Country: Rwanda
Destinations: Kigali, Nyungwe National Park and Lake Kivu
Itinerary at Glance
Day 1: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park.
Day 2: Chimpanzee Trek and Canopy walk at Nyungwe National Park.
Day 3: Transfer back to Kigali via Lake Kivu.
Overview
Join us on this 3 days, 2 – night’s Rwanda Nyungwe chimpanzee trekking tour! This country has incredibly welcoming people ready to show you their wonderful home. This experience will allow you to explore Nyungwe National Park. You’ll also have the opportunity to journey through Rwandan history on a visit to the King’s Palace Museum in Butare and Ethnographic museum in Huye. You will have opportunity to trek the wild chimpanzee and as well as do canopy walk in the Nyungwe forest. On Return to Kigali on the last day, you will do a boat ride on Lake Kivu.
Rwanda has some of the most stunning natural landscapes in Africa, and a trip here would not be complete without experiencing nature. You’ll have the chance to take a canopy walk in Nyungwe National Park and participate in both Chimpanzee and canopy walk. Your drives through the country will be incredibly scenic, and you’ll leave with a clear picture of why they call Rwanda the Land of 1,000 hills!
Let’s explore the wonderful country of Rwanda together!
Trip Highlight.
- Chimpanzee trekking
- Canopy walk
- Boat ride on Lake Kivu
- King Palace Museum
- Ethnographic museum
Day 1: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Travel time +6 hours
Day Itinerary
Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to the western province, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum and Ethnographic Museum in Southern Province, this will give you a great history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership of Kingship with an en route lunch. You will reach in the afternoon at Nyungwe National Park and spend the afternoon at your leisure.
Overnight at: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking and canopy walk at Nyungwe Forest
Day Itinerary
Today’s agenda includes chimpanzee trekking deep in the Nyungwe forest and canopy walk.
After your early morning breakfast, you will drive to the park reception for the early morning briefing before heading to the forest in search of the chimpanzee. During the briefing, grouping of the trekker’s is done, and you will be put into a group of 8 members per group, depending on the number of trekkers, you may be less. Make your way to Cyamudongo in the dark with a local park ranger who knows the forest’s deepest secrets. Follow him to the home of the chimps. Watch the animals wake, stretch, and start their day in the forest. Snap your photos while you can. Once they’re on the move, catching up to them among the tall trees and thick brush is a feat of athletic prowess. This once in a lifetime experience deserves your full attention: Remember the feeling of the mud beneath your hiking boots, the pitch of the primate calls echoing through the trees and the moment you locked eyes with a chimp in one of the few places in the world where you still can.
These cousins to humans can be found and tracked in Nyungwe National Park. A beautiful guided hike through the forest will lead you to these fascinating creatures where you can watch them play and interact up close. Chimpanzee tracking can be done year-round in Nyungwe, rain or shine, and while it is never guaranteed that you will see them, sightings are very common and guides are skillful in tracking them. The experience differs from gorilla tracking as the chimps move through the canopy, so the sightings are a bit more sporadic and exciting, but worthwhile nonetheless. Observe them playing, wild and free, hooting and dashing through the trees. You will later return back to your lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you should be in the green trees of Nyungwe National Park – home to one of the oldest rainforests on the continent. With 374.5 square miles to explore you won’t be able to do it all today, but the easy stroll out to the Canopy Walkway from the Uwinka reception center offers a chance to marvel at the views from 230 feet above the rainforest floor. Listen for the sounds of 13 species of primates and more than 300 types of birds. Sleep tonight knowing you’ll meet some of the noisemakers in the days ahead. Experience the rainforest from a dazzling new perspective on the famous Canopy Walkway.
Overnight at: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 3: Transfer back to Kigali. Travel time +6hrs
Day Itinerary
The adventure continues by an overland drive from Nyungwe National Park to Kigali, by way of the beautiful shores of Lake Kivu. This beautiful Kivu belt road, rewards you, with unwinding countryside experience, of the rolling hills, and great view of the beautiful Lake Kivu. You will pass by Lake Kivu and opt for a 2 hour’s boat ride on Lake Kivu, to explore this great Lake patched with a number of beautiful islands, and later have lunch en route. Take a lunch break to a table restaurant on the water’s edge where you can stroll through the guava and avocado trees on route to the restaurant high above. Soon, you’ll swap this paradise for another. Later, jump into your jeep, and find your way to Kigali, arrive later in the afternoon, and be dropped at your booked hotel in Kigali, or at the airport, for your late evening flight. End of tour!
Meal Plan: Breakfast & lunch.
This safari package includes.
- Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- 1 chimpanzee permit, per person
- Canopy walk
- Museums visit
- En-route lunches
- Boat ride on Lake Kivu
- Park fees
- Services of 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
Please contact us for a free detailed quote on the option of your choice. We can tailor a request that suits your interests, and budget, as well as we can change or upgrade the lodge options, as well as arrange chimpanzee trekking in Uganda in Kibale National Park. Write to us with more details about your safari.