6-Day Rwanda Gorillas, Golden Monkeys & Lake Kivu Trip

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

Pick Up, Kigali City Tour & Drive to the Hotel

Depending on your landing time at the airport, our English/French-speaking staff/driver-guide will come to pick you up from the airport. Then, you'll drive to the Kigali City tour, where you will get a chance to explore and visit different sites of the city, such as the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the biggest local market in Kigali called Kimironko, Nyamirambo, where Kigali is the capital, and many more interesting sites for travelers. Then, a Lion Safaris driver-guide will drive you to your booked hotel to check in.

Main Destination:

Kigali

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

Hotel des Mille Collines

• Luxury hotel located in Kigali

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Meals & Drinks:

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

Transfer to Volcanoes National Park

You will wake up in the morning and then have your breakfast. After that, our driver-guide will come to pick you up and then drive you to the Northern province of Rwanda, where Volcanoes National Park is located. On arrival, you will continue with check-in at your booked 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

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge

• Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

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Meals & Drinks:

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

Mountain Gorillas Trekking & Overnight Stay in Volcanoes National Park

Early in the morning, after your breakfast, with your packed lunch, our driver-guide will come to pick you up from the lodge and then drive you to the park headquarters, where you'll get a briefing about how to behave around mountain gorillas when you meet them in the habitat. Then, you'll proceed to trek gorillas. After the remarkable experience with the gorillas, the driver-guide will take you back to your lodge for a hot lunch. In the afternoon, if you will be interested, our driver guide will drive you to the Ellen DeGeneres Compass by Dian fossey for getting information on how fauna and flora of volcanoes national park are preserved and history of the park with Dian fossey an American lady who habituated the mountain gorillas in Rwanda then he will drive you back to your lodge for Dinner and Overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Activities:

• Gorilla tracking

Accommodation:

Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge

• Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)

Meals & Drinks:

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

Golden Monkeys Trekking & Transfer to Lake Kivu

In the morning, after your breakfast, a Lion Safaris driver guide will come to pick you up and drive you to the park office for golden monkeys registration and get a briefing about how to behave around golden monkeys when you meet them in their natural Habitat. On arrival by the start of walk point, you will walk into natural bamboo forest with a local guide all the way to the golden monkeys where you will enjoy them with taking many photos as you will need, then after that special moment you will walk down back to the driver-guide who will drive you straight to check in to your booked lodge.

Main Destination:

Lake Kivu

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

Lake Kivu Serena Hotel

• Luxury hotel located at Lake Kivu

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Meals & Drinks:

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

Boat Ride at Lake Kivu & Overnight Stay

You will wake up in the morning, have a late breakfast then our Lion Safaris driver-guide will come to pick you up. He'll drive you to Lake Kivu, where you will start the boat ride and get a chance to explore the lake with a visit to the thermal boiling water, birds, fishermen, different islands in the lake, and other sites of the lake. After that amazing time, our driver guide will drive you back to your hotel.

Main Destination:

Lake Kivu

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

Lake Kivu Serena Hotel

• Luxury hotel located at Lake Kivu

Meals & Drinks:

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

Drive Back to Kigali

You will wake up in the morning and get your breakfast. After that, you will check out, and then our driver-guide will come to pick you up. You'll go back to the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, where, depending on your flight time, you will be dropped off at the airport or your hotel/home.

Main Destination:

Kigali

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

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.