Arrive Kigali and meet your driver for transfer to Akagera National Park
Over the next two days witness a national park coming back to life, home again to lions, rhinos, and an abundance of plains game roaming over its gently rolling hills and open savannah. Watch elephants submerge in silver-blue Lake Rwanyakazinga, raising their trunks like periscopes for air. Monitor lions, leopards, and black rhinos, learning the latest in monitoring technology. Safari by boat on the lake, and perhaps enjoy catch-and-release fishing. Drive across one of the most lovely, calming landscapes imaginable, for up-close-and-personal wildlife encounters – many predators; buffalo, zebra and antelope herds; a journey of giraffes; a plethora of birds.
Magashi’s home is 6 000 exclusive-use hectares of Akagera National Park, like Rwanda itself, a miraculous story of survival and regeneration. Located in the country’s north-east, Akagera was devastated by the 1994 genocide and its aftermath, with a rise in poaching and returnees settling with their cattle on park land. Over the last ten years, the park has been significantly rehabilitated and today offers one of the most thrilling safari experiences in Africa.
Depart from Akagera today after breakfast and your morning activity for the Kigali Serena hotel.
Time permitting enjoy a city tour, visit the Gisozi genocide memorial site, and local art & craft shops.
Dinner will be on your own.
Rise up very early in the morning and have breakfast and thereafter proceed to Volcanoes National park in Musanze district.
Over the next two days enjoy the local activities and trekking. Rise early for breakfast, head straight to the park offices for briefing about the gorillas and allocation of gorilla groups and guides. Thereafter get into the tropical rain forest and search for the mountain gorillas starting from where they were the previous day until you find them. You will find them doing their daily chores of feeding their young ones, climbing trees and others just relaxing. Take your best photographs having switched off your flash. This whole exercise takes a maximum of 1 hour and then return to the park offices for your gorilla tracking certificate. Return to the hotel for lunch and some relaxation. Enjoy your afternoon at leisure.
This morning, you will be collected from the lodge and taken on Golden Monkey Tracking.
Tracking usually takes from 2 to 4 hrs. Once you come to the habituated families, you will spend the allowed one hour with them as they go about their daily life. Return to the lodge and depart for Lake Kivu.
Wake up early in the morning and have your breakfast, then transfer to Kibuye for Boat cruising to Gisenyi, Visit some beautiful islands on the Lake Kivu, enjoy the view of the beautiful lake and take photographs. Later depart for the Kigali and your departure flights this evening.
