Our professional and well experienced driver guide will be waiting to pick you up from your hotel in Kigali and provide a simple briefing. After the briefing, you will gather your belongings and head out to the south of Rwanda. Before driving to South, you will have your first stopover at the Kigali Genocide memorial grounds for an insight on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and after connect to the Kimironko market. You will drive further to Butare where you will have lunch and get to have another enroute visit of the Ethnographic Museum.

Drive to connect to the cold Nyungwe forest national park. You will arrive in the evening hours to check in at your hotel and settle in. Dinner will be served and you will spend your first night in Nyungwe forest.

Accommodation  Chimpanzee Lodge  Mid-Range

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

As early as 5am, you will be expected at the starting point for the chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe forest. You will receive a briefing ahead of your chimpanzee trek and after set out into the Nyungwe forest. This is a tropical forest and a home to the Rwanda chimpanzees and 13 other different primate species. You will spot several chimpanzees swinging from one tree branch to another. After the trek, you will exit the forest and head back to your hotel for a late breakfast or an early lunch.

After lunch, your driver guide will be waiting to take you on your next activity that is the canopy walk experience in Nyungwe forest national park. You will walk on this canopy bridge starting from the Uwinka visitor centre and get to view the forest from the top. You will later return to your hotel for dinner and another night in the Nyungwe forest.

Accommodation  Chimpanzee Lodge  Mid-Range

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Wake up on a calm note, prepare for breakfast at your hotel, and also prepare to check out of the hotel for your next destination. After breakfast, check out of your hotel and head out to Kibuye. This is a 1- 2-hour road transfer until you can check into your hotel in Kibuye. You will be welcomed and shown to your rooms for the night. Lunch will be served and you will later head out to the Lake Kivu. You may take on a boat trip on Lake Kivu to enjoy the cool breeze or opt to relax at the shores reading a book or soaking your feet(at an extra cost). You will connect back to your hotel for dinner and a night in Kibuye.

Accommodation  Moriah Hills Resort  Mid-Range

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Moriah Hills resort

This is the last day of your safari. You will wake up ready to end your trip. Have breakfast at your hotel and check out of your hotel heading for Kigali. You may take on some time to pass by the Lake Kivu for another moment in case you have time and didn’t do this on the first day. You may alternatively pass by a tea plantation for the experience of seed-to-cup processing of tea. Connect further to Kigali for drop off at your hotel or at the Kigali International Airport for your flight back home as you will advise your driver guide.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.