Welcome to Kigali Rwanda!  Our team at Nature in Spirit have organized VIP meet and greet who will welcome you on arrival at Kigali International Airport and take you to your driver for your trip who will brief you about the tour and transfer you to your hotel for check inn and overnight stay at Hotel Milles Collines.

Main destination: Kigali City

Accommodation: Hotel Milles Collines

We will have our relaxed breakfast. After we will drive 10 minutes to our activity of the day to enjoy the experience for the inspiring women of Rwanda and we begin with the Nyamirambo Women’s Centre for some local activities.

Nyamirambo Women’s Centre (NWC), a Rwandan NGO, was launched at the end of 2007 by 18 Rwandese women living in Nyamirambo, Kigali. Together they created a project which aimed to address gender-based violence, gender inequality and discrimination. Today, NWC’s mission is to provide education and vocational training to women who do not have the means to pay for such training on their own, so that they can gain better opportunities for employment.

At the end of 2013 NWC launched the product line “Umutima,” which means “heart” in Kinyarwanda. With this project, NWC trains and employs women from the community to create a large variety of women’s accessories, children’s clothing, and home decor products. At the moment there are over 50 women employed by Umutima as seamstresses.

After a visit to the centre, we will begin with a walk to the suburbs of Nyamirambo.

Walking Tour of Nyamirambo

This tour begins at the Women’s Centre with a traditional snack, a quick Kinyarwanda language lesson, and an introduction to the Centre and its activities. It then weaves through Nyamirambo, one of Kigali’s oldest neighbourhoods. Along the way guides lead participants into a women’s hairdressing salon where the adventurous type can get a free braid into a family compound to pound cassava leaves. The tour will end with a traditional lunch at Aminatha’s home one of the senior women of the project.

After Lunch, we will proceed Kigali Genocide Memorial.

Kigali Genocide Memorial

This is an extremely moving, challenging, educational and ultimately inspiring memorial and great place to understand the cause, tragedy and successful rebuilding post genocide.

The reconciliation and rebuilding have been miraculous and these memorials are built to inform, educate and prevent such a tragedy to ever occur again.

The tour is very transparent and educational but very somber and humbling when you realize that over 250,000 deceased are buried on the site of the memorial.  Guaranteed you will feel every emotion during this visit.

The most common question that goes through your mind is “would I be capable of that level of forgiveness if I found myself in this situation”.  That’s true inspiration.

Return to your accommodation and relax. Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel Milles Collines.

Main destination: Kigali City

Accommodation: Hotel Milles Collines

Transfer to Volcanoes National Park. (2.5 hours)

After relaxed breakfast, we will embark on our 2.5-hour transfer will ascend through the endless mountains and hills and provide excellent opportunities for scenic photographs as you pass through the local villages and farms.

On arrival, you will be welcomed with a glass of fresh juice by the team, check-in, and lunch.

In the afternoon, we will visit the nearby Ellen DeGeneres of the Diana Fossey Gorilla fund.

Ellen Degeneres Campus of the Diana Fossy Gorilla Fund

The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is an expansive, 12-acre property that rests adjacent to the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda. The campus showcases the best in sustainable architecture, local resourcing, and environmentally responsible practices and will offer state of-the-art laboratories, a scientific conservation library, and meeting space for large groups.

The goal of the campus is to inspire everyone who visits, to cherish gorillas and encourage a lifetime of conservation. After the Visit to the center, we will return to the accommodation and spend the rest of the day and overnight at the accommodation Ingagi Park View Hotel.

Main destination: Volcanoes National Park

Accommodation: Ingagi Park View Hotel

After an early breakfast, we will depart at 6:30 am as we head off to the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters for a truly life-changing experience trekking Mountain Gorillas.
There are only just over 1063 Mountain Gorillas left in the wild with Rwanda hosting approximately 1/3 of them.

Arriving at park headquarters you will be briefed on the trek rules and basics of Mountain Gorilla behavior by the park rangers before departing for your trek starting point. Off your head across the farmlands and into the thick mountain forests of the Virunga Massif and ascend the mountains in search of your troop.

The trek can take between 2-6 hours as Mountain Gorillas are nomadic but the effort will be worth it as you approach and get to watch these magnificent creatures for an hour. Mountain Gorillas share 98% of their DNA and have the same blood type as humans, which then means it will be no surprise to recognize some humanistic traits in their behavior.

After descending back down the Mountain head back to your lodge for a lunch of truly great memories.
After lunch and freshening up, spend the rest of the day and overnight at the accommodation facilities as you listen to the sounds of jungle and beautiful songs of the birds at Ingagi Park View Hotel.

Main destination: Volcanoes National Park

Accommodation: Ingagi Park View Hotel

After breakfast, we will depart at 7:30 am as we head off to the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters for another primate trek experience (Golden Monkey Trek) Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda offers Golden monkeys trekking. This unique experience allows guests in groups of up to eight to look for and discover golden monkeys within their natural habitat.
The monkeys are incredibly active and enjoy showing off to tourists and researchers that they encounter daily. The monkeys can be found closer to the base of the volcano and enjoy eating the bamboo vegetation in the area.

After the trek, we will return to our accommodation, freshen up, lunch, and the whole afternoon is yours to relax with the lodge facilities or you may decide to do optional extra activities, such as, the authentic community walk around Volcanoes NP, Mukungwa river canoe experience, Ibyiwacu cultural village or visit the craft market for souvenirs then come back for an overstay at Ingagi Park View Hotel.

Main destination: Volcanoes National Park

Accommodation: Ingagi Park View Hotel

Today we will have our relaxed morning breakfast and the rest of the morning hours and we relax with the accommodation facilities, or we may decide to choose optional extra activities such as, the authentic community walk around Volcanoes NP, Mukungwa river canoe experience, Ibyiwacu cultural village or visit the craft market for souvenirs. Have lunch and check out for our 2.5 hours scenic transfer to Kigali.

We will arrive in time for our farewell dinner before our transfer to Kigali International Airport.

Main destination: Voclanoes – Kigali