8-Day Rwanda Wildlife & Primates Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Arrival to Kigali

On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our guide. After a short briefing about the safari, you will go for a Kigali City tour, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial Site, Kimironko Market, and other interesting sites. You'll return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Kigali

Accommodation:

Step Town Motel

• Budget hotel located in Kigali

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Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Transfer to Akagera National Park | Boat Safari

After breakfast, you'll meet your driver-guide and embark on a journey to Akagera National Park, arriving in time for lunch, and enjoy your meals after check-in. In the afternoon, you go for a game drive exploring the park’s savannah plains. Keep an eye out for animals like lions, giraffes, leopards, cape buffaloes, zebras, gazelles, and many bird species.
In the evening, you will have a boat safari on Lake Ihema for a beautiful afternoon breeze and some sightings of water birds and wildlife. Depending on your interest, you join a night game drive in search of the nocturnal wildlife such as lions, leopards, hyenas, serval cats, and some nocturnal birds. You return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Akagera National Park

Best Time To Visit June to September and mid-December to mid-February (It is drier and wildlife is easier to spot)

High Season June to September (The park is busiest at weekends)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Akagera NP

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloAbundant

ZebraAbundant

HippoAbundant

White RhinoOccasional

LionOccasional

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ElephantOccasional

Black RhinoRare

LeopardRare

HyenaRare

CheetahNone

WildebeestNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Dereva Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Akagera NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Game Drive in Akagera National Park

Akagera National Park — the only savannah park in Rwanda is home to several big and small mammals. After an early breakfast, your guide will pick you up for a day game drive in the northern sector of the park, which is less bush offering better opportunities for animal sightings.
You will take the lakeshore drive along the different lakes as you look for the various wildlife like zebra, giraffes, impalas, elephants, buffaloes, topis, and the elusive leopards. On a lucky day, you will sight a pride of lions before they go into hiding.
Akagera National Park has an incredible array of birdlife for any keen birders. You will also enjoy the different landscapes of the park with views of different lakes, mountains, and rolling plains.

Main Destination:

Akagera National Park

Accommodation:

Dereva Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Akagera NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Transfer to Nyungwe National Park – The Home Of Chimpanzees

You'll depart from Akagera National Park for Nyungwe Forest National Park via Kigali City. Along the journey, you will have a stopover in Huye for lunch and a visit to the National Museum to learn more about the history and traditions of the Rwanda people.
You'll arrive in Nyungwe Forest National Park later in the evening, have dinner, and stay overnight.

Main Destination:

Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)

Best Time To Visit June to September (Dry weather, best chimp trekking)

High Season June to September (Popular gorilla trekking time in Volcanoes NP)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Nyungwe NP

ChimpanzeeCommon

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

LionNone

LeopardNone

CheetahNone

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ElephantNone

GiraffeNone

BuffaloNone

ZebraNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Accommodation:

Nyungwe Nziza Eco-Lodge

• Budget lodge located just outside Nyungwe NP (Chimps)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Chimpanzee Tracking and Canopy Walk in Nyungwe National Park

After an early breakfast, you leave for chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe Forest.
Nyungwe Forest is home to 13 species of primates, including chimpanzees, L’Hoest monkeys, and Columbus monkeys. The forest has a large population of chimpanzees with groups habituated for chimpanzee trekking tourism.
You will join other visitors at the park headquarters for a briefing, where a ranger guide takes you through the rules and regulations to follow. Then, you'll start your trek looking for chimpanzees. The time taken on this activity depends on the movement of the chimpanzees and ranges from 30 minutes to 4 hours or more. You will be allowed to spend one hour interacting with the chimpanzees and watching them go on with their lives. You'll return to the lodge for lunch, and a short time later in the day, you can choose to do the canopy walk. The canopy walk allows you to enjoy the beautiful views of the forest from above as you admire nature and the incredible views of the forest canopy.

Main Destination:

Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)

Accommodation:

Nyungwe Nziza Eco-Lodge

• Budget lodge located just outside Nyungwe NP (Chimps)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Transfer to Volcanoes National Park

You'll leave for Volcanoes National Park after breakfast. Along the way, you will enjoy the different sights and winding roads in the land of a thousand hills. You will have opportunities to have different stopovers for pictures, lunch, and stretching depending on your needs.
When you arrive in the park, you will check in at your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Best Time To Visit June to August (It is drier and hiking is easier)

High Season June to September (Permits are scarce)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Volcanoes NP

GorillaCommon

ChimpanzeeNone

ElephantRare

BuffaloRare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

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GiraffeNone

LionNone

LeopardNone

CheetahNone

ZebraNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Accommodation:

Hotel Muhabura

• Budget hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Gorilla Trekking Experience

Today, you meet mountain gorillas in the dense jungles of the Virunga Ranges; gorilla trekking in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park is a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience.
You'll have an early breakfast and head to the park headquarters in Kinigi, where you are assigned a ranger and a gorilla family to trek. After the briefing, your ranger guide leads you to the starting point of the trek.
The trek can last from a few minutes to several hours, depending on where the gorillas nested the previous night, as well as their movement. When you locate the gorillas, you are allocated one hour of interacting with the gorillas, watching them play with their babies, and picking fruits which they eat, among others. You are allowed to take pictures as long as your flashlight is off.
You trek back to the park headquarters to meet your driver and head back to your lodge for lunch. You can decide to spend the rest of the day in the lodge or go for a community walk.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Accommodation:

Hotel Muhabura

• Budget hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Visit the Gorilla Guardians Village & Departure

After breakfast and checking out of your lodge, you head to the Gorilla Guardian’s Village, where you will be entertained by local dances and drama, interact with the elders, taste some local dishes, among others, which will give you a deeper insight into the lives of the local people. Later, you will embark on a journey back to Kigali City, where you will be dropped off either at the airport or at the hotel.

Main Destination:

Kigali

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.