7 Days Rwanda Safari Holiday
Day 1: Kigali
On arrival at Kigali International Airport you will be met and transferred to your hotel for overnight.
Accommodation options:
Luxury option – Kigali Marriott Hotel – Click here or more info about your hotel
Mid-range option: Hotel des Mille Collines – Click here or more info about your hotel
Budget option: Chez lando hotel – Click here or more info about your hotel
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast
Day2: Kigali – Akagera National Park (Sun Set Boat Cruise)
After breakfast, the driver guide will pick you from your hotel of residence, in the morning and embark on a 2-3-hour drive to Akagera National Park near the border with Tanzania. There are beautiful sceneries you shall be exposed to along the way, we shall then check-in at Ruzizi Tented Camp and have a rest. After Lunch in the Afternoon, you will go for one of Africa’s most wonderful sun set boat cruise for photographic game viewing in Akagera national park looking for various wildlife species like elephants, Kobs, warthogs, water and bush bucks, giraffes, buffaloes among others at the shores of the Lake Ihema. While on this cruise also expect to spot variety of birds.
Accommodation:
Luxury Option: Ruzizi Tented Camp – Click here for more info about your camp
Mid-range Option: Akagera Game Lodge – Click here for more info about your lodge
Budget Option: Karenge Bush Camp – Click here for more info about your lodge
Meal plan: Full Board
Day 3: Full Day Game Drive in Akagera National Park
After early cup of coffee proceed to a dawn game drive to catch up with early raisers and predators returning to their hideouts. The game drive will reward you with chances to see a variety elephant, buffaloes, lions, Maasai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, oribi, Butchel’s zebra, topi, bush baby, leopard and bush buck among others. Today we shall go with our packed lunch from the lodge as we shall be going in the other sector of the park and we shall return in the evening.
Accommodation:
Luxury Option: Ruzizi Tented Camp – Click here for more info about your camp
Mid-range Option: Akagera Game Lodge – Click here for more info about your lodge
Budget Option: Karenge Bush Camp – Click here for more info about your lodge
Meal plan: Full Board
Day4: Akagera National Park – Volcanoes National Park
After breakfast departure to volcanoes national park via Kigali city for lunch then after continue your journey to northern province to kinigi sector.
Accommodation:
Luxury option: Amakoro Songa Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Mid-range option: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel – click here for more info about your Lodge
Budget option: Davinc Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 4: Rwanda Gorilla Trekking – Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village
After early breakfast, we shall head for a briefing about Gorilla trekking in Rwanda at the Kinigi Station, then head straight to the slopes of the Forest. Gorilla trekking is no-longer quite strenuous, we send an advance team so you can move direct to the spot where the advance team has located the Gorillas. Maximum permitted time with the Gorillas is 01-hour, return to the lodge for lunch. Evening visit to the Iby’Iwacu cultural village experiencing the Rwanda culture from once the gorilla hunters and now Eco – warriors.
Luxury option: Amakoro Songa Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Mid-range option: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel – click here for more info about your Lodge
Budget option: Davinc Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Day5: Golden Monkey Tracking
Have the morning breakfast and after drive again to Volcanoes National Park offices for briefing about golden monkey tracking in the mist and this experience takes 3 – 4 hours. After return to the lodge and relax as you wait for dinner.
Accommodation:
Luxury option: Amakoro Songa Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Mid-range option: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel – click here for more info about your Lodge
Budget option: Davinc Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 6: Dian Fossey Hike
Early breakfast and after take the Dian Fossey Hike to the Digit and Center to experience the conservation work that this great primatologist advocated towards the conservation of the mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains. After this experience return to the lodge.
Accommodation:
Luxury option: Amakoro Songa Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Mid-range option: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel – click here for more info about your Lodge
Budget option: Davinc Lodge – click here for more info about your Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 7: Departure
Have breakfast and after meet with our guide and take leisurely drive back to Kigali City for lunch and after drive to the Kigali International Airport for your return flight back home. End of services!
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch – dinner on own arrangements
The above itinerary is a perfect extension to a Kenya or Tanzania wildlife safari or client can head for a beach relaxation in the Kenyan coast or Zanzibar.
The above itinerary includes:
- 1 Gorilla permit
- Ground transport in a safari 4 x 4
- 2 litres mineral water per day per person
- Full board accommodation as mentioned in the itinerary
- All activities mentioned in the itinerary
- All park entrance fees where applicable
- Service of a professional English-speaking driver guide
- All mentioned activities except for the optional ones
The above itinerary excludes
- Extras at the accommodation i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry etc.
- Tips to porters and driver/ guide
- Insurance
- Items of personal nature
- Any other item not included on the includes list