Price: $3,595.00
Description:
Day 1: Transfer from Kigali to Volcanoes National Park
Our guide/ driver will pick you up from your Hotel at 8:30 am in Kigali and your day starts with a visit to the genocide memorial site.
Afterward depart for a 2-hour drive to Musanze, the second largest town in Rwanda, with its stunning backdrop of five volcanic mountains – The Virungas. On reaching Musanze, you will visit the Twin Lakes of Burera and Ruhondo.
These Magnificent twin lakes of Bulera and Ruhondo and its Swamp Rugezi are the excellent photogenic, serene and scenic places for Bird watching activity. Moreover, Rugezi swamp is one of the most seven important birding areas IBAs) in Rwanda.
In the evening, you will visit the Dian Fossey museum and the Musanze local market.
Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner
Hotel: The Garden place Hotel
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park:
After early morning breakfast, you will transfer to the park headquarters together with your packed lunch early enough to be briefed about the code of conduct while with the gorillas.
This will be followed by entering the forest in search of the gorillas in the forest which may take 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas in the jungle.
Meet and stay with the gorillas for a maximum of one hour.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Hotel: The Garden place Hotel
Day 3: Transfer from Volcanoes National Park to Akagera National Park
After breakfast, you will transfer from Volcanoes National Park to Akagera National Park through Kigali. On arrival at the park, we shall proceed to our accommodation.
We order lunch and later take a boat trip on Lake Ihema to watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lodge: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 4: Full Day Game Drives in AKagera National Park:
Enjoy early morning breakfast and start your game drives in an open-roofed vehicle. A full day game drive here offers you an opportunity to spot a variety of game including elephants, buffalos, hippos, lions, Masai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, oribi, Butchel’s zebra, topi, bush baby, leopard, and bushbuck, etc. Proceed for an evening game drive after lunch. Return to your lodge for dinner.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lodge: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 5: Transfer from Akagera National Park to Kigali:
Have breakfast and then enjoy a morning game drive, we shall return to Kigali and you will check in at the lodge or be dropped at the airport for your departure flight.
Meal plan: Breakfast
Included:
· Gorilla permit @ $1500 per permit
· All activities (unless labeled as optional)
· A professional driver/guide
· All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
· All Taxes/VAT
· Emergency evacuation
· Roundtrip airport transfer
· Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded:
· International flights (from/to home)
· Drinks
· Visa fees
· Covid-19 test
Our guide/ driver will pick you up from your Hotel at 8:30 am in Kigali and your day starts with a visit to the genocide memorial site.
Afterward depart for a 2-hour drive to Musanze, the second largest town in Rwanda, with its stunning backdrop of five volcanic mountains – The Virungas. On reaching Musanze, you will visit the Twin Lakes of Burera and Ruhondo.
These Magnificent twin lakes of Bulera and Ruhondo and its Swamp Rugezi are the excellent photogenic, serene and scenic places for Bird watching activity. Moreover, Rugezi swamp is one of the most seven important birding areas IBAs) in Rwanda.
In the evening, you will visit the Dian Fossey museum and the Musanze local market.
Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner
Hotel: The Garden place Hotel
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park:
After early morning breakfast, you will transfer to the park headquarters together with your packed lunch early enough to be briefed about the code of conduct while with the gorillas.
This will be followed by entering the forest in search of the gorillas in the forest which may take 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas in the jungle.
Meet and stay with the gorillas for a maximum of one hour.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Hotel: The Garden place Hotel
Day 3: Transfer from Volcanoes National Park to Akagera National Park
After breakfast, you will transfer from Volcanoes National Park to Akagera National Park through Kigali. On arrival at the park, we shall proceed to our accommodation.
We order lunch and later take a boat trip on Lake Ihema to watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lodge: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 4: Full Day Game Drives in AKagera National Park:
Enjoy early morning breakfast and start your game drives in an open-roofed vehicle. A full day game drive here offers you an opportunity to spot a variety of game including elephants, buffalos, hippos, lions, Masai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, oribi, Butchel’s zebra, topi, bush baby, leopard, and bushbuck, etc. Proceed for an evening game drive after lunch. Return to your lodge for dinner.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lodge: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 5: Transfer from Akagera National Park to Kigali:
Have breakfast and then enjoy a morning game drive, we shall return to Kigali and you will check in at the lodge or be dropped at the airport for your departure flight.
Meal plan: Breakfast
Included:
· Gorilla permit @ $1500 per permit
· All activities (unless labeled as optional)
· A professional driver/guide
· All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
· All Taxes/VAT
· Emergency evacuation
· Roundtrip airport transfer
· Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded:
· International flights (from/to home)
· Drinks
· Visa fees
· Covid-19 test