Our 5 Days Exploring Nyungwe Forest National Park is one of the best primate tracking safari tours to Rwanda taking you to explore one of the largest uncut natural forest reserves remaining in Africa and home to habituated chimpanzees for Chimpanzee trekking in Rwanda. REQUEST A QUOTE Nyungwe has got more than 12 other primates species and it is also a birder’s paradise with over 300 species, including 16 endemics, as well as 75 different species of mammals. Contact us to book this 5 Days Exploring Nyungwe Forest National Park tour.
Detailed Itinerary.
Day 1: Arrival at Kigali International Airport
On arrival at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda, you will be received by a Heritage Safaris tour guide who will transfer you to the hotel already booked for you. Depending on your arrival time, you will do a city tour to introduce you to the history and culture of this land of a thousand hills and visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre.
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park
You will have an early morning breakfast and leave the hotel towards the Western province, on your way, visit the Royal Palace Museum and Ethnographic Museum in Southern Province. You will have lunch enroute and then proceed to Nyungwe National Park, arriving at the lodge in time for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking Experience
Your visit is to see the primates, with 13 species of Chimpanzee resident in the forest. You will go to the park head office for briefing before heading to track chimpanzees. After lunch you will go on a canopy walkway at Uwinka. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Colubus Monkey Tracking – Tea Plantation Visit
After breakfast, we go for Colobus monkey tracking and visit the tea plantation and later head to Kibuye along the Kivu Lake; you will have a fantastic view of the country of a thousand hills.
Day 5: Kibuye – Kigali – Departure
After Breakfast, go for a boat ride and visit different islands in the Kivu lake. After you will visit the environmental museum in Kibuye before heading to Kigali for your departure flight.
End of the 5 Days Exploring Nyungwe Forest National Park.
The 5 Days Exploring Nyungwe Forest National Park includes:
- Airport transfers
- Chimpanzee trekking permit
- Visit Royal Palace Museum
- All ground Transportation by our safari vehicle, driver and fuel
- All meals as per the itinerary
- Bottled drinking water
- Colobus monkey tracking
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- Driver guides allowances
Exclusions: The expenses of personal nature like: Air fare, Visa, Alcoholic drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, and porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills.