Kigali International Airport (Google Map)
8:00 AM
You will arrive at Kigali International Airport; you will meet the guide who will transfer you to the Hotel where you will have dinner and overnight. Overnight at Akagera Game Lodge BB.
Before breakfast, you will have an early morning game drive and have a chance to see animals like Butchell’s Zebra, lions, elephants, topi, etc, and over 425 species of birds including the shoe-billed stock, African jacana, sacred ibis goliath heron, etc. In the afternoon, you will drive to Kigali and arrive in time for dinner. Overnight at Hotel Chezlando/Hotel Gorillas.
Early morning after breakfast you will drive to Nyungwe National park. You will have lunch en En route or get to your place of accommodation in time for lunch. Check-in at Gisakura Guest House and then go for an afternoon primate walk in the forest. You may have a chance to see the colubus monkeys and birds including the Rwenzori turaco. Dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House.
Early morning before breakfast at around 4:00 am, you will enter Nyungwe forest and search for Chimpanzee. You will have a chance to see some of these close relatives to man, see how they feed and play with each other, and then return to the lodge for late breakfast and lunch. After driving to Ruhengeri. Dinner and overnight at Muhabura Lodge (BB) or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (FB).
Wake up early morning and drive to Ruhengeri for an encounter with the gorillas. En route, you will be able to see the pyrethrum plantations and on arrival at Ruhengeri, the guide will pick you up and proceed to Parc national de Volcans the home to the rare mountain gorillas. You will take a hike up to the bamboo forest to spend a magical hour in the company of the gorillas and then return to the lodge for lunch. After lunch drive to Kigali. Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Chezlando/Hotel Gorillas.
following breakfast, you will have a city tour. Visit the city and curio markets, and then have lunch. In the afternoon, you will transfer to the airport and catch your flight back home.
