2- Day Akagera Wildlife Safari And Mountain Gorilla Trekking

Our professional driver guide will pick you up by 5:00AM after an early breakfast at your hotel to drive to the east, which takes approximately 3 hours to enter the park. This National Park is located along the eastern border of Rwanda, where the typically hilly countryside gives way to the savannas of the Great Rift Valley. Dominated by lakes, swamps and marshland, the area boasts a huge compliment of nature and wildlife that cannot be found elsewhere in the country. Your guide will handle the park registration and entry clearances at the reception. After the park formalities, you will begin your game drive from the southern sector, heading north. The early morning is the prime time to spot predators like lions and leopards returning from their night hunts, as well as elephants, buffalos, giraffes, zebras, and various antelope species grazing in the savanna. Head over to the scenic Mihindi Cafe, beautifully situated inside the park overlooking Lake Mihindi. Here, you will take a relaxing break to stretch, enjoy a delicious, cooked lunch, and watch the hippos and crocodiles lounging by the lakeshores. Continue your safari as you head toward the northern exit. The afternoon sun often brings animals down to the watering holes. Your driver-guide will use their expert tracking skills to seek out the rhinos and hidden prides of lions in the Kilala plains. Wrap up your northern safari loop with a final sweep across the plains before exiting through the northern gate (Nyungwe Gate). This allows you to experience a complete traversal of the park's diverse landscapes from south to north without backtracking. You will exit through the North gate and have a scenic drive to Musanze city in the Northern part of Rwanda, home for Mountain Gorillas, reaching Musanze city late evening and check into your Lodge at Isange Paradise Resort where you will stay for the night resting and relaxing for the next day to Volcanoes National Park for Mountain Gorilla Trekking.

Early in the morning, you will be picked up and drive for about 15 minutes to kinigi office for Gorilla trekking briefing and meet your guides for the day. After completing the park formalities, you are embarking on a once in a lifetime experience of trekking mountain gorillas. Once you spot them, you are allowed to spend an hour watching your closest long-lost cousin. This is perhaps one of the most breath-taking wildlife experiences on earth! You get so close to these awesome giant primates. You stare at each other blankly not knowing who to break the long silence first. Trekking the gorillas through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga is a magical experience. These massive primates are extremely rare, with less than 700 living today. You will get within meters of the family and b privileged to spend an hour amongst them. The trekking may be strenuous; up to six hours or longer,It is important to bring good hiking boots, long trousers, gloves for protection against stinging nettles, some snacks & sweets (for you, not the gorillas) as well as sufficient water as the rain forest gets hot and humid during the day. You will spend one hour with the gorillas, but it is an hour you will never forget. Drive back, After the Ultimate Gorilla trekking after the experience you will go back to the starting point of trek you will find your driver who will drive you back to your lodge have lunch then check out and start a scenic drive back to Kigali at your hotel of residence or Kigali International Airport.