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Kigali • Butare • Nyungwe • Volcanoes Park Kigali
Arrive Kigali, Rwanda
You will be met by a representative of Exotic Journeys International Group who is an experienced guide and also the Regional Manager.
After a short briefing, you will be escorted to your city hotel. The guide will give you an insight on the wonderful adventures ahead of your safari.
Overnight: Gorilla Hotel, Kigali
Meal Plan: None
Breakfast at the hotel.
City tour of Kigali visiting Kigali Solaire, Stade regionale, Kigali Genocide memorial, Dr. Richard Kandt Museum who was the first Germany explorer to settle in Kigali, Belgian camp.
Transfer to Bugesera in the afternoon to visit the reconciliation village, Nyamata and Ntarama genocide churches where thousands of innocent people were butchered in the house of God.
Overnight: Gorilla Hotel, Kigali
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Nyungwe, en route visiting Butare.
Visit the Basilica of Kabgayi, the first catholic cathedral in Rwanda, Murambi Memorial, Nyanza, King’s palace and a traditional Rwanda home, National Museum.
Transfer to Nyungwe Forest.
Overnight: Nyungwe Top View Lodge, Nyungwe
Meal Plan: Full Board
Early breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to the edge of the forest where chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe begins.
In the afternoon, hike the waterfall and visit a tea plantation.
Overnight at Nyungwe Top View Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Breakfast at the lodge
Transfer to the Volcanoes National Park via Ngororero route. The journey takes around 9 hours but on good roads or follow the dirt bumpy road that meanders around Lake Kivu with beautiful scenery of “1000 hills and a million smiles”. The drive will take more than 10 hours but it’s a great drive through the remotest villages of Rwanda as you enjoy local lifestyles along the Congo-Nile trail.
Overnight: Gorilla Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board
Early breakfast transfer to the park.
After completing our park formalities, we embark on a once in a life time experience of tracking mountain gorillas.
Once you spot them you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breathtaking wildlife experiences on earth! You get so close to these awesome giant primates. You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Tracking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience.
Some gorilla families, however, are more elusive and tracking can take a full day, especially when it is wet and muddy.
Overnight at Gorilla Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board
Return to the entrance of the Park early this morning to see the Golden Monkeys. It is now believed that they are the only feasible population of Golden Monkeys residing in Volcanoes National Park. They are beautiful and endangered primates which have become quite habituated to humans, making it possible to observe them closely.
After lunch at the Lodge, transfer to Kigali International airport.
Depart on your onward journey.
Meals: B, L
Highlights:
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| January 1 – December 31 | |
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| Luxury Tour: Great Apes of Rwanda - 7 Days | Price Per Person |
| Double Occupancy | $ 5410.00 |
| Single Room Occupancy | $ 5685.00 |
| Gorilla Permit & Volcano Park Fee | included |
| International Airfares | Please call us |
