9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour
This 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour takes you on a remarkable adventure as you explore Rwanda and her beautiful countryside tourist attractions. You will also get a chance to indulge in Rwanda’s unique cultures and interact with the friendly locals. Main highlights of this 9 Days Rwanda Safari tour include mountain gorilla trekking and golden monkey tracking in Volcanoes National Park, game drives and boat cruise in Akagera National Park; and finally track chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest National Park.
Highlights for 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali, Rwanda
Day 2: Kigali City Tour and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Day 3: Gorilla Trek and Ibyi’wacu Village Tour
Day 4: Golden Monkey Trek and Visit Karisoke Centre
Day 5: Transfer to Akagera National Park- Game Drive
Day 6: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise
Day 7: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
Day 8: Chimpanzee Trek and Canopy Walk
Day 9: Transfer Back to Kigali- Stopover Visit at King’s Palace Nyanza and National Museum Butare.
Detailed Itinerary for 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali, Rwanda
You will be met by our company representative upon your arrival at Kigali International Airport. After a brief meet and greet session, you will transfer to your hotel in Kigali. In case your flight arrives early in Kigali, you will do a short tour of Kigali city where your will visit the genocide memorial center, camp Kigali and Caplaki if time allows. Check-in and have dinner and overnight stay at your hotel.
Day 2: Kigali City Tour and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
On the second day of your 9 Days Rwanda safari tour, you will wake up in time to have breakfast at your hotel. You will then meet your driver guide and head out for a 2 hours’ tour at Nyamirambo Women’s center. Spend quality time with the locals as you learn more about Rwanda’s unique culture.
Have lunch and transfer to Volcanoes National Park which is about a 3 hours’ drive from Kigali. Upon your arrival in the park, check-in at your lodge/hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Gorilla Trek and Ibyi’wacu Village Tour
Have breakfast and connect back for yet another adventurous primate trek. You will attend a briefing ahead of the gorilla trekking and head out to the forest for a chance with these majestic creatures.
Return to your lodge right after the gorilla trekking for lunch. After your lunch and later visit Ibyi’wacu Village for a cultural experience. You will the visit the former King’s palace and watch interesting dance and singing performances from the local dance troupe. Return back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay at your lodge.
Day 4: Golden Monkey Trek and Visit Karisoke Centre
Wake up to a good breakfast in the misty volcanoes forest and drive to the park headquarters where you will be briefed. After your briefing will embark on a guided trek in search for golden monkeys in the forest and this can take between 3-6 hours or more depending on their location. Once you have located a group, you will be given an hour with the primates and then have your packed lunch and later head back to base.
You will later drive to Karisoke center to visit the Dian Fossey center. Learn more about the late primatologist’s conservation work and how it has greatly helped in the habituation of mountain gorillas and golden monkeys.
Later drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Transfer to Akagera National Park- Game Drive
On the fifth day of your 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour, breakfast will be served at your lodge. You will then check out and meet up with your driver guide. You will then embark on a drive to Akagera National Park with a stopover for lunch enroute and upon your arrival in the park, you will embark on a game drive where you will search for wildlife animals such as antelopes, giraffes, zebras, elephants, lions, buffaloes, and leopards among others.
Later retire back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise
On this day of this your 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour highlights more activities in Akagera National Park. Early in the morning after breakfast, you will go for a Northern circuit game drive to search for animals that you may have missed out in the previous game drive. It was not a guarantee that all the animals can be seen in the evening game drive.
There are some that are early risers and can only be seen in the morning. Return back to the lodge for a small relation as you wait for lunch. After lunch, you will go for a boat ride on Lake Ihema which will offer you with views of the surrounding areas, hills and swamps. Expect to see Hippos, crocodiles and more bird species.
Return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay as lodge above
Day 7: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
On the seventh day of your 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour, you will wake up in time to have dinner at your lodge. You will then drive to Nyungwe Forest National Park with lunch enroute to the park. Arrive at your lodge/hotel in the evening and check-in. In case you arrive early, you can do an optional tour to Gisakura tea estate where you will be taken through the Rwanda tea making process. Later have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8: Chimpanzee Trek and Canopy Walk
Enjoy breakfast and go for briefing about the endangered chimpanzees before entering the forest in search of the active and playful fellows in Nyungwe forest. The Chimpanzees are much easier to spot as they jump from one tree to another, chattering and laughing. Chimpanzee tracking usually takes about 3 hours. On finding them, spend an hour while taking pictures and videos. You will then return to your accommodation for lunch.
After lunch, you will go on a walking trail that will take you to the Canopy Walk-a swing bridge 50 meters in length that is suspended from large trees. You will be able to see the amazing rainforest with a bird’s eye view, spotting wildlife moving about below you. Before night fall, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 9: Transfer Back to Kigali- Stopover Visit at King’s Palace Nyanza and National Museum Butare.
In the morning, you will be picked by the driver from your hotel in Nyungwe and drive back to Kigali. You will have a stopover in Butare, where you will visit the national museum of Rwanda, the king’s palace in Nyanza, and the Rwanda genocide memorial site. After lunch enroute to Kigali and drop off at a hotel of your choice in Kigali or airport as you will advise.
End of 9 Days Rwanda Safari Tour!