14 Days Best Of Rwanda Tour
14 Days Best Of Rwanda Tour: With this 14-day “Best of Rwanda Tour,” explore the best of Rwanda. The Rwanda safari package actively involves you in a variety of activities, such as game drives, boat cruises, tracking gorillas and chimpanzees, visiting the memorial site for the genocide in Kigali, and engaging in local culture. Volcanoes National Park, Nyungwe Forest National Park, Akagera National Park, Lake Kivu, and Kigali City are all included in the Rwanda safari itinerary.
Day 1 of the 14-Day Best of Rwanda Safari: Arrival and city tour
When you arrive at Kigali Airport, a representative from our Budget Gorilla Trekking agency will meet you and assist you in getting to your accommodation. Additionally, you will be taken on a tour of Kigali City where you will have the opportunity to see memorial sites for the genocide and local markets while interacting with the kind and native Rwandan people.
Day 2: Travel to the National Park of Akagera
Following breakfast, you will check out of the hotel and travel for approximately four hours to reach Akagera National Park. You will encounter the breathtaking terrain and beauty that the “land of a thousand hills” has to offer along the route. You will check into the lodge and eat lunch when you arrive. After that, you’ll have a boat ride in the afternoon on Lake Ihema, where you can view large crocodiles and hippos sunning themselves among migrating elephants. You will also see a variety of bird species, such as the shoebill stork. Later that evening, before retiring to the lodge.
Day 3: A game drive in Akagera National Park
You will get up very early in the morning and go on a game where you will encounter a variety of wildlife, including buffaloes, savannah birds, antelopes like topi or elands, burchell zebras, elephants, giraffes, Masai, monkeys, leopards, civets, hyenas, and many more. prior to going back to the lodge for lunch. You will next go on a guided nature walk in the afternoon to witness the various bird species that Akagera has to offer. You will encounter predator creatures like lions, leopards, hyenas, civets, and many more that often hunt at night when you go on an evening game drive later in the evening.
Day 4: Journey to Kigali via Akagera National Park
You will do a game drive early in the morning, during which you can witness a variety of animals grazing. Prior to ascending Mount Mutumba, enjoy a picnic lunch while taking in the expansive views of the park before making your way to Kigali.
Day 5: Travel via Butare to Nyungwe Forest
From Kigali, the early morning drive to Butare takes approximately two and a half hours. You’re going to the national museum in Butare. The museum features a large collection of black-and-white photographs, traditional items and relics, tools, and various handcrafted goods. Premium information about the everyday lives of the Rwandan people is provided by the thematic grouping of ethnographic items. After that, you’ll be driven to Nyungwe Forest to check into the lodge.
Day 6: Tracking chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest
The roughly 500-person Rwandan chimpanzee population lives in Nyungwe Forest. You’ll enter the forest early in the morning to participate in the chimp tracking activity. You will visit one of the park’s attractions, the breathtaking Waterfall Trail, later in the day. The three to five hours it takes to complete the trail begins on the Gisakura side of the park. The trail meanders up and down precipitous hillsides through an ancient rain forest, with thick vines covering the trees and a muggy, oppressive atmosphere. The best part is a private waterfall where you may swim a short distance down.
Day 7: Nature stroll in Nyungwe Forest
Early in the morning is when the guided nature walk into Nyungwe, the largest forest in East Africa, begins. The walk is well-known for showcasing Rwanda‘s forest birds, but it also gives visitors a chance to observe some of the 13 species of primates that are present, such as chimpanzees, Mona monkeys, Angolan Black Colobus, and Owl Faced Monkeys.
Day 8: Travel to Kibuye (Lake Kivu) from Nyungwe
After a one and a half hour drive from Nyungwe Forest, you will spend the eighth day of your Rwanda safari at Bugarama Hot Springs. There are enormous hot springs here where visitors can swim or take a bath in the heated waters. After taking a boat ride on the Rusizi River later in the day, you will continue on to Kibuye, where you will spend the ninth day of your Rwanda vacation.
Day 9: Gisenyi (Lake Kivu) – Kibuye
On the ninth day of your holiday in Rwanda, you will unwind and think back on the days you have previously spent on the tour. In order to recuperate from your safari fatigue, you can choose to relax in your hotel or perhaps spend the day by the Lake Kivu coastline. You will transfer to Gisenyi later in the day.
Day 10: Gisenyi to Volcanoes National Park transfer
Before taking a nature walk along the shore, you will spend the early part of the day lounging on the beach. After there, the Rwanda Safari will go on to Volcanoes, Rwanda‘s primate and gorilla sanctuary.
Day 11: Monitoring gorillas
You will get up early, eat breakfast, and then proceed to the park headquarters for a standard gorilla tracking briefing. Additionally, a family of gorillas will be assigned to you to track. The beginning of your gorilla tour is when you head into the forest on a gorilla trail. Depending heavily on the gorillas’ movements, meeting the gorillas often takes two to eight hours. You can go on a nature walk in Volcanoes National Park later in the day.
Day 12: Monitoring Golden Monkeys
On the twelfth day of your Rwanda safari, you will get to track the golden monkeys, who are among the many primates that are known to inhabit the Parc national des Volcans. After that, you will go to Diane Fossey’s tomb. Diane Fossey was an American researcher who studied gorillas. Afterwards, you’ll be taken by car to the Twin Lakes, which are Lake Burera and Lake Ruhondo.
Day 13: Leave Ruhondo and head to Kigali
We take a drive around the lakes and stop at the Musangabo overlook. A nature stroll around the lakes is optional. We then take a car to Kigali. If you’re interested, you can visit the local pygmies while you’re here.
Day 14: Exclusive to Kigali
If you did not take a Kigali city tour on the first day before heading to the airport, you will conclude your journey with one.
14-day Rwanda Best of Tour comes to an end.