7 Days Rwanda Elegant Adenture: Mountain Gorilla safari: Tour Code: AAS014

Safari Highlights
This safari will give you the opportunity to take game drives in Akagera National Park, 2 times Gorilla tracking excursions in Volcanoes National park, excellent bird watching, cultural excursions and Nature walks among others.

Brief safari itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali
Day 2: Depart Kigali for Akagera National Park – Evening Game drive
Day 3: Full day in Akagera – Game drive and Boat trip
Day 4: Depart for Parc National des Volcans
Day 5 & 6: Gorilla tracking Adventures
Day 7: Departure

Detailed Safari itinerary

Day 1: Arrival at Kigali Airport
Upon arrival in Rwanda, you will meet your driver guide at the airport and then transfer to Hotel des Mille Collines or Iris Guest House in Kigali. You will be briefed about the safari as you prepare your self to explore all the best Rwanda has to offer.

Day 2: Kigali – Akagera National park
Your driver guide will pick you from your Hotel in the morning after breakfast, start a 2-hour drive eastwards to Akagera National Park near Tanzania boarder. Along the journey, you will be exposed to beautiful scenic viewing. Check-in Akagera Game Lodge, relax wait for lunch and proceed for a game drive by late afternoon before sunset. Return for diner and overnight at Akagera Lodge.

Day 3: Game drive and Boat trip: Akagera National Park
Wake up early for a cup of tea / coffee and proceed for a morning game drive to catch up with early raisers and predators returning to their hideouts. The game drive will reward you with chances to see a variety elephants, buffalos, lions, Maasai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, oribi, Butchel’s zebra, topi, bush baby, leopard and bushbuck among others.

Return to the Lodge for late breakfast and relax as we wait for lunch. Later this afternoon we may enjoy a Boat ride on Lake Ihema, which will reward you with large number of hippos, huge Nile crocodiles and about 525 bird species. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

Day 4: Akagera National Park - Volcanoes National Park
Have early breakfast and drive back to Kigali, visit the Genocide Memorial, where you will hear stories of survival and the heart-warming stories of recovery and rebuilding hope.  Have lunch, and then proceed north-wards through the beautiful terraced hillsides of Rwanda's landscape, gradually climbing to the base of the awesome volcanoes with a clear view of about 5 peaks. Settle into Kinigi Guest House or Virunga Lodge overlooking the twin lakes of Ruhondo and Bulera.

Day 5 & 6: Gorilla Tracking - Parc National des Volcans
We will wake-up early for breakfast, drive to Kinigi station (with packed lunch and water) for a briefing about the ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’ while with gorillas. There after, join your trackers and head up the slopes of the Forest to visit one of the habituated groups of gorillas. The trek is quite strenuous, so you should be able to hike for 2-8 hours on steep mountain trails. Sight and stay with gorillas is for 1 hour. Return to the lodge and rest.
If the evening is free, we can take cultural tours to nearby communities.
Dinner and overnight at Kinigi Guest house or Virunga Lodge.

Day 7: Parc National des volcans – Kigali – Departure
Have a nice relaxed final morning, where we can just soak in the ambiance of the place, reflect back upon the adventures of our past week, and pack. Depending on our flight schedules we may have lunch at the Lodge and then depart for Kigali for your return flight.

End of the safari
This safari quotation includes;
-Airport transfers
-Full board Accommodation
- Gorilla permits
- All tour activities
-A 4x4 comfortable safari vehicles.
-Professional fulltime English speaking Driver Guide.            
But excludes Airfare to Rwanda, visas (where applicable), laundry, drinks, tips and other personal expenses.