Overview
Arrival at the Airport, meet and greet with the guide later transfer to the Hotel for an overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Mille Collines Hotel
Itinerary
Arrival at the Airport, meet and greet with the guide later transfer to the Hotel for an overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Mille Collines Hotel
Transfer to Nyungwe National Park via Butare and visit the King’s palace, art gallery and national museum. You will have lunch at Ibis hotel in Butare before we proceed to Nyungwe forest. The drive will take 6 hours but it’s a great drive through the villages of Rwanda as you enjoy local lifestyles and an amazing landscape. Dinner and overnight at Nyungwe Top View Hotel.
Early breakfast at 4:30am then drive to the edge of the forest where chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe starts. You will be back to the hotel to refresh and have lunch. Go for the canopy walk in the afternoon or the option to do the waterfall hike. Dinner and overnight at Nyungwe Top View Hotel.
Transfer to Volcanoes National Park via Butare, Muhanga, Ngororero and then Volcanoes National Park. We stop in Muhanga for lunch and refreshments. The drive will take more than 8 hours but it’s a great drive through the remotest villages of Rwanda as you enjoy local lifestyles along the Congo-Nile trail.
Stop at Lake Kivu for a thrilling boat ride to visit the Napoleon and Peace Islands, proceed to Volcanoes Destionation.
Dinner and overnight at Le Bambou Lodge.
Brief of the day: Early morning - Gorilla Trekking and visit Buhanga forest in the afternoon where all the Rwanda kings were initiated or Kinigi Cultural Village for traditional dances and music, bio-mimicry and traditional healing lessons.
Volcanoes National Park:
After breakfast we transfer to the park.
After completing our park formalities, we are embark on a once in a life time experience of tracking mountain gorillas.
Once you spot them you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breathtaking wildlife experiences on earth!!! You get so close to these awesome giant primates. You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Tracking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience.
Be back at the base in time for a late lunch! Some gorilla families however are more elusive and tracking can take a full day, especially when it is wet and muddy. TRANSFER TO KIGALI END OF SERVICE!
