5 Days Nyungwe Forest National Park Safari
5 Days Nyungwe Forest National Park Safari
Our 5 Days Nyungwe Forest National Park Safari will give you a great opportunity to visit one of the highly visited national parks in Rwanda, as you visit and explore the beautiful attractions of Nyungwe Forest National Park, and its surrounding attractions such as tea plantations and Lake Kivu. This will be a wonderful moment as you tour around the countryside, meeting the local people as well, not forgetting a visit to the southern museum in the province.
Day 1: Airport Transfer to Hotel
Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will go through customs and immigration, and you will be met by our company guide who will warmly welcome you to the Land of a Thousand Hills that Rwanda is known for, and later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at Hotel des Mille Colline (midrange hotel) or Chez Land hotel (Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Travel time +5 hours
Early morning enjoying your buffer breakfast check out of the hotel and drive heading to the western province, on your way visit the Royal Palace Museum and Ethnographic Museum in the 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 arrive in the afternoon at Nyungwe National Park and spend the afternoon at your leisure. Dinner and overnight at Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel (midrange lodge) or Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard lodge). Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking & Canopy
Today, after your early morning cap of African coffee, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking. You will have one hour to find the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before heading for a canopy walk.
These 70 meters-suspended metallic bridges will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a lucky day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay at Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel (midrange lodge) or Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard lodge). Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 4: Colobus Monkey Trek & Tea Plantation Visit.
After your morning breakfast, you will head to the park for briefing before you head to search for the colobus monkeys, and on finding them, its okay to take as many pictures as you wish. Return for lunch and after lunch, head for the tea plantation visit, to visit the Gisakura tea gardens, and learn how tea is plated to harvesting time and processing. You will take great photos and later drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel (mid-range lodge) or Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard lodge). Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 5: Transfer to Gisenyi
After a relaxed morning breakfast, you will transfer to Lake Kivu, to catch up with the beautiful sunrise over Lake Kivu after just getting with your morning breakfast. You will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within this great lake. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of bats. This lake is also known as a birding paradise as it hosts several bird species like the command, pied kingfishers, weaver birds, and heron to mention but a few. You will later return and drive off to Kigali and later be transferred to the airport to catch up with your onward flight.
End of the 5 Days Nyungwe Forest National Park Safari.
Includes.
Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
1 Chimpanzee permit, per person
1 Colobus Monkey permit, per person
En-route lunches
Boat ride on Lake Kivu
Park entrance fee
Canopy walk
Museum visit
Tea Plantation visit
Services of English-speaking driver/guide
Excludes
Airfare and Visa
Drinks
Laundry
tips to local guides,
personal insurance, personal shopping bills, and cigars.
Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a Local tour operator based in Uganda with its head offices in Entebbe. Moreover, Safari Vacations and Travel Services is a business for a Ugandan native, we specialize in life-changing experiences and sustainable tours and holidays to all East African countries. We are members of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators and with registration from the Uganda Tourism Board. We have a good and long working relationship with Uganda Wildlife Authority making it easy to book your gorilla permits and gorilla trekking safari. Safari Vacations and Travel Services is also high in Trip Advisor reviews.
