8 Days Rwanda Gorillas & Wildlife Safari

This 8 Days Rwanda Gorillas & Wildlife Safari gives you deep insight about the beauty of Rwanda at its fullness. You will be able to learn about Rwanda’s culture, experience Rwanda gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park & wildlife in  Akagera National Park for wild game viewing, excellent bird watching and also visit the grave of the famed primatologist Dian Fossey. Below is the proposed itinerary for this kind of safari. The safari starts and ends in Kigali. This 8 days Gorilla safari helps you have a lifetime memorable experience while trekking the endangered Mountain gorillas. The trekking kicks off with a briefing about the activity at the Volcanoes National Park headquarters, you are then dropped at the trekking starting point guided by the park rangers and guides. Once you find the mountain gorillas, you will be allowed to spend only one hour with them watching them take care of the young ones, feeding them and combing their hair.

It’s on this day that you will be jetting at Kanombe international airport Kigali. You will be picked up by our ever on time driver and drive you straight to your hotel. Check in at Hotel des mille Collins [luxury] Iris guest house [budget] for dinner and overnight.

You will be picked up by your driver and embark on a 2 hours’ drive journey to Akagera nat6ional park on the Tanzania border. Arrive and check in at Akagera game lodge, have lunch and then relax. In the afternoon go on the game drive and return in the late afternoon before sunset for dinner and overnight.

Wake up so early for your breakfast and proceed for a morning game drive to catch up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts. The game drive will reward you with chances to see a variety elephants, buffaloes, lions, Masai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, orbit, topi, bush baby, leopard and bushbuck among others. Return to the Lodge for late breakfast and relax as we wait for lunch. Later this afternoon we may enjoy a Boat ride on Lake Ihema, which will reward you with large number of hippos, huge Nile crocodiles and about 525 bird species. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

Wake up so early for your breakfast and proceed for a morning game drive to catch up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts. The game drive will reward you with chances to see a variety elephants, buffaloes, lions, Masai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, orbit, topi, bush baby, leopard and bushbuck among others. Return to the Lodge for late breakfast and relax as we wait for lunch. Later this afternoon we may enjoy a Boat ride on Lake Ihema, which will reward you with large number of hippos, huge Nile crocodiles and about 525 bird species. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

After Breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters for a short briefing and then proceed into the forest for a chimp trekking adventure. Watch out for other primate species such as the Colobus monkeys, grey checked mangabey, red Colobus, blue monkeys, Olive baboons among others that give the forest the crown of the Primate capital of the World. Return for lunch and later transfer to Queen Elizabeth national park with a wide view of some animals en route such as the Elephants, buffaloes, Uganda Kobs among others. Arrive in the evening for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay at Mweya safari lodge (Luxury)/ Enganzi lodge (Deluxe)/ (Budget)

Wake up very early in the morning and drive back to Kigali and when there visit the genocide memorial, have lunch in Kigali and then afterwards proceed north to Ruhengeri in the northern Rwanda’s Musanze district. This drive will take you through the undulating hills of Rwanda. Reach in the evening and check in at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge [luxury], Lap-lame Hotel [mid-range]or Kinigi Guest House[budget] for dinner and overnight.

Rise up very early in the morning and have breakfast and thereafter proceed to volcanoes national park in Musanze district. Head straight to the park offices for briefing about the gorillas and allocation of gorilla groups and guides. 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 will 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. Drive back to the hotel for lunch and some relaxation. Then in the evening visit the Diane Fossey center and see where she was buried after being killed by the hunters of mountain gorillas in the mist. From here drive back to the hotel for dinner and overnight. Meal plan here is F/B

Have a nice relaxed final morning, where we can just soak in the ambiance of the place, reflect back upon the adventures of our past week, and pack. Depending on our flight schedules we may have lunch at the Lodge and then depart for Kigali for your return flight and that marks the end of TRIP.

This 8 Days Rwanda Gorillas & Wildlife Safari includes

  • Gorilla permits
  • Accommodation(Full Board)
  • Touring and Photography
  • Transport in 4WD vehicle
  • Driver/Guide(English speaking and professional)
  • Drinking water

This Tour Excludes

  • International flights
  • Laundry
  • Tips given to staff
  • Visas
  • Drinks/Beverages
  • Extra activities not included in the itinerary

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