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10 Days Rwanda Honeymoon Safari
10 Days Rwanda Honeymoon Safari
Overview
Discover Romantic Rwanda Wildlife Adventures for Couples
This exclusive Rwanda Honeymoon Safari Package combines gorilla trekking, chimpanzee adventures, Akagera game drives, Lake Kivu sunset cruises, and luxury stays across Rwanda’s most breathtaking destinations. Designed for couples, the journey delivers romance, wildlife, relaxation, and authentic African experiences.
- Gorilla trekking through Rwanda’s volcanic forests
- Romantic sunset cruises on Lake Kivu
- Luxury safari lodges with breathtaking views
- Chimpanzee trekking inside the ancient Nyungwe rainforest
Inclusions
What's included
- 9 nights full board accommodation as per itinerary
- All meals throughout the safari
- All road transfers between destinations
- Professional English-speaking honeymoon safari guide
- All game drives in private 4x4 safari vehicles
- All national park and reserve entry fees
- Gorilla trekking permit in Volcanoes National Park
- Golden monkey trekking in Volcanoes National Park
- Chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe Forest National Park
- Canopy walkway experience in Nyungwe Forest
- Boat safari on Akagera's Lake Ihema
- Sunset boat cruise on Lake Kivu
- Kigali Genocide Memorial visit
- Private bush sundowner setups throughout
- Candlelit private dinners on selected evenings
- Bottled drinking water throughout
- Detailed pre-departure information and packing lists
- Reservation and booking coordination
Exclusions
What's Excluded
- International flights to and from Rwanda
- Rwanda visa fees
- Travel and medical insurance
- Alcoholic beverages unless specified
- Spa treatments at any lodge
- Gratuities for guides, drivers and lodge staff
- Personal items and laundry
- Any items of personal nature
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Day 1
Kigali Arrival and City Orientation
Afternoon – Kigali Arrival
Your 10 days Rwanda honeymoon safari holiday package begins with your arrival into Kigali International Airport. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris guide meets you at arrivals and transfers you to your Kigali hotel. The afternoon is unscheduled, a chance to settle, rest from travel, and begin the process of arriving somewhere genuinely new. Kigali is immediately striking for its cleanliness, its order, and the green hills that surround the city in every direction. The capital sits on a series of ridges and valleys, and the light in the late afternoon on its hills has a quality that belongs to no other African city.
Evening – Kigali City Introduction
The first evening is yours in Kigali. Your guide recommends restaurants and the city’s best neighbourhoods for a first walk, the Kimihurura and Nyamirambo quarters providing the most rewarding early evening experience of the capital. Dinner at one of Kigali’s excellent restaurants, a city whose culinary scene has developed remarkably in step with its wider transformation.
Morning – Kigali Genocide Memorial
Before leaving Kigali, your itinerary includes a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the most important site of remembrance in Rwanda and one of the most carefully considered memorial spaces in Africa. The memorial documents the history of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people with a depth and restraint that allows the facts to carry their full weight. It is not an easy visit, but it is an essential one for any person who wants to understand the Rwanda that surrounds them for the rest of this rwanda honeymoon safari. Your guide is available to provide context before and after the visit.
Afternoon – Transfer to Akagera and Evening Game Drive
The drive from Kigali to Akagera takes approximately two and a half hours east through Rwanda’s rolling hills and agricultural landscape to the savannah edge. The transition from the densely cultivated hillsides of central Rwanda to the open dry woodland of Akagera is immediate and dramatic. Check in at your Akagera lodge, take a late lunch, and head straight into the afternoon game drive. The first Akagera drive typically produces elephant, giraffe, zebra, and buffalo on the open plains, with the lake visible in the distance and the papyrus swamps lining the water’s edge.
Evening – Sundowner at Lake Ihema
Your first Akagera evening ends with sundowners at the lake shore, the water turning colour as the sun drops behind the western hills and the hippos beginning to emerge from the shallows for their night grazing. Cold drinks, the calls of the fish eagles overhead, and the sound of the hippos moving in the water below.
Day 2
Kigali to Akagera National Park
Day 3
Full Day in Akagera - Big Five Game Drives and Boat Safari
Early Morning – Dawn Predator Drive
The Akagera dawn drive follows the known lion territories in the north and central sections of the park, the reintroduced prides now established in good numbers across their range. The lion tracking is assisted by the park’s monitoring network, and your guide positions the vehicle on the known routes before the light fully arrives. The dawn light on the Akagera plains, the grass golden and the lake glittering to the east, is the best light of the day for photography and for the particular quality of silence that belongs to a game drive before the world wakes.
