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Arrival
Day 1
Pickup and Drive to Kagera National Park
Pickup and Drive to Kagera National Park
Arrival at airport, meet your guide do introductions and later drive leisurely with limited birding stops to Akagera national park in northwestern Rwanda. Akagera national park with low-lying plains, dozens of lakes, savanna and woodland zones. Shoebill encounters, great savanna birding and spectacular game viewing, It also borders Tanzania in the northwest making it great area to spot Tanzania specialties like Red-faced Barbet, Tabora cisticola, Crested barbet and other more from the bordering wildlife of western Tanzania!
- Main Destination:
- Akagera National Park
- Accommodation:
- Akagera Rhino Lodge
Wildlife in Akagera NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Birding and Wildlife Akagera National Park
Birding and Wildlife Akagera National Park
Today after early breakfast start birding looking out for species like Broad-tailed Warbler, Bennett’s Woodpecker, Sooty Chat, White-winged Black Tit, Flappet Lark, Souza’s Shrike, Crested Barbet, Red-faced Barbet, Long-tailed, Trilling, Tabora, Rattling and Winding Cisticolas, Miombo Wren Warbler, Green-capped Eremomela, Red-faced Crombec, Rueppell’s Long-tailed Starling, Amethyst Starling, Senegal Lapwing, Water Dikkop, Brubru, Bare-faced Go-away Bird, Brown Parrot, Red-necked Spurfowl, White-crowned Black Chat, Familiar Chat, Black-winged Bishop and Arrow-marked Babbler, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Shoebill, African Open-billed Stork, Egyptian Goose, Long-toed Lapwing, Spur-winged Plover, Black Crake etc. mammals like, monkey, giraffe, hog, hipo, sitatunga, topi, waterback pause around for photography.
- Main Destination:
- Akagera National Park
- Accommodation:
- Akagera Rhino Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Morning Game drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Lake Ihema
Morning Game drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Lake Ihema
Today also birding and game to lookout for the species that we could have missed the previous day of birding. Add evening boat cruise at Lake Ihema or other. Boat trip provides huge chance for water related species with highlights of Shoebill, African Finfoot and a few others.
- Main Destination:
- Akagera National Park
- Accommodation:
- Akagera Rhino Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Birding Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Birding Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Birding watching transfer to the volcanoes national park. Today we checkout early from Akagera national park and embark on the road to the volcans with stops to stretch and look at birds, reach and do evening leisurely birding around the lodge, lookout for species like village weaver, bronze sunbird, red-capped robin chat, snowy-crowned robin chat, white-tailed blue flycatcher, green-headed sunbird, baglafecht weaver and many more, mammals like L’hoest monkey, golden monkey etc, show up for photos.
- Main Destination:
- Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Virunga Homestay
Wildlife in Volcanoes NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Optional Gorilla Trekking add Birding in the Afternoon
Optional Gorilla Trekking add Birding in the Afternoon
Gorilla trekking experience in the morning and do leisurely evening birding in the forest. Check out for nowy-crowned robin chat, white-tailed blue flycatcher, green-headed sunbird, baglafecht weaver and many more, mammals like L’hoest monkey, golden monkey etc, show up for photos.
- Main Destination:
- Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Virunga Homestay
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Checkout and Drive to Nyungwe National Park
Checkout and Drive to Nyungwe National Park
Nyungwe forest is situated in south-west Rwanda between Lake Kivu and the international border with Burundi. This beautiful birding area lies west of Butare, with the Butare-Cyangugu road passing straight through the middle, providing excellent roadside birding. About 270 species have been recorded in Nyungwe, reflecting the wide habitat diversity and altitudinal range. These include all the 25 species of the Albertine Rift mountains Endemic Bird Area that occur in Rwanda, Chapin’s Flycatcher and Rockefellers’ Sunbird (both globally threatened, restricted-range and biome-restricted). Also, 11 of the 23 species of Guinea–Congo Forests biome and 71 of the 74 species of this biome of Afrotropical Highlands that occur in Rwanda have been recorded at this site!
- Main Destination:
- Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
-
EAR Ken Barham Guest House
Wildlife in Nyungwe NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Birding and Wildlife Nyungwe Uwinka Trail
Birding and Wildlife Nyungwe Uwinka Trail
Nyungwe forest is situated in south-west Rwanda between Lake Kivu and the international border with Burundi. This beautiful birding area lies west of Butare, with the Butare-Cyangugu road passing straight through the middle, providing excellent roadside birding. About 270 species have been recorded in Nyungwe, reflecting the wide habitat diversity and altitudinal range. These include all the 25 species of the Albertine Rift mountains Endemic Bird Area that occur in Rwanda, Chapin’s Flycatcher and Rockefellers’ Sunbird (both globally threatened, restricted-range and biome-restricted). Also, 11 of the 23 species of Guinea–Congo Forests biome and 71 of the 74 species of this biome of Afrotropical Highlands that occur in Rwanda have been recorded at this site!
- Main Destination:
- Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- EAR Ken Barham Guest House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Optional Chimpanzee Tracking OR Birding
Optional Chimpanzee Tracking OR Birding
Morning birding to late afternoon to tryout a few species that we could have missed the previous day of birding, do canopy walk or optional chimpanzees trekking experience. Depending on what activity you may wish to do we will choose from birding or Chimpanzee or do both.
- Main Destination:
- Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)
- Accommodation:
- EAR Ken Barham Guest House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Roadside Biding Kyangugu and Drive to Kigali Onward
Roadside Biding Kyangugu and Drive to Kigali Onward
Today after early breakfast we start from our lodge and pick a few species, roadside birding enroute will give a chance to pick some species that we missed from the previous days. Lunch in Kigali City, evening return flight back home. End of 9day birding and primate tour!
- Main Destination:
- Kigali
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
