6 Days Rwanda Gorillas and Wildlife Safari
This 6 Days Rwanda Gorillas and Wildlife Safari takes you to explore Rwanda’s prominent national parks, including Volcanoes National Park, Akagera National Park and the Guardian Village of Iby’iwacu.
DAY 1: ARRIVAL AT KIGALI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Our representative, who will be your driver on the tour into Rwanda, will pick you up on arrival at Kigali International Airport. You will meet and greet and travel to your hotel. Depending on your time of arrival for your safari into Rwanda, you may do a tour of prominent structures in Kigali city to get a brief acclimatization of events in Rwanda.
DAY 2: TRAVEL TO MUSANZE, VISIT GORILLA GUARDIANS’ VILLAGE
Enjoy your first morning sleep on safari in Rwanda and set out shortly after breakfast for a morning city tour. You will visit selected interesting spots: the craft market, the Gisozi genocide memorial site, and the Kigali museum.
After an early lunch, you will embark on a 3-hour drive to Musanze, where you will visit the Gorilla guardians’ village for a brief tour and have the opportunity to interact with indigenous Rwandan people, gaining interesting experiences related to your safari. You will check in to your hotel at sunset and begin to live your Rwanda safari dreams.
DAY 3: GORILLA TRACKING
Rise up before first light and make final preparations for trekking gorillas on your tour into Rwanda. You will set out with lunch packs shortly after a cup of coffee and descend to the Rwanda gorilla trekking main start-off point. A team of rangers soon escorts you deep into the montane forests, trailing in the footmarks of gorillas. The team will traverse the forest, which is alive with lots of wildlife species.
Take this opportunity to explore and discover all you have always heard and dreamed about: gorilla trekking and safaris in Rwanda. Interactions with gorillas are restricted to a maximum of one hour and then the team will descend out of the forest.
Relax the rest of the afternoon and share the excitement of the Rwanda tour and gorilla trekking in Rwanda with friends. Several activities could be arranged to occupy you for the rest of the day.
DAY 4: TRAVEL TO AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK
Enjoy your morning sleep and let the unique feelings of successful gorilla trekking sink in. You will set out for your return journey to Kigali shortly after breakfast, descending at a slow pace to allow you to live your safari to Rwandan expectations.
You will travel on to Akagera national park after a lunch break at a restaurant in Kigali city. Your entrance into Akagera, where you will reach your safari camp, coincides with a sunset game viewing drive during which you will see many wildlife species.
DAY 5: GAME VIEWING, BOAT CRUISE
Akagera national park natural setup is a woodland, grassland, and flat terrain bent towards Tanzania and Uganda in the east and north of Rwanda, respectively. This kind of vegetation is an ideal habitat for large herds of grazing mammals, with their predating carnivores closely following them in their footpaths. The flat terrain is so conducive for game-viewing safaris on a tour of Rwanda.
Notable wildlife species include elephants, buffalos, hippos, elands, giraffes, zebras, topis, waterbucks, rhinos, lions, leopards and a host of other mammals. Akagera national park is an Important Birding Area and conducive for bird-watching safaris in Rwanda.
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