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A Songa Experience to REMARKABLE RWANDA March 10-19, 2017 A Songa Experience to REMARKABLE RWANDA March 10-19, 2017 KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 1 www.songaafrica.com Friday , March 10th DEPART USA Saturday , March 11th ARRIVAL KIGALI Arrive Kigali International Airport A Songa Africa representative and your driver guides will meet you in the airport lobby. Please look for a white sign board with your name on it. You will then drive to the Mille Collines Hotel (15 min drive). The Hôtel des Mille Collines is a large hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. It became famous after 1,268 people took refuge inside the building during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The story of the hotel and its manager at that time, Paul Rusesabagina, was used as the basis of the film Hotel Rwanda. Dinner and overnight at Mille Collines Hotel (dinner on your own) Sunday , March 12th AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK Enjoy an early morning breakfast (included). 07:00 am pick up and drive to Akagera National Park (2 hr drive) by your driver guides, to enjoy a morning game drive. Akagera National Park is located in the east of Rwanda along the border with Tanzania. It is named after the Akagera River that flows along its eastern boundary and feeds into a labyrinth of lakes. The rolling hills of Acacia woodland coupled with scattered grassland and swamp-fringed lakes along the watercourse combine to create a park of breathtaking beauty. KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 2 www.songaafrica.com You will also have the opportunity to view many large mammals including elephant, buffalo, giraffe, zebra and antelope that frequent the open plains within the park. Picnic snacks out in the park will be served. Lunch is served at Akagera Game Lodge (included). 03:00 pm take an afternoon boat ride on Lake Ihema that will reward you with views of a large number of hippos, huge Nile crocodiles and a variety of bird species. Bird-lovers will be entertained by the majestic African fish eagles and the large concentration of waterbirds. In the marshes, keep an eye out for the papyrus gonolek and the often sought-after shoebill stork, the cormorants, and many more. KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 3 www.songaafrica.com Drive back to Kigali (2 hr drive). Dinner and overnight at Mille Collines Hotel (dinner on your own) Monday , March 13th NYUNGWE NATIONAL PARK Morning breakfast at the hotel (included). 11:00 am transfer to the airport for your flight to Kamembe (30 min). You will have an included lunch at Emeraude Kivu Resort by the lake. You will have a private transfer to Nyungwe Top Hill View Hotel through the beautiful countryside and tea plantation. Nyungwe National Park is a vast tract of virgin forest, one of the largest uncut natural forest reserves remaining in Africa and home to more than 300 species of birds, 27 of which are regional endemics. You can find most of the Albertine Rift endemics, including Handsome Francolin, Rwenzori Turaco, Mountain Sooty Boubou, Rwenzori Batis, Yellow- eyed Black Flycatcher, Archer’s Robin-chat, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Grauer's Rush, Neumann’s and Grauer's Warbles, Masked Mountain Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit and Strange Weaver, and a full range of Rwenzori double-collared, purple-throated, blue- headed and regal Sunbirds. A speciality is the Red-collared Mountain Babbler, which has its only easily accessible site here, as does Kungwe Apalis. Recent possible sightings of Rockefeller’s Sunbird show that much is left to be discovered, and perhaps even such gems as the Congo Peacock (found only 70km distant in the DR Congo) could exist in the remote dense forest! KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 4 www.songaafrica.com Afternoon nature walk to an amazing water fall. The Waterfall Trail is a stunner of a hike and one of the highlights of Nyungwe. It starts from the Gisakura side of the park and takes two to four hours. The trail winds up and down steep hillsides through primeval looking 'Hollywood' style rainforest where the trees are festooned in vines and the air is heavy and damp. The highlight is a remote waterfall, where you can take a shallow dip. Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel is a 3 star hotel idyllically situated on top of one of the hills of Nyungwe forest area. KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 5 www.songaafrica.com Dinner and overnight at Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel (FB) Tuesday , March 14th CANOPY WALK EXPERIENCE & COLOBUS MONKEY TREKKING After an included breakfast, you will depart at 09:00 am to Uwinka park office for the Canopy Walk adventure which is a very exciting experience, but not for the faint hearted. The canopy walk consists of three bridges and three towers. The bridge leading to the first tower is 37 meters long and 20 meters high, the main bridge has a length of 86 meters and a height of 60 meters, the final exit bridge is 25 meters long and a height of 15 meters. The total length of the canopy walk is 150 meters. KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 6 www.songaafrica.com After your included lunch you will take a short walk from the Lodge for Colobus Monkey trekking. These charismatic monkeys – sometimes referred to as Rwenzori Colobus - take up the final place in Rwanda’s Big-4 primate species. Nyungwe Forest is again home to this attractive species. They live within sizeable groups-one of the habituated troops has more than 200 individuals. An encounter with Colobus Monkeys in Rwanda often exceeds sightings anywhere elsewhere in Africa. Dinner and overnight at Nyungwe Top Hill View Lodge (FB) KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 7 www.songaafrica.com Wednesday , March 15th VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK Morning -relaxation at the hotel. Breakfast included Enjoy an early lunch and at 12:20 pm transfer to Kamembe airport for your flight to Kigali (30 min) Drive to Musanze (3 hr drive) through the scenic country side to Mountain Gorilla View Lodge. Mountain Gorilla View Lodge is located in Kinigi in northern Rwanda and on the edge of the Volcanoes National Park, home to the endangered Mountain Gorillas. The lodge is located on the foothills of the Mount Karisimbi, one of the volcanic mountains that make up the Virunga Massif. The lodge is about 10 minutes' drive to the main entrance of the Volcanoes National Park where gorilla trekking starts. Dinner and overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (FB) Thursday , March 16th GOLDEN MONKEY TREKKING/UBUMWE COMMUNITY CENTER In the morning after an early breakfast included, you will head to the RDB offices for briefing, and then start the golden monkey trek at 07:00 am. The Golden Monkey (Cercopithecus Mitis Kandti) is a local subspecies of the widespread Sykes Monkey, also known as the “Blue Monkey” and is endemic to the high altitude forests of the Volcanoes National Park area. The monkeys are playful and curious and often spend their time leaping from bamboo branches or frolicking on the forest floor. There are two habituated groups of the Golden Monkey, one group comprises around 80 – 100 members and has its home at the foot of Mt Sabyinyo. As with treks to see the KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 8 www.songaafrica.com Mountain Gorillas, treks to see the Golden Monkeys take place in the mornings and visitors are permitted to stay for 1 hour with the monkeys. After Golden Monkey trekking, you will return to the lodge and have lunch (included). Drive to Ubumwe Community Center The Columbus Zoo and Partners In Conservation help disabled Rwandan people and further the message of conservation through the efforts of the Ubumwe Community Center. Frederick Ndabaramiye, co-founder of the Ubumwe Community Center (UCC), was maimed in 1998 when he was 15 years old - by those responsible for the genocide - when he refused to kill other people. After spending a year in the hospital, Frederick went to live at the Imbabazi Orphanage. The PIC team met Frederick at the orphanage, and, in 2003, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium arranged for him to come to Columbus to receive prosthetic hands. A film crew from ABC‘s Prime Time television show spent a week in Columbus documenting Frederick’s daily activities and Charlie Gibson, host of Prime Time, interviewed Frederick. The segment titled – Frederick’s Story - aired November 27, 2003. Frederick thanked the people at the Columbus Zoo for giving him an opportunity to be independent again, and stated that he was determined to do something to help improve the lives of other disabled people. Thus was the beginning of the Ubumwe Community Center that today helps hundred of disabled children and adults through innovative programs and projects. KG 412 St. Gacuriro P.O Box 905 Kigali-Rwanda [email protected] Page 9 www.songaafrica.com After the UCC, you will drive back to Mountain Gorilla View Lodge. Dinner and overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge (FB) Friday , March 17th GORILLA TREKKING EXPERIENCE After an included early breakfast, you will take a short drive to the RDB offices for briefing, and then start the Gorilla trek at 07:00 am. Volcanoes National Park protects the steep slopes of this magnificent mountain range - home of the rare mountain gorilla - and the rich mosaic of montane ecosystems, which embrace evergreen and bamboo forest, open grassland, swamp and heath.
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