This 10 Days Rwanda Gorillas Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday highlights the best of Rwanda primates and a Zanzibar beach holiday experience.
During this 10 Days Rwanda Gorillas Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday, you will take part in different experience and among others are gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking, canopy walk, beach activities like snorkeling, swimming boat cruise, sunbathing, and many more, visiting the tone town, Jozani Chwaka national park and many more others.
Explore two countries during this great safari – Rwanda for gorillas and Primates and Zanzibar for beautiful beaches.
Therefore, you will visit different national parks in Rwanda which offer the best of primates like Nyungwe Forest National Park for chimpanzee treks, Volcanoes national park known for mountain gorillas and Dian Fossey Graveyard.
See detailed itinerary for this 10 Days Rwanda Gorillas Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday below.
Detailed Gorilla Trekking & Zanzibar Beach Holiday Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali and head to the hotel
You will be picked from the airport on your arrival and be briefed about the tour by the expert tour guide.
You will head to the hotel booked and if it allows, you will head to visit some of the city-based attractions like the genocide memorial grounds, the local markets and much more.
Buy some local handmade crafts from these markets and then be dropped at the hotel.
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe forest national park and a tour at the King’s Palace
You will have breakfast and transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park. This park is famous for homing the Chimpanzees – our fellow cousins and be able to visit the former king’s Palace on your way to this park.
Arrive at the lodge be welcomed with a glass of juice.
Day 3: Full day exploration in Nyungwe forest
This adventure begins with breakfast and then head to the park offices for briefing which will be about chimpanzee trekking.
Receive the dos and don’ts to follow while on this experience and among others will be dint feed wildlife, don’t mimic because you don’t know what the chimps will be communicating, don’t litter the park, visitors with cough or any other infectious diseases are not allowed to trek.
Head in the forest and then start the trek. Enjoy the chimps for an hour while in their presence following them but the overall enjoyment while in the forest takes about 2 to 4 hours.
In the afternoon, enjoy a great adventure of canopy walk which is a bridge like ropes suspended in the air on top of the trees in Nyungwe forest.
This is a great experience where you will have an aerial view of the forest, have time while spotting the Primates like the L’Hoest’s monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys and many more others.
Return to the lodge and this will be a day.
Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Head to Volcanoes national park in the morning after enjoying a perfect cup of tea and coffee.
You will have an option of visiting the Gorilla Guardians Village on this day but this will depend on your choice and pockets.
Volcanoes national park is a home to endangered mountain gorillas and consists of 10 habituated mountain gorillas and you will visit one of them on the following day.
Arrive and head to the lodge.
Day 5: Gorilla trekking in Rwanda
Have breakfast and go for briefing at the park office where you will be told about the etiquettes to follow while on the visit to meet a family of gorillas.
This will not differ from the one in Nyungwe national park where dos and don’ts will be told to you like keeping a distance from the gorillas, don’t shout while in the forest, etc.
Start the search as you follow broken tree branches and also sound from the gorillas.
Spend an hour while in their presence as you follow their location and after you will trek back to the lodge hence the end of today’s experience.
Day 6: Return to Kigali and fly to Zanzibar
Head back to Kigali City after a leisure breakfast of course and then fly to Zanzibar which is a collection of Islands where Mafia and Pemba are the largest.
This island of Zanzibar is known due to different reasons like having one of the most beautiful beaches in the world with blue waters, the island known to have a market for the slaves in the early years and many more.
You will transfer to a resort on your arrival where you will spend the last nights.
Day 7-8: Zanzibar Beach activities
During these two days, you will have a great time while taking part in different activities such as snorkeling, swimming sunbathing, or you can take a boat cruise which will take you to enjoy a sunset moment.
You will also take a tour in Jozani Chwaka National Park where you will take a walk and lunch picnic will be served. There is a lot to explore including birds, primates and flora and all this will be discovered on foot.
Day 9: Stone Town and spice tour
You will take a stone Town tour where you will visit and spot different iconic sites like the house of wonders, religious center, Old Fort, and many more.
The town gets its name from the architecture used which are in coral stones. Later on, you will head to take a spice plantation where you will see, touch, feel and even taste some of the spices.
Among other spices are the ginger, cinnamon, garlic, turmeric, lettuce and many more.
Day 10. Transfer to the airport and fly back home
You will head to the airport in the morning and then fly back home which will mark the end of this 10 Days Rwanda Gorillas Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday.
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