Day 1: Kigali
On arrival at Kigali International Airport (KGL), you will be met by Birding and Educational Tours' driver / guide and be transferred to your hotel in Kigali, for dinner and overnight.
- Accommodation: Chez Lando Hotel
Day 2: Kigali - Akagera National Park
You will leave Kigali at 6:00 a.m. to be at Akagera National Park at 8:00 a.m.. You will have a morning game drive to see elephants and buffaloes until lunch time and the tour will resume at 3:00 p.m.. At 5:30 p.m., you will go for a night game until 8:30 p.m. where you can see leopard, hyena, and the species of birds such as square-tailed nightjars. You will have dinner at the Akagera Game Lodge.
- Accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 3: Akagera National Park
You will start your birding around the Akagera Game Lodge to try red-faced barbet then you will continue game drive until lunch time. At 3:00 p.m., you will have a brief birding on lake circuit. Then, at 4:30 p.m., you will experience sunset boat and you can easily see roosts of cormorants, darters, egrets, and herds of hippopotamus and many crocodiles. You will have dinner at the Akagera Game Lodge.
- Accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge
Day 4: Akagera National Park - Kigali
With the packed lunch, you will have your birding and game drive along lake circuit where you can see different animals such as topi, elephants, zebra, roan antelope, lion, and many bird species such as the crested barbet and Hildebrandt’s francolin. In the afternoon, you will drive back to Kigali. You will have dinner at the Chez Lando Hotel.
- Accommodation: Chez Lando Hotel
Day 5: Kigali - Nyungwe National Park
Nyungwe National Park is a home to about 300 bird species among which 27 are endemic to the Albertine Rift Region including the quasi endemic to Nyungwe National Park, the red-collared mountain babbler.
You will leave Kigali at 6:00 a.m. and arrive at the national park around 11:00 a.m.. After lunch, you will have an afternoon birding and you can easily see some Albertine Rift endemics such as Rwenzori Turaco, yellow-eyed black flycatcher and, charismatic species like great-blue turaco. Overnight is at the Emeraude Kivu Resort.
- Accommodation: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Day 6: Nyungwe National Park
After an early breakfast, you start morning birding around Uwinka reception and you can see stripe-breasted tit, Rwenzori batis, regal sunbird, and etc. At midday, you will stop for refreshment or lunch and resume birding at 2:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Overnight is at the Emeraude Kivu Resort.
- Accommodation: Emeraude Kivu Resort
Day 7: Nyungwe National Park - Musanze
You will have the morning birding at waterfall trail to try and find Cabanis’s greenbul and after lunch, you will drive to Musanze. Accommodation and dinner are at the Gorillas Hotel.
- Accommodation: Gorillas Hotel
Day 8: Musanze
You will track mountain gorillas and on the afternoon, you will relax and/or have an afternoon brief birding around Lake Ruhondo for general waterbirds. Accommodation and dinner are at the Gorillas Hotel.
- Accommodation: Gorillas Hotel
Day 9: Musanze - Kigali
After breakfast, you will head back to Kigali. After lunch, you will visit the market for souvenirs before you will be send to the airport.
