Accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel
Room Type
Shared: 1 x Prime Room
or
Separate: 2 x Prime Room
On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be met by an Akagera Aviation representative, who will hand over your travel documents and assist with your private road transfer to Kigali Serena Hotel where you overnight.
US passport holders must obtain a visa for Rwanda. An e-visa can be purchased in advance or a single-entry visa can be purchased upon arrival for $50.
Breakfast
Meals other than breakfast, drinks, items of a personal nature and gratuities.
You will be collected from Kigali Serena Hotel by a representative of Thousand Hills Africa and taken on a Kigali City Tour inclusive of entrance fees for the Genocide Memorial. After your tour you will be collected from the hotel and transferred to the Akagera Nyungwe Gate. The drive takes around 2.5- 3 hours.
You will be met at the park gate by a Magashi vehicle and guide, continuing by game drive into camp. The game drive will take between 45 minutes to 2 hours, depending on wildlife sightings, scenery, and photographic opportunities along the way.
Accommodation: Magashi Camp
Room Type:
Sharing: 1 x tented room
or
Separate: 2 x tented room
During your stay at Magashi, you will be able to view a range of wildlife on expertly guided game drives, walks and boating trips. Sightings may include buffalo, lion, leopard, elephant, giraffe, spotted hyaena, zebra, topi, roan, eland and more. The Park also boasts almost 500 species of birds including the rare and elusive shoebill with its implausibly massive bill and the near-endemic red-faced barbet.
Kigali City tour
All meals, all local drinks , transfer from the entrance gate of Akagera National Park to the lodge, all lodge activities (guided game drives, boat cruises, walking safaris), park fees, conservation levies, laundry, local Government taxes. In the event of a change in local taxes or the introduction of additional taxes, these rates will be adjusted accordingly.
Premium imported brands and champagne, gratuities and items of a personal nature
This morning you will be taken via private road transfer from Magashi to Bisate Lodge. You will have the driver and car at your disposal during your time at Bisate and for your transfer back to Kigali
Accommodation: Bisate Lodge
Room Type
Shared: 1 x Forest Villa
or
Separate 2 x Forest Villas
Wednesday July 12th
You will be collected from Bisate this morning for a Gorilla Tracking adventure. Gorilla trekking takes place from Volcanoes National Park headquarters where guests are allocated to one of the twelve habituated gorilla groups for a one-hour encounter.
Requiring only that you are moderately fit and not carrying any airborne diseases, your gorilla trekking will begin early in the morning, and can take anything from one to eight hours. Accompanied by a gorilla guide, an armed ranger and, should you wish, porters, you will – in accordance with park regulations – spend an hour in the company of the gorillas.
The gorillas may be feeding from the ground, resting, moving around, or up in the trees playing about in the branches. Trackers guide you through the jungle, clearing the brush with their machete so you can get a clearer and closer look at the gorillas. It is incredible how graceful and peaceful these animals are, especially considering their incredible size. If you are lucky, you may see the silverback (mature male) get up and move around showing control over the territory.
Thursday July 13th
You will be collected from Bisate this morning and taken to track the Golden Monkey. View this beautifully coloured primate, which is endemic to the area and lives in groups of up to 30 individuals in the Park’s bamboo forest.
Gorilla trekking
Golden Monkey Tracking
All meals, all local drinks (excludes premium imported brands and champagne), lodge activities on property - guided birding and nature walks, guided nursery visit and indigenous tree planting, guided visit to the community beehive project that is support by the lodge, guided walks to the surrounding communities, self-guided running trail, gym in a bag at the villas, wine tasting, explanation from guide on biodiversity on the property, documentary film screenings; Lodge activities off site - accessed by walking: guided visits to Bisate reforestation site, guided visits to nursery school in the Bisate Village (the schools are closed over weekends and during school holidays), guided walks of the surrounding communities, local government taxes.
Premium imported brands and champagne, gratuities and items of a personal nature
You depart Bisate this morning with a road transfer to Kigali
