5 Days Nyungwe Safari and Lake Kivu Adventure

Overview of the 5 Days Nyungwe Safari and Lake Kivu Adventure

This 5 Days Nyungwe Forest National Park Safari will give you a great opportunity to visit one of the highly visited national park in Rwanda, as you visit and explore the beautiful attractions of Nyungwe Forest National Park, and its surrounding attractions such as tea plantations and Lake Kivu.
This will be a wonderful moment as you tour around the country side, meeting the local people as well, not forgetting a visit to the southern museum in the province. the look to volcanoes national park with it’ great views is a party of this tour.

What's included?

1 Chimpanzee permit, per person

1 Colobus Monkey permit, per person

En-route lunches

Boat ride on Lake Kivu

Entry fee-Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village

Accommodation: 3-4 Stars

Transportation 4x4 jeep

Meals and soft drinks

Wi-Fi internet

Bottled water

Professional driver guide

Pick-up and drop-off

Exclusions

Alcoholic drinks

Anything not explicitly mentioned.

What do I need to bring?

Comfortable clothing

Sturdy and comfortable footwear

Rain gear

Hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen

Insect repellent

Camera and extra batteries

Cancellation policy:

Bookings are non-refundable. All sales are final.

4 Days Rwanda Gorilla Safari & Culture Tour itinerary

Day 1: Transfer to Nyungwe National park +/- 6 hours

Early morning, you meet our tour guide for a short briefing and head to Nyungwe National Park through southern province , in midway, they are 2 stop-over’s for King palace museum and Ethnographic museum and later drive to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay (3-4 start) hotel.

Day 2: Transfer to Cyamudongo

Early morning enjoy your packaged breakfast, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking.

You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before canopy walk. This 70 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a luck day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: Colobus Monkey Trek & Tea Plantation Visit

After your morning breakfast, you will head to the park for briefing before you head to search for the colobus monkeys, and on finding them, you will be allowed to take as many pictures as you wish.

Return for lunch and after lunch, head for the tea plantation visit, to visit the Gisakura tea gardens, learn on how tea if plated to harvesting time and processing. You will take great photos and later drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4: Transfer to Gisenyi and hike islands

After a relaxed morning breakfast, you will transfer to Lake Kivu, to catch up with the beautiful sunrise over the Lake Kivu after just getting done with your morning breakfast.

You will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within this great lake. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of the bats, this island called Napoleon island, there are also other islands to explore such us peace island, monkey island, agriculture island. This lake is also known as a birding paradise as it host a number of bird species like the cormorants, pied king fishers, weaver birds, heron to mention but a few.

After enjoying boat trip, we will transfer to Gisenyi through Congo Nile Trail for a night stay.

Day 5: The visit of Iby'iwacu Cultural Village and drive back to kigali

In the morning after breakfast, there is a look around Gisenyi town, visit borders between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo, then drive back to Kigali, stop-over in Musanze town for lunch and leg stretching, heading to volcanoes national park, visit Iby'Iwacu Cultural Village and learn more about rwandan culture by exploring the traditional wedding, medicine, dance and then proceed to the park reception for walking around , take good souvenirs pictures with it’ unbelievable views then driver back to Kigali for airport drop off or hotel, home stay.

We pick you up anywhere within Kigali City. Please, provide a pickup point.