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9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari

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9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari “Tranquil in the Misty 1000 Hills”

9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari takes you introduces you to Kigali city and its rich culture, a drive down to the Gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes, as well as giving you a highlight of the Golden monkeys and Chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest National Park. Gorilla trekking activity in this place is very exciting as it full fills your long dreams for nature, other activities in the land of 1000 hills include a City tour in Kigali, a visit to the 1994 genocide memorial site in Kigali, craft centers, and twin lakes of Ruhondo and community walks in Kigali.

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Detailed 9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari

Day 1: Arrival/Kigali – meet greet – transfer to hotel – briefing – overnight

On arrival at the Kanombe Airport in Kigali, the tour guide will pick you up and drive you to your hotel for dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on B/D)

Accommodation options: Flame Tree Village (Mid ranger) – option for upgrade to Kigali Serena

Day 2: Kigali – City tour – Genocide Memorial – transfer to Kinigi

Following breakfast have a city tour and visit the Kigali Memorial Genocide Centre: which well exhibits Rwanda’s history of the genocide on video shows, see photographs, read some written accounts see several art crafts, read personal testimonies as well as exhibitions.

The exhibition shows a section referred to as wasted lives which refers to the genocides plus holocausts in Southwestern Africa, Bosnia, Armenia, and Cambodia. After your lunch drive to Volcanoes National Park to trek gorillas, dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (Standard upmarket), La Palma (Moderate) – Option for an upgrade to Super luxury – Sabinyo Silverback lodge/Virunga Lodge

Day 3 of 9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari: Kinigi – Gorilla Trekking – community experience

Gorilla trekking is usually the highlight of all Africa safaris. Parc national des Volcans is the best location to trek this uncommon yet fascinating mountain gorilla (the Gorilla beringei beringei) in Africa. This park is found on Rwanda’s border with DR Congo, and Uganda. This chain of mountains has 7 volcanoes and the Karisimbi is the highest standing over 4500 meters.

The slopes covered with bamboo and rainforest vegetation are home to some of the last surviving mountain gorillas that were first studied comprehensively by George Schaller and, not so many years ago by Dian Fossey who carried out her study there the 13 years until she died mysteriously at Bisoke.

Without her persistent efforts of fighting against gorilla poaching, maybe there wouldn’t be any gorillas left in Rwanda (you can read her book Gorillas in the Mist). There are 4 habituated gorilla families within Parc National des Volcans, counting the Susa Group having 35 individuals. The other gorilla families are: the Sabinyo having 13 individuals, the Amahura having 16 individuals as well as Group 13 having only 6.

It is not very challenging to find them and each gorilla family can be visited by a maximum of 8 people each day, hence availing 32 permits each day. After gorilla tracking, return to your hotel and relax, dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (Standard upmarket), La Palma (Moderate) – Option for an upgrade to Super luxury – Sabinyo Silverback lodge/Virunga Lodge

Day 4: Kinigi – Golden Monkey trekking – transfer to – Gisenyi – free evening

After an early morning breakfast drive to Gisenyi to trek the golden monkeys, lunch enjoy a community walk to interact with the resident who may entertain you with cultural dances. You may choose to observe the locals brewing local beer from yellow bananas, dine, and overnight. (Meal Plan on Full Board)

Accommodation option: Kivu Serena Hotel (Mid-range) – free evening

Day 5: Kivu – transfer Gisenyi – Nyungwe Forest National Park

After breakfast, will pay a visit to the Imbabazi orphanage home, spare some time off with these little souls, and following lunch continue to Butare the intellectual center of Rwanda to visit the national university plus the Institute of Scientific Research as well as the national museum, in the evening we will proceed to Nyungwe forest to check in our lodge for dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel – (Mid-range) – option for upgrade to Super luxury – Nyungwe lodge

Day 6 of 9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari: Gisenyi – Nyungwe Forest – Chimpanzee trekking – free evening

Nyungwe Forest is among the greatly safeguarded montane rainforests in the whole of Africa. It extends over an expanse of 970 sq km and offers breathtaking scenery looking over the forest plus Lake Kivu, in addition to sights to the north of the faraway volcanoes of Parc National des Virunga.

After breakfast proceed with chimpanzee trekking within the Nyungwe Forest National Park. This forest is home to huge chimpanzee troops only comparable to those in Uganda’s Kibale Forest national park. The L’Hoest’s monkeys plus the white Angolan Colobus monkeys do make primate tourism within this forest equivalent to no other in Africa. After lunch, drive to Nyanza the historical seat of the long-ago kings of Rwanda.

This warrior’s dance is a gem of the choreographic heritage of this country, adorned with a lion mane completed with sisal fiber plus rings of bells worn on their ankles together with an angelic choir and an exciting rhythm, this is the type of cultural dance which will be organized if you request, dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel – (Mid-range) – option for upgrade to Super luxury – Nyungwe lodge

Day 7: Nyungwe Forest NP – drive to Akagera National Park – Evening Game drive

After breakfast, we will embark on the drive to Akagera national park; the drive will take us through breathtaking landscapes, stopovers for community interactions, and lunch in Kigali as we proceed to the park for an evening game drive. We will have time enough to check in the lodge for our dinner and overnight. (Meal Plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Akagera game lodge/Rusizi Tented Camp (Standard Upmarket)

Day 8 of 9 Days Rwanda Primate Adventure Safari: Akagera National Park – Game drive – boat cruise – evening game drive – overnight

Early breakfast, start our game drive around the park to look for the nocturnal predators as well as the early morning risers like lions, buffaloes, leopards, waterbucks, elephants, hippos, and warthogs.

For birders, Akagera National Park is a paradise for birders hosting a diversity of migratory and also Albertine Rift Endemics, we will return for lunch, and in the afternoon, we will go for a boat ride, and wind up the day with an evening game drive. We will return for dinner and overnight. (Meal plan on F/B)

Accommodation options: Akagera game lodge/Rusizi Tented Camp (Standard Upmarket)

Day 9: Akagera National Park – drive to Kigali – departure

Following breakfast drive to Kigali and later be transferred to the airport for your departure flight. (Meal Plan on B/L)

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Based on 2 persons sharing services – per person standard rate
Standard Net rate – based on Mid-range Accommodation per person: $5,535.00
For an extra 3^rd person or more please contact the office for rates

Overnight stay options:

If staying in Kigali, please request assistance at the time of booking this safari to allow us ample time to make arrangements. If departing Kigali the same night, please note’ by use of road’ returns to Kigali are always mid-afternoon (approximately 13h00), please DO NOT book flights departing before 18h00 respectively to allow time for security, check-in, and if any delays due to weather.