Morning – Boat Safari on Lake Ihema
The boat safari on Lake Ihema is the experience that separates Akagera from every other park on the Rwanda honeymoon safari itinerary. The lake is the heart of the park and the boat moves slowly along its shores and through its channels, the hippos surfacing around the boat and the crocodiles sliding from the bank at the approach. The bird life on the lake is extraordinary, the papyrus gonolek, the African darter, the saddle-billed stork, and the possibility, always present on Lake Ihema, of a shoebill sighting. The boat safari lasts approximately two hours and the experience of being on the water in the middle of one of Rwanda’s most remote ecosystems has an intimacy that the land-based drives cannot replicate.
Afternoon – Rhino Tracking and Northern Circuit
The afternoon covers the northern circuit where the black rhino population is most reliably encountered. Rwanda’s rhinos were reintroduced from South Africa and their range in the north of the park gives the afternoon drive a specific purpose. A rhino sighting in Akagera is still a genuinely uncommon experience, and the attention and patience required to find one in the woodland makes the encounter, when it comes, feel properly earned. The northern circuit also gives access to the park’s highest ground, the elevated positions where the view across the lake system and the Tanzanian border country beyond it extends as far as the eye can reach.
Akagera Accommodation Options
Ruzizi Tented Lodge (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on Lake Ihema, managed by African Parks), Karenge Bush Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, northern Akagera), Akagera Game Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, eastern park boundary). 2 nights at your chosen Akagera accommodation. Full board throughout. Boat safari included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Akagera to Nyungwe
The drive from Akagera to Nyungwe is one of the great trans-Rwanda journeys, crossing the country from east to southwest through the Thousand Hills landscape that defines Rwanda’s central plateau. The drive takes approximately five to six hours and the landscape changes continuously, from the dry savannah of the east through the densely cultivated ridges of the centre to the increasingly forested and misty highlands of the southwest. The approach to Nyungwe, with the forest visible on the ridges ahead and the tea plantations of the Gisakura estate marking the boundary between the cultivated land and the protected forest, is one of the most beautiful arrival moments of the rwanda honeymoon safari.
Afternoon – Nyungwe Forest Orientation Walk
The first afternoon in Nyungwe is given to an orientation walk on the Igishigishigi Trail, one of the park’s accessible routes that introduces the forest’s character without the full exertion of the chimpanzee or canopy walks. The walk moves through the lower forest on a clear trail, the guide identifying bird calls and plant species and explaining the ecology of a forest that is among the most complex and diverse on the continent. The first colobus sighting, the large black and white animals moving through the upper canopy with the easy fluency of animals that live entirely off the ground, tends to produce the same response in every visitor: the sudden awareness of how much life this forest holds above the walking level.
Evening – Forest Lodge Sundowner
The Nyungwe evening has a different quality from Akagera’s lake sundowner. The forest lodge sits on the edge of the Nyungwe canopy, and the evening sounds of the forest, the last bird calls, the insects, the distant calling of primates settling for the night, replace the savannah sounds of the previous two evenings. The temperature is noticeably cooler at altitude and the forest air is clean and mist-scented.
Day 4
Akagera to Nyungwe Forest
Day 5
Full Day in Nyungwe - Chimpanzee Trekking and Canopy Walkway
Early Morning – Chimpanzee Trekking
The Nyungwe chimpanzee trek begins at the park headquarters at dawn, the groups briefed on protocols by a ranger before entering the forest. The habituated chimpanzee communities in Nyungwe have been tracked by researchers and rangers for years, and the morning tracking team locates the group using radio contact and direct knowledge of their ranging patterns. The trek to find the chimpanzees varies in duration from thirty minutes to several hours depending on where the group has spent the night, and the physical engagement of moving through the forest on the track of the chimpanzees is part of the experience’s quality. The encounter itself, when the group is found, is one of the most affecting wildlife experiences in Africa. Chimpanzees at close range in their own environment, feeding, socialising, and responding to each other with a behavioural complexity that is unmistakably cognate with the human social world, produce a quality of recognition in the observer that no other wildlife encounter matches.
Afternoon – Canopy Walkway
The Nyungwe canopy walkway is a suspension bridge system 50 metres above the forest floor in the Igishigishigi sector of the park, giving access to the upper canopy level that is normally the exclusive domain of the forest’s primates and birds. The walkway crosses a series of suspension bridges between the upper branches of the largest trees, and the perspective from the walkway, the forest floor invisible below, the canopy extending in every direction, the bird life at eye level, is a complete reorientation of the usual ground-level relationship with the forest. The colobus groups that use the canopy in this section of the park are often encountered at or near the walkway level.
