Rainforest Safari

What's included?

Park entry, permits, guides, transportation, accommodation, breakfast, water, medevac insurance.

Private Trip

Cost: from $5,021 per person based on two people sharing.

Categories: Tailored Journey

Sample life in Kigali before traveling through two of Rwanda’s most beautiful reserves to track chimps and mountain gorillas.

After a day in the capital getting a taste for local life and learning about the country’s history, you’ll drive to Nyungwe National Park. This ancient rainforest reserve on the southern border is famed for its exceptional bird and plant life, including several endemic species. The forest is also home to several troupes of chimpanzees (our closest relatives with a DNA match of 99%), which you’ll spend a morning tracking.

Heading north along Lake Kivu, you’ll climb into the highlands for a once in a lifetime experience: hiking into the Volcanoes National Park to spend time with a family of some of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.

Categories: Tailored Journey
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Kigali City Tour

Meet your local guide for a tour of the real Kigali. Visit all the highlights and some of the city’s hidden gems before dinner at one of our favorite restaurants.
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Kigali to Nyungwe

Stop on the way to see the King’s Palace. Take the Canopy Walk amongst the treetops spotting spectacular birdlife and the abundant flora of the rainforest.
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Chimpanzees

This morning you’ll head into the forest to track chimps. Spend the afternoon touring a tea plantation, hiking to the isumo waterfalls or getting some well-deserved R&R.
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Lake Kivu to Musanze

Wind along the shores of Lake Kivu, one of the Great Lakes of Africa, and boat over to Napoleon Island. Arrive this evening in the border town of Musanze.
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Mountain gorillas & departure

Hike into the Virungas this morning with your experienced guides in search of mountain gorillas. After lunch in town, you’ll make the return journey through the hills to Kigali.

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A Tailored Journey

Please complete the form below with as much detail as possible: whatever you can tell us will help us build a trip just for you. Would you like to photograph the birds, orchids or the treetops in Nyungwe, hike a dormant volcano or see the mountain gorillas of Virunga? Perhaps you’re keen to see the street art and sample coffee and cocktails in Kigali? On holiday with friends or maybe a blow-out once-in-a-lifetime trip? Whatever it is, we’ll go further together.

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