This is a famous Birding experience in Rwanda for Albertine Rift Endemic Birds, Africa’s Big Game, Kigali City
Highlight birds
Rwenzori Turaco, Handsome Francolin, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red-necked Spurfowl, Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting, Red-headed Weaver, Strange Weaver, Waller’s Starling, Slender-billed Starling, Stuhlmann’s Starling, White-headed Wood-Hoopoe, Scarce Swift, Kakamega Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Rwenzori Nightjar, Rwenzori Batis, African/ Ruwenzori Hill Babbler, Red-collared Mountain Babbler, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Lemon Dove, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Olive Woodpecker, Tullberg’s/ Fine-banded Woodpecker, White-browed Crombec, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Southern Black Flycatcher, White-winged Black Tit, Meyer’s/ Brown Parrot, Great Egret, Mountain Oriole, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Red-chested Flufftail, African Broadbill, rare Rockefeller’s Sunbird, Regal Sunbird, Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird, Blue-headed Sunbird, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Bar-tailed Trogon, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Neumann’s/ Short-tailed Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Grauer’s Rush/ Swamp Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Ruwenzori/ Collared Apalis, Kungwe Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Black-faced/ Banded Prinia, Kivu Ground Thrush, Red-throated Alethe, Archer’s Robin-Chat, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Equatorial Akalat, Grey-chested Illadopsis/ Kakamega/ Babbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Red-faced Barbet, Ruaha Chat, Long-tailed/ Tabora Cisticola, African Finfoot, Flappet Lark, Pink-footed Puffback, Many-coloured Bush-Shrike, Doherty’s Bush-Shrike, Mountain Sooty Boubou, less common Willard’s Sooty Boubou, Violet-backed Hyliota, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, scarce Congo Bay Owl, Red-chested Owlet, uncommon Albertine Owlet, Dusky Twinspot, Dusky Crimsonwing, the rare Shelley’s Crimsonwing, Green-capped Eremomela, White-collared Oliveback, Grey Crowned Crane
Highlight mammals and others
African Lion, African Elephant, Defassa Waterbuck, Maasai Giraffe, Nile Hippo, Common Zebra, Chimpanzee, Johnston’s Grey-cheeked Mangabey, L’Hoest’s Monkey, Rwenzori Angola Colobus Monkey, Olive Baboon, Eastern Black Rhino, African Buffalo, Nile Crocodile
DAY 1 :ARRIVAL IN RWANDA AT KIGALI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Arrive at Kigali International Airport meet with your Guide and Transfer to the Hotel for overnight in Kigali the capital of Rwanda. You will then transfer to your hotel.
DAY 2:NYUNGWE FOREST NATIONAL PARK (OPTIONAL CHIMPANZEE TREKKING)
After early morning breakfast start your Rwanda Birding safari experience will officially start exploring the “land of a thousand hills” this morning, you will drive through the countryside on your way to Nyungwe Forest National Park. Time permitting, you may bird briefly along the Nyabarongo River Swamp, for some papyrus specialists. We shall enjoy more roadside birding opportunities on the way.
In the afternoon enjoy the scenic canopy walk in the forest. This is often a nice spot to enjoy monkeys, birds and the flora of Nyungwe Forest National Park.
The Nyungwe Forest National Park is also inhabited by many different primate species. The common primates here include Chimpanzee, Johnston’s Grey-cheeked Mangabey, L’Hoest’s Monkey, Rwenzori Angola Colobus Monkey and Olive Baboon.
We shall spend the next days here seeking additional species for our Rwanda Birding Tour.
For those who would like to enjoy tracking the amazing Chimpanzees; there will be an opportunity on one of the days. After the Chimpanzee trek, we shall rejoin as one group and continue with our birding walks Nights in Nyungwe.
DAY 3 AND 4 :AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK
After early morning breakfast at the lodge Transfer to Akagera National Park, named after the magnificent River Kagera. This exciting park offers some great habitat for savannah birding and game viewing. Over 490 species of birds are known from Akagera National Park.
You will also enjoy a boat trip on Lake Ihema seeking the local water birds that inhabit this great place. This is often a highlight on our Rwanda Birding Tour.
Mammals here include African Lion, African Elephant, Defassa Waterbuck, Maasai Giraffe, Hippo, Common Zebra, Eastern Black Rhino and African Buffalo. Nile Crocodiles are also a highlight of this park.
DAY 5: AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK TO KIGALI
On this morning we shall enjoy more birding in Akagera National Park. In the afternoon, we head to Kigali as we enjoy the nice roadside birds and landscapes.
On the road, we often meet many bicycle and motorcycle riders; carrying passengers from one location to the next. Sometimes these bicycles are laden with a local brew known as the banana beer.
Evening flights from Kigali will mark the end to our lovely Rwanda Birding Tour.
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