Exciting 10 Days Rwanda Safari: Primates, Wildlife, Cultural Tour

Full Itinerary

Day 1: Welcome to Rwanda and City tour

Our 10 Days Rwanda Safari starts today. Upon your arrival at Kigali international airport you will be received by our company representative and your safari guide to be.

The guide is Avery knowledgeable person please ask him anything you want to know about country, and he will recommend the best of what you want, like changing money, good place for Lunch etc.

You then enjoy a City tour and you can also visit the Kigali Genocide museum before setting off for Volcanoes National Park.

Day 2: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park

Days 2 of our 10 day Rwanda tour starts with an early morning breakfast and packed snacks. We drive to the Volcanoes headquarters for briefing and knowing the group/ gorilla family you will be visiting.

This done by the park authorities and arranging the days visitors into groups before being led by the ranger guide in the forest for a life time trekking for the worlds endangered Mountain Gorillas.

The duration of trekking is not fixed due to several determinant factors, but surely you will find them and it will bring your heart at rest, however hard it might have been getting to them.

You then spend a quality hour with them before coming back to the lodge.

Day 3: Golden monkey Trekking in Volcanoes National Park

After breakfast you return back to the park headquarters but this time for Golden monkey trekking, these are also endangered primates only found in the Virunga conservation area.

Golden monkeys are very unique from the physical appearance and social life.

After tracking return to the lodge for hot lunch and visit the cultural village in the afternoon/evening.

Day 4: Transfer to Lake Kivu

A few kilometers from Volcanoes National park lies a very beautiful lake called Kivu and this is your destination after breakfast.

Check in your place of accommodation and go for a boat ride on the lake visiting some island on the lake and the hot springs. Return to the lodge for lunch and a relaxing evening.

Day 5: drive to Nyungwe forest national park

A lakeside drive as you transfers from Lake Kivu to Nyungwe forest national park.

After breakfast you will enjoy a scenic ride of the rolling hills of tea plantations and rice fields with numerous stops for photos. Lunch on the way before checking into your lodge in the late afternoon.

Day 6: Nyungwe Chimpanzee Trekking

After a very early morning breakfast, you will assemble at the park offices to meet your ranger guide who will lead you in the forest for Chimpanzee trekking after being driven to the starting point.

Our close cousins leave in this forest and its one of the few remaining old rain forests in the whole world.

Tracking chimpanzee is amazing but walking in this rain forest is also rewarding as it’s natural. After chimpanzee you will return to lodge.

Day 7: Nyungwe forest Canopy Walk

A relaxing morning and in the afternoon you will do the Nyungwe Canopy walk.

This will be Nyungwe forest national park, where you stand chances of seeing also other primates like; Mountain monkey, baboons, L’Hoest’s Monkeys, Blue Monkeys, Black and white Colobus, Angola colobus, Red-tailed Monkeys.

The canopy walk is very scenic. Dinner at the lodge

Day 8: drive to Akagera National park

A long drive but very scenic. We will have a very early morning departure to Akagera National park driving through Nyungwe forest and connecting via Kigali.

We drive through villages and small towns which are tea, potatoes and bean growing communities . We reach the park in early evening with an option of doing an evening game drive.

Day 9: Morning game drive and Boat ride

After breakfast you will drive around the park searching for Lions, leopards, giraffes, buffalos, elephants, zebras and many antelopes.

The birding opportunity is also rich with a lot to the check list. In the afternoon set off for a boat cruise on the lake to see the hippopotamus and crocodiles plus a number of water birds like the fish eagles, kingfishers, Egyptian goose among others.

Day 10: return to Kigali for your flight home

The wonderful adventure is coming to an end. You will have breakfast and short game drive before returning back to Kigali for your flight back home with a lot to tell. Sad to say but our services come to an end.

~ End of our 10 Day Rwanda Safari Tour  ~