8 Days Rwanda Best Adventure Safari
Overview
This 8 Days Rwanda Best Adventure Safari will give you a great memory of Rwandan tour and you explore the Nyungwe National Park and Volcanoes 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 be able to do gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking and golden monkey trekking which is a life time adventure, before your flight out of the country, patched with great memories.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Airport Transfer to Hotel
Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will go through custom and immigration, and you will be met by our company guide who will warmly welcome you to the Land of a thousand hills that Rwanda is known of, a later drive to your booked hotel for the briefing about your 8 Days Rwanda Best Adventure Safari, then dinner and overnight stay at hotel.
Accommodation options
Meals: Dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park. Travel time +2hours
Today, after your morning breakfast at your hotel, you head for visiting the begin your day with a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, where you can reflect on Rwanda's history and resilience. Following this visit, embark on a scenic two-hour drive to Musanze, where you’ll have the opportunity to catch up with lunch upon arrival. If time allows, make brief stops along the way to take in some of the breathtaking viewpoints. In the afternoon, you will transfer to the Volcanoes area to explore, before finally heading to your hotel for a well-deserved dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Gorilla Trekking and twin lakes visit
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 your unforgettable gorilla trekking experience, return to your lodge to enjoy a well-deserved lunch and freshen up. Following lunch, set out for a leisurely walk along the scenic twin lakes, where you'll also enjoy a relaxing boat ride. Later, return to the hotel for a delightful dinner and a restful overnight stay.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Golden Monkey trekking and Transfer to Gisenyi Travel Time +2hrs
In the morning, after breakfast, you will transfer to the park headquarters for a briefing on the code of conduct during the golden monkey trek. After the briefing, you will head into the jungle to track these shy primates. Unlike gorilla trekking, golden monkey treks are less physically demanding. Once you encounter the golden monkeys, you will have an opportunity to observe them in their natural habitat before hiking back to the starting point. Afterward, return to the lodge for a hot lunch. Following lunch, you will transfer to Lake Kivu for an afternoon of relaxation. Dinner and overnight are at the lodge.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Coffee plantation, Boat in Lake Kivu and transfer to Nyungwe NP.
Today, you will continue your 8-Day Rwanda Best Adventure Safari. After enjoying your breakfast in the morning, you will proceed to the Kinunu Coffee Plantation for an immersive experience in coffee cultivation and processing. Following this enriching activity, you will transfer to Kibuye, where you will have lunch before embarking on an afternoon boat ride on the serene Lake Kivu. During the boat ride, you will visit several picturesque islands, soaking in the beauty of this remarkable lake. Later in the day, you will drive to Nyungwe National Park and check into your reserved hotel. Dinner and overnight will be at the lodge.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Chimpanzee Trekking in Nyungwe National Park.
Early morning enjoys your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive to Nyungwe, reach and head for the chimpanzee trekking adventure, in the might forest of Nyungwe, and later have lunch. In the afternoon, you will head for tea plantation and processing experience. Later return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Canopy walk and drive to Kigali. Travel time +5 hours
Today, after you morning breakfast, you will head for a canopy walk on the forest. This 70 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a luck day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return and drive to Kigali, with en route lunch, and visit to the King Palace Museum. Time allowing, visit Kimironko local market for shopping. Dinner and overnight at the Hotel.
Accommodation options
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Kigali City Tour and Transfer to Kigali Airport
Today, is the end of 8 Days Rwanda Best Adventure Safari. After your morning breakfast at your hotel, and later you head for Kigali city tour, with a visit to Nyamirambo women Centre, learn about the women cooperatives and their great work, and later visit the Kigali genocide memorial ground, learn about the history of the Rwanda genocide of 1994, later return and have lunch before transferred to the airport to catch up with your night flight back home.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Options
| Accommodation | 1 Pax | 2 Pax | 3 Pax | 4 Pax | 5 Pax | 6 Pax | S.S.R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Accommodation | $ 5,480 | $ 4,208 | $ 3,980 | $ 3,748 | $ 3,646 | $ 3,542 | $ 166 |
| Mid-range Accommodation | $ 6,402 | $ 4,747 | $ 4,591 | $ 4,287 | $ 4,178 | $ 4,070 | $ 515 |
| Luxury Accommodation | $ 8,272 | $ 6,001 | $ 5,961 | $ 5,541 | $ 5,500 | $ 5,335 | $ 1,076 |
What's included
- Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- 1 golden monkey permit per person
- 1 Gorilla permit per person: 1500 $
- Canopy walk
- Tea Plantation visit
- Congo Nile trail hike
- Museums visit
- Twin lakes visit with Boat trips
- Diane Fossey Institute visit
- All meals as mentioned with a soft drink during meals
- Boat ride on Lake Kivu
- Kigali city tour
- Services of English speaking driver/guide
- 1-liter bottle of mineral water per day per person during safari
What's excluded
- Expenses of personal nature like: Air fare, Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills and cigars.
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