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16 Days Rwanda Discovery

Northern Province, Southern Province, Eastern Province, Western Province,
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16

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Unlimited

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Visit Rwanda on this 16 Days Rwanda Discovery and explore the best of tourist destinations in this land of a thousand hills. Price on 2 Pax Minimum sharing to be customized on Solo Traveler upon request.

Highlights

  • o Rwandan cultural experience
  • o King’s palace museum
  • o Coffee & Tea experience
  • o Boat trip & lake Kivu Kivu relaxation
  • o Authentic Village Walk+ Cultural Activities
  • o Cultural Entertainment
  • o Akagera National Park Game Drive and Boat Cruise
  • o Bugesera, Reconciliation Village

Day 1: Experiencing Real Rwandan life
Day 1: Experiencing Real Rwandan life

In the morning after your breakfast, head to Muhanga to join locals at their hillside, working, feasting, creating
and laughing by participating in a day life of artisans, Imigongo (Cow Dung experiences) traditional cooking,
candle dipping and hive making. Afterward, heading to Huye via Nyanza with a visit to loyal palace enroute to

Day 2: Visit Museum in Huye
Day 2: Visit Museum in Huye

After your breakfast, go the national museum for introduction to Rwandans Kingdom, discovery of colonial
architecture, visit the Catholic church in Huye with a transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Overnight Hotel

Tea Plantation Visit
Tea Plantation Visit

After your breakfast, go the national museum for introduction to Rwandans Kingdom, discovery of colonial
architecture, visit the Catholic church in Huye with a transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Overnight Hotel

Day 4: Enjoy Boat and Karongi at the shore of Lake Kivu
Day 4: Enjoy Boat and Karongi at the shore of Lake Kivu

In the morning after your breakfast, drive to the lake you will have a fantastic view of the country of land of
thousands of hills, after checking have your Boat cruise to visit different islands in the lake Kivu. After lunch
visit the environmental museum, later go to your hotel enjoy the shore of lake Kivu. Overnight Hotel.

Day 5: Transfer to Rubavu lake side
Day 5: Transfer to Rubavu lake side

Discover the historical of the Congo Nile Trail enroute to Rubavu. You will explore the beauty and unique sites
of the trail of which include experiencing Coffee and Tea Tours, local live hoods, Fishing with local fishermen
using traditional boats Night Fishing, the best experience to not miss when you are in Rubavu. Overnight
Hotel

Day 6: Kinunu Coffee Crop to Cup Experiences and Boat Cruise
Day 6: Kinunu Coffee Crop to Cup Experiences and Boat Cruise

After your breakfast you will go for boat cruise to Kinunu for a coffee from crop to cup. Along the way you will
enjoy beautiful water birds, magnificent views on Congo Nile Divide, stunning scenery and landscapes, fishing
activities and the extraction of methane Gaz in lake Kivu. At your arrival in Kinunu guest house you will have
lunch after lunch you will start your authentic coffee tour experiences nursery, fertilizing, pruning, harvesting,
washing, sorting, drying, preparation and testing around the guest house. Overnight Hotel

Day 7: Buhanga Eco Park
Day 7: Buhanga Eco Park

This morning drive to Musanze by arriving meet with respective park rangers who takes you to the Buhanga
Eco Park, this has been a sacred forest where Rwandese Kings performed initiation ceremonies, today it is a
testimonial to past societies that conducted such ritual. There is an opportunity here to go on a trail with a
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simple and small walk through the park and see where these rituals took place. When you reach one of the
ritual sites in the park, you are confronted with a small ditch that is surrounded by flowery thicket and small
Lava stones. This is where the Kings assistants, the Abiru, pick some herbs and add to spring water to make a
ritual bath for the Kings Coronation. Overnight Hotel.

