6 Days | Rwanda all Primates Highlights

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Duration

6 Days

Tour Type

Daily Tour

Group Size

Unlimited

Languages

English

Day 1: Arrival Kigali + Overnight

Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, Meet & Greet Services, followed by transfer to your Kigali hotel.
Overnight on Bed & Breakfast basis: Kigali Serena Hotel or Park Inn by Radisson Hotel

Day 2: Kigali-City Tour/Nyungwe Forest National Park

A morning brief orientation tour of Kigali City, as you visit the Genocide Memorial Museum. Shortly after, depart for Nyungwe Forest National Park in southern Rwanda. 260km, 5.0hrs Enroute, visit Rwanda’s Cultural & Historic Towns of Nyanza & Butare, for their museums; Lunch at IBIS Hotel (or similar), in Butare Town. Arrive at your Nyungwe hotel in the late afternoon.
Overnight on Full-board basis: Nyungwe House Resort or Top View Hill Hotel

Day 3: Nyungwe Forest - Chimps Trek/Canopy Hike

Morning, immerse yourself in the tranquility and awe-inspiring Nyungwe Forest in your search for the Chimpanzees. At the end of your one hour with these beautiful primates, return to your hotel for freshening up and lunch. Afternoon, take up the Adventure Canopy Hike, A metal bridge suspended 90metres above ground and 160metres long, across a forested gorge - thus giving you a bird’s panoramic view across the forest canopy.
Overnight on Full-board basis: Nyungwe House Resort or Top View Hill Hotel
Rwanda all Primates Highlights

Day 4: Nyungwe Forest - Colobus Monkeys Trek/Kibuye - Lunch/Volcanoes National Park

Morning, enjoy trekking the beautiful but nonchalant Black & White Colobus Monkeys. Lunch at the hotel, followed by check-out. Mid-morning, drive north-west, Along Lake Kivu shores, to central Lake Kivu town of Kibuye. 130km, 2.0hrs Lunch at the lake-shore Cormoran Lodge, and brief photo opportunity of the lake sceneries. Afternoon, drive further north and then east. To the Volcanoes Mountains region, home to the Mountain Gorillas & Golden Monkeys. 94km, 2.5hrs
Overnight on Full-board basis: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge or Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Day 5: Volcanoes Forest-Gorilla Trek/Cultural Village Visit

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 a 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

Day 6: Volcanoes Forest-Golden Monkeys Trek/Kigali/Depart

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 journey back to Kigali.
Before exiting the Volcanoes Mountains base town of Musanze, make a brief stop-over visit of the DIAN FOSSEY MUSEUM-GALLERY. (No Entrance fee, but donations are welcome)
Shortly after, bid farewell to the volcanoes mountains region and drive down the slopes, on the winding road, arriving in Kigali in the late afternoon, with onward transfer to the Kigali International Airport for your evening outbound.
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