Destination: Rwanda
Overview
The 3 days Rwanda Congo Nile Trail hike, rewards you with a great African authentic experience of Rwanda, with a great hiking adventure across the rural setting, under the guidance of a local community guide, who knows the village, as the back of his palm. You will enjoy coffee tour, and long with beautiful boat ride on Lake Kivu
Trip Highlights
- Congo Nile Trail Hiking
- Community experience
- Boat ride on Lake Kivu
- Coffee tour
- Cultural experience
- Kigali city tour
Day 1: Kigali City Tour and transfer to Gisenyi
Day Itinerary
Today, after having your breakfast in your hotel in Kigali, you will be met by our guide at your hotel in Kigali, later head for the Kigali city tour, where, you will visit Nyamirambo area, explore the area on foot, get to know about the livelihood the people, visit the Belgium museum, and later catch up with lunch and head to Kigali genocide memorial ground, before transfer to Gisenyi, where you will spend the overnight, as you prepare for you Congo Nile trail hike. Your local guide will meet you this evening, and share with you a short briefing on what to park, so as to prepare you for the hike. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Accommodation: Inzu lodge
Meal: Lunch & dinner
Day 2: Hike to Cymbiri
Day Itinerary
Today, have breakfast, park light for the hike, ready to explore the Congo Nile, meet you hiking local guide, who will share with you a short briefing, about the Congo Nile hiking and later drive off to the starting point, where you will later, start your hike to Cymbiri and start to explore the Congo Nile trail, as you stroll around the local community areas, meet the locals and children who will occasionally wave at you, with a smile. Today you will cover roughly 18km. Relax at your guest house and share some stories with your guide, as he becomes your hiking companion. The first Congo Nile Trail base camp is a church-built guesthouse on the sand beach of Cyimbiri.
Distance from Gisenyi: 18 km
Accommodation: Cymbiri Guest House
Meal: Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Day 3: Hike to Kinunu, Boat ride on Lake Kivu and transfer back to Kigali
Day Itinerary
Wake up and have your breakfast, grab your back bag and set off, for a superb hiking adventure, with a great opportunity to explore the banana gardens and tea estates. You’ll pass a small fishing market, Maziba, and continue through some coffee plantations on the path to the second base camp in Kinunu. You will be able to visit the coffee gardens and learn about crop to cup coffee experience. The coffee tour rewards you with more knowledge of the coffee farming, from seedling to processing, as you will later enjoy a taste of Rwandan coffee. You can as well be able to buy yourself some packed coffee beans, to carry home with you. After, you will proceed with a boat ride on Lake Kivu, explore this beautiful lake, as you find your way back to Gisenyi, dropped at one of the restaurant on the Lake shores, where you guide will be wait for you, and share lunch, before you hit the road back to Kigali and drop at your hotel. End of service!.
Meal Plan: Breakfast & lunch.
This safari package includes.
- Transportation in a 4×4 Jeep safari vehicle
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- Service of the hiking local guide
- En route tour
- Coffee experience
- Boat ride on Lake Kivu
- Kigali city tour
- En-route lunches
- Soft drink during the meal
- Services of an English speaking driver/ guide.
- Unlimited mineral water per day per person during safari
- Fun and other excursions as mentioned in the itinerary.
The package excludes expenses of personal nature like:
- Visa Fees & flights
- Optional activities
- Tips & gratuities
- Laundry
- Alcoholic drinks
- International vaccinations
- Health test requirements
- Porter fees while trekking
- Personal travel Insurance
- Personal shopping bills
- Phone call bills
- Extras while at the hotel
- Items of personal nature