6-Day Rwanda Primate Wildlife Adventure

After the meet and greet, you will start for Nyungwe Forest National Park. Along the way, you'll make stops at places of interest including local markets, and the traditional palace of Rwanda's Former King in Nyanza. You'll drive past green fields of tea scattered across the hillsides and the small wooden houses unique to the areas surrounding Nyungwe Forest. Lunch will be en route. You'll arrive in the afternoon, check-in and relax at the lodge. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the lodge.

You'll have a guided nature walk in the forest to see a variety of animals and some of the three hundred bird species found here, which include the Rwenzori turaco and black and white casqued hornbill. You will go on an escorted walk in search of large groups of Colobus monkeys - sometimes as many as 400 in a group. Or, you can go chimp tracking. You'll have a picnic lunch and return in the late afternoon. The main focus for today is chimpanzee tracking. A canopy walk can be done in the afternoon, after lunch. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

You will have breakfast at leisure and set off for Volcanoes National Park. You can make a stopover like at Lake Kivu, have lunch, and enjoy a boat ride. Later, you'll proceed to Volcanoes National Park. You will relax for the rest of the evening. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the lodge.

You will transfer to Kinigi Park Headquarters to track gorillas in Parc National des Volcans. Golden monkey tracking through the forest, hills, and swamps can be tough, arduous, and tiring, sometimes taking up to 2 hours in the forest. Coming face to face with these monkeys is well worth the effort. You'll return for lunch. Later in the evening, you'll enjoy Iby'Iwachu Cultural entertainment. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the lodge.

You'll have breakfast and go to the park offices for a briefing. Afterward, you'll set off in the forest for gorilla trekking. A thrilling trek through the refined foothills of the Virungas provides inspiring views in all directions. Then, suddenly, the trail enters the park, engrossing trekkers in the strange closeness of the rainforest, alive with the calls of colorful birds and chattering of the rare golden monkey, and besieged with fresh spoor of the mountains' elusive populations of buffalos and elephants. Through gaps in the forest canopy, the marvelous peaks are sighted, easily easy to get to, and among the uppermost in Africa, indicating an ascent. Gorilla trekking is quite a strenuous but worthwhile encounter of these gentle giants. The enthusiasm of your coming across these apes will wipe away your intricacy of the strenuous trek. You'll spend 1 hour watching gorillas. You will have a packed lunch or hot lunch at the lodge depending on the time you finish tracking.

You will leave for Kigali. If time permits, you will go for a tour of the city including shopping. You will transfer to the airport for your departure.