Our 7-day Rwanda Primate Expeditions Safari typically offers an immersive experience focused on exploring Rwanda’s rich primate population and other wildlife.
Itinerary
Upon arrival at Kigali international airport and welcomed by your driver and transfer you to the booked accommodation, in Kigali for dinner and later overnight stay.
Accommodation: Hotel des Milles Collines (Mid-range Hotel)
Meal Plan: Dinner
Have breakfast at your hotel in Kigali, meet your guide, share a short briefing before you drive off to Nyungwe, which roughly 5 hour’s drive from Kigali. You will visit Ethnographic and King Palace museums along the way to Nyungwe later have lunch in Huye and drive to your booked hotel for dinner and stay at Emeraude Kivu Resort. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner.
Have very early morning breakfast and drive off to the chimpanzee trekking point in Nyungwe forest. You will be joined by the park ranger guides, who will direct you in the forest as you enjoy and informative guided nature walk, in search for the chimpanzees. Number of other wildlife and bird species are sighted along the trails. On finding the chimpanzees, an hour will be allowed with them. Later return, head for lunch, before heading for a canopy experience, which is roughly an hour and half walk. Later return and drive to your booked hotel for dinner and stay at Emeraude Kivu Resort. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner.
After a relaxed breakfast, transfer for a boat ride in Karongi, where you visit a number of islands, and Lake Kivu, explore the Lake on a boat ride and later return and drive to Gisenyi, catch up with lunch along the way, retire at your lodge at leisure at Paradise Kivu. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner
Today, after your breakfast, transfer to Musazne, and visit Diane Fossey research centre, learn about her work towards gorilla conservation, later head to your lodge for lunch. After lunch head for a canoe ride on the twin lakes, which takes roughly 2 hours, and later return in evening for dinner and overnight at Le Bamboo Gorilla Lodge. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner
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, you will just retire at leisure. Diner and overnight at the hotel at Le Bamboo Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner Day
After your morning breakfast, you will be transferred to the park head quarter for golden monkey trek procedures, just like the gorilla trekking. You will have time with the golden monkeys, before you return and drive to your lodge, for lunch and refreshment, thereafter, hit the road to Kigali and later transferred to the airport to catch up with your flight back home, as you mark an end of your 7 days in Rwanda.
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