Day 1 – Arrival
- At your arrival in Kigali, you’ll be picked up at the airport and be taken to a local restaurant, where you will be met for a briefing by a member of Zip Tours Agency (ZTA)
- A lunch or refreshments will be served depending on the time of your arrival
- Then you’ll be driven to Ruhengeri where you’ll spend the night waiting to visit the mountain Gorillas the next morning.
- Dinner and overnight at your Hotel
Day 2– Trekking for Golden monkey
- An early breakfast will be served at your hotel and then,
- 7h00 a.m: you’ll be at the office of the park to receive a briefing after which you will star your trek for Golden monkey
- After trekking, the driver will be waiting for you and drive you back to your lodge
- Lunch will be served at your lodge
- Then in the afternoon you will be taken to view the twin lakes Burera &Ruhondo
- Dinner and overnight at your Hotel
Day 3 -1st day for trekking mountain gorillas
- An early breakfast will be served at your hotel and then,
- 7h00 a.m: you’ll be at the office of the park to receive a briefing and you will be allocated a gorilla family that you’ll be visiting.
- A driver will take you to the starting point at the base of the mountain where a guide will take you to probably one of the most rewarding experience of your life, in which you will spend some time with one family of the few remaining 650 mountain gorillas in the world
- After trekking, the driver will be waiting for you and drive you back to your lodge
- Lunch at your hote
- Then in the afternoon take a visit the to the “Ibyiwacu Ex-Poachers Village”, where you will learn about our traditional culture
- Dinner and overnight at your Hotel
Day 4- 2nd day for trekking mountain gorillas
- This second day you will have another exciting opportunity to spend some time with a different gorilla family.
- Remember the more families you visit, the better understanding you of these rare surviving primates.
- Lunch in Ruhengeri
- And in the afternoon take a one-hour drive to Gisenyi and relax at the beach on the shores of Lake Kivu
- Dinner and overnight at your Hotel
Day 5 – Boat ride
- After breakfast take a boat ride to kibuye
- Enjoy the beauty of the majestic mountains surrounding this 2,700 km2 (1,040 sq mi) central African lake.
- With an opportunity to visit different islands in the lake
- Lunch in Kibuye
- Afternoon drive further to Nyungwe
- Dinner and overnight at your Hotel
Day 6
- After breakfast drive to Butare then take visit to the Royal Palace
- And National Museum
- Lunch in Butare
- After lunch drive back to Kigali
- This evening you will be taken at a local restaurant for a farewell dinner
- Overnight at your Hotel
Day 7
- After breakfast you will be met at your hotel and taken for a city tour around Kigali.
- Transfer to the airport for your departure flight