6 Days Rwanda Safari Gorillas & Chimpanzee Vacation
Overview
This 6 days and 5 night is an ultimate Rwanda primate safari tailored to offer you the best of Rwanda’s primates, this Rwanda Safari will take you to the misty jungles of Volcanoes National Park for an encounter with mountain gorillas and you will be allowed to spend on hour in their presence.
Another amazing private destination this safari takes you to is Nyungwe Forest National Park – one of the oldest forests in the world and home to 13 primates species including huge concentration of chimpanzees. You will encounter the chimpanzees and stay with them for one hour.
Highlights Of 6 Days Rwanda Safari Gorillas & Chimpanzee Vacation
- Day 1: Arrival, Kigali City
- Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
- Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking and Canopy Walk in Nyungwe Forest
- Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
- Day 5: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
- Day 6: Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival, Kigali City
On arrival at Kigali International airport, you will be warmly welcomed by a representative of Jewel Safaris, after a briefing session you will drive to Kigali City. Depending on your arrival time, you will enjoy a Kigali city tour visiting the Kigali genocide memorial site where you will learn about the horrific massive killings and visit several arts and craft center.
Have dinner and stay overnight at a hotel in Kigali City.
Accommodation: Hotel des Mille Collins
Meal Plan: Dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
Enjoy a delicious breakfast, meet your driver-guide and head to Nyungwe Forest National Park driving through Rwanda’s most beautiful countryside dotted with calming nature scenery. This drive is 5 hours’ drive with stops to visit the local markets, the traditional palace in Nyanza. Continue to Butare where you will visit the Botanical Gardens and the Cultural Museum, drive through the stunning green fields scattered across the hillside and local communities around the park.
When you arrive in the park, you will check into your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking and Canopy Walk in Nyungwe Forest
Have an early breakfast and transfer to the park’s headquarters for briefing on the chimpanzee tracking activity, a ranger will take you through the rules and regulations to follow while in the forests and in the presence of the chimpanzees. After registration, you will be assigned a chimpanzee group to trek and head into the forest looking for chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees are very mobile creatures, they keep moving and making noise as they jump from on tree branch to another.
Chimpanzee Trekking Activity takes approximately 2-6 hours of hiking through the forests of Nyungwe, when you find the chimpanzees, you are allowed to stay only for one hour in their presence watching them go on with their life in the forest and take pictures.
Trek back to the park’s headquarters to pick your chimpanzee permits and then head to the lodge for lunch, in the afternoon you will go for a canopy walk on a high suspended walkway above the forests of Nyungwe Forest. On the walk you will enjoy scenic views of the forest, olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys and many birds.
Return to the lodge for the rest of evening, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
After breakfast, you will depart for Volcanoes National Park – home to Rwanda’s mountain gorillas on a drive of about 5 hours, arrive in the park in the evening, check in at your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: One&Only Gorilla’s Nest
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
Have an early breakfast and head to the park’s headquarters for gorilla briefing, a ranger will take you through rules and regulations to following during this adventurous activity, after registering, you will be grouped into 8 people and be assigned a gorilla family to visit then head into the forest looking for gorillas.
Gorilla trekking activity in Rwanda takes about 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas, their feeding range and where they spent the previous night.
When you find the gorillas, you will spend 1 hour in their company watching them go on with their life in the forest, the young ones playing around the old ones, feeding each other and eating foliage, you are allowed to take pictures and video but note that your flashlight should be off.
After this memorable experience, you will trek back to the park’s headquarters to pick your gorilla trekking certificates and then head back to your lodge and spend the rest of day resting at your lodge. Have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: One&Only Gorilla’s Nest
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Departure
After breakfast, you will checkout of the lodge and drive back to Kigali for drop off either at the hotel or at the airport for your departure flight back home.
End of 6 Days Rwanda Safari Gorillas & Chimpanzee Vacation.
Package includes:
- Transport: vehicle, fuel, and driver
- Gorilla permit
- Full board accommodation for the
- Entrance fees.
- All activities.
- Bottled drinking water
Package excludes:
- Visas
- Air ticket
- Personal expenses.
- Cost for anything that is not mentioned in the itinerary.
We use 4×4 safari cars for our safaris and therefore every traveler is guaranteed a window seat, bellow are photos of the cars.
Do you need assistance with planning your safari? Talk to our specialists
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