3 days Nyungwe forest tour with chimpanzee tracking and canopy walk

The tour driver shall pick you up from you hotel in Kigali at 7am and depart for Nyungwe Forest National Park in the southwest of Rwanda. The distance from Kigali to Nyungwe is about 225km and the travel time is 5 – 6 hours which includes a stop over midway for lunch.

Arrive at the Uwinka visitor’s center in Nyungwe and set out to do the canopy walk tour at 3pm. The canopy walk tour rewards with breathtaking views across the lush forest. The canopy walkway also gives you access to wildlife that live in the canopies of the forest such as the monkeys and rare birds.

Optional tour activity:

Museum tour: If you start the trip to Nyungwe earlier, by 6am, you shall have time to visit the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza for a cultural tour to learn about the cultural and political history Rwanda and traditions of Rwandans. Alternatively you may visit the Ethnographic Museum in Huye which is also a great source of the cultural and natural history of Rwanda and the region.

Accommodation options to choose from:

Luxury: One&Only Nyungwe House

Midrange: Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel / Emeraude Kivu Lodge (this is located  on Lake Kivu & 30mins drive from Nyungwe forest)

Meal plan: Lunch, Dinner

Today you shall have early breakfast at 4.30m and by 5am report to the Nyungwe park office at Gisakura to meet the park guides for briefing and thereafter drive to the starting point of your chimpanzee trekking adventure in Nyungwe Forest National Park (Cyamudongo Forest).

After the chimpanzee adventure you shall spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Optional tour activity:

Tea plantation tour: In the afternoon you can go for a tea plantation tour and have an hands-on experience of how tea is grown, harvested and processed in Rwanda.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Today you shall do a nature walk/hike in Nyungwe Forest National Park. Nyungwe has about 15 hiking trails that give visitors a chance to experience the diversity of the forest. You will take on the Isumo trail (waterfall trail) for a 3 hour hike.

Alternatively you can do the colobus monkey tracking at Gisakura. The colobus monkey tracking is a light and shorter tour as this group of the colobus monkeys lives near the forest edge.

After the hike/trek you shall depart for Kigali going via Kibuye and stopping over at Lake Kivu for lunch.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch