Day 1: Arrival at Kigali international airport
After completion of customs and immigration formalities you will be met at the Airport by our representative/safari driver guide, transferred to the hotel where you will have your Safari briefings.
Overnight: Kigali Serena Hotel
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day 3: Akagera National Park – Game drives
After an early breakfast, have game drive in the National park. Akagera is home to a variety of game, it’s an exciting reserve and there are plenty of animals around and the birdlife is quite exceptional. Mammals include a healthy population of Elephant and Buffalo, plus 11 species of antelope including Impala, Common Duiker, Defassa Waterbuck, Bushbuck, Oribi, Tsessebe, Cape Eland and the rare Sable Antelope. Hippos are present in impressive numbers in the lakes and rivers and Zebra and Giraffe still roam the more open acacia dotted plains. Afternoon, enjoy a boat ride at Lake Ihema.
Overnight: Ruzizi Tented Camp
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 5: Kigali - Nyungwe
After breakfast, visit Royal Palace Museum and National Museum respectively, have lunch in Butare and then enjoy the scenic drive to Nyungwe Forest National park.
Overnight: One & Only Nyungwe House
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 7: Colobus Monkeys trekking and Tea Plantation experience
After breakfast, enjoy the hike in Nyungwe for Colobus Monkeys trekking, take Tea plantation experience, have hot lunch at you the Lodge. In the afternoon, visit the Tea factory.
Overnight: One & Only Nyungwe House
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 9: Karongi – Rubavu
Enjoy the morning boat ride at the lake (to be booked & paid locally) thereafter, drive to Rubavu another beautiful developed lake resort on the shores of the Lake Kivu. You may have an optional fishing activity (To be booked and paid locally).
Overnight: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel
Meal Plan: Dinner, Bed and Breakfast
Day 11: Mountain Gorillas trekking
After your morning wake-up call and breakfast, report to the park headquarters, for gorilla trekking formalities and briefing by the Volcanoes National Park’s guides on the gorillas’ etiquette. You will be assigned to a specific group of gorillas. Your trek will vary in length depending on which gorilla group you have been assigned to. After locating your assigned Gorilla group you will spend one hour in their company before retracing your steps back down the volcano slopes. Have lunch at the lodge. Afternoon, enjoy the scenic transfer back to Kigali.
Overnight: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 13: Golden Monkeys trekking
After an early breakfast we report again to the Volcanoes National Park’s Office to undergo the now Golden monkeys trekking formalities. Then enter the forest for the golden monkey trek. After locating the Golden monkey group you will spend a time in their company and then retrace your steps back down the volcano slopes, Have lunch drive back to Kigali.
Overnight: Kigali Marriott Hotel
Meal Plan: Dinner, Bed and Breakfast
Day 2: Kigali – Akagera National Park
After breakfast, drive to Akagera National Park. The park is set at a relatively low altitude on the border with Tanzania and dominated scenically by a labyrinth of swamps and lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River. Upon arrival, check-in Akagera Game lodge. Have lunch and then enter the national park for an afternoon Game viewing or night game drive.
Overnight: Ruzizi Tented Camp
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 4: Akagera National park - Kigali
After a leisurely breakfast, have an en-route game viewing as you return Kigali, have a hot lunch at The Hut Restaurant and then proceed to your Hotel.
Overnight: Mille Collines Hotel
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day 6: Chimps trek and Canopy Walk
After an early breakfast, report to the park headquarters for trekking formalities then depart for a hike into Nyungwe Forest in search of chimps. There is a lot more in Nyungwe than just chimps. Colobus Monkeys, Mangabeys, various other primate species and lots of forest dwelling birds will be encountered on the way. For those interested in botany, the flora in Nyungwe comes as an added bonus, lunch at the guest house. Afternoon, enjoy canopy walk experience.
Overnight: One & Only Nyungwe House
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 8: Nyungwe N/Park– Karongi
After breakfast, drive to Karongi, a beautiful lake resort on the shores of the Lake Kivu. Lake Kivu is the greatest Lakes in Rwanda and is in the Albertine (western) Rift valley, a part of the Great Rift Valleys. The lake is a 2650 Square kilometer freshwater expanse and the largest of all the lakes that fill the valleys of Rwanda. Have a hot lunch, spend the afternoon by the Lake shores.
Overnight: Cormoran Lodge
Meal Plan: Dinner, Bed and Breakfast
Day 10: Lake Kivu – Musanze
Spend the morning at the Lake. After lunch, visit the Rwanda – DR Congo border and the hot springs thereafter, drive to Musanze the main base town for Gorilla tracking. The drive is through beautiful rolling hills on a comfortable paved road enclosed by steep and green terraced hills along eastern Rwanda. The road winds endlessly in a countless number of twists and turns, and the common storm clouds lend a raggedly romantic panorama to this region.
Overnight: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 12: Second Mountain Gorillas trekking
After your morning wake-up call and breakfast, again report to the park headquarters, for gorilla trekking formalities and briefings. You will be assigned to a specific group of gorillas different from the previous one. After the second Gorilla trek, have lunch and the in the afternoon visit Iby’IWACU Cultural Village.
Overnight: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 14: Kigali City tour and Departure
After a leisurely breakfast, enjoy Kigali city tour including Gisozi genocide memorial site, have lunch and then proceed to the Airport for your outbound.