TYPE: Mid-range or Luxury Safari

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

-Canopy Walk

-Gorilla trekking

-Kigali City Tour

-Chimp trekking

-Golden Monkey trekking

DETAILED/SAFARI/TOUR ITINERARY:

Day 1: – Arrival in Kigali

On arrival, our driver-guide will be waiting to transfer you to the hotel in Kigali for an overnight stay. He will brief you about the tour and what time to pick you the next day.

Mid-range Accommodation: – Heaven Boutique Hotel, Onomo Hotel or Hotel des Mille Collines

Luxury Accommodation: – Kigali Serena Hotel, or Hemingways Retreat or Radisson Blu Hotel

Day 2: - Kigali City Tour and drive to Volcanoes National Park

After breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and head to Kigali City for sightseeing with visits to a local market as well as other monuments in the city.

During the city tour, we will also get to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial which is such an emotional and touching experience. We will then have lunch and then embark on the journey to Volcanoes National Park arriving at the lodge later in the evening.

Travel time: ± 3 hours

Mid-range accommodation: – Mountain Gorilla View Lodge or Ingagi Lodge

Luxury accommodation: – Virunga Lodge or Wilderness Sabyinyo

Day 3: - Gorilla Trekking

Early in the morning after breakfast, we will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing and then later you will enter the rainforest and along the montane slopes of Virunga. This remarkable experience of searching for the famous Mountain Gorillas is strenuous thus requires one to be physically fit, however, the thrill of encountering these humble and gentle giants erases the poor memories you went through while finding them. You will spend one hour with them as you take photos and learn about their behaviors. Then later in the afternoon, there are some activities you can do at Iby’iwacu cultural village or visit the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Mid-range accommodation: – Mountain Gorilla View Lodge or Ingagi Lodge

Luxury accommodation: – Virunga Lodge or Wilderness Sabyinyo

Day 4: – Golden Monkey Trekking and transfer to Lake Kivu

Today you will be taken from one side of the national park to another, here you will be taken on a guided walk into the thick bamboo thickets in search of the one of the rarest and most beautiful of all African primates with black limbs, tail tips and crown. Volcanoes National Park has a Golden Monkey population of around 200 individuals that has been studied and habituated since 2002. After tracking, we will embark on the journey to the beautiful Lake Kivu arriving later in the afternoon. Upon arrival, you will check in and then head out for a boat ride on this beautiful lake before returning to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Travel time: ± 3 hours

Mid-range accommodation: – Kivu Lodge

Luxury accommodation: – Lake Kivu Serena Hotel

Day 5: - To Nyungwe Forest National Park

On this day you will have a late breakfast and leave Lake Kivu at leisure for Nyungwe Forest National Park with a stop in Butare for lunch and a visit to a very nice ethnographic museum. After lunch you will continue with the journey to Nyungwe forest arriving later in the afternoon. As you drive through the park, you should be able to see some beautiful Angolan colobus monkeys and other primates.

Travel time: ± 3 hours

Mid-range accommodation: - Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel

Luxury accommodation: - Icayi Songa Lodge

Day 6: - Chimp Tracking and Canopy Walk

Today you will once again enter the rainforest, an exceptional place for primates and boasting 13 species (20% of Africa's total). This morning you will track down a troop of chimpanzees to learn more about the behaviors. In the afternoon, you will go for a canopy walk through this beautiful rain forest. Here, you will have a chance of spotting some of the other primate species, birds and mammals that inhabit the forest. This forest is home to about 275 species of birds of which an impressive 25 are endemic, 270 species of trees and shrubs, 100 different orchids and many large mammals such elephants, leopards, servals, golden cats, bush pigs and black-fronted duiker. There are loads of walking tracks in the park and the experienced guides will show you the best ones for particular wildlife. Thereafter, we will bring you back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Mid-range accommodation: - Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel

Luxury accommodation: - Icayi Songa Lodge

Day 7: – To Kigali/Departure (Home)

This morning you will have breakfast and then embark on the journey to Kigali, where you will be transferred to the airport for check-in for your flight back home.

Accommodation – None

Travel time: ± 6 hours

OUR ADVENTURE WITH YOU ENDS HERE!!!