Arrival
- You’ll be picked up from the airport (or hotel)
- Accommodation before the tour departs can be arranged for an extra cost
DAY 1: Arrival and transfer to Volcanoes National Park
- Morning/Transfer
Upon your arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be welcomed by our professional tour guide who will take you for a city excursion in and around Kigali. This is to enable you orient yourself with this great country of ‘a thousand hills’. After this excursion, you will proceed to Virunga National Park located in the North of Ruhengeri via undulating and beautiful terraced hills which shows a clear picture of the general landscape and altitude of Rwanda.
- Afternoon
You will have lunch and later relax at the lodge as you prepare for next day’s gorilla trekking experience
- Evening
You will have dinner and overnight at the lodge
Lodge: Lebambou Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Drive time: 2 hours
DAY 2: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
- Morning/Briefing
Have an early morning tasty breakfast at the lodge, you will start your exciting morning drive to the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters for briefing about the do’s and dont’s of gorilla trekking experience
- Trek and Observation
You will depart for your gorilla trek into the indigenous forest in search for the Gorillas. This trek gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself into the strange but intimate part of the rain-forest where you will hear live calls of colorful birds, chattering of the rare golden monkey, as well as the forest filled with fresh spoor of the mountain elusive populations of buffalo and elephant.
- Evening
You will return from the forest and drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight
Lodge: Lebambou Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
DAY 3: Back to Kigali for a city tour
- Morning
After breakfast, you will bid farewell to the lodge and drive back to Kigali for afternoon City tour experience
- Afternoon
Upon arrival you will have hot lunch and later city tour experience, you will visit the Genocide memorial, Kimironko Market and later drive to the hotel for relaxation
Hotel: Mille Colines
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Drive time: 2 hours
DAY 4: Visit to Kings' Palace and Butale National Museum
- Morning
After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to Butale region of Rwanda for a visit to the Kings' Palace. You will be taken through the rich culture of Rwanda, the history of kingship from the first king to the last one and after that you will visit the National Museum
- Afternoon
You will have lunch and later transfer back to Kigali at the hotel for relaxation and overnight
Hotel: Mille Colines
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Drive time: 3 hours
DAY 5: Departure
- Morning
Depending on your departure schedule, you will be transferred to Kigali Airport for your international flight out.
