Overview

Day 1: Drive from Kigali to Nyungwe forest national park

Our professional and well experienced driver guide will be waiting to pick you up from your hotelin Kigali and provide a simple briefing. After the briefing, you will gather your belongings and headout to the south of Rwanda. Before driving to South, You will have your first stopover at the Kigali Genocide memorial grounds for an insight on the 1994 genocide against the tutsi and after connect to the Kimironko market. You will drive further to Butare where you will have lunch and get to have another enroute visit of the Ethnographic museum. Drive to connect to the cold Nyungwe forest national park. You will arrive in the evening hours to check in at your hotel and settle in. Dinner will be served and you will spend your first night in Nyungwe forest.

Accommodation  Options:  Nyungwe  Top  View  Hotel  (Luxury),  Chimpanzee  Lodge  (Mid-range), EAR Ken Barham guest house (Budget)   

Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking and canopy walk in Nyungwe forest national park

As  early  as  5am,  you  will  be expected  at  the  starting  point  for  the  chimpanzee  trekking  in Nyungwe forest. You will receive a briefing ahead of your chimpanzee trek and after set out into the Nyungwe forest. This is a tropical forest and a home to the Rwanda chimpanzees and 13 other different primate species. You will spot several chimpanzees swinging from one tree branch to another. After the trek, you will exit the forest and head back to your hotel for a late breakfast oran early lunch.After lunch, your driver guide will be waiting to take you on your next activity that is the canopy walk  experience  in  Nyungwe  forest  national  park.  You  will  walk  on  this canopy  bridge  starting from the Uwinka visitor centre and get to view the forest from the top. You will later return to yourhotel for dinner and another night in the Nyungwe forest.

Accommodation  Options:  Nyungwe  Top  View  Hotel  (Luxury),  Chimpanzee  Lodge  (Mid-range), EAR Ken Barham guest house (Budget) 

 Day 3: Transfer to Kibuye – Lake Kivu

Wake up on a calm note, prepare for breakfast at your hotel and also prepare to check out of the hotel for your next destination. After breakfast, check out of your hotel and head out to Kibuye.This  is  a  1  to  2  hour  road  transfer  until  you  can  check  into  your  hotel  in  Kibuye.  You  will  be welcomed and showed to your rooms for  the night. Lunch will be served and you will later head out to the Lake Kivu. You may take on a boat trip on the Lake Kivu to enjoy the cool breeze or opt to relax at the shores reading a book or soaking your feet. You will connect back to your hotel fordinner and a night in Kibuye.

Accommodation Options: Cleo  lake  kivu  Hotel  (Luxury),  Moriah  Hills  resort  (Mid-range), Delta Hotel (Budget) 

Day 4: Transfer back to Kigali

This is the last day of your safari. You will wake up ready to end your trip. Have breakfast at your hotel and check out of your hotel headed for Kigali. You may take on some time to pass by the Lake Kivu  for  another  moment  in  case  you  have  time  and  didn’t  do  this  on  the  first  day.  You  may alternatively pass by a tea plantation for the experience of seed to cup processing of tea. Connect further to Kigali for drop off at your hotel or at the Kigali International airport for your flight back home as you will advise your driver guide.

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