This 5-Day Gorilla & Wildlife Adventure is designed to give you maximum exposure to Rwanda's breathtaking wildlife. Touch down in Kigali, the cleanest and safest capital in East Africa, before heading into Akagera National Park for classic Big 5 game drives across savanna, lakes and swamps. Then trade the plains for the mist: Volcanoes National Park, home to the mountain gorillas and the beating heart of Rwandan conservation. You'll stand face to face with a gorilla family, walk in the footsteps of Dian Fossey, and learn more about Rwanda's history at the Genocide Memorial Museum.

Full-Board throughout: your meals, lodges, transport, permits and guides are all handled. All you have to do is show up and Adventure Together.

Adventure Highlights include:

• Day 1 - Arrive Kigali: Meet your guide at Kigali International Airport (KGL), city orientation, and an easy evening at the legendary Hotel des Mille Collines. Lunch and dinner at the hotel.

• Day 2 - Akagera Big 5: Transfer to Akagera National Park for game drives through savanna and lakeshore country, with lunch inside the park, before returning to Kigali for the night.

• Day 3 - Into the Mist: Transfer north to Volcanoes National Park. Visit the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and settle in at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge beneath the Virungas.

• Day 4 - Gorilla Trekking Day: The Big Day. Track a habituated mountain gorilla family through the bamboo forests of Volcanoes National Park with packed lunch, and spend a full hour in their company. Optional local activities available at extra cost.

• Day 5 - Kigali and Departure: Transfer back to Kigali for a city tour and a visit to the Genocide Memorial Museum, before your evening airport transfer for late-night departure.

This is a Full-Board Adventure, which means you don't need to worry about your main meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), your lodge accommodation, transportation or National Park permits - we'll handle it all. 

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Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport (KGL) - typically on the early morning Qatar Airways or RwandAir services - you'll be warmly greeted by your expert Guide. It's a short transfer into the heart of Rwanda's capital, consistently rated among the cleanest and safest cities in Africa.

After checking-in at the legendary Hotel des Mille Collines, you'll enjoy a relaxed city orientation to get your bearings, then unwind by the pool with the afternoon at your own pace. Your Adventure has begun.

Meal Plan:

Lunch and dinner at the hotel

Accommodation:

Hotel des Mille Collines

After breakfast, you'll head east to Akagera National Park (approx. 2.5 hrs), a stunning contrast to the mountains ahead - classic savanna, acacia woodland, lakes and papyrus swamps on the border with Tanzania.

Your Game Drives put you among the Big 5: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino roam here alongside giraffe, zebra, hippo and more than 500 bird species. You'll take lunch inside the park before returning to Kigali in the late afternoon for a well-earned dinner.

Meal Plan:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Lunch at Akagera NP.

Dinner at the hotel.

Accommodation:

Hotel des Mille Collines

Today you travel north (approx. 2.5 hrs) into the Virunga Mountains to Volcanoes National Park, home to roughly a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and the base of Dian Fossey's legendary research.

En route you'll visit the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, a state-of-the-art conservation centre where you'll learn the story of the gorillas you'll meet tomorrow. Optional local activities such as a women's cooperative visit can be arranged - your Guide will discuss these with you directly.

You'll check in at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge, where the volcanoes rise dramatically behind your room. Rest well - tomorrow is the Big Day!

Meal Plan:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Lunch and dinner at the lodge.

Accommodation:

Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

After an early breakfast, you'll be welcomed at the park briefing point for an introduction to your trek. Meeting your expert local trackers and National Park Ranger, you'll set off through bamboo and afro-montane forest in search of a habituated gorilla family.

Your trek (1-3 hrs, depending on where the family is feeding that day) culminates in a truly awe-inspiring hour in the company of the gorillas - watching the silverback, mothers and youngsters in their natural environment is a life-changing experience.

Afterwards, return to the lodge for a late lunch and a free afternoon - optional local activities are available if your legs are willing!

Meal Plan:

Breakfast at the lodge.

Packed lunch.

Dinner at the lodge.

Accommodation:

Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

After breakfast, you'll transfer back to Kigali (approx. 2.5 hrs) for a city tour, including a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum - a moving and essential part of understanding modern Rwanda's story.

Lunch will be served en route or in the city, before your Guide delivers you to Kigali International Airport (KGL) in good time for the late-night departures.

Filled with unforgettable memories, your Rwandan Adventure ends here - and the next one is already calling.

Meal Plan:

Breakfast at the lodge.

Lunch en route.

Dinner is own arrangement.

Accommodation:

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