3 Days Chimpanzee trekking Rwanda – Nyungwe National Park Safari

Get up really early and complete all hotel or house business while you are waiting for the company guide. You’ll be given a quick tour of Kigali by the tour guide (the genocide memorial center, the central city market, former presidential palace and artisan shops). The trip to Butare continues with breathtaking views of Rwanda’s numerous highlands after the city tour. There will be halts at the Murambi Genocide Memorial, the National Ethnographic Museum in Huye, Kamegeri’s Rock, and the former King’s Palace. A variety of antiquities and anthropological items from Belgium, Rwanda, and other countries are kept in the museum. A large portion of the museum displays all of the cultural facets of the nation and its people. We’ll eat lunch at a restaurant on one of the locations. A hotel or lodge near to the park is where the six-hour journey’s final leg comes to a finish. After checking in, you’ll sign up for the canopy walk.

The breathtaking canopy walk takes you on a hanging platform that passes over Nyungwe’s tall, imposing trees. The 200-meter-long hanging platform is constructed 50 meters above the earth. With an aerial view of the forest, you will be able to see more monkeys and birds grazing on the tops of trees or leaping from one to the next.

Dinner and overnight accommodations are available at Gorilla Nest, One & Only Nyungwe House (ultra-luxury), Nyungwe Forest Lodge (luxury), Nyungwe Top Hills Hotel (mid-range), and Gisakura Guest House (budget) (budget).

Get ready for a full day of activities by rising early for breakfast at the resort. The briefing will be held in Uwinka and will begin at 5:30 am. The driver will transport you there. Because of the chimpanzees’ greater mobility, chimpanzee tracking in Rwanda begins sooner than chimpanzee trekking in the Kibale forest of Uganda. The Uwinka Trail and the Cyamudongo Trail are the two chimpanzee trekking routes in Nyungwe Forest. In accordance with the number of participants, park staff will assign you one of the paths after the briefing. The beginning place of the walk will be driven to by each group.

The closest related creatures to humans are chimpanzees and bonobos. They have 98% of our DNA. They have a high level of intelligence, can learn sign language, and can use particular tools. You can anticipate seeing people grooming, breastfeeding, mating, and playing while you’re with them. Chimpanzees, unlike mountain gorillas, spend a lot of time perched in trees, which makes it difficult to get excellent pictures of them. Also, unlike gorillas, they rarely stay in one spot for an extended period of time. The fact that they make a lot of noise and are easy to hear even in dense woodland is a plus.

Expect to see 12 different kinds of smaller primates when monitoring chimpanzees, such as Hamlyn’s Monkeys, owl-faced Monkeys, Golden Monkeys, Dent’s Mona Monkeys, Angola Colobus, Silver Monkeys, Olive Baboons, Red-tailed Monkeys, Grey-cheeked Mangabeys, Vervet Monkeys, and L’hoest’s Monkeys. One of the best areas for birding in Rwanda is Nyungwe forest. Expect to see birds like the Rwenzori Turaco, big blue Turaco, paradise flycatcher, and forest hornbills among others, in addition to small primates. The park guides will provide details about each species visited, including information on their behavior, feeding, and reproductive patterns, throughout the program. It is crucial to remember that, despite the likelihood being only 89 percent, there is no assurance that you will observe chimpanzees in Nyungwe forest.

You will have lunch at the hotel after seeing the chimpanzees. Your tour guide will take you on a nature walk to see more birds, smaller primates, and waterfalls after you’ve had some refreshments from the hotel. Around 14 trails for nature treks may be found at Nyungwe National Park. The pathways are made to let visitors explore the park’s vegetation and animals. It takes three hours to traverse the waterfall route, which is well-liked. You might be brought to follow the Angola Colobus in Gisakura if there is time. Due to the fact that Colobus monkeys reside at the edge of the forest, tracking them takes much less time than following any paths or going chimpanzee trekking.

Dinner and accommodations at One & Only Nyungwe House (ultra-luxury), Nyungwe Forest Lodge (luxury), Nyungwe Top Hills Hotel (mid-range), and Gisakura Guest House are all available (Budget)

While you wait for the guide or driver, get up early and have breakfast. You’ll be driven to Gisakura Tea Estate so you can take a tour of the plantation and facility. You can discover how tea is grown, prepared, and packaged at the factory while visiting the tea plantation. The long trip to Kigali will then continue. If there are any locations you didn’t visit on the first day, the driver will stop there. Either the airport, your hotel, or other lodging in Kigali will be your final stop. You should return home from your three-day trip of the Nyungwe Forest Chimpanzees with wonderful memories, we hope.