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Arrival
Day 1
Kigali International Airport Pick up and Transfer to your Hotel
Kigali International Airport Pick up and Transfer to your Hotel
Upon your arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will meet our driver-guide who will welcome and brief you about your daily activities. Then, we'll transfer you to your hotel. After checking in at your hotel, if time allows, you will proceed with a Kigali City tour and visit the genocide memorial.
- Main Destination:
- Kigali (Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Lebanon Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Transfer to Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda Ethnographic, King Palace Museums and Canopy Walk
Transfer to Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda Ethnographic, King Palace Museums and Canopy Walk
After your lunch, you will start driving for about two hours to Butare, where Rwanda takes its roots and then go to visit the King Palace museum, where the famous and majestic Rwandan kings were staying. You will get that chance to enter the king's palace and learn about the royal style, the smartness and the authority of pre-colonial Rwanda. The famous Long Horns Rwandan Cow is also in the palace backyard. Their permanent keepers who pass the long days singing and interacting romantically with them are much more likely to discover. You will experience how close animals and humans are.
Thereafter, you will proceed with a visit to the ethnographic museum, which wins top marks for having one of the best ethnological and archaeological collections in the entire region. You will be experiencing and learn about the archeological collections from our ancestors. Then, you'll continue your way to Nyungwe National Park for the canopy walk. Thereafter, you'll be welcomed at your hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Wildlife in Nyungwe NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Chimpanzee Trek in Nyungwe National Park
Chimpanzee Trek in Nyungwe National Park
After an early breakfast, you will go to check in at Uwinka reception before you start trekking in the rainforest, which has remained undisturbed in Rwanda. The chimps are our cousins that share about 80% of our DNA. You will remain with them 1hour taking photos for your memories. The trek will take up to 2 hours, depending on the location of the chimps trekked. Then, you'll return to your hotel.
Thereafter, you will drive to Karongi and stay at the Bethany hotel on the Kivu shores.
- Main Destination:
- Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- Bethany Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Respond to the Calling Islands
Respond to the Calling Islands
After breakfast, you will get on the local boat, time to explore splendid Rwanda. You will visit islands and islets, but mainly you will visit three of them: Napoleon Island, the Blue Monkey Island, and the Peace Island. You will get a chance to see monkeys that live on the island.
Thereafter, you will ride back to Amahoro Island (Peace Island) and stop at the open peninsula for a local beer.
After this experience, you will get transferred to Rubavu and stay at Kivu Paradis Malahide along kivu shoreline.
- Main Destination:
- Karongi (Lake Kivu, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Paradise Malahide Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Kivu Beach and Bigorwe Cow Farm Experience and Transfer to Musanze
Kivu Beach and Bigorwe Cow Farm Experience and Transfer to Musanze
After your breakfast, you will go to relax at Kivu Lake beach, which will let you explore the landscape and scenery of Goma and the Nyiragongo volcano on the side of Congo. Thereafter, you will drive about 1hour to visit some cow farms in Bigogwe and get to learn how cows play a great importance in the Rwandan culture, symbol of wealth, prosperity, and identity; you will get to know how they are used to pay marriage dowry and bride price. Milk is, as a result, also important culturally. You will get to know all the associated cultural rites with it and how Rwanda has been dealing with the “Gira Inka Munyarwanda” program, known as Cows to all Rwandans, to facilitate Genocide survivors rebuild themselves after the darkest period.
After this, you will drive for around 1 hour to get to Musanze and stay at Best View Hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Musanze (City, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Best View Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Golden Monkey Trekking in Volcano National Park and Musanze City Tour
Golden Monkey Trekking in Volcano National Park and Musanze City Tour
After your early breakfast, you will drive 15 minutes toward Volcanoes National Park headquarters to be briefed about the golden monkey trek. You will then attend the Golden Monkey briefing at 7h 30 and then at 8 drive directly to the home of the monkey. You will remain with them for about 1hour taking pictures for your memory, before you turn back to your hotel for lunch and stay there.
Later in the evening, you will do a Musanze city tour to visit some local markets and other interesting areas before you get back to our hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Best View Hotel
Wildlife in Volcanoes NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Musanze caves and Iby’Iwacu cultural center
Musanze caves and Iby’Iwacu cultural center
After your breakfast, you will go to visit the Musanze caves, which are the result of volcanic activities that took place around the Virunga volcanoes. The caves are believed to be formed by lava basaltic layers from Bisoke and Sabyinyo volcanoes. You will walk in the darkness with torches for a distance of 1.25miles and encounter some animals in the cave, especially the bats.
