Arrival in Rwanda

Today is the day when you will arrive at Kigali International Airport and later transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park for the overnight stay.

Bird watching in Nyungwe Forest National Park

Nyungwe Forest National Park features a lot of interesting features and is found in southwestern Rwanda, near the famous Lake Kivu and close to the Rwanda border with Burundi. The park is divided by a continuous line that forms the continuous water shed, and thus the park features different habitats for birds that include vegetation, water flow, and pedology, among others. The park features more than 275 species of birds, and these include several habitats for the birds, offering interesting birdwatching opportunities.

Some of these birds include the 25 species of the Albertine Rift Mountains endemic birding areas, and these include the rockerfeller sunbird and the chapin flycatcher, among others. Of the 23 species of the Gunea-Congo Forest biomes and 71 of the 74 species of tropical highlands, all this makes Nyungwe Forest National Park the best birdwatching experience, and this is extremely interesting and wonderful. Therefore, after breakfast, you will transfer to the Uwika Information Center, and then you will start your great birdwatching experience.

Here you will be able to see a lot of bird species, which among others include Rwenzori turaco, mountain yellow warbler, white-tailed blue flycatcher, archers Robin-Chart, collared apalis, Rwenzori Hill-babbler, chestnut-throated apalis,white-tailed blue flycatcher, mountain masked apalis, rockefellers sunbird, Kivu Ground-Thrushm,Great Blue Turacco,Olive Woodpecker, Rwenzori double-collared sunbird, variable sunbird, Northern puffback, Crested Flycatcher, and Barred long-tailed cuckoo, among others.

Nyungwe bird watching; drive to Volcanoes National Park

Today, you will wake up early in the morning and have breakfast, then head to Nyungwe and do the birding to see some of the bird species that you could have missed, and later, you will transfer to Volcano National Park for more bird watching and gorilla trekking. You will check into your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Volcanoes National Park, gorilla trekking experience, return to lodge

Volcanoes National Park is the best park for gorilla trekking, and it features endangered mountain gorillas. The endangered mountain gorillas are very good features for the best gorilla trekking experiences, and they are the world's endangered species, whose numbers have been reduced. You will wake up, have breakfast, and later drive to Kinigi to learn about gorilla trekking. Later, you will be assigned to the a gorilla family and enter the forest for gorilla trekking.

Once you have seen the gorillas, you will spend one hour with them as you take photos and short videos, and after that, you will return to the lodge for an overnight stay. Mountain gorillas share 97% of the DNA with human beings, and these creatures are the dream of every traveler who visits Rwanda, and this is extremely interesting.

Morning bird watching in Volcanoes National Park; Transfer to Kigali

Today, you will wake up and do some short bird watching, then later transfer to Kigali International Airport for your flight back home.