The long trip in Rwanda, which will cover 14 days Rwanda Gorilla safari will not only take you to the famous Volcano National Park for gorilla trekking which is a life time experience, but will bring you as well to a close encounter with a number of wildlife as well at Akagera national park and getting connected with nyungwe national park, making you explore 3 of the most popular Rwandan parks. You will be staying in luxurious lodging throughout the whole trip, which is their destination. The safari will leave you with a great memory that will last a lifetime. during this trip you will not only enjoy trekking, hiking, wildlife safaris, congo nile side but also birdwatching experience.
Kigali international airport
2 Hours Before Flight Time
Meeting Mountain Gorillas in Volcanoes National Park
Contributing to the wildlife conservation to Akagera National Park
Interacting with Local communities
Visiting One of the world heritage Nyungwe National park
Day 1: Pick up from Kigali international airport
Welcome! this day depending on your arrival, pick up from airport done by your guide, meet and greet with briefing, you will be taken to the hotel where you will have the rest of the time of the day depending on your arrival time, to rest after a long journey and prepare for the next trip
Day 2: Kigali city tour
Rwanda the country that you’re planning to visit it’s self is a history combination known to a faster growing country compared to it’s Dark history of 1994 genocide against Tutsis that makes a lot of people travel to rwanda every year for understanding more of our embarked history and amazed by how far has the country come from! Kigali city tour gives you a whole image of the country you’re going to be traveling in for 14 days by visiting different sites including Kigali genocide memorial .
Day 3: Birding at Nyandungu Eco Park
Nyandungu Eco Park is a restored wetland in Kigali that equips you a checklist of different birds species including white tailed olive back that is on our list and square tailed nightjar that’s likely to be spotted early morning hours at Nyandungu Eco Park birding excursion that we can start our birding trip going further east.Lunch on the way to Akagera national park.
Check-in at the hotel in Akagera national and go a afternoon-evening game drive that is likely to benefit Us some savannah birds and wildlife sightings.
Day 4: A full day birding and wildlife sightings and interpretation
Birding alongside the lake shores road and hilly roads for more birding challenges
Lunch at Mihindi lake picnic area. Boat ride in one the Ten lakes that that we’ve in Akagera national park and is the biggest one among them which is lake Ihema for more water birds’ sightings and of the wildlife around Luckily.Back at the hotel for a quick freshen up go a night game drive/night birding trial for owls and nightjars.
Day 5: Half birding in the mountains of Akagera national park.
This time we’re birding three hours while exting the park and get ready for the long drive transfer to Nyungwe national park and lunch will be on the way.
Day 6: Birding in nyungwe national park
Nyungwe national park is tropical rainforest located in Albertine lift valley that makes it special with Endeginous trees and shrubs, beautiful Flowers, Butterflies Mammal species that includes 13 species of monkeys,5 squirrel species and chimpanzees.
An interesting facts about our birding in a tropical rainforest like Nyungwe Also has more than 26 birds species Albertine lift valley endemics.
Pick from the hotel heading to a signed trail to use that day and looking forward to ask for an easy one after a long drive from the previous day and we will be birding for the whole day.
Dinner at the hotel and prepare for the next day trip.
Day 7: Chimpanzee trekking and birding.
Birding in the same direction as allocated for Chimpanzees trekking that is likely to be at cyamudongo forest that’s part of nyungwe national park and holds a nice birds list.
Lunch at the hotel getting ready for the afternoon-evening birding.
Dinner back at the hotel.
Day 8: Birding in Nyungwe national park .
This time we’re also going to do a full day birding in different trails regarding our spotting Urge.
Lunch at Uwinka visitor center restaurant. Afternoon session and drive back to the hotel.
Dinner at the hotel.
Day 9: Birding in Nyungwe national park
This morning after having breakfast at your Hotel, you shall prepare for a thrilling whole day birding that is going to include morning, afternoon and night birding session on alert that we’re going to come back at hotel a bit later than the previous days
Lunch at Uwinka visitor center restaurant.
Dinner back at the hotel.
Day 10: Half day birding.
Birding in nyungwe national park half day getting ready for the afternoon drive to Musanze town that is known to being a tourist town with the famous 5 volcanoes and home of the endangered Mountain gorillas. Check in at the hotel in musanze and dinner at the hotel getting ready for the next day’s experience.
Day 11: Gorilla trekking and nature walk while birding.
This morning after breakfast at the hotel,Your Usual Tourguide will be thrilled to pick you up at 6:30am and head to the volcanoes headquarters, Allocate you to which Gorilla family that you are trekking experience while gorilla trekking and for a briefing about the gorilla trekking escapade. In this briefing, you will be advised on how you should handle yourself on finding the gorilla, what to carry with you for the trekking and among these will be trekking-boots because the track takes you along the steep slippery grounds in the heart of the forests and the rain jacket. QYou will be permitted to spend an hour in the presence of beautiful gorillas, taking photos and observing there very impressive way of living. then after, you will be back for lunch at the lodge, and after noon Visit at the Diana fosey gorilla funds at the Ellen DeGeneres Campus .
Day 12: Birding at Rugezi marshland.
After having breakfast from the hotel, your Tourguide will delighted to drive to north-east birding at Rugezi marshland one of the wetland that’s listed to waterbirds excursions and we will give a try to Carruther’s cisticola and grauer’s swamp warbler if we don’t make it in kamiranzovu swamp in nyungwe national park And later of the day we will head back to Kigali .
Lunch on the way likely to be in musanze.
Check in at hotel and be prepared for the next day’s trip to be continued.
Day 13: Birding at Bugesera lakes swamps
Your guide will drive you to east but the outskirts of Kigali right after your early morning/packed breakfast birding alongside the lakes and swamps targeting papyrus gonolek and reed warblers and many more species on the line to expect.
Lunch on the way back to Kigali, Minutes wrap up of our whole day birding trip with consideration of our seen Birds, Heard and Missed.
A relaxation evening at the hotel.
Day 14: Drop off by your guide.
