10 Day Best of Rwanda Safari

During this 10 Day Best of Rwanda Safari, you will have a chance to visit Rwanda’s best tourist sites as well as enjoy the various tourist activities in the country such as Gorilla Trekking, cultural tours, chimpanzee tracking, boat rides and canopy walk.

Detailed Itinerary

 Day 1: Arrival in Kigali

On arrival in Kigali, you will be met by our safari guide from Baboon Safaris who will brief you about this safari and then drive you to Volcanoes National park where you will have dinner and spend the night

Accommodation options include: Budget – Kinigi Guest House, or Deluxe Hotel La Palme, or Luxury – Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Day 2: Transfer to Akagera Park, afternoon Boat Cruise

After an early breakfast you will transfer to Akagera national park where you will arrive in time for lunch at your accommodation. After your lunch, you will enjoy a boat-cruise on Lake Ihema during which you will see a number of wild animals including hippos and crocodiles plus a variety of water birds.

You will dine and spend the night at: Luxury: Rusizi Tented Camp, or deluxe: Akagera Game Lodge

Day 3: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise

Today you will enjoy game drives across the different trails in the park starting out in the early morning during which you will see some of the early riser species. Some of the commonly spotted animals here include: elephants, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, impalas, cape elands, water bucks, baboons, bush bucks, oribis as well as topis. You will head back to your accommodation and relax as well as have lunch before setting off to Lake Ihema where you will enjoy a boat cruise to see different wildlife like hippopotami, crocodiles and several water birds.

You will dine and spend the night at: Luxury: Rusizi Tented Camp, or deluxe: Akagera Game Lodge

Day 4: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park

 Today morning after breakfast you will transfer to Nyungwe National park making a number of stopovers along the way to different museums like Nyanza and Butare, as well as take very beautiful pictures. On arrival in Nyungwe Park you will check into your accommodation where you will have diner and spend the night.

Accommodation options include: Nyungwe forest lodge, Crater Safari Lodge, primates Lodge, Chimpanzee Guest House

Day 5: Chimpanzee tracking

Following an early breakfast you will transfer to the headquarters of the park where you will be briefed by the park warden about the guidelines of Chimpanzee tracking. After this led by your tracking guides you will begin the hike in the forest as you search for the chimps. Along the way, you will encounter a number of other primates including the black & white colobus monkeys, baboons and the vervet monkeys. Head back to your accommodation for dinner and spend the night.

Accommodation options include: Nyungwe forest lodge, Crater Safari Lodge, primates Lodge, Chimpanzee Guest House

Day 6: Canopy walk

Today morning you will have an amazing canopy walk to offer you a very unique view of the forest. you will see different primates jumping from one branch to another as well as see the different tree species found in this verdant forest.

Head back to your accommodation for dinner and spend the night.

Accommodation options include: Nyungwe forest lodge, Crater Safari Lodge, primates Lodge, Chimpanzee Guest House

Day 7: Transfer to Volcanoes Gorilla park

After breakfast you will begin on the scenic drive to the home of Gorillas – Volcanoes national park found in the northeastern corner of the country. on arrival you will check into your accommodation where you will dine and spend the night.

Accommodation options include: Luxury: Mountain Gorillas view Hotel, or 5 Volcanoes Lodge, or Da Vinci Lodge, or Gorilla Solution Lodge, Deluxe: Le bamboo Lodge, Budget: Muhabura Hotel

Day 8: Gorilla Trekking Adventure

Early morning after break you will be briefed by the park warden before beginning on the adventurous gorilla trekking activity which takes from one hour to 7 hours depending on the location of the gorilla group you are tracking. It’s from here that the trekking will begin led by the park rangers. You will search through the forest until you finally find the gorilla family. You will spend an hour with them and during that time you will have a chance to take photographs, videos and observe them. Later you will return for dinner and spend the night back at your accommodation.

Accommodation options include: Luxury: Mountain Gorillas view Hotel, or 5 Volcanoes Lodge, or Da Vinci Lodge, or Gorilla Solution Lodge, Deluxe: Le bamboo Lodge, Budget: Muhabura Hotel

Day 9: Golden monkey tracking or Hike to Dian Fossey’s Grave

Today you will have to activities to choose from. You will either go and track golden monkey or chose to     hike to Dian Fossey’s Karisoke research centre, the place where this early American anthropologist carried out several years of research and worked tirelessly to see that se conserves this species that at the time was dying out. You will see her tomb stone which is close to the burial place where digit her favorite gorilla was buried. Afterwards you will transfer to Lake Kivu where you will spend the night.

Day 10: Boat cruise and Return to Kigali.

 Today is the final day of our Safari. After breakfast, you will enjoy a boat ride to the coffee island, and also have a view of the surrounding islands. Later you will return to Kigali and depending on your departure flight be dropped at the airport.

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