9 days/8 nights: Rwanda Safari Tour
This safari tour is meant to cover Rwanda’s major tourist attractions including Akagera National Park, Parc National des Volcans, Nyungwe National Park, cultural sites and Lake Kivu among others.
Day One:
At Kanombe International Airport you will meet our tour guide who will transfer you to Windsor Umubano Hotel in Kigali for a dinner and an overnight.
Day Two:
After breakfast our tour guide will lead you to Parc National des Volcans in Ruhengeri district. You will be taken through magnificent scenery. Good roads connect Ruhengeri and Gisenyi and Southern Uganda, and the region as a whole has an agreeably moderate year-round climate and consistently attractive mountain scenery.
Have an overnight at Hotel Muhabura/Centre d’Accueil de l’Eglise Episcopale.
Day Three:
After breakfast, you will get some briefing from the park authorities before entering Parc National des Volcans for the mountain gorilla tracking - a hectic but a rewarding activity. You need to have packed lunch and water as the time to be spent in the rain forest is determined by the movement of the mountain gorilla.
Have an overnight at Hotel Muhabura (Full Board)
Day Four:
After breakfast, our tour guide will lead you to Gisenyi district in which Lake Kivu is situate. Gisenyi town will impress you with its splendid beaches at Lake Kivu.
Have a dinner and an overnight at Kivu Hotel (Full Board)
Day Five:
After your breakfast, the tour guide will now lead you to Nyungwe National Park en route you will visit Nyanza traditional palace of the royal king, the umwami. At the palace, you will be welcomed by an attendant who is well-versed with the traditions regarding the kingdom. He will be in position to narrate all those pre-colonial details to you. From their, proceed to Butare and tour the National museum. From there, you may proceed to Gikongoro so as to see Murambi Genocide memorial site. You will later access Nyungwe National Park in the evening.
Have a dinner and an overnight at ORTPN RestHouse.
Day Six:
After breakfast, you will be briefed by a park guide about the park. With the help of the park guides, you will commence chimpanzee trekking. Make sure you carry with you packed food and water.
The most prominent mammals in Nyungwe are primates. 13 primate species which occur in Nyungwe represent something like 20-25% of the total number in Africa, a phenomenal figure which in East Africa is only comparable to Uganda’s Kibale Forest.
Notwithstanding the chimpanzees, the most celebrated of Nyungwe’s primates is the Rwenzori colobus, a race of the more widespread Angola colobus which is restricted to the Albertine Rift. Although all colobus monkeys are sociable, the ones in Nyungwe are unique insofar as they typically move in troops of several hundred animals.
After the forest tour move back to ORTPN RestHouse for a dinner and an overnight (Full Board).
Day Seven:
After your breakfast, transfer to Akagera National Park. This park borders with Tanzania. It is Rwanda’s answer to the famous savannah reserves of Anglophone East and Southern Africa. You can enjoy an evening game drive. You will have an opportunity to view animals such as elephants, giraffes, Burchell’s zebra, topi, lions, and impalas among others. For birders, you will be able to see shoebill, sacred ibis goliath heron, African Jacana, and in the swamps- the stunning and highly vocal papyrus gonalek, as well as the more secretive and nondescript Caruthers’ cisticola and white-winged warbler.
Have your dinner and an overnight at Akagera Game Lodge.
Day Eight:
After your breakfast you may go for a boat cruise at Lake Ihema in the interest of viewing the hippos, the enormous crocodiles, and a variety of different bird species. Alternatively, you may enjoy a game drive through the park as you will go looking at the different animal species. In the afternoon, transfer to Kigali and have your lunch at Hotel des Mille Collines where you will have a dinner and an overnight.
Day Nine:
Back to Kanombe International Airport for your flight back home.
End of the Safari tour.