Nyungwe Accommodation Options
One&Only Nyungwe House (Mid-Range Forest Lodge, tea estate on the park boundary), Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel (Mid-Range Lodge, hillside above the forest), Gisakura Tea Estate Guest House (Mid-Range Guesthouse, on the park edge). 2 nights at your chosen Nyungwe accommodation. Full board throughout. Chimpanzee trek and canopy walk included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Nyungwe to Gisenyi
The drive from Nyungwe to Gisenyi follows the Congo-Nile Trail ridge north along Rwanda’s western escarpment, the Congo basin visible to the west and the lake appearing and disappearing through the forest as the road winds along the ridge. The drive takes approximately three to four hours and the descent to Gisenyi from the highlands, with the lake suddenly spread below you and the buildings of Goma visible across the water in the Congo, is one of the most visually dramatic arrivals of the rwanda safari itinerary.
Afternoon – Lake Kivu Boat Trip to the Islands
The afternoon is given to a boat trip on the lake, visiting the forested islands that lie offshore from Gisenyi. The islands hold populations of vervet monkeys and various bird species, and a circumnavigation by boat gives the best perspective on the lake’s extraordinary scale and the green walls of the surrounding hills. The boat moves at a pace that allows the lake’s details to register, the fishing communities on the smaller islands, the Congo shore to the west, the clarity of the water in the afternoon light.
Evening – Sunset Cruise on Lake Kivu
The Lake Kivu sunset cruise is the most romantic moment of the two Gisenyi nights. A traditional wooden boat moves slowly along the shore as the sun drops behind the Congolese hills to the west, the lake turning gold and then crimson and then the deep blue of the evening before the lights of Goma appear across the water. Cold drinks, the boat moving quietly, and the silhouette of Nyiragongo on the northern horizon completing the view.
Day 6
Nyungwe to Lake Kivu, Gisenyi
Day 7
Lake Kivu Rest Day and Transfer to Volcanoes
Morning – Free Morning on the Lake
The second Lake Kivu morning is unscheduled, a free morning on the lake shore for your couple to move at their own pace. Swimming in the lake, walking the beach road through Gisenyi, taking breakfast on the terrace with the lake below, or simply reading and resting in a setting that requires nothing more. This rest day is deliberate. Gorilla trekking in the Virunga volcanoes, which begins the following morning, is one of the most physically and emotionally demanding wildlife experiences on the planet, and arriving at it rested and unhurried is the right approach.
Afternoon – Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
The drive from Gisenyi to the Volcanoes National Park headquarters at Kinigi takes approximately one hour north along the lake shore and then up into the volcanic highlands. The transition from the lake’s heat to the cool of the Virunga foothills is immediate, and the arrival at Kinigi with the five volcanoes visible above the park boundary, the bamboo forest on their lower slopes and the cloud on their summits, is the moment the rwanda gorilla trekking safari holiday package has been building toward. Check in at your Volcanoes lodge, rest, and spend the evening in preparation for what tomorrow holds.
Lake Kivu Accommodation Options
Cormoran Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the lake shore at Gisenyi), Lake Kivu Serena Hotel (Mid-Range Hotel, Gisenyi lakefront), Paradise Malahide Hotel (Mid-Range Hotel, Gisenyi). 2 nights at your chosen Lake Kivu accommodation. Full board. Sunset cruise included. Drinking water provided.
Early Morning – Gorilla Trekking Briefing and Ascent
The gorilla trekking day begins at the Volcanoes National Park headquarters at Kinigi where trekking groups are assembled, briefed, and assigned to their respective gorilla families. The trek begins at the park boundary and moves upward through the farmland buffer zone to the forest edge, then into the bamboo forest on the lower volcanic slopes. The duration of the trek depends on where the assigned gorilla group has ranged since the tracking team last located them the previous afternoon, and can range from one to five hours of walking. The guides and trackers communicate with the tracking team throughout the ascent, adjusting the route as the group’s position becomes clearer.