Day 8: Authentic Village Walk+ Cultural Activities
Day 8: Authentic Village Walk+ Cultural Activities

After breakfast, drive to Musanze the home of mountain Gorilla’s lunch with an afternoon guided community
authentic drive from your Lodge to visit different homes and experience the everyday lives of the local
people. Take part in daily life activities to get to know the local people, their culture, and their ways of living
since the village is fascinating with a variety of cultural experience. Enjoy different types of traditional dances
like Intore dance and famous songs of the local people and/or listening to the melody produced by traditional
musical instruments including African drums. Having a story to tell on Rwanda’s local food could be another
optional service you can’t skip at all or just have a local lunch or dinner with local people to see the skill they
have when it comes to dinning time. Overnight Hotel

Day 9: Banana Beer Brewery Experiences + Boat Cruise in Twin Lakes
Day 9: Banana Beer Brewery Experiences + Boat Cruise in Twin Lakes

Depart from the lodge at 7:30 am and drive to the village with huge plantations of banana where the tourists
learn how we grow bananas, their species, ripening process, demonstration of making beer, visiting different
families for further demonstration, historical background of homemade beer in Rwanda, a visit to a local pub
where local homemade beers are being served and enjoy the interaction with people who are involved in the
tour package. This activity takes about 3 hours. 2:00PM after lunch and drive about 1 hour to Burera and
Ruhondo Lakes to enjoy a fantastic view of lakes, boat cruise and outstanding view of the 5 volcanoes.
Overnight Hotel.

Day 10: Cultural Entertainment
Day 10: Cultural Entertainment

Depart from your lodge with your safari guide pay a visit to villages near the volcanoes national park or
elsewhere taking photos freely, homes tour (visiting people from their homes), local food preparation (from
lighting a fire until food is completely prepared), traditional music instruments: Ziter playing (Inanga), music
bow (Umuduri), Lamellophone (Ikembe), one stringed-fiddle, weaving experience, traditional dance and intore,
grinding sorghum and wheat using a grinding stone. It is an amazing and very adventurous experience, as you
will see how the Rwandans live in their villages and homes. The short walk on foot takes roughly 2 hours and
the longer one takes around 3 hours or more depending on guests’ preference or your physical fitness.
Overnight Hotel.

Day 11: Musanze to Kigali
Day 11: Musanze to Kigali

On this day, after your breakfast you will walk in Musanze City, Musanze Market, relax with a transfer back to
Kigali. Overnight Hotel.

Day 12: Akagera National Park
Day 12:  Akagera National Park

After breakfast, we will embark to Akagera National Park arriving there you will relax at the Hotel enjoying the
property amenities with Night Game Drive. Overnight Hotel.

Day 13: Akagera National Park Game Drive and Boat Cruise
Day 13: Akagera National Park Game Drive and Boat Cruise

Early in the morning after breakfast we will go for game drive and in the afternoon have a sunset boat ride on
lake Ihema that will reward you with the views of a large number of Hippos, Huge Nile Crocodile and variety of
Bird Spices. Akagera is also known as one of the most scenic savannahs in East Africa. Overnight Hotel.

Day 14: Game Drive in Akagera National Park
Day 14: Game Drive in Akagera National Park

On this special day, early morning after your breakfast heads for a search of big 5 plus the 12 species
including the biggest antelopes such as the eland cape and roan antelope, the Topi, and some of 525 bird’s
species including 4 Albertine rift endemics, reptiles, plants, magnificent landscapes, Historical sites, a place
with the highest concentration of birds per square kilometer in any national park of Africa and hundreds of
Hippos etc. Relax Overnight Hotel

Day 15: Game Drive in Akagera National Park
Day 15: Game Drive in Akagera National Park

After morning breakfast, leisure and embark on a transfer to Kigali Overnight Hotel

Day 16: Bugesera, Reconciliation Village
Day 16: Bugesera, Reconciliation Village

This day is dedicated to an excursion to the Nyamata and Ntarama Genocide Memorial, you will then start
your journey to the reconciliation Village in Bugesera where you will get Testimony from locals where
Genocide Survivors live with Perpetrators in the same village sharing day to day life. You will be transferred
back to the airport for your outbound transfer back home.
End of the 16 Days Rwanda Discovery.

  • Airport transfers
  • 15 Nights’ Accommodation on Double room sharing on bed and Breakfast basis
  • Coffee Experiences
  • Mineral water per person per day all the time whilst on safari
  • Private Transportation during your stay in Rwanda, Touristic Vehicle
  • Services of a professional English Guide Driver
  • All Rwandan Culture Experiences Highlighted in the Above Itinerary
  • Boat cruise, Game Drives
  • Kigali city tour with a Visit to the Kigali genocide memorial
  • Tea Plantation Experiences, Museum
  • All excursion and attractions as described in the Itinerary, Inclusive of applicable entrance fees
  • Government Levies and local tax
  • Items of personal nature
  • Tips
  • Visa
  • Meals
  • Flight

Tour's Location

Northern Province, Southern Province, Eastern Province, Western Province,

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