Day 1: Arrival – Transfer to city Hotel

Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, be met by our company guide who will warmly welcome you and drive to booked hotel for overnight stay.

Overnight: The Manor, Kigali/The Retreat/Hotel De Milles
Meals: Bed & Breakfast 

Day 2: Kigali – Transfer to Akagera National Park – Travel time, approx. 2-3hrs

After breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked by our safari guide and leave for Akagera. The journey to Akagera takes about 2.30 – 3 hours depending on the stopovers along the way. Enjoy beautiful unwinding landscape en route to the park, feel free to ask the guide for stopovers to capture some photos. Another game drive is after lunch.

Overnight: Akagera Game Lodge/Ruzizi Tented Lodge
Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Akagera – Full day game drive

Have early breakfast then leave for a morning game drive to catch up with late hunters and early risers. Look out for the big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, and the re-introduced Lions and Rhinos. Apart from wildlife, Akagera hosts a good number of bird species. You will have a picnic lunch before later head for a boat trip on Lake Ihema to watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores. You will also meet the buffaloes and elephants wallowing by the water banks. Later return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight: Akagera Game Lodge/Ruzizi Tented Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 4: Akagera – Transfer back to Kigali. Travel time, approx. 3 hours

After breakfast, you will transfer back to Kigali. You will arrive in time for lunch. After lunch, visit the Kigali genocide memorial ground where victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are buried. This place acts as a museum and an educational center. There is a lot to see and learn about Rwandan history. You will later return to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay. Overnight: The Manor, Kigali/The Retreat/Hotel De Milles
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast

Day 5: Kigali – Transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Travel time approx. +5 hours

Have breakfast then checkout of the hotel and head out to Nyungwe. You will visit the Ethnographic Museum that will give you history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership. Later drive further, check in at the lodge and have lunch before heading for a canopy walk. This 90 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great view of Nyungwe forest and on a lucky day one can spot one or two primates.

Overnight: Mantis Kivu Marina Bay/Nyungwe Top View Hotel/Emeraude Kivu Resort  

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 6: Chimpanzee tracking & transfer to Gisenyi

After early breakfast, you will be transferred to park’s headquarters for a briefing and chimpanzee trekking/tracking. Nyungwe is well known for having 13 species of primates.  You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, you will head for lunch, and thereafter a transfer to Gisenyi to arrive by late afternoon.

Overnight: Kivu Serena Hotel/Paradise Kivu Resort  

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 7: Gisenyi – Boat ride – Transfer to Musanze

After breakfast, you will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within Lake Kivu. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of bats. You will later return for lunch and drive off to Musanze which is roughly 2 hours away; a tourism area near Volcanoes National Park, where most of the lodges are located since there are no lodges inside of the park. You will have Iby Iwacu cultural experience, where you will get total Rwanda cultural insight, before check in at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight: Ingagi Park View/Five Volcanoes/The Bishop House/Virunga/Sabyinyo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 8: Gorilla Trekking Experience

Begin the day with breakfast ready for trekking, which begins at 7:00 am with a pre-tracking briefing from the Rwanda park officials. This trek is a guided one and it takes 2 – 6 hours depending on where the group assigned is at that particular day but meeting them is guaranteed.

In the afternoon, you can either relax by the lodge or have massage at an extra fee.

What to carry/wear – rain jacket, drinking water, snacks, jungle boots, packed lunch, walking stick.

After this gorilla tracking experience, you will return to your lodge for lunch to relax.

Overnight: Ingagi Park View/Five Volcanoes/The Bishop House/Virunga/Sabyinyo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 9: Golden monkey & Transfer to Kigali. Travel time + 2 hrs

On this day, have breakfast then transfer to the park’s headquarters for a briefing and start off your golden monkey trekking. Just like the gorilla trekking experience, the same applies to golden monkey trekking though not hectic like gorilla trekking. You will later return to the lodge for lunch and later transfer to Kigali, and if time permits, head for the Kigali city tour, with a visit to the Kigali museum and local markets.

Overnight: The Manor, Kigali/The Retreat/Hotel De Milles
Meals: Bed & Breakfast

Day 10: Kigali – Transfer to the airport

You will be transferred to the airport, depending on your flight departure time.