Day 1 – ARRIVE KIGALI > GENOCIDE MEMORIAL VISIT
You will be met on arrival at Kigali International
Airport and be transferred to your Hotel for check in. Time allowing visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre and a City tour. Dinner and Overnight at your
Hotel on bed and breakfast basis
Budget – Five to Five Hotel BB
Mid-Range – Lemigo Hotel BB
High End – Kigali
Serena Hotel BB
Day 2 - DRIVE TO NYUNGWE NP (220kms / Drive time 7hrs)
0800hrs: Breakfast at the Hotel and leave the City for
Nyungwe National Park via Butare Museum
and lunch. Proceed and arrive at your Hotel/Lodge for dinner and
overnight.
Budget – Gisakura Guest House FB
Mid-Range – Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel FB
High End –
Emeraude Kivu Hotel (Rusizi) FB
Day 3 - CHIMPANZEE TREKKING (Time taken with Chimpanzees: 1hr)
0500hrs: Take an early morning breakfast drive to this park for the
starting point of your Chimpanzee trek. Two
species of chimpanzee occur in Africa. There is the Bonobo and the Common
Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes (often shortened to Chimpanzee, and sometimes
referred to as the Robust Chimpanzee). Return back for lunch and by 1400hrs - enjoy a Canopy
walk in the Park. Admire the entire
Park
from a 50M high Canopy line above the trees giving out other chances of seeing
other various Primate species in this beautiful rainy tropical forest. Thereafter dinner and overnight.
Budget – Gisakura Guest House FB
Mid-Range – Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel FB
High End –
Emeraude Kivu Hotel (Rusizi) FB
Day 4 - DRIVE FROM NYUNGWE to GISENYI (287kms / 6hrs)
0800hrs : Breakfast at Guest House and check out and
drive along the beautiful shores of Lake Kivu to Gisenyi with a stop-over for
lunch at Kibuye town, proceed on and en-route with a City tour of Gisenyi,
the border town to
Congo DRC and continue to your Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Budget – Palme Beach Resort FB
Mid-Range – Hill View Hotel FB
High End – Lake
Kivu Serena Beach Hotel FB
Day 5 - BOAT RIDE + DRIVE TO MUSANZE (60kms / 1hr)
0800hrs: Breakfast at the Hotel and thereafter enjoy a 1-hr boat ride on the
Lake and swims, Lunch and in the afternoon drive to Musanze, the second
largest town in Rwanda, with a stunning backdrop of five Volcanoes mountains
for dinner and overnight.
Budget – Best View Hotel FB
Mid-Range – Ingagi Park View Lodge FB
High End – Virunga
Lodge AI or Governors Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge AI
Day 6 - GORILLA TRACKING (Time taken with Gorillas: 1hr)
0630hrs: Enjoy breakfast at the lodge and be transferred to
Volcanoes National Park headquarters at Kinigi and for Gorilla tracking
registration and briefing. Kindly ensure clients have carried their original
passports to match the Gorilla permits details provided at the time of
booking.
By 0700hrs: You will be divided into
groups of 8 persons per Park Guide and he will conduct a Gorilla tracking
briefing on the dos and don'ts as well as the history of the Gorilla Family to
be visited.
By 0800hrs: Leave the headquarters to the head
trail where you will begin Gorilla tracking in the forest. Depending of where the Gorilla family
allocated is on that particular day, the treks vary and ranges from Half Hour
to about 6hrs. After Gorilla tracking return to your Lodge for lunch and afternoon at leisure around the lodge or
find enough time to admire your photos on the Gorilla tracking activities or
visit the Iby'Iwacu Cultural Village and mingle with the local community in the
cultural activities and traditional Rwandan dances. Dinner and overnight at your accommodation.
Budget – Best
View Hotel FB
Mid-Range – Ingagi Park View Lodge FB
High End – Virunga Lodge AI or Governors
Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge AI
Day 7 - RETURN TO KIGALI &
DEPART (110kms / 2hrs)
Breakfast at your Hotel and
thereafter dive back to Kigali City and time allowing enjoy lunch and last-minute shopping around the City especially at Caplaki
Art and craft shops followed by a transfer to Kigali Airport for departure
flight.
End of services.