the rest of the afternoon on relaxation.
- 1500: The rest of the afternoon is for relaxation around the lodge.
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel around Volcanoes NP
Accommodation options:
Luxury Option: Bishop House
High End option: One & Only Gorilla Nest lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the gorilla trekking briefing from the park headquarters and thereafter, you will be briefed before you 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. After lunch, relax at your lodge.
Day Itinerary
- 0600: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 0630: Transfer to the park headquarters for gorilla trekking briefing.
- 0800: Start the gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park.
- 1200: Estimated time of returning from the jungle.
- 1230: Transfer back to the Lodge.
- 1300: Lunch at the Lodge.
- 1500: Relax at your lodge
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Accommodation options:
Luxury Option: Bishop House
High End option: One & Only Gorilla Nest lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
After having your early morning breakfast, you will be transferred to the park, for briefing and later head for the golden monkey trekking. The same procedure for gorilla trekking, applies to golden monkey. You will still have an hour with the golden monkeys. You will later return, head for lunch, and transfer to Gisenyi where you will spend your afternoon at leisure.
Day Itinerary
- 0600: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 0630: Transfer to the park headquarters for gorilla trekking briefing.
- 0800: Start the Golden monkey trekking in Volcanoes National Park.
- 1200: Estimated time of returning from the jungle.
- 1230: Transfer back to the Lodge and lunch
- 1430: Transfer to Gisenyi
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Accommodation options:
Luxury Option: Cleo Lake Kivu
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
After your early morning breakfast, head for boat ride in Lake Kivu including visiting numerous islands and, later you will be transferred to Nyungwe which is roughly 2 hours’ way, with great country side experience looking at the local community and traditional building en route. We shall reach in the afternoon, have lunch and spend the afternoon at leisure.
Day Itinerary
- 0700: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 0830: Transfer to Karongi on lake Kivu
- 1100: Start the Boat trip inside the Lake
- 1200: Estimated time of returning from the boat excursion
- 1230: Transfer to the Moriah Hill Hotel for lunch.
- 1430: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury option: Kivu Marina Bay
High end option: One & Only Nyungwe House
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
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. In afternoon, you will head for a canopy walk experience, where you will explore the Park Forest on a 70 m, suspended metallic bridge. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day Itinerary
- 0500: Begin the day with a packed morning breakfast.
- 0510: Transfer to the starting point for trekking chimpanzee
- 06:00: Start the trekking for chimpanzee trekking
- 12:00: Estimated time of returning from the jungle.
- 12:30: Transfer back to the Lodge and lunch
- 14:00: Transfer back to Nyungwe NP for canopy walk experience
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury option: Kivu Marina Bay
High end option: One & Only Nyungwe House
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Meet your guide, after your breakfast at the lodge and transfer back to Kigali, with an en route visit to King Palace museum, where you will have a great experience to learn about the Rwandan cultural. You will enjoy and en route lunch and reach Kigali in the afternoon, for dinner and overnight stay.
Day Itinerary
- 09:00: Begin the day with a packed morning breakfast.
- 09:00: Transfer to Nyanza for Kings Palace museums visit
- 13:00: Lunch at one of the local restaurant in Huye
- 14:00: Visit Kings Palace Museum
- 15:00: Transfer to Kigali
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury Option: Kigali Marriott Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and
High end option: The Retreat
Diner
After an early morning breakfast at 8:00 am and leave for Akagera national park which is roughly 3 hours’ drive away. You will reach the park and check in at your lodge, later lunch and followed by an afternoon game drive or opt to relax at the lodge.
Day Itinerary
- 07:00: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 08:00: Transfer to Akagera National park
- 1100: Registration & briefing about the park
- 1200: Check-in at your lodge
- 13:00: Lunch at your lodge
- 1430: Have an afternoon game drive
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury option: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
High end Option: Magashi Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
Today, you will wake up, have breakfast, and later head for morning game drive, in the park in search for the wildlife. After return and head for afternoon boat trip on Lake Ihema, which rewards you with more aquatic wildlife and bird species. You will return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight stay.
Day Itinerary
- 06:00: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 07:00: Head for a full game drive inside Akagera National park
- 13:00: Lunch at your lodge
- 15:00: Head for the boat trip
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury option: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
High end Option: Magashi Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
Full day game drive. After an early morning breakfast at 7:00 am and leave for a full day 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, and recently the re-introduced 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. Diner and overnight at the lodge.
Day Itinerary
- 06:00: Begin the day with a morning breakfast.
- 07:00: Full game drive Akagera National park
- 14:00: Lunch at the picnic area
- 15:00: Have an afternoon game drive
- 1800: Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge
Luxury option: Ruzizi Tented Lodge
High end Option: Magashi Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Diner
After having your breakfast, jump into your jeep find your way to Kigali, and if time allows, enjoy a city tour for some shopping, depending on your flight time, you will be transferred to the airport to catch up with your flight back home.
Meals: Lunch and diner
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Include & Exclude
- Transportation in a 4x4 safari vehicle
- Accommodations and meals
- 1 Gorilla permits, per person
- 1 Chimpanzee permit, per person
- 1 golden monkey permit
- Canopy walk
- Boat trip on Lake Ihema
- Park entrance fee
- Game drives
- Boat trip on Lake Kivu
- Kigali city tour
- Services of English speaking driver/guide
- Mineral water during safari
- International and domestic airline tickets unless where indicated
- All extra activities, visits, entrances and extra meals/drinks not mentioned in the itinerary
- Entry visa fees
- Optional extras whilst in Kigali
- Drinks throughout the trip
- Tips and gratuities
- Personal expenses such as telephone calls, mini bar, porter-age, travel insurance, etc
book ITINERARY
Costing
Validity
Per Person Cost
2 People
4 People
6 People
7th January – 31 May to
Budget Option
$9 040
$8 090
$7 770
1st November – 21st December
Luxury Option
$19 570
$18 970
$18 650
1st June– 31st October to
Budget Option
$9 040
$8 090
$7 770
22nd December – 06th January
Luxury Option
$24 580
$23 980
$23 660
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