12-Day Best of Rwanda Adventure Safari

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 know of, and later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for Covid testing, dinner and overnight stay at hotel.

Luxury accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel
Midrange accommodation: Mille Collines Hotel
Meals plan: dinner

Today after taking your early morning breakfast, you will wait for your Covid test results, later checkout of the lodge and drive to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial Grounds, which honors the memory of the more than one million Rwandans killed in 1994 through education and peace-building. You will be able to watch and listen to some video clips from some of the survivors’ of the incident.

Later you will proceed with a drive to Musanze through the magnificent route to your booked accommodation to catch up with the late lunch and later spend the rest of the afternoon relax and prepare for the next day’s trekking or visit the Dian Fossey Center if time permits. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Luxury accommodation: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Mid-range accommodation: Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the briefing from the park officials and thereafter enter the jungle 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 gazing into their big round eyes. 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 movement of these primates.

After this gorilla tracking experience in Rwanda, you will have informative memorable experience in life. In the afternoon, you will head for cultural experience at Iby Iwacu Cultural Center, had a great taste of Rwanda culture. Later return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Luxury accommodation: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Mid-range Accommodation: Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Today after you warm early morning breakfast, you will be picked by our safari driver guide who will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing and start off you day Golden Monkey Trekking. Just like the gorilla trekking experience, the same applies to golden monkey trekking though no so hectic like gorilla trekking.

You will later return for lunch, and twin for Canoe ride in the Twin Lakes, as well as visit to the Dian Fossey institute to learn about the great work of this amazing lady. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Luxury accommodation: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Mid-range accommodation: Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

After a delightful breakfast in the morning, you will transfer to Gisenyi, which is roughly an hour away from Musanze, and you will head for a boat trip in Lake Kivu, which is roughly a two hours boat trip to explore this beautiful Lake and its numerous islands.

And later proceed for a coffee experience in Kinunu, where you have a real taste or Rwandan organic coffee, before you transfer back to the lodge for late lunch, and spend the afternoon at leisure, or visit Atalier de poupee, learn about the great work of these amazing ladies, some of whom are widows. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Luxury accommodation: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel
Mid-range accommodation: Paradise Kivu
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

It’s a day of full of just relaxation at the hotel, as you have a lovely moment here. You may decide to as well relax by the beach or pool side. All meals will be served at your ease at the hotel.

Luxury accommodation: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel
Mid-range accommodation: Paradise Kivu
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Today, after you morning breakfast, you will transfer to Nyungwe forest via Kibuye through the beautiful Congo Nile trail that rewards you with stunning view of Lake Kivu, and the neighboring villages, and check in at your lodge for lunch.

After lunch, you will head off to visit the forest for a canopy walk, for a great tree top view. 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 to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Luxury accommodation: Lake Kivu Marina Bay
Mid-range Accommodation: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Today, after your early morning cap of African coffee, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking. You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees.

After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before for a waterfalls hike, in the forest, which reward you with a great visit to different waterfalls within the forest, as well as sighting a number of primates and bird species, later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay.

Luxury accommodation: Lake Kivu Marina Bay
Mid-range accommodation: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to Akagera National Park, via Kigali, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum and Ethnographic Museum in Southern Province, this will give you a great history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership of Kingship with an en route lunch in Kigali. You will as well have departure covid test and later proceed to Akagera National Park and spend the afternoon at your leisure.

Luxury accommodation: Ruzizi Tented Camp
Mid-range accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

After an early morning breakfast at 6:00 am and leave for an early morning game drive in Akagera national park to catch up with late hunters and early risers. We will be searching for the big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, and recently the re-introduced Lions and Rhinos. The park is a varied habitat for wildlife and a number bird species with over 500 bird species in the park making it a birding paradise.

You will later return to lodge for lunch. After lunch, we head for a boat trip on Lake Ihema watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores and meet the buffaloes and elephants wallowing by the water banks.

In the evening, you will go for a night game drive, to explore the park and try to sight some nocturnal, search for some wildlife for roughly 2 – 3 hours. Later return to the lodge for dinner and evening stay.

Luxury accommodation: Ruzizi Tented Camp
Mid-range Accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

After an early morning breakfast at 6:00 am and leave for an early morning game drive in Akagera national park to catch up with late hunters and early risers. We will be searching for the big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, and recently the re-introduced Lions and Rhinos. The park is a varied habitat for wildlife and a number bird species with over 500 bird species in the park making it a birding paradise.

You will have a picnic lunch. After lunch, proceed with your game drive for more search of abundant wildlife within this great park. Later drive to Kigali, for dinner and overnight stay.

Luxury accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel
Mid-range accommodation: Mille Collines Hotel
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel in Kigali, depending on your flight time, you will be transferred to the airport to catch up with your midnight flight back home.

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