Safariline Defender Tours

Tour Overview

Our 10-day trip brings you the best of Rwanda: where the savannah meets the rainforest. Expect to see the animals of the savannahs (elephant, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, leopard) and up to 15 primate species, including gorillas and chimps!!!

This trip specifically includes the most important and well-known national parks of Rwanda: Akagera National Park, Nyungwe Forest National Park, Volcanoes National Park and Lake Kivu.

 Highlights:

  • Meet the gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park
  • Visit Dian Fossey's Grave
  • See chimpanzees and 12 other monkey species in Nyungwe Forest
  • Game drives (safaris) in Akagera National Park
  • Boat trips on Lake Akagera and the Rusizi River
  • Visit the Genocide Memorial in Kigali and the National Museum in Butare (Huye)
  • Meet the local people and/or the pygmies and see their local way of living

Included in Tour Price:

  • Airport transfers
  • Accommodations with meals mentioned
  • Bottled drinking water
  • Private 4×4 custom built safari Land Cruiser Jeep with knowledgeable driver/guide and fuel
  • Entrance fees to the included National Parks
  • Activities mentioned as included

Excluded:

  • Flights
  • Visa
  • All optional activities
  • Insurances
  • Meals not mentioned and beverages
  •  Tips and personal expenses such as laundry and communication

Kigali Airport - Kigali

Arrival at Kigali Airport. Your guide will be there waiting for you. Pick up and proceed to your accommodation.

Included: Airport transfer

Kigali - Akagera National Park

After breakfast we drive to Akagera National Park. On our way we enjoy the beautiful landscape and rural way of life of the local people.

Boat trip in the afternoon.

Included: Boat trip

Akagera National Park

Full day game drives.

Akagera National Park was gazette in 1934 and is Rwanda’s only Savannah national park. The scenery is beautiful and the park is a habitat to the big five. Expect to see elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos and crocodiles. With a little luck lions and leopards are possible.

Included: Game drives, Boat trip, Picnic Lunch

Akagera National Park – Kigali

Drive to Volcanoes National Park. Game drive as you exit the park.

Volcanoes National Park is a unique jungle, with many monkey species, including the endemic Golden Monkeys. Volcanoes National Park is part of the Virunga Mountains, covering Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, and one of the two places in the world where you can find Mountain Gorillas!

Included: Game drive, Lunch stop enroute

Volcanoes National Park

Gorilla tracking!!! Early morning departure with your ranger to search for one of the world’s most interesting and endangered animals, the Mountain Gorilla! You will spend one hour with one of our closest relatives. An experience you will never forget.

Note: it’s also possible to do Diane Fossey instead of Gorilla Tracking, Nature walks through the beautiful environment in the afternoon (optional).

Volcanoes National Park- Lake Kivu

Today we will drive to Gisenyi or do 1 of the optional activities before driving to Lake Kivu.

Optional activities;

  • Diane Fossey Hike
  • Golden Monkey tracking.

Boat trip at lake Kivu in the afternoon, reach the hot springs, enjoy the African massage with warm clay.

Included: Boat trip.

Kivu – Nyungwe Forest National Park

Drive to Nyungwe, Optional tea plantation visit enroute.

Nyungwe Forest is East Africa’s largest forest, with 13 monkey species, including chimpanzees, Angolan Black Colobus, Mona Monkey and Owl Faced Monkeys.

Nyungwe Forest National Park

Chimpanzee tracking in the Morning, 1 activity in the afternoon.

Afternoon Activities to choose from;

  • Waterfall walks
  • Canopy walks
  • Primate walk (Angolan Black Colobus monkeys)

Included: Chimpanzee tracking, 1 afternoon activity.

Nyungwe Forest National Park - Butare - Kigali

Drive to Nyanza Hill and the King’s palace, reach Butare (Huye) for the National Museum of Rwanda.  Proceed to Kigali afterwards for dinner and overnight.

Included: Cultural experience, Lunch enroute.

Kigali

Today you wake up at leisure, you will go for the city tour including the Genocide Memorial, Belgium Peacekeeper Memorial, visit the local market. visit presidential Palace Kigali tourist urban park. visit Kigali cultural village if time allows for the souvenirs.

Afterwards transfer to Kigali Airport for your outbound flight.

Included: City tour. Airport Transfer

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star rating  Oustanding experience : everything was perfect ! - I booked a safari for 6 days, then 3 days in a resort at the end. Rose was very helpfull to organize everything (especially booking the lodges and resorts I... read more

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February 11, 2025