Morning – One Hour with the Mountain Gorillas
Finding the gorilla family in the forest and spending the regulation one hour in their presence is the defining experience of the best rwanda safari tour company’s itinerary. The family is found in whatever activity the morning has produced, feeding in the bamboo, resting in a forest clearing, the silverback moving through the group with the unhurried authority of complete dominance. The young gorillas play and climb and investigate the human visitors with the straightforward curiosity of animals who have learned that these brief daily appearances are harmless. The silverback is present throughout, and his awareness of the group is the constant reference point of the encounter. The one hour ends and the descent begins, and the walk back down the volcano with the forest around you and the encounter still present in the mind is a different kind of experience from the ascent.
Afternoon – Rest and Volcanoes Landscape Walk
The afternoon after gorilla trekking is properly unscheduled. The physical exertion and the emotional weight of the morning’s encounter combine to make a quiet afternoon the right choice, and your lodge’s terrace with the volcanic landscape visible to the north is the right place to spend it. Your guide offers an optional gentle walk through the foothills below the park boundary in the late afternoon for couples who want movement without altitude.
Evening – Candlelit Dinner with Virunga Views
Your first Volcanoes evening ends with a private candlelit dinner arranged by Africa Bed of Roses Safaris at your lodge, the volcanic landscape visible through the lodge windows or from the terrace and the mountain air cool around the table.
Day 8
Gorilla Trekking in the Virunga Volcanoes
Day 9
Golden Monkey Trekking and Dian Fossey Trail
Early Morning – Golden Monkey Trekking
The golden monkey trek is the second of Volcanoes National Park’s two great primate experiences, and it takes place in the bamboo forest of the lower volcanic slopes, the habitat that these rare and brilliantly coloured monkeys have occupied since long before the park’s establishment. The golden monkeys of the Virunga are found nowhere else on earth outside this volcanic zone, and their population is small enough that a permit for the trekking experience is never taken for granted. The monkeys move quickly through the bamboo, the golden and black colouring vivid against the green of the forest, and the tracking follows their movement through the lower forest with a physical engagement that the gorilla trek’s vertical ascent does not require. The encounter, when the group is found, produces the same quality of recognition as the chimpanzees in Nyungwe, the awareness of being in the presence of an animal that is irreplaceable and that exists in only this place.
Morning – Dian Fossey Tomb Trail
The Dian Fossey tomb trail visits the research station on Mount Visoke’s slopes where Fossey lived and worked from 1967 to 1985. The trek to the tomb passes through the forest above the park boundary, the guide explaining the history of the Karisoke Research Centre and the conservation programme that Fossey’s work established. The tomb itself, modest and set among the graves of the gorillas she studied and loved, is one of the most affecting places on the entire rwanda gorilla trekking safari itinerary. The return trek gives a final hour in the Virunga forest before the last night in the park.
Final Evening – Private Romantic Bush Dinner
The last evening of your 10 days Rwanda honeymoon safari holiday package deserves something specific. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private dinner for your couple at the lodge or on the terrace, a candlelit table with the Virunga volcanoes visible in the darkness above and the sounds of the Rwandan night below. It is the right way to close nine days in one of Africa’s most remarkable countries. The journey that began in Kigali moves through the savannah and lake systems of the east, the ancient forest of the southwest, the deep blue of the western rift lake, and finishes here in the volcanic highlands that shelter the rarest and most extraordinary great apes on earth. Everything has been experienced at the pace and with the depth that a best rwanda safari tour company itinerary deserves and that a honeymoon journey through this extraordinary country should always receive.
Volcanoes National Park Accommodation Options
Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Kinigi, views of the volcanoes), Gorillas Nest Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, forest edge below the park), Muhabura Hotel (Mid-Range Hotel, Musanze, gateway to the park). 3 nights at your chosen Volcanoes accommodation. Full board throughout. Private romantic candlelit dinner on final evening. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Final Volcanoes Drive and Transfer to Kigali
The final morning of your rwanda honeymoon safari holiday package begins with a last look at the Virunga volcanoes from the lodge terrace before the transfer south to Kigali. The drive from Kinigi to the capital takes approximately two and a half hours through the northern highlands and the hill country of central Rwanda. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris driver handles the full transfer to your Kigali hotel or to Kigali International Airport for onward flights.
Ten days. Five destinations. The rewilded savannah and the ancient lake of the east, the oldest rainforest in Central Africa, the deep blue of the western rift, and the volcanic highlands that shelter the mountain gorillas that exist nowhere else on earth. This is Rwanda’s most complete rwanda honeymoon safari package, and it has been experienced in the way it deserves: privately, at depth, with guides who know their landscapes and with the particular quality of attention that a gorilla trekking rwanda holiday package should always receive and that a honeymoon in one of Africa’s most remarkable countries demands.
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