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What's included
- A guided tour of important places
- All meals included
- Medical insurance and emergency insurance
- Personal expenses
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Tour Summary
This 6 Days Gorilla trekking and Game Safari in Rwanda will give you the opportunity to trek Mountain Gorillas and Golden Monkeys in Volcanoes National Park, you will as well do game drives in Akagera National Park to see the Big 5 animals. You will have excellent bird watching, cultural excursions and Nature walks. This 6 Days Safari in Rwanda is an all-inclusive trip that will start and end in Kigali.
Summarized Itinerary
- Day 1: Arrival, Kigali city tour and transfer to Volcanoes National Park.
- Day 2: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park.
- Day 3: Golden Monkey trekking in Volcanoes National Park and Visit the Dian Fossey Tomb.
- Day 4: Drive to Akagera National Park for an evening game drive and overnight.
- Day 5: Game drives and boat trip on Lake Ihema.
- Day 6: Transfer to the Airport for your departure flight out to end the 7 Days Gorilla Tracking in Rwanda Safari.
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Day 5
- Day 6
Arrival and transfer to Volcanoes National Park
On arrival at the Kigali international Airport, you will be met by our safari guide who will transfer you to Volcanoes National Park. The journey to the North goes through the beautiful terraced hillsides that display Rwanda’s landscape and the beautiful breathtaking land of over 1000 hills.
Overnight stay options: at Muhavura for budget, at le bambo hotel for mid-range or at Virunga lodge for luxury
Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
After breakfast you will drive to the park headquarters of Parc National des Volcans. There you will be briefed by the ranger guides. With packed lunch you will then start the gorilla trekking through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga. You may have an optional visit to the Ibyiwacu ex poacher’s village for cultural performance after tracking.
Overnight stay options: at Muhavura for budget, at le bambo hotel for mid-range or at Virunga lodge for luxury
Golden Monkey trekking in Volcanoes national park and visit the Diana Fossey Tomb
After breakfast, you will have a golden monkey track. These golden monkeys are the most endangered primates in the Volcanoes. After lunch you will transfer to Karisoke where Dian Fossey a woman who carried out Comprehensive research about Mountain Gorillas in Africa was buried. At that spot where she was buried, it’s also the same spot where she buried her friendly Gorilla which was called Digit. After the visit you will transfer back to your hotel.
Overnight stay options: at Muhavura for budget, at le bambo hotel for mid-range or at Virunga lodge for luxury
Drive to Akagera National Park for an evening game drive and overnight.
After breakfast at your lodge, you will drive to the East of Rwanda to Akagera National Park bordering Tanzania which has beautiful undulating plains with dense, broad-leafed woodland, lighter acacia woodland and rolling grassland with an extensive series of lakes linked by papyrus swamps forming a sprawling wetland.
Dinner and an overnight stay at Akagera Game Lodge
Game drives and boat trip on Lake Ihema.
You will have early morning game drives in the park. These game drives will involve seeing hippos, elephants, buffalos, giraffe, hyenas, crocodiles and many other animals plus bird life. After the late breakfast, you may decide to go for a nature walk or have a relaxed moment at the lodge while preparing for the canoe ride on Lake Ihema in that afternoon.
Dinner and an overnight stay at Akagera Game Lodge
Drive to Kigali for a city tour and transfer to the Airport for your departure flight out.
After breakfast you will drive back to Kigali for drop off at the Airport, depending on your departure flight time you will have a local lunch and then after proceed to the airport for your flight out to end the 6 Days Gorilla trekking and Game safari in Rwanda.
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