Later in the evening, you will visit Iby’iwacu cultural center, a group of poachers turned into conservationists along the volcano national park feet. You will see them coming to you with spears. Here, the Intore dancers will dance with their arms forming horns of Inyambo. You will be surprised by their rapidness and be a part of them, which will make your day special.
- Main Destination:
- Musanze (City, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Best View Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Visit Twin Lakes and Community Walk
Visit Twin Lakes and Community Walk
After your breakfast, you will walk toward Twin Lakes (25km) and then get on a boat ride in Twin Lakes to explore the beauty of the area and its surroundings. The boat will take you to islands, visit a community living on the islands, and learn about their lifestyles. A visit to this lake will give you an overview of volcanoes. You will get pictures while boating and get to learn the background of Volcanoes, as the lakes are the result of volcanic eruptions.
- Main Destination:
- Musanze (City, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
-
My Hill Eco-Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National Park, Pygmy Trail Walk
Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National Park, Pygmy Trail Walk
After your breakfast, you will cross the Rwanda-Uganda border via Cyanika border and drive about 3hours to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
You will arrive in Bwindi during lunchtime. After your lunch, you will proceed with a visit to the Batwa(Pygmy). A pygmy guide who will pass you through their journey from before and after they have been evicted from the Bwindi impenetrable forest and how they have survived, will guide you.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Haven Lodge Buhoma Community
Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Mountain Gorilla Trek in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Mountain Gorilla Trek in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After your breakfast, you will be heading to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park headquarters for the pre-trekking brief. The ranger guides will guide on what to expect during the trek and the code of conduct while in the forest. The mountain gorilla trek will take from 2-4hours depending on where the gorillas are located in the forest. Once you get across the gorilla family of the day, you will be allowed to stay with them for one hour, taking pictures for your memory. After this experience, you'll drive back to your hotel for a late lunch and relax as you wait for the next day to come.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Haven Lodge Buhoma Community
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for Bird Watching, Sightseeing and a Boat Ride
Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for Bird Watching, Sightseeing and a Boat Ride
After your breakfast, you will get ready to be transferred to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is a famous spot for birding tours in Uganda and sightseeing. It is a small lake with over 40 islands and is ideal for honeymooners and those who want a quiet, serene, and romantic place. You will go for a boat ride and island hopping as you watch the local fishermen carrying out their activities. You could also visit the punishment island. This is where young girls who had conceived before wedlock were abandoned to die. Most were rescued by men who couldn’t afford the bride price.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Bunyonyi (Uganda)
- Accommodation:
- Birdnest @ Bunyonyi Resort
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Drive back to Kigali, Canoeing Experience in Mukungwa River
Drive back to Kigali, Canoeing Experience in Mukungwa River
After your breakfast in Bwindi, you will drive 3 hours back to Rwanda and cross the Uganda-Rwanda border via Cyanika border. After you cross the border, you will go straight to Mukungwa River, a lake at the feet of volcanoes, and go to experience canoeing in Mukungwa before you continue your way to Kigali.
- Main Destination:
- Kigali (Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Lebanon Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 13
Mbyo Reconciliation Village and Nyamirambo Women Group
Mbyo Reconciliation Village and Nyamirambo Women Group
After your breakfast, you will visit the Bugesera reconciliation village and witness how, after the darkest period, the Hutus and Tutsis get to reconcile and live together as brother and sister.
After your lunch in Bugesera, you will drive back to Kigali and go to experience the Nyamirambo women's group before you are transferred to your hotel. The Nyamirambo walking tour will offer you an experience on foot with a traditional Rwandan snack. You will participate in a women’s hairdressing salon.
- Main Destination:
- Kigali (Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- Lebanon Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 14
Kigali Genocide Memorial and Drop off to Airport to Fly to your Home
Kigali Genocide Memorial and Drop off to Airport to Fly to your Home
After your breakfast, you will go to visit the genocide memorial to learn about the darkest period Rwanda has been through, before we transfer you to the airport to return to your home.
- Main Destination:
- Kigali International Airport (Kigali, Rwanda)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
