7 Days Rwanda Wildlife, Chimps and Gorilla Trekking Safari

Wake up very early in the morning and move out for a 6:00 am game drive to spot predators from catching their prey including lions and leopards. Other encounters include giraffes, buffalos, antelopes, elands, bushbucks and many more. Return to the lodge for a break and later lunch.

After Lunch you will go for a boat cruise on Lake Ihema hoping to see crocodiles, hippos, and a variety of water bird species including pelican, African fish eagles, malachite kingfisher and many others. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Lodge: Akagera Game Lodge or any other equivalent depending on availability

After breakfast, check out of the lodge and start a journey of about 6 hours’ drive to Nyungwe forest national park a home to numerous primate species in southwestern Rwanda for Chimpanzee trekking.

The drive will go through Butare reaching your booked Lodge in the afternoon for a late Lunch, relaxation and later dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Lodge: Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel, Maravilla Kivu Resort or any other equivalent depending on availability.

After breakfast, you will head to the park for a briefing prior to Chimpanzee tracking that will begin at 07:30 am with a company of ranger guides into the forest in search for chimpanzees. Other likely encounters include blue monkey, L’hoest monkey, owl-faced monkeys, red tailed monkeys, crowned monkey, Velvet monkeys and Rwenzori Colobus.

Return to the Lodge for lunch and in afternoon you go for an exhilarating canopy walk experience of about 50-60 meters above the ground and the highest East Africa’s forest bridge. 

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner

Lodge: Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel, Maravilla Kivu Resort or any other equivalent depending on availability.

After breakfast, check out of the lodge and start your scenic journey to Lake Kivu. Upon arrival in the afternoon, you will enjoy relaxing at beaches, swimming and canoeing. At the end of your enjoyment, connect to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Lodge: Kivu Paradise Resort Hotel, Paradise Malahide Resort Hotel or any other equivalent depending on availability.

The day will commence with a morning breakfast served at the lodge as you prepare to check out and proceed to Volcanoes National Park-Rwanda’s stop center for all mountain gorilla trekking safaris. The scenic drive will go through Rwanda’s rolling green hills as you enjoy and appreciate its appealing landscape reaching your booked Lodge in the afternoon for check in and lunch.

In the late afternoon, you will head to the Gorilla Guardians Village one of the country’s leading cultural center for Rwanda Cultural experience and if interested you will take part in cultural performance. After that thrilling experience, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner

Lodge: Tiloreza lodge, Ingage Park View Lodge, Da Vinci Gorilla Lodge or any other equivalent depending on availability.

After breakfast at 07:00 am you will proceed to the park’s headquarters for briefing about Gorilla trekking rules and regulations prior to trekking.

Gorilla trekking can range from one hour to six hours depending on the gorillas’ movements hence somehow strenuous at times but incredibly rewarding and worth having. Once these gentle giants “Mountain gorillas” are spotted, you will be allowed 1 hour observing them, taking photos and learning more about their routine human-like interactions.

After trekking, you will return to the lodge for lunch and check out heading back to Kigali for a return flight or at the hotel of your stay if you still have some time in Rwanda.

Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch

Lodge: No accommodation (End of tour)