4-Day Nyungwe Forest National Park and Lake Kivu Tour

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Drive from Kigali to Nyungwe forest national park

Our professional and well experienced driver guide will be waiting to pick you up from your hotel
in Kigali and provide a simple briefing. After the briefing, you will gather your belongings and head
out to the south of Rwanda. Before driving to South, You will have your first stopover at the Kigali
Genocide memorial grounds for an insight on the 1994 genocide against the tutsi and after connect
to the Kimironko market. You will drive further to Butare where you will have lunch and get to have
another enroute visit of the Ethnographic museum.
Drive to connect to the cold Nyungwe forest national park. You will arrive in the evening hours to
check in at your hotel and settle in. Dinner will be served and you will spend your first night in
Nyungwe forest.

Main Destination:

Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)

Best Time To Visit June to September (Dry weather, best chimp trekking)

High Season June to September (Popular gorilla trekking time in Volcanoes NP)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Nyungwe NP

ChimpanzeeCommon

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

LionNone

LeopardNone

CheetahNone

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ElephantNone

GiraffeNone

BuffaloNone

ZebraNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Accommodation:

EAR Ken Barham Guest House

• Budget guest house located less than 1hr drive from Nyungwe NP (Chimps)

Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinks not included

Chimpanzee trekking and canopy walk in Nyungwe forest national park

As early as 5am, you will be expected at the starting point for the chimpanzee trekking in
Nyungwe forest. You will receive a briefing ahead of your chimpanzee trek and after set out into
the Nyungwe forest. This is a tropical forest and a home to the Rwanda chimpanzees and 13 other
different primate species. You will spot several chimpanzees swinging from one tree branch to
another. After the trek, you will exit the forest and head back to your hotel for a late breakfast or
an early lunch.
After lunch, your driver guide will be waiting to take you on your next activity that is the canopy
walk experience in Nyungwe forest national park. You will walk on this canopy bridge starting
from the Uwinka visitor centre and get to view the forest from the top. You will later return to your
hotel for dinner and another night in the Nyungwe forest.

Main Destination:

Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)

Accommodation:

EAR Ken Barham Guest House

• Budget guest house located less than 1hr drive from Nyungwe NP (Chimps)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Transfer to Kibuye – Lake Kivu

Wake up on a calm note, prepare for breakfast at your hotel and also prepare to check out of the
hotel for your next destination. After breakfast, check out of your hotel and head out to Kibuye.
This is a 1 to 2 hour road transfer until you can check into your hotel in Kibuye. You will be
welcomed and showed to your rooms for the night. Lunch will be served and you will later head
out to the Lake Kivu. You may take on a boat trip on the Lake Kivu to enjoy the cool breeze or opt to
relax at the shores reading a book or soaking your feet. You will connect back to your hotel for
dinner and a night in Kibuye.

Main Destination:

Lake Kivu

Accommodation:

Delta Resort Hotel

• Budget hotel located in Kibuye (Town)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Transfer back to Kigali

This is the last day of your safari. You will wake up ready to end your trip. Have breakfast at your
hotel and check out of your hotel headed for Kigali. You may take on some time to pass by the Lake
Kivu for another moment in case you have time and didn’t do this on the first day. You may
alternatively pass by a tea plantation for the experience of seed to cup processing of tea.
Connect further to Kigali for drop off at your hotel or at the Kigali International airport for your
flight back home as you will advise your driver guide.

Main Destination:

Kigali International Airport (Kigali)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinks not included

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.