5 Days Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari Adventure

April 26, 2024

5 Days Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari Adventure

Safari Overview

5-Day Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari Adventure: Watch a variety of wild game species wander in the beautiful savannah grasslands. You’ll witness this while partaking in game drives in Akagera National Park. Also, visit a community and trek mountain gorillas in Ruhengeri at Volcanoes National Park. You’ll also visit Buhanga Forest, a cultural site for the initiation of the Kings in Rwanda.

Visit the twin lakes of Ruhondo and Burera and engage in voluntary activities. One of them is the visit to orphanages to encounter the repercussions of the genocide.

Safari Highlights of the 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari Adventure

Day 1: Travel to Kigali
Day 2: Transfer to Akagera National Park
Day 3: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park and Local Cultural encounter
Day 4: Gorilla trekking and a visit to Buhanga Forest

Detailed Itinerary of the 5 Days Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari Adventure

Day 1: Travel to Kigali

Upon arrival, you will meet a representative from Safari Vacations and Travel Services. He will brief you about the safari and then transfer you to your hotel.

Thereafter, you’ll have lunch and then tour Kigali city. This tour will allow you to visit the genocide memorial sites, the Rwanda-Franco museum, and a national museum. Also, you’ll visit a local market among other major attractions within the city. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and Overnight: Four Points Kigali/Hotel Des Miles Collines/Five to Five Hotel

2: Transfer to Akagera National Park

Wake up early and drive to Akagera National Park where you will have a game drive. The game drive will allow you to see wild game species like antelopes and the Big Five game. You’ll also see over 634 bird species including the rare shoebill stork and papyrus gynolek.

Dinner and overnight: Akagera Game Lodge/Akagera Rhino Lodge/Magashi Camp

Day 3: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park and Local Cultural encounter

After breakfast, check out of the hotel and drive to Ruhengeri, Volcanoes National Park. Here, where you will be guided to an organized community. Consequently, you will experience the local culture of these people. Learn how to brew local beer from banana and sorghum and acquire ethnobotany skills. Also, you can purchase the beautiful handicrafts made from banana leaves.

After tasting a traditionally prepared meal at lunch with the local people, you will be treated to entertainment with traditional drumming, singing, and dancing to crown the fun-filled day.
Dinner and overnight: Five Volcanoes/Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Hotel Muhabura

Day 4: Gorilla trekking and a visit to Buhanga Forest

On this day, you will trek the endangered mountain gorilla species. You’ll start the day with an early morning breakfast and later transfer to the park headquarters. A briefing from the ranger/warden then will follow about the do’s and don’ts of gorilla trekking. After the briefing, you will form groups of 8 per group, to track a gorilla family. Hike into the forest, which will take you about 2-7 hours to locate the mountain gorillas. The time it takes you to find a gorilla family depends on where they stayed the last night or their movement.

After finding the gorillas, spend one hour in their presence. Use that time to monitor their behavior and how they live their life. Also, use that time to take pictures and see the characteristics they share with humans. Later on, after the gorilla trekking experience, return to the lodge for relaxation. Later on, after lunch, visit the twin lakes and enjoy beautiful photography

Dinner and overnight: Five Volcanoes/Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge/Hotel Muhabura

Day 5: Volun–tourism and transfer back to Kigali

After breakfast, check out of the hotel and you will be guided to a humanitarian orphanage. Here, you’ll learn the history of the Pain of Rwanda and encourage the children.

Transfer back to Kigali and return home. This will thus mark the end of the tour.