5 Days | Rwanda Primates Encounter and Lake Kivu

A morning orientation tour of Kigali City, including a visit to the Genocide Memorial Museum. Lunch at the Hotel Mille Collines - featured in the film Hotel Rwanda, regarding the 1994 Rwanda Genocide Against the Tutsis. Afternoon, drive to the Volcanoes Mountains ? home to the Mountain Gorillas & Golden Monkeys overnight. 94km, 2.5hrs
Overnight on Full-board basis: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Rwanda Primates Encounter and Lake Kivu

Morning, enjoy the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime thrilling adventure - Mountain Gorilla Trek, in the volcanoes forest. After the mandatory one-hour duration with your gorilla family, drive back to your lodge for freshening up and lunch. After lunch, relax at the lodge as you re-live the fresh memories of your close encounter with human being’s closest relative in the wild. Late afternoon, enjoy a visit to the Iby’Iwachu Cultural Village (Gorillas Guardians) visit - for some insights into the transformed lifestyle of these families of former gorilla poachers; + traditional dance performance.
Overnight on Full-board basis: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Morning, undertake the Golden Monkeys Trek adventure in the volcanoes forest, trekking the only other member of the primate species residing in the volcanoes forest. Freshening up and lunch at the lodge, followed by check-out - ready for your drive to North Lake Kivu (Gisenyi).
Before exiting the Volcanoes Mountains base town of Musanze, make a brief stop-over visit of the DIAN FOSSEY MUSEUM-GALLERY, in the town. (No Entrance fee, but donations are welcome)
Shortly after, bid farewell to the volcanoes mountains region and drive west to north Lake Kivu (Gisenyi). 65km, 1.5hrs
Overnight on Bed & Breakfast basis: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel

Early morning, optional activity, such as Boat Ride; Swimming in the lake; Water sports, such as Kayaking/Windsurf/Biking, or local sight-seeing drive along the lakeshore.
Mid-morning, depart north Lake Kivu and discover more of Rwanda, as you drive along the Kivu Belt road - with scenic photo opportunities, to the central Lake Kivu town of Kibuye. Proceed to the lakeshore Cormoran Lodge for lunch. 110km, 1.5hrs
After lunch, depart for Kigali, arriving in the late afternoon with onward transfer to the Kigali International Airport for your evening outbound.
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