Overview
6 Days Rwanda primates tour where you visit Volcanoes national park for Mountain gorilla trekking Golden monkey trekking. Also, visit Nyungwe national park for Chimpanzee tracking and canopy walk.
This tour also, takes you to Iby’iwacu cultural village where you get the cultural immersion of Rwanda through music and dances, storytelling and more. Each primate trekking experience takes an hour in their presence recording memorable experience in your lifetime.
Day by Day Program
Day 1: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Leave Kigali and head to Volcanoes national park home to both mountain gorillas and golden monkeys. The journey takes about 3 hours’ drive passing through the rolling hills and green vegetation of Rwanda. Arrive and head to the lodge for your first night on this safari.
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking
Have briefing at the park offices after breakfast at the lodge. Here be told about what to carry into the forest, rules and regulations, dress code, trekking time, assignment of the park ranger guide and more.
Begin the search with the Porters and park guides, meet a family of the Gorillas as they be playing, feeding while the Silverback will be practicing its leadership skills. This experience can last for 7 hours which includes an hour with a face-to-face interaction with the gorillas. After, head to the lodge for your dinner.
Day 3: Golden monkey trekking and visit Iby’iwacu cultural village
Like the previous day, head to the park offices for briefing and this time, be emphasized to use flash light camera since these primates tend to draw closer as you take photos. Trekking will begin with the help of the park ranger while spotting different attractions like vegetation.
Upon spotting these primates in the bamboo trees, take photos of great memories as the golden monkeys play while jumping from one bamboo tree to another. This experience can last for 5-6 hours including an hour with these primates. After the tour, head back to the lodge for lunch followed by visiting the Ibyiwachu cultural village a gorilla guardian village that is aimed at protecting the mountain gorillas.
While here, take part in community tour where you encounter culture through traditional music and dances, storytelling and many more others. Head back to the lodge and prepare for the next day check out.
Day 4: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park
Leave Volcanoes national park and head to Nyungwe national park a home to 13 primates involving the chimpanzees which are main attractions in this park. Apart from the chimpanzees, the park is a home to other monkeys such as black and white colobus monkeys, red colobus monkeys L’hoest’s monkeys, red tailed monkeys, olive baboons and many more others. Arrive and head to the lodge for your dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Chimpanzee trekking and canopy walk
Wake up on breakfast and head to the park offices for briefing about today’s morning chimpanzee tracking experience. Here, be told about the does and don’ts to follow while in the forest, checking the gorilla trekking permits, assignment of the park ranger guide, allocation of the chimp family and many more others. Search for these beautiful primates which will last for 5 to 7 hours including for an hour in the presence of these primates.
After the tour, head to the lodge and have lunch which will be followed by an afternoon canopy walk which lasts for about 2 hours. Here enjoy primates like vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, L’hoest’s monkeys, and more jumping from one branch of the tree to another. Return to the lodge to prepare for the next day’s departure.
Day 6: Head back to Kigali and fly home
The driver guide will take you back to Kigali from your lodge after breakfast. Be dropped at the airport and this will mark the end of the safari.
