10 Days Rwanda Full Exploration Trip

The trip starts Volcanoes National Park located in Northern Province in Musanze. The park is a home to various Wildlife species like Forest Elephants, buffalos, black fronted duikers, bushbucks, bush pigs, spotted hyenas, black and white colobus, white colobus, baboons, red-tailed monkeys etc. It has 178 birds like Rwenzori turaco and Rwenzori batis, Rwenzori double-collared sunbird, strange weaver and Archer’s robin-chat, White-collared Olive back etc.

Thereafter, you will proceed to Akagera National Park one of the oldest parks on the African continent and the largest national park in Rwanda. The park was gazetted as a national park in 1934 and sits on an area of 1,122 sq. kms. The park harbors 13500 mammals including the Big Five animals (Lions, Leopards, Rhinos, Elephants, and Buffaloes). Other mammals include giraffe, zebras, hyenas, bushbucks, Oribis, water-buck etc. It has 500 birds like African fish eagle, shoebill, papyrus Gonolek, African Wattled Plover, Giant Kingfisher etc.

From there, you will proceed to Nyungwe National Park which is Africa’s largest Afro- Montane forest. It is located in the South Western region of Rwanda and it borders Burundi. The park is famous for chimpanzee trekking and it has 2 habituated families, one having 60 chimpanzees and the other has 30 chimpanzees. The harbors 80 mammals like duikers, golden cats, duikers, Klipspringer, impalas, Bushbucks, Buffaloes, Elephants, Bush pigs, Gant forest hog, Blotched serval etc. Primates like Blue monkey, Golden monkeys, olive baboons, Red-tailed monkey, Vervet monkey, Grey-cheeked mangabey etc.