Detailed Itinerary
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Day 1: City tour and Transfer to volcanoes National Park.
Depending on the arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be welcomed by the tour guide of the company and if there’s time, you can go for a city tour of Kigali. Here, you will visit different places like genocide memorials, markets etc. You may also choose to have Lunch in Kigali and then after, transfer to Kinigi which is the closest town to Volcanoes national park which is the home to mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Dinner and over at Accommodations
Supper Luxury Lodges: one and only lodge / singita-kwitonda-lodge
Normal Luxury: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge/ Virunga Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Five Volcanoes Lodge /Virunga Spar Resort
Day 2: Gorilla tracking & Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
After your breakfast, you will proceed to the park headquarters for a briefing about gorilla trekking as an activity. Here, the park guides will also assign you groups and also give you the trekking guidelines. Thereafter get into the tropical rain forest and search for the mountain gorillas starting from where they were the previous day until you find them. You may find them doing their daily chores of feeding their young ones, climbing trees and others just relaxing. Take your best photographs having switched off your flash. This whole exercise takes a maximum of 1 hour and then return to the park offices for your gorilla tracking certificate. After you will go to the lodge for lunch and later transfer to Nyungwe forest national park dinner and overnight
Accommodation options:
Luxury Lodges: one and only Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Nyungwe Hill Top Lodge
Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking and Canopy walk.
Wake up very early in the morning and have breakfast and then after go for chimpanzee briefing and thereafter, enter Nyungwe forest in the company of ranger guides in search for colonies of Chimpanzees and many monkey species like Blue Monkeys, red-tailed monkeys and grey checked mangabeys, colobus monkeys, plus beautiful forest birds among others.
Back to your lodge for lunch, relaxation as preparing for any one of the above-mentioned activities of your choice, in the afternoon. Return to the lodge for dinner & overnight.
Accommodation options:
Luxury Lodges: One and only Lodge
Mid Range Lodges: Nyungwe Hill Top Lodge
Day 4: Transfer back to Kigali
After Morning Breakfast at the lodge, you will transfer back to Kigali with an en-route visit to some of the exciting Tourists attractions like Nyanza palace, Genocide memorials and the museum and later be dropped at the airport.
