11 Days, High-End Day-trip

Rwanda Tours SAFARIS

Nyungwe National Park

Volcanoes National Park

Akagera National Park

Full board accommodation: Hotels, Lodges, Tented Camps

Gorilla trekking permit per person

Meals/B, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Buffets including both Western & Local Dishes.

Private cars, Land cruiser 4/4WD fitted with a pop-up roof for Game driving and photos.

N.B. Every client is entitled a window seat.

Our Drivers /Guides fluently speak English, French, Swahili and other languages and have wider knowledge of nature interpretation, landscape and they are specialized in African Culture.

Each vehicle carries safari accessories including WIFI, wildlife books, a first-aid kit, and a fire extinguisher.

Each vehicle carries Bottled mineral water during game drives or trekking.

All the required payment including Park entrance fees.

All arrival and departure transfer fees between airports, hotels, parks, etc.

Please come and discover Africa’s best kept secret of a Great Lakes Region of Africa. Feel free to contact Virunga Ecotours for more information

Full Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive Kigali, Rwanda

With a warm welcome you will be assisted through immigration and transferred to your hotel. Enjoy dinner and a restful evening. Overnight at Serena.

Day 2: Kigali / Akagera National Park

Set off by road to your tented camp in Akagera, central Africa’s largest protected wetland. Home to a variety of plains game, predators, primates and birds. Overnight at Akagera Game Lodge.

Day 3: Akagera National Park

The day’s agenda includes expertly-guided game drives, walks and boating trips in search of the resident wildlife including: buffalo, leopard, elephant, giraffe, spotted hyena, zebra and eland. Overnight at Akagera Game Lodge.

Day 4: Akagera National Park

Rise early for another day of wildlife viewing. Akagera boasts a healthy lion population, as well as black rhino which were reintroduced to the park in 2017. Look out for the elusive shoe-bill with its massive bill, one of nearly 500 bird species found in the park. Overnight at Akagera Game Lodge

Day 5: Akagera National Park / Nyungwe National Park

Continue by helicopter to your luxury lodge near one of the oldest rain-forest in Africa, Nyungwe National Park. Overnight at Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel.

Day 6: Nyungwe National Park

Experience the rain-forest from a dazzling new perspective on the famous Canopy Walkway. Overnight at Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel

Day 7: Nyungwe National Park

Today’s agenda includes chimpanzee trekking deep in the forest. Observe them playing, wild and free, hooting and dashing through the trees. Overnight at Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel.

Day 8: Nyungwe National Park / Volcanoes National Park

The adventure continues to Volcanoes National Park, by way of the beautiful shores of Lake Kivu. Overnight at Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel

Day 9: Volcanoes National Park

Don your gaiters and gear and get ready to hike into the mountains. All fatigue melts away as you capture your first glimpse of the gorillas as they forage and move through the forest. Overnight at Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel.

Day 10: Volcanoes National Park

Return to the forest for another precious hour with the endangered gorillas, (subject to the advance purchase of a second permit) or perhaps search for the rare habituated golden monkey. Overnight at Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel.

Day 11: Volcanoes National Park / Kigali

Return to Kigali this afternoon in time to depart on an evening flight.

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