The National

What's included?

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

Private Trip

Cost: from $8,145 per person based on two people sharing at higher-end accommodations.

Journey through the Land of a Thousand Hills to discover warm and welcoming people, a breathtaking landscape, the Big Five, chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.

You’ll see the highlights of the Rwandan capital before driving to Akagera to safari through the savannah and wetlands of this precious reserve. A conservation success story, the park is now home to lions and rhinos, leopards, hippos, antelope and a wealth of birdlife.

Traveling into the volcanic highlands, you’ll hike into the forest to spend time with one of the families of mountain gorillas living in Volcanoes National Park: a truly incredible experience.

Turning south, your journey takes you along the shores of one of Africa’s Great Lakes before arriving in Nyungwe National Park. Walk through the ancient rainforest to see chimpanzees and spot magnificent endemic birds and flora along the way. Finally wind your way back to Kigali for a farewell lunch.

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Kigali

Visit a neighborhood market, our favorite milk bar and Mt. Kigali before a delicious lunch. Tour the poignant Genocide Memorial this afternoon.
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Kigali to Akagera

A quick tour of the city and lunch at one of our favorite spots before the drive east to Akagera National Park. Take a boat across Lake Ihema and look out for hippos.
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Akagera safari

Head into the wilderness of the southern stretches of the Park on the look out for leopards, baboons and rhino.
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Akagera safari

Dawn and dusk are undoubtedly the best times to spot wildlife, so today it's an early start to a full day of game driving. The drive will explore the northern Mohana and Kilala Plains, home to many of the big cats, along with giraffe, zebra, elephant, buffalo and herds of antelope.
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Akagera to Musanze

After a second morning game drive and lunch, you'll take the winding road north to Musanze: a small town bordering Volcanoes National Park.
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Mountain gorillas

Hike into the forest to track some of the world's only mountain gorillas. You'll be tracking one of the 12 families who inhabit the southern side of this international reserve.
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Golden monkeys

Track golden monkeys, endemic to the Albertine Rift and found only in the Virunga mountains between Rwanda and Uganda. Journey west to Gisenyi, nestled on the shore of Lake Kivu.
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Lake Kivu to Nyungwe

Kayak across the warm waters of Lake Kivu before driving along the shoreline of the lake heading for Nyungwe National Park.
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Chimpanzees

Another early start to track the chimps through Nyungwe's ancient forest. Human's closest DNA relatives, chimpanzees share a 99% genome match.
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Nyungwe waterfall

Cross through tea fields and into the forest as you hike to 'isumo' ('waterfall' in Kinyarwanda) or 'Ndambarare' this morning. The rainforest is rich with hundreds of species of plants, orchids and birds to spot along the way.
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King's Palace Museum & departure

Leave Nyungwe today and drive north on the return journey to the capital, stopping on the way at the King's Palace in Nyanza. Arrive in Kigali for your onward journey.

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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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