Get a chance to meet chimpanzees in the wild and myriad of other interesting primates only on this special 3-day Rwanda chimpanzees and canopy walk safari. This package takes you to the beautiful Nyungwe Forest National Park situated in the far Southwestern Rwanda, home to 13 primate species and 310 species of birds. You will be enjoying a guided chimpanzee trekking and canopy walk.
Nyungwe Forest National Park is one of the unspoilt natural rainforest parks and spans over 970sq.km. It was gazetted in 2004 and protects over 500 chimpanzees (usually trekked in Uwinka and Cyamudongo sectors), 400 colobus monkeys, forest elephants, bushbucks, buffaloes, bush pigs, black-fronted duikers, l’hoest monkeys, Dent’s Mona monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, and others.
Safari Highlights
Today, you will be picked up at the hotel in Kigali capital, get briefed about this special primate expedition. Leave Kigali for Nyungwe Forest National Park, 6-7 hours’ drive in your comfortable 4×4 safari car. En-route, stopovers will be made at Butare/Huye for you to visit the Ethnographic museum, King’s palace museum in Nyanza and other cultural/historical sites, and then later settle for lunch. From Butare, proceed to Nyungwe Forest National Park in Southwestern Rwanda and have a great time relaxing at your accommodation facility.
It is a great day to go and search for chimpanzees in the wild. Wake up as early as 4:30am for breakfast and by 5:00am, you should be on your way to briefing point (either at Uwinka or Cyamudongo reception) to get to learn different chimpanzee trekking regulations to be observed. Start your trek early in the morning with the park guide expecting a bit strenuous walk through the forest and sometimes steep slopes requiring some level of physical fitness. Once you have located a chimpanzee community, enjoy one hour observing how they behave and take photos. From here, begin trekking back to your lodge for relaxation and lunch.
Return to the jungles after lunch and this afternoon, you will be enjoying a canopy walk. This will be done on a suspended walkway set 60m from the ground, and extends over 200m. After the canopy walk, expect to get back to your respective lodges for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay.
A leisurely breakfast in the morning will be followed by check out or first, embark on colobus monkey tracking. Leave Nyungwe for Kigali city where you may embark on a city tour to Kigali genocide site then be dropped off at the hotel or airport for departure back home.
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