5 Days Rwanda Gorilla & wildlife Safari

Planning for a combined gorilla trekking & wildlife tour in Rwanda? Enjoy 5 Days Gorilla Safari & Wildlife tour in Rwanda tailored by an experienced tour company that has been offering trips in Rwanda for over 10 years. This 5 days /4 nights takes you to destinations like Volcanoes National Park ( home to the primates in Rwanda, mostly known for the endangered mountain gorillas ) & later akagera national park for wildlife game drives and Spotting various water wildlife creatures during the boat cruise on lake ihema.

Book 5 Days /4 Nights gorilla Trekking & Wildlife Safari staying in 3 Star & 4 Star hotels and accommodation facilities booked by Primate Safari Experiences.

5 Days Gorilla & Wildlife safari will include safari activities like Gorilla Trekking, Visit to twin lakes & Genocide sites, Wildlife Game drives & Boat cruise.

Trip Summary:

Day 1: Transfer from kigali to Ruhengeri Town ( 2-3 Hours its dependent to the weather conditions )
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking  & Twin lake Visit
Day 3 : Transfer to Akagera National Park ( driving time is 3-5 Hours)
Day 4 : Game Drive & Boat cruise
Day 5 : Game Drive & Transfer to Kigali ( Driving time is 2-3 hours)

Detailed Itinerary

5 Days/ 4 Nights encompasses safari activities like gorilla trekking, twin lake visit, genocide memorials , Game drive & Boat cruise on lake Ihema.

Day 1: Arrival,  city tour & transfer to Ruhengeri.

Rwanda Gorilla Safaris
Upon arrival,  you will be picked up from Kanombe international airport in Kigali by our ever on time driver and straight away head for a city tour starting from Nyamata memorial genocide site where over 5000 people were killed and buried during the 1994 genocide.

Visit the first house, the national museum, do some shopping and then afterwards drive to Ruhengeri and check-in.

Dinner and over at Accommodations

Luxury Lodges: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel/ Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge

Mid Range Lodges:  Mountain Gorilla View Lodge/Da Vinci gorilla lodge

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes & Visit Twin Lakes

Rwanda Gorilla SafarisAfter your breakfast, you will continue to Volcanoes National Park headquarters in Kinigi.  After your breakfast, you will continue to the park headquarters for a briefing. Thereafter get into the tropical rain forest and search for the mountain gorillas starting from where they were the previous day until you find them. You may find them doing their daily chores of feeding their young ones, climbing trees and others just relaxing. Take your best photographs having switched off your flash.  This whole exercise takes a maximum of 1 hour. You will then return to the park offices for your gorilla tracking certificate. Lunch will be at the lodge. In the afternoon, you may take a tour of the lake and also to the exceptional caves around the lake as you take remembrance photos with lots of fun poses near the caves. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Dinner and over at Accommodations

Luxury Lodges: Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel/ Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge

Mid Range Lodges:  Mountain Gorilla View Lodge/Da Vinci gorilla lodge

Day 3: Transfer to Akagera National Park.

Rwanda Gorilla SafarisWake up in the warm morning and enjoy your breakfast, Later jump into the safari land cruiser and transfer to Akagera National Park arrive in Kigali at around 11 am and continue to akagera reaching in the lunchtime hours. After lunch, you will go for an evening game drive with an experienced tour guide. Later in evening check-in the hotel for dinner & overnight

Dinner and over at Accommodations

Luxury Lodges: Akagera Game lodge/Akagera Rhino Lodge

Mid Range Lodges:  Ruzizi tented camp.

 Day 4: Game drive & Boat Cruise

Rwanda Gorilla Safaris
Wake up so early for your breakfast and proceed for a morning game drive to catch up with the early risers and predators returning to their hideouts.

The game drive will reward you with chances to see a variety of elephants, buffaloes, lions, Masai giraffe, gazelles, impala, baboons, orbit, 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 a large number of hippos, huge Nile crocodiles and about 525 bird species. Dinner and overnight.

Dinner and over at Accommodations

Luxury Lodges: Akagera Game lodge/Akagera Rhino Lodge

Mid Range Lodges:  Ruzizi tented camp.

Day 5: Transfer to Kigali

Wake up very early in the morning, go for a morning game drive in the other section of the park and later return to the lodge to enjoy breakfast and proceed to Kigali arrive at lunch hours time and enjoy it.

In the afternoon you will go for a city tour to visit the local markets and do shopping in the local craft centres. Later be dropped at the airport or hotel of your choice to enjoy a flight back home.

End of 5 Days Gorilla & Wildlife Safari Rwanda with primate Safaris Rwanda.

5 Days Gorilla & Wildlife Safari tour Includes & Excludes on the prices.

Safari Includes

  1. Gorilla permit
  2. City tour & Genocide memorials
  3. Twin lake visitation
  4. Chimpanzee tracking Permit
  5. Canopy Walk
  6. Accommodation & Meals as in the travel Plan
  7. 4WD Safari Jeep transportation
  8. Knowledgeable English speaking Guide
  9. Drinking Water & Lunch

 The package excludes

  1. All expenses of personal nature
  2. Air fare, Rwanda Visa
  3. Luxury Drinks & laundry.
  4. Tips to local guides
  5. Porter fee while trekking
  6. personal insurance
  7. personal shopping bills