A 9-day cultural tour inside the country of Thousand hills

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Day 1: Kigali international airport Pick up and City tour with genocide memorial

Upon your arrival at Kigali international airport, you will meet our driver guide and after a briefing of daily activities, you get transferred to your hotel for check in.

Overnight: Lebanon hotel

Day 2: Kigali Genocide memorial and the parliament building

After your breakfast, we will then go to visit the genocide memorial to learn about the bloodiest and darkest period Rwandans have been passing through and how Rwanda is being constructed after such a dark period. Thereafter, we will go in the parliament building which hosts the campaign against genocide for learning about the resilience and commitment of the current leaders who stopped the genocide and brought Rwanda to a significant successful level. The building is old and adorned with the gunshots to testify its terrible and unique history among thousand building in kigali.

Later, you will have a short city tour to witness the reality of the development of Rwanda after such a dark period.

Overnight: Lebanon hotel

Day 3: Mbyo reconciliation village and Nyamirambo women center

After your breakfast, you will visit the Bugesera reconciliation village and witness how after the darkest period, the Hutus and Tutsis get to reconcile and live together as brother and sister.
After your lunch in Bugesera, we will drive back to Kigali and go to experience the Nyamirambo women group before you are transferred to your hotel. The Nyamirambo walking tour will offer you an experience on foot with Rwandan traditional snacks, and participate in a women’s hairdressing salon.

Accommodation: Lebanon Hotel

Day 4: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park, King Palace and Ethnographic Museum

After breakfast, you will drive through the greenery landscapes and stopover at the King palace Museum where you will take a journey into the Rwanda origins and learn about the Rwandan king lifestyle. You will visit the king horn cows, the romantic ones who are always in the king' back yard.

Around 11.30 Am, you will continue toward the Butare city (the old Rwandan capital city) where you will stop for visiting the biggest ethnological museum in the East Africa. You get to learn about the African tribes and traditional industry.

Later, you will continue to Nyungwe and stay at Kitabi Eco-center hotel.

Overnight: Kitabi eco-center

Day 5: Canopy walk and tea plantation experience

After breakfast, we will go to experience tea plantation and learn how tea is processed from field upto the cup of tea. You will just bear a basket in your back to help local people to harvest the tea and then after, you will learn how tea is being processed until the taste of it.

Later in the afternoon, we will go for the canopy walk which a bridge suspended at 70m above the rainforest. Along your way, you may see some endemic birds to the region and monkeys

Overnight: EAR Ken Bharam

Day 6: Go to respond to the calling islands

After an early breakfast, you will drive some 2.5 hours toward Karongi. Grab your drink and go to respond to the calling islands. Beautiful and most importantly panoramically green. You will hike the Napoleon Island and stand in front of the open thousand hills. You will be amazed by the view, the fruits and the blue monkeys, birds and the natural silence from an island to another.

Day 7: Rubavu city tour, hotspring and Kivu beach

After your breakfast, we will proceed with Rubavu city tour and visit the two exciting borders with DRC to learn more about Rwanda and DRC. The two countries have two cities Goma on the side of DRC and Rubavu in Rwanda, considered to be twin cities thanks to their intersection. You will also visit the German and Belgium tombs to learn about the colonial era in Rwanda and the war that opposed them in Rwanda.

Later in the evening, you will go to relax on Kivu beach and continue with hotspring experience.

You will just get away your shoes and soak your feet in hot spring for health. The springs are known to relieve pains and make your body feel well.

Overnight: Maison Saint Benoit Kigufi

Day 8: Iby’Iwacu cultural center and Bigorwe cow farm experience

After your breakfast, you will have a walk in the indigenous village neighboring the Volcano National Park, which will be rich in traditional and cultural spectacular. The village supports the former poachers and communities around the park. Villagers are very welcoming and happy to receive new faces. The Intore dancers are beautifully adorned, with spears in their dance, their hands, shoulder and hips in rhythm from one side to another following the rhythm and sound of the drums, beads and bells around feet and necks to welcome you as a groom or a bride.

Later, we will drive for about 1 hour to visit some cow farms in Bigogwe and get to learn how cows play great importance in the Rwandan culture, a symbol of wealth, prosperity, and identity; you will get to know how they are used to pay marriage dowry and bride price. Milk is, as a result, also important culturally. You will get to know all the associated cultural rites with it and how Rwanda has been dealing with the “Gira Inka Munyarwanda” program known as Cows to all Rwandans to facilitate Genocide survivors rebuild themselves after the darkest period.
Later after this, you will drive toward your hotel and stay at Isange Paradise resort.

Overnight: Isange Paradise Resort

Day 9: Visit Inema art center and Transfer to airport to fly back to your home

After your breakfast, you will get to visit Inema Art center. Unique and contemporary that it is, Rwandan arts can be found all over the city but Inema Arts Center houses of Kigali is one of the best. After this, you will get back to your hotel for checkout and transfer to airport to fly back to your home.

Gross personal cost: 3650$

Inclusions:

· Accommodations (3-4*)

· Meals

· Transport (4*4)

· Entrance fees

· All activities as specified in the itinerary

· Guiding fees (French-English speaking guide)

· Taxes and bottles of drinking water

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