This 4 days Volcanoes and Akagera National Park safari will give you the opportunity to explore the most rewarding experience will give you the chance to observe a number of rewarding attractions in the country to ensure you have an amazing safari experience to make your experience quite memorable accessing a number of destinations to make your Rwanda wildlife safaris quite memorable.

Highlights of your safari

Day 1: Pick up from Kigali and transfer to Akagera National Park

Day 2: Game drive and Ihema boat trip

Day 3: Cultural tour and Transfer to Volcanoes NP

Day 4: Gorilla trek in Volcanoes National park and transfer back to Kigali

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: Pick up from Kigali and transfer to Akagera National Park

At an agreed location of your choice, get in touch with your driver to connect for the start of this 5 days Volcanoes and Akagera Safari. You will meet at around 8 am at the airport or the advised point of pick up and drive north of Rwanda for about 2 and a half hours until you reach the southern gate of the park. You will be welcomed by the pure air of the park. Connect to check in to your lodge and freshen up, have lunch.  After lunch participate in the Afternoon Game Drive which gives you the opportunity to view the wildlife of Akagera N.P that is the lions, rhinos, giraffes, elephants and also the several different antelope species. dinner and overnight at your selected hotel.

4 days Volcanoes and Akagera National Park safari
Akagera National Park safari

Day 2: Game drive and Ihema boat trip

After an early morning breakfast at your hotel, day gives you a second chance to look out for the animals you may have not been able to see the previous evening in the park. After breakfast, meet your driver-guide and be at the starting point by 9 am to enjoy the drive in the several trails of the park. You will meet the early raisers and hunters looking for their day’s meal. Have lunch and connect for the boat cruise on Lake Ihema. This boat trip lasts 1 hour with a maximum of 11 people on board. You will get to see more of the park on the lake like the aquatic animals like the crocodiles, hippopotami enjoying the waters and the several birds like the African fish eagle and cattle egret. Find your way back to your accommodation with your driver-guide and spend the evening at leisure as you await the last dinner in the park.

Day 3: Cultural tour and Transfer to Volcanoes NP

On the 3rd day of your 4 days Volcanoes and Akagera National Park safari , Have breakfast and connect to have the cultural experience offered by the park, get to interact with the local community around the park and exit the park to connect to Volcanoes national park via Kigali. You will have lunch from Kigali and continue to Ruhengeri town for the night in anticipation for the gorilla trek the following day. Dinner and overnight will be at the selected lodge of accommodation.

Day 4: Gorilla trek in Volcanoes National park and transfer back to Kigalu

Gorilla Trekking: Have a light breakfast and grab your packed lunches and set out to the park headquarters at 7 am to get the morning brief before your trek on what to expect, the do’s and don’ts and also get a chance to book your porter and all the hiking gear you may need. Set out into the forest in search of the gorillas.

4 days Volcanoes and Akagera National Park safari
Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes

Trek with the rangers for about 2 to 8 hours according to the location of the gorillas and their movements in the park. Once you meet these endangered Albertine endemic species, you will be allowed 1 hour to enjoy their presence and it is in this magical hour that you get to take photos and study the lifestyles of the mountain gorillas in their families as they go about their daily routines. After the rewarding activity, connect back to Kigali for lunch and if you have more time you may visit the Kimironko market to purchase some local souvenirs for the people back home and also get to interact with the community and visit the Kigali genocide memorial museum to understand more about the 1994 Rwanda genocide where a number of Rwandans were killed. After the activity, you will be dropped off at your agreed location in Kigali which will mark the end of your trip.

Quotation Includes;

  • Gorilla trekking permit 

  • Park entrance fees

  • all accommodation as per itinerary

  • safari van & Fuel

  • Full time English speaking driver/ guide

  • Park entrance fees

  • Boat cruise

  • Vehicle entrance fees

  • Bottled mineral water while on safari

  • All activities as indicated

  • All meals as indicated

Excludes;

  • All optional activities as indicated

  • Tips

  • Visa fees

  • Air tickets

  • All items of personal nature like laundry, phone calls, beer, e.t.c

  • Anything else not included in the itinerary

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