Day 1 : Airport transfer.
Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will be welcome by your driver guide who will transfer you to your booked accommodation : Evening at your leisure. Dinner and overnight at Hotel des Mille Colline (Mid-range) or Five to Five Hotel (budget). Meal Plan : Dinner
Day 2 : Transfer to Volcanoes National Park. Travel time +2hrs
Today you will be picked at your lodge, head for a city tour to visit the local market and Kigali genocide memorial ground before being transferred to Musanze near Volcanoes National Park where you will your dinner and overnight stay. Accommodation option : le Bambou Gorilla Lodge (Mid-range) or Muhabura lodge (budget). Meal Plan : Full board.
Day 3 : Gorilla Trekking & Cultural visit
Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the gorilla trekking briefing from the park headquarters and thereafter, you will enter the jungle with your packed lunch to search the shy mountain gorillas and enjoy their life style in their real home. After meeting the gorillas, you can sit around these great apes for a whole hour watching their social life as you take pictures. On a gorilla safari, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as walking shoes, packed food and mineral water, insect repellent, sun screen and hut. The gorilla tracking experience takes half or whole day depending on the movements of these primates. After this gorilla tracking experience you will return to your lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, ready for a village foot safari, to explore the indigenous local life with a taste of the traditional performance. Diner and overnight at le Bambou Gorilla Lodge (Mid-range) or Muhabura lodge (budget). Meal Plan : Full board.
Day 4 : Transfer to Nyungwe.
Today after your relaxed warm early morning breakfast, you will be picked by our safari driver guide who will transfer you to Nyungwe forest National Park, with an enroute boat ride at lake Kivu. Accommodation, dinner and overnight stay at Gisakura Guest House : Meal Plan : Lunch dinner
Day 5 : Chimpanzee trekking & transfer to Kigali.
After your early morning breakfast, you will be transferred to the park for briefing and later you enter the forest in search for these primates. One hour will be allocated to you, to spend with the chimpanzees upon finding them. You will have enough time to take some good pictures to create your strong memory of your visit to Africa. You will later return from your trekking head for lunch and later transfer back to Kigali. End of service !
Tour Includes
• Ground transportation and fuel
• Services of a professional English speaking safari guide
• All Park entry fees
• En route lunch
• Visit to Museum
• Chimp trek
• 1 Gorilla permits ($1500), per person to be paid in advance
• Cultural tour
• Mineral water while on safari
• Site seeing.
Tour Excludes :
• All items of a personal nature
• Gratuities for safari guide
• Travel Insurance
• Laundry
• Visa Fees
• Air Fares and connecting flights
• Alcoholic beverages
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