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Our staff/driver-guide will come to pick you up from your residence or airport in Kigali. You'll go for a city tour where you will visit the Genocide memorial site and the local market. You will have lunch and drive to Volcanoes National Park and check in for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.
You will wake up in the morning, get your early breakfast and head to the park headquarters to be briefed about how to behave while you are visiting then proceed to track the gorillas. After the remarkable adventure with the gorillas, you will have lunch. Later, you'll visit the twin lakes Bulera and Ruhondo. Then the driver-guide will bring you back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
You'll wake up in the morning, have breakfast at the hotel, and head to the park headquarters for a briefing on how to behave on golden monkeys when you meet them from their natural habitat. By 8.00 am, you will set off in your cars and drive to the start of the walking point. From here, you'll get hiking sticks and start your walk to the golden monkeys and enjoy them. Later, you will return to the vehicle and the driver-guide will drive you back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Kivu, have lunch, and then go for a boat ride and visit the fishing villages, spring water, birds, the island, and many more tourist attractions. Then the driver-guide will take you back for an overnight stay at the Kivu Serena Hotel which is located so close to Lake Kivu.
You will wake up in the morning and then have your late breakfast. After breakfast, you will check out. Then the Lion Safaris driver-guide will come to pick you up and drive you back to Kigali to catch your flight back home depending on your flight time or he will drop you off at your residence in Kigali.
This tour is 100% sustainable. We encourage our travelers to minimize their carbon footprint by choosing eco-friendly practices.
Cancellations made more than 60 days before departure qualify for an 80% refund of the deposit paid. Cancellations made between 30 and 59 days before departure qualify for a 50% refund of the deposit. Cancellations made less than 30 days before departure are non-refundable. Gorilla and Chimpanzee permits are non-refundable once purchased. Guests are advised to purchase comprehensive travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.
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Every now and then a destination becomes so famous that people start questioning whether it can possibly live up to its own reputation. Serengeti National Park is one of those places. You have seen the photographs, watched the documentaries, read the articles, and somewhere in the back of your mind a small but persistent voice is asking whether the reality can genuinely match the legend. Whether all those wildebeest, all those lion prides, all that extraordinary golden savannah stretching to the horizon is truly as breathtaking in person as it looks on a screen. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that the Serengeti does not just live up to its reputation it quietly exceeds it in ways that no photograph or documentary has ever managed to fully capture, and here is exactly why.