Day 1: Arrival in Kigali Overnight
Arrival at Kigali airport, you will be met, welcomed and picked up by our Guide who will transfer you to your overnight accommodation in Kigali for Overnight. Overnight at Kigali Serena Hotel (FB)
Day 2: Kigali City Tour-Ruhengeri
After breakfast at 9.00am, transfer for Kigali for a city tour. You will visit the genocide memorial. The Kigali Genocide Memorial was launched in April 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. This Centre is well built on a place in Kigali where over 250,000 people were buried after genocide. These graves are obvious assistant inflections of the cost of ignorance in Africa. The site is an enduring monument to fatalities of Rwanda genocide. It is a place for people to mourn for their loved ones that yielded to the genocide. It contains an eternal exposition of the Rwandan genocide and a display of other genocides around the world. Lunch in Kigali town, you will then transfer to volcanoes National park at around 1.30pm- for Dinner and overnight at Bisate Lodge (FB)/Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge (FB)
Day 3: Gorilla trekking in Rwanda’s Park Volcanoes
Have your breakfast at 7.00am, and after carry your gorilla trekking gear and then report at the ORTPN offices for registration and briefing at 7.30am. Drive to the Volcanoes National Park for a memorable gorilla trek. Gorilla trekking may sometimes seem to be strenuous so trekkers are required to be fit because it may take from 2 hours to 10 hours. An encounter of the gorillas after a tiring trek is rewarding! Later return to your Lodge for Lunch, Dinner and Overnight stay at Bisate Lodge (FB)/Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge (FB)
Day 4: Pygmy Visit in Mgahinga National Park
After an early breakfast at 7.00am, transfer with your packed lunch to Cyanika Boarder of Uganda and Rwanda which is about 30 Minutes’ drive from you lodge, do boarder clearance and proceed to Mgahinga National Park in Uganda that shares boarders with Volcanoes National Park. On arrival, the rangers will brief you on the Batwa (Pygmy) trail before starting the trail at about 8.30am.
The Batwa (Pygmy) will demonstrate hunting techniques, gather honey, point out medicinal plants and demonstrate how to make bamboo cups. Guests are invited to the sacred Garama Cave, once a refuge for the Batwa, where the women of the community perform a sorrowful song which echoes eerily around the depths of the dark cave, and leaves guests with a moving sense of the richness of this fading culture.
Later you will transfer back to Ruhengeri and check in at your Lodge, Dinner and Overnight stay at Bisate Lodge (FB)/Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge (FB)
Day 5: To Kigali
You will relax by the Lodge, have breakfast and later early lunch. In the afternoon at around 12.30, transfer back to Kigali and on arrival check in at your hotel for rest of the evening and refreshment at Kigali Serena Hotel (BB)
Day 6: To Kigali Airport Departure
At around 11pm, you will check out and transfer to the Airport for your early morning flight outbound
Prices INCLUDE:
Prices EXCLUDE: Meals in Kigali, all items of personal expenditure such as entry visas, tips, telephone calls, laundry, gifts, airport taxes and all alcoholic beverages, refrain
NB: Gorilla permits and accommodation are subject to availability at the time of booking and therefore require booking and payment in advance
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