6 Days Captivating Rwanda Safari

Day 1: Arrival And Kigali City Tour

Your flight arrives early on this day and you’ll be received by a Silverbird representative at the airport.

• Proceed to your hotel for breakfast and a few hours rest before starting the day’s activities.
• You’ll then depart from the hotel for a Kigali city tour with your first stop at the Richard kandt museum. This museum was the home of RichardKandt, the first colonial governor of Rwanda, on behalf of Germany to the early 1900s.
• This museum comprises of three aspects namely; Rwandan life, welfare during the colonial period and the History of Kigali.
• Richard Kandt established Kigali as an administrative capital of Rwanda that was then made the capital city later upon Rwanda receiving independence in1962.
• Ensue with the tour to Nyamirambo where you’ll have picturesque photos of this beautiful city. You’ll have Lunch before heading to the genocide memorial museum.
• Your next visit will be at Kigali genocide memorial Genocide Memorial site a grey reminder of a ridiculous massacre of innocent’s lives in 1994.
• Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide and how Rwanda has dealt with that past. Crown the day’s activities with a market visit in Kimironko for a satisfactory interaction with the people of Kigali.
• Feel free to interact with the natives as they carry on their day-to-day activity.
• Return to your Hotel for dinner and overnight. (Onomo hotel F: B)

Day 2: Transfer To Musanze (Visit Iby’iwacu Cultural Village).

Start the day after breakfast and transfer to Musanze, a journey of about 2.5hrs.

• Your first activity of the day will be a visit to Iby’iwacu Cultural Village a Non-Profit umbrella organization that aims at improving the lives of reformed poachers and communities around Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park through provision of conservation incentives, supporting community enterprise development and livelihood-based projects.
• Witness the Rwandan culture and tradition firsthand as the community welcomes you traditionally.
• It’s the best way to get involved in the culture of the local community as there’s chance to learn some of the activities they do like dancing.
• You’ll then move to your lodge for lunch and relaxation in preparation for Gorilla trekking the next day.
• There will be an option for a community walk later in the day to interact with the natives.
• Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.  (Classic lodge. F: B)

Day 3: Gorilla Trekking.

Upon briefing, you’ll commence the trek with a guide in the forest in pursuit of the Mountain Gorillas.

• You will trek through the forest, slashing at the undergrowth, parting thick creepers, to track gorillas.
• The time taken to track the Gorillas is unpredictable as it depends on their movements, where they find food and shelter. However, it can take three quarters of the day and 90% chances of viewing them.
• Upon reaching the Gorillas, you will have one hour with them and this will enable you to sit down and watch them as they interact with each other, communicate and you are also free to take photographs and Videos.
• Upon accomplishing this memorable experience, you’ll have lunch and relax with an option to have a community walk later in the evening.
• Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.(Classic lodge F.B).

Day 4: Golden Monkeys And Transfer To Nyungwe National Park.

After your morning breakfast, you will be picked from the lodge and driven to Volcanoes national park headquarters for briefing and registration.

• Then next is golden monkey tracking, Golden monkeys are known to have unique characters and are a rare species that are endangered at the moment and they are currently found in the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda are easily recognized due to the yellow patches that can be seen all over their bodies.
• The Golden monkeys are also known as ‘the Old-world monkey’ and the only way to separate these primates from others is by their noses.
• There is a unique characteristic about the golden monkeys and that is most of the monkeys have their nostrils pointing to the sides but if you look closely at the golden monkeys, their nostrils face upwards.
• Please note: Golden monkey trekking in Rwanda mostly takes place in the Volcanoes which is found in the Virunga Mountains and it has only one session per day which starts in the morning.
• Upon accomplishing your trek, you’ll transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park with lunch enroute.
• Check into your accommodation for dinner and overnight. (Nyungwe Nziza eco lodge, F.B)

Day 5: Chimp Trekking And Canopy Walk.

Depart from your lodge at 4:30am after an early breakfast and head for the national park offices for briefing at 5 am with packed lunch.

• You’ll set off for the starting point at 5:00am of the trek where you’ll start the unforgettable experience of tracking chimpanzees at 5:30am.
• Partaking a predictable 94% of our genetic material, only few would argue that chimps present a far-fetched range of human-like behaviors oscillating from tool handling to conducting war.
• Nyungwe forest national park has a population of over 500 chimpanzee individuals and 2 troops have been habituated for trekking.
• You’ll have lunch after trekking chimpanzees and return to the wilderness for an amazing canopy walk, it’s time to levitate.
• The birds flee at the sound of monkeys as they ploy from branch to branch. All this happens at your watch as you are suspended 70m above the ground over a thick canopy.
• Whereas the primates trust their palms and mobile branches to thrust them forward over the canopies, you’ll be on a suspended bridge that enables you to view Nyungwe forest and the hills in the backdrop pathway.
• You’ll return to the point of origin and drive to Kigali. (Onomo hotel Kigali F: B)

Day 6: Relaxation And Airport Transfer.

You’ll have an opportunity to relax at the hotel or head into Kigali town for coffee cupping as you wait for a complimentary airport transfer depending on your flight schedule